"A Lunch box" is an Indian film, also often translated as "Lunch Love Letter". This is a lunch box by
A story of being sent by mistake.
The story takes place in Mumbai, India's second largest city. The city has a unique food delivery system. Because many people have to go to work about 40 kilometers away from home, eating at noon has become a big problem. The food delivery system is that if you subscribe to this service, a courier-like staff will pick up your wife's prepared lunch, then go through a series of sorting, delivery, and finally deliver it to your desk before noon.
Lonely for so long, we have forgotten how to express
The hero, Fernandez, is an accountant who is about to retire in a month. He has worked in the unit for 35 years and has never made a mistake. Both parents and wife have passed away. In the company, he is not a gregarious person. After get off work, he often stands on the balcony of his house, smoking while watching the family across from him eating.
He was also indifferent to the new colleague who was about to succeed him, and refused to take the time to teach him. Long-term loneliness has left his face without expression and life without vitality.
Day after day life, can't find the meaning of life
The heroine Ina is a traditional Indian housewife whose daily life revolves around her daughter and her husband. The only communication is with the neighbors upstairs.
Ordinary family life wipes out marriage and passion. Husband is busy every day in addition to being busy. Yina followed the advice of her neighbors. She studied food every day and made lunches in different ways, hoping to catch her husband's stomach through food and make him notice her, but she was always disappointed.
A wrongly delivered lunch box, let's stop being alone and find the courage to change our lives
The so-called efficient and never-mistaken food delivery system has gone wrong here in Yina. The lunch she prepared in meditation was sent to the male protagonist by mistake.
Yina was looking forward to her husband's response, but her husband just said that it was not bad. When the second time her husband said the cauliflower was good, Yina realized that the meal she was cooking was eaten by others.
Yina put a note in the lunch box to express her thanks and explain the misunderstanding. The male protagonist also wrote his own reply on the lunch box he sent back: Today's dishes are too salty. Ina was both angry and amused. She continued to try new recipes, and he continued to enjoy her food. The same thing was that every time there was a small note in the lunch box.
Through this note, the two share the details, dilemmas, and insights of each other's lives. Ina will tell Fernandez that she can't find the meaning of life, and even after her husband has an affair, Fernandez will give her an idea and suggest that she and her husband can have another child, although this plan ended in failure. He will also tell Yina that he only re-watched the videotape left by his lover many years after his wife's death. It turns out that his thoughts are always there, but he has always buried them in his heart, and no one can tell them.
The loneliness, longing, and confusion that the two of them had nowhere to talk about in their daily lives all fell on a small note. Changes have also occurred quietly in the two of them.
Fernandez started welcoming new colleagues, visiting his house and attending his wedding, with a smile on his face. In the failure of many attempts to regain the intimate relationship between husband and wife, Yina voluntarily chose to give up and decided to take her children to Bhutan, the country with the highest national happiness index in the world.
A beautiful mistake gave two people in different living spaces a novel life experience, and also brought different changes to their lives. Fernandez rips off the mask of loneliness and disguise, and Ina finds the courage to start over. As the saying goes over and over in the movie: Sometimes the wrong train takes us to the right station.
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