The beauty of oil painting and animation that shocked me appeared several times in the film. Yilan is beautiful and elegant, and she is indeed a woman who is easy to fall in love with at first sight.
At the beginning of watching the movie, I always wanted to criticize the male protagonist Nasser Ali: he kept saying that he didn't love him, but he and his wife gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl.
Later it felt more true that we did not live on the moral high ground. Everyone has their own temperament and position, and everyone hurts and is hurt by others. The shortcomings make the characters three-dimensional and full, and the defects make the story real and life-like.
A few hours after watching the movie, when I tried to write a short review, I accidentally brought myself into the perspective of the male protagonist.
I am a gifted musician. I am a loser in love. My inspiration comes from the throes of pain from time to time after a major trauma. I was forced to marry and have children under the pressure of my mother, but I was unable to give them a rich life. My wife is carrying the whole family's firewood, rice, oil and salt, and she is unable to understand me. Even if she tries occasionally, she still fights the fire with salary. In front of the violin and memories I love neither the wife nor the wife's children. The kids love me, but they are young, and I don't even have the strength to let them play.
So, when the love of my life: ylang-ylang and the violin are all gone, what will keep me alive?
Really selfish and irresponsible. But I will want to end this.
Nasser Ali ended it all.
I think there is only one protagonist in this film: Nasser Ali. Ylang Ylang and violin are the heavy strokes in his life. Ylang Ylang completes the violin, and the violin remembers Ylang Ylang, which complement each other and are indispensable.
But is it true that his later wife has no feelings? I think he had expected it and tried it. He tried to smile when taking wedding photos, and he also praised the plum chicken made by his wife several times.
Unfortunately, we can't ask an artist to fall in love with someone who doesn't understand his lifelong love, we can't ask him to forget the white moonlight that has become the soul of his music, and we can't ask him to completely change his half-life temperament in order to run a marriage.
We have no reason to blame a woman who feeds and takes care of the whole family by herself, and who is treated with indifference by her beloved husband. She cannot tolerate her husband's stubbornness and love for the violin.
He is the eccentric artist Nasser Ali, who is doomed not to be a responsible life manager, and unable to fall in love with his wife who plays the role of life manager.
It was a relief for him to end it all.
Of course he understood his wife's love. Childhood love only shines when the marriage is unsatisfactory. Perhaps the biggest regret is not the failure of the past, but the lack of hope in the future. Perhaps the greatest pain is not "Ylang Ylang", but "The Taste of Plum Chicken".
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