"The Taste of Plum Chicken" is a comedy film released in 2011, adapted from the picture book work of director Maja Shatape. The film tells the story of Nasha Ali, a self-appreciated musician determined to die after his wife broke his favorite violin, and a series of stories happened in the eight days of his life.
It is called comedy, but stories related to artists often seem to be unable to escape tragedy. In these short eight days, the tragedy of three people was shown.
Frankie was Nesha's wife, a weary face, a hoarse voice, and hopelessness in her family life. When she was young, she had a crush on Nasha and planted a silent and firm love into her heart. The first time I came to visit Nascha's house, Frankie was uneasy. When walking in the garden, she looked at Nascha who was in front of the window. She carefully smiled and greeted her sweetheart, but only got a cold look in her eyes. She painstakingly manages the marriage, her husband is irresponsible, her children are naughty and willful, her work is busy and oppressive, and her relatives are not optimistic. In the end, she only gets her husband's words "I never loved you, Frankie". Her life has been a tragedy from beginning to end.
Yilan was Nasha's first love. She was born in wealth and had a good life. She lived in Nasha's mind forever like a dream like a flower. When she was young, she was full of passion and quickly fell in love with a romantic violinist. When we meet again, she is no longer youthful, and the former lover is in front of her eyes, but she can only pretend to be ignorant, and she turns away with tears streaming down her face. She succumbed to reality and spent the rest of her life, which was her tragedy.
Nesha is the protagonist of tragedy. He used the story of his broken heart with Yilan to sigh for the rest of his life. They kissed goodbye, but Nasha never really gave up Yilan. She lived in his violin and in every piece of his music. . But when they saw each other, he trembled and called out the name he missed day and night, only to find that Yilan had completely forgotten him. This was their real parting. Nascha lost his soul and sigh, and could no longer play the piano sound. He lost the value of life and decided to die. His life was nothing but tragedy.
As the "soul figure" in the whole tragedy, Nasha Ali was completely deceived by him, which is why he finally lamented that he had shouldered the unbearable pain of life, so he would rather die. When Nasha first learned the piano art, his teacher praised him for his superb skills, but his music was a mess. After experiencing the pain with his lover, he caught the sigh and integrated his lover into his own piano sound, his music was sublimated, every note was enough to make people cry, and he finally became a world famous. Musician, is this really a blessing in disguise? When he reunited with Yilan on the street, he found that the lover he was thinking about no longer remembered him, the piano was still there, but his heart was dead, his soul collapsed at that moment, he could no longer play a decent tune, he Suddenly realized that he had already fallen into this chain of traps.
Why is this tragedy so absurd? The root cause seems to be only the word love. To an ordinary person, this tragedy seems too ridiculous and unreasonable, but the starting point of all this is Nasha Ali, a self-appreciating artist. As an ordinary person, a plain feeling is just like the name of the movie, plum chicken. No matter what, you can always feel the taste in time. It doesn't need to be gorgeous, as long as it lasts. . However, as an artist, an artist who demands romance and eternity, he is not only unable to produce taste in reluctance, but also requires much higher love. Music is his life, love is the inspiration of his music, what he needs is the muse in his life, plum chicken is not happiness for him, but a relief from a bitter life.
In the poem, love is written as "I don't know each other in the spring breeze, what's going on in Luowei?" For Nasha, his wife Frankie is such a "spring breeze", she loves him, but Nascha does not need such love, this love worthless to him. In Frankie's position, this love is a reward for his youth, while in Nesha's position, it is more like a bondage in the name of love. Nasha was afraid of the "spring breeze" that he didn't know where he came from, and missed his lover who didn't know his whereabouts even more.
Tragedy is undeniable, but tragedy is not tragedy. Nasha's death proves that the years he lived before were all for the breath and sigh of his life - Yilan, this world has no color, but you came, you ignited the fire of my life, so I am willing Staying here for you until I find out that you really left me.
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