"The Undertaker" is actually a movie that seems to be very tear-jerking and direct, but the situation is quite blurred. The burial is the burial, and the salary is not less. How can a sensational family element movie get such a high score?
The decoding lies in the fact that all kinds of death are running through it . The classical music ensemble that the cellist male lead worked for was disbanded at the very beginning. The grandmother in the bath didn't even know what a cello was. Her son simply explained that "a cello is a big violin";
The unemployed male protagonist sold the expensive professional cello and did not redeem it at the end of the film;
In the eating scenes that appear constantly in the play, the senior mortuary teachers keep saying, "What we eat are corpses";
The old-fashioned bath that the grandmother insisted on. The son said that he would sell the apartment. At the end, he did not explain whether it was left or not, and it would probably still be sold. You can't ask the living and the money to get by, after all, the living still have to live well.
Naturally, there is also the death of human beings directly presented in the film.
The beloved wife who had been together for a lifetime died, the loving father died, the daughter who was in high school was in a car accident while sitting on a bad motorcycle, and the elementary school student who played baseball died. It was tearful in every episode.
When I was in middle school, I watched "The Undertaker" for the first time with my psp in my arms. Because some of the settings in the film were very close to what happened in my life, everyone was crying. Still crying today.
Because "The Undertaker" is saying from the beginning to the end: "It is true that the dead cannot be resurrected, sorry."
It's not a forced reunion, this is the reality of life, the law of the world, a cruel thing that everyone has to accept. Not only life will die, but beauty will also wither, the prosperity will pass, withering and ending are doomed.
In a Christmas scene, the senior mortuary teacher opened the wine, and the male protagonist took out the cello, trying to add a little festive atmosphere. He specifically asked the seniors, "Is there any religious taboos?" The seniors said, please feel free, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and anything are fine. By the way, isn't an important role of religion to help people accept death?
So the male protagonist took a brand-name eyeshadow palette and put on makeup for the deceased seriously, so that the transvestite boy would leave with the face he really loved.
So the mortuary is a great profession. They make the process more solemn and decent, so that the people around the deceased can feel a little better. This kind of comfort is not the chicken soup that is poured into you when you are very good, it is equivalent to peeling it off. The various narratives of various religions leave only the core part of death comfort in religion.
This world is very hard. Saying goodbye to the deceased must be formal. But no matter how official it is, it is also saying: TA is gone.
By the way, the starting point of the male protagonist and his father is also that those who leave us in life are equivalent to dead. Before becoming an mortuary, the male protagonist thought his father died.
But after being the mortuary, the male protagonist realized that "farewell" must be very serious, "I will treat you as dead", and "you are really dead", are not the same.
I believe that the male protagonist has no special feelings for his father who eloped away at the age of six and has no news, because he has no impression. It is normal for a father who abandoned himself and disappeared in his memory to have no impression, and suddenly found the reason for his family relationship after 30 years.
But the male protagonist has something about the "remains". He understood that it is not easy for people, animals, or even things to come to the world. What really supported him that day as an mortuary was the respect for the remains.
The ancients said: "Death and life are also great!" We know that death and life are false births, and Qi Pengshang is false.
In commercial works, there are many people who tell "the TA is not dead", but people need death comfort, because "dead indeed" is what happens more and is more difficult to face, and it cannot be avoided.
I reviewed Kurosawa Akira's 80-year-old "Dream" just a few days ago, and I was really intimidated by the death anxiety that poured out of each of the short films. You must know that Akira Kurosawa was a serious person who committed suicide when he was young. When he was 80 years old, he was so afraid to set foot on that road. This is life, humanity.
Life and death, life and death, the world is nothing more than that.
If you think optimistically, the synonym of mortal death is also "eternal life".
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