Mr.Church, a chef who uses jazz as his secret recipe.
Warm yellow tones, breezy jazz, inappropriate cooks, sick single mothers, the film opens with a uniquely aesthetic image. Food quickly shortens their distance, food is the maintenance of their love, and food grows with them.
Without a doubt, this is a standard healing movie.
Love and family are the soul of the movie, as Xiao Xia Li's monologue says, she can't find a more beautiful person in this world than her mother, who is the most loved person in the world. Her life was as thin as a cicada's wings, but she survived all the impossibility that the doctor said, and extended her life from six months to six years. Her life is like the warm sun at the beginning of her life. She has grown from a poor ten-year-old stupid girl to Charlie. The sprouting of hormones has given birth to a passionate love. For Charlie, her mother used to be the sun, but now it has entered its decline period. She is naturally afraid of her mother's death and the beautiful collapse, so she chose to turn her back to the sun and face the moon. The moon is Mr. Church. The moon is bright because it reflects the sun's light, so the sun does not and cannot hurt him, but only makes them each other's lives shine and find lost meaning. Charlie's graduation prom is the burst of her youthful vitality and the hope of her mother day and night. She supported her hard to tell her that "you are the most beautiful girl in the world". She told her that kissing is not the only form of expression of love, she is. Favorite Charlie's mom, she played this role until the end of her life.
The light fragrance of cooking in the early morning and the soothing jazz music have become the family's alarm clock, which is not only a form of expression of love, but also secretly hides their unexpressed misses and secrets for each other. Even if there is no father, even if her mother leaves at the age of eighteen, Xia Li's love is no less than that of any child in this world. It's just that she needs to contact in advance to get used to death and a life without parental guidance. In Mr. Church's library, she was able to glimpse the warmth of the literary world, and found solace in it, and gradually grew up. Reading took this girl to the wider world. She walked into the university full of joy, but was swallowed up by the huge surging energy there, because of expectations and because of the past that could not be discarded. Mr. Church's letters are expressions of love that transcend family affection, and remind Charlie of her past and the stories of the small town she came from. "It seems that pregnancy out of wedlock is the tradition of the Brooke family," Charlie teased herself as she came to Mr. Church's door. Just as she drove to New York at the age of eighteen, she drove back to the castle that was waiting for her. Here she is a unique princess, but she is also a sensitive adult at this time.
Drunk at night he yelled at his father that Mr Church was himself, not his cook, on those two unique nights. He is a man who has been bound by his parents' stereotypes all his life. He guards his privacy. But he was overwhelmed by Charlie's fiery concern, and he yelled at her at a loss because no one had ever touched this side of his life. He was just afraid, he was afraid that the unbearableness and darkness he carried in his life would bring into her life. The arrival of this new life untied the emotional knot that had been hidden for many years. Isabel's presence gives Church a sense of belonging. The beating of the new life is so gratifying. The arrival of the new life leaves them no time to face that predicament. No one takes the initiative to untie the knot. It is just a tacit understanding that they face it more calmly. This time they don't need to break through the predicament, they don't need to be open and honest, because this is home, a place that can accommodate everyone's growth.
The close connection of the family makes the life of Kaysen, an outsider, shine brightly. Because of an accident, he became a marginal figure in this society. He asked how life at Little Charlie's school was arguably a reflection of his longing for a normal life that could be recognized and communicated with. He picks out Charlie's prom dress, he teaches Charlie to drive, and the family keeps creating opportunities where this little overlooked or marginalized person can make a difference. The chance to save Isabel put him on the gas again, and it dispelled the fear and gloom that had haunted him for years. The regaining of self-worth gave him the confidence to re-engage in social life, let him give up the idea of suicide, let him enter the palace of marriage, and start a dignified life that is not far-fetched and catered to.
Love often contradicts death. Because of love, we are reluctant to let them who make up our lives go. Charlie's love-hate struggle in the face of her mother's death did not flare up again when Mr. Church left peacefully. This time she held back her surging emotions, facing his death just as Mr. Church faced his death. She observed all kinds of people at the wake ceremony as she did when she was a child. They did not change. They either avoided talking about death, or only talked about death, or consoled the sad person, or kept precious and deep silence. Fortunately for Charlie, those she met when she was 18 are still there. Friendship as precious as diamonds, love as warm and sweet as sake, dreams overshadowed by the busyness of life, she can meet again at this moment, if she wants, she still has the chance to hold it in her hands. Death is just the end of life, allowing Charlie to see herself through the mirror of Mr. Church. And the regaining of the ladybug made Mr. Church fearless in the face of death.
Whatever the way of life, when it is filled with love and respect, it is a sparkling memory to collect. Death may not be scary, if we have been chasing the ladybug in our hearts. Gains and losses and value may not be worth worrying about, if life is necessarily related to it. The philosophy of life sounds complicated, but perhaps it can still be brought back to the simple three meals a day.
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