In my bad body, I will send you to the most beautiful place possible|Film review "Sweet Life"

Elenora 2022-03-22 09:02:24

For those who live in the dark, it may be beautiful, but it is just the same life as ordinary people. In fact, affection is not elsewhere, it is in the daily life of ordinary people, it just needs to be felt.

One night in late autumn, the apprentice woke up from a dream and cried.
"Have you had a nightmare?" the master asked.
"No." The apprentice said.
"Is that a sad dream?"
"No, it was a very sweet dream."
The master asked, "Then why are you crying so sadly?"
The apprentice whispered while wiping away his tears, "Because I can't make dreams come true."

At the end of the film "Sweet Life", Shan Yu fell in a pool of blood, watching the shadow of the tree in front of him shake, and such a narration was introduced in his heart.


Having been a thug for Boss Jiang for seven years, apart from going to work, life is monotonous and lonely. At the end of the day, lying on the sofa in the apartment, turning the lamp on and off again and again, the world switches between white and black, and finally stops in the dark, like a metaphor for Shanyu's short life.

If you spend the rest of your life like this, life is death. So expect a gust of wind. It looks like that girl.

After a fight, Boss Jiang and Sun Woo dine in the restaurant. Unbeknownst to Sun-woo, he influenced a business of the boss in ignorance. He and Wen Xing, who is in charge of "upstairs" and Wen Xing in charge of "downstairs", are both left and right hands of Boss Jiang, who manage the businesses that can see the light and those that cannot see the light. But when Sun Woo goes from "upstairs" to "downstairs", it means that some kind of balance has been broken.

Essentially they all belong to the gang, but there are also differences between light black and dark black. For example, Shanyu always fights with his bare hands, but Wenxing always carries a knife with him. When he executes the family law, he also kills people. The business partner that Boss Jiang is about to cooperate with will not only use a knife, but also a gun.

When Boss Jiang wants to hold hands with a darker place, Sun Woo, who is his subordinate, is bound to face the same trend. In him, it is reflected in walking from upstairs to downstairs. But the worst thing is that Shanyu didn't know the depth of the situation he was in, so he casually beat up the partner. The boss reminded him at the dinner table: "You do a hundred good things, but one mistake can ruin everything."

So to a large extent, Boss Jiang arranged for Sun Woo to monitor his girlfriend Hee Soo, which was a test for Sun Woo. The first tenet of the gang is unconditional loyalty. Shanyu is loyal to Boss Jiang, but there is some purity in his character, and his yearning for beauty may become an obstacle for them to go to a darker place.


Of course, this kind of yearning for beauty is also secretly kept by Boss Jiang. Therefore, only Shanyu among his subordinates can know that he has a young girlfriend. "She's not like us, just an ordinary person," he said. For those who live in the dark, it may be beautiful, but it is just the same life as ordinary people.

In this way, Sun Woo met Hee Soo. The wind did not move, the tree did not move, and the heart was moved.

Hee Soo is a student of the Conservatory of Music, beautiful, willful, and full of desire. Why does she want to be with an unidentified uncle who is so much older than herself? Shan Yu didn't understand, so he asked directly. Xixiu's answer is to run towards a red desk lamp, 280 yuan.

Maybe it was just a mistake driven by desire in the beginning. But then she didn't know where she had stepped. The sensitive girl did not dare to ask the uncle directly, so she asked the clumsy-looking subordinate, "Are you a triad?" Unfortunately, when the answer was really naked in front of her eyes, the trajectory of her life had already been irreversibly changed.

Boss Jiang felt right, Xixiu did secretly date another boy. He doesn't need to have substantial evidence, he just needs to capture the changes in how Hee-soo's every move brings him to know what state she is in. Like when he came back from a business trip and reached out to touch her face and she took a half step back in horror, Boss Jiang knew that Hee Soo confirmed his background. This confirmation can only be done through Shanyu, and Shanyu will only reveal his identity when he enforces the family law, but Shanyu did not call him as promised, and Xixiu also stood in front of him intact and was not executed, so the conclusion is only One, both of them betrayed him.


The plot took a turn for the worse. From the darling of Boss Jiang, Shanyu suddenly became the target of tyranny and pursuit by two gangs, and he never understood why.

He was hanged and beaten into a coma by another gang's butcher, and just when he guessed that this was just a revenge from the other party, he was thrown into the rainstorm and kneeled in front of his boss. "Say one of my mistakes and nothing will happen," the butcher warned him. "Do you know where you are wrong? If you admit it, that's it." The boss also warned him. But he cared about the sadness, not knowing what was wrong.

So the fingers were smashed and buried alive. When he struggled to climb out of the pit where he was buried, all that was left was his hatred for Boss Jiang and the underworld. For revenge, he made himself the darker man and started killing people with guns. In the past, his skills were sharp and decisive, and punching and sweeping his legs was an art. Now, killing people is just killing people, focusing on efficiency. After killing all the enemies of another gang, go back to your own society, from bottom to top, until you reach the boss.

There is a great possibility that at this time, he already knew more or less where his "wrong" was. Not only is he in love with Boss Jiang's woman, but also his loyalty no longer belongs to the dark world, so it doesn't matter whether Boss Jiang's deal with another gang is broken or not. He just wants to perish with the darkness, after all, as he said when he met Boss Jiang again, he has nowhere to go. Either revenge or be killed, his fate belongs to this dark world he entered by mistake seven years ago. But the girl's distorted life may have the possibility of returning to normal.

Before he died, he bought the red desk lamp, sent it to the door of Xixiu's house, rang the doorbell, and walked away. She must have guessed who sent the lamp. Even if you can't guess it for a while, you will suddenly realize it one day in the future. But can she really go back to the past? Certainly not. But if he can use his own perishable body to exchange for her to live safely in the second half of her life, it will be the most beautiful place he can send her to.

In the classroom of the conservatory, she played the cello for him once. Her smile and the beauty of the sound of the piano entered his heart, and he returned it with a smile at that time, and finally returned it with a life.


Affection is not elsewhere

in the daily life of ordinary people

just need to feel

But feeling is often blocked by desire

emotionally disturbed

Known and Unknown Barriers

often after separation

I suddenly realized that we are in love with each other

I regret not cherishing when we were together

rather than

Why don't you take the time to take a good look

settle your heart

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A Bittersweet Life quotes

  • Sun-woo: One late autumn night, the disciple awoke crying. So the master asked the disciple, "Did you have a nightmare?" "No." "Did you have a sad dream?" "No," said the disciple. "I had a sweet dream." "Then why are you crying so sadly?" The disciple wiped his tears away and quietly answered, "Because the dream I had can't come true."

  • Sun-woo: A disciple asked his master, "Do the leaves flow or is it the wind?" His master replied, "No, it is the heart and the mind."