The snow-covered earth is shrouded in a vast fog, and the cars from far to near seem to enter a state of emptiness. Not sure where to go? It reflects the inner world of the driver's deep hesitation. This is the first scene of the movie "The Farewell". "Snow" and "fog" interweave the poetic and hazy life, and it seems that they are crossing the boundary between dream and reality. In the silence, there is an infinite and deep power. . When you can't find your way, trust your intuition and move on! Perhaps at an inadvertent moment, the answer is already in hand. [When a "cellist" becomes a "ceremonial teacher": a dream can be just a dream] When the dream is deformed under the squeeze of reality, the romantic feelings of the past can only fall silently. At the beginning of the movie, we see Dawu (Yahiro Benmu), the protagonist who loves the cello but has bad luck. First, he bought an expensive cello with a lot of money. Unexpectedly, the orchestra was disbanded after only a few days. Taking the cello as a business, and having to pay expensive loans, he had no choice but to return to his hometown Yamagata with his wife, live in the old house left by his mother, and start over. Without a long-term solution, and facing the dilemma of middle-aged unemployment, he doesn't know what he can do? By mistake, he entered the ranks of the mysterious coffin masters. At the beginning, the boundless fear and the lingering smell were like ghosts, and the scene where he wrapped his wife tightly like a child was deeply embedded in my mind, the feeling of wanting to integrate myself into my wife's body, It's like longing to return to the warmth of the mother's body, giving him a breathing space, allowing him to temporarily let go of the man's responsibilities, without saying anything, and it's okay to be afraid. I think, this is the heart to rely on it! Although there are many problems in life that he still has to face, when he turns his head, he can see his wife's warm smile, which invisibly eases his imagination of fear. In fact, many things are not as difficult as imagined. We are just too accustomed to equating unknown and difficult problems, so we always scare ourselves. After he really did it, he began to clear the clouds and see the sun. With his delicate hands of playing the piano and his innate thoughtfulness, he left the last appearance of the world for those who left, and used a kind of calm and indifferent beauty to soothe the restlessness of the living. flat heart. He finally understood the meaning of the existence of the coffin master: to decorate death with a touch of poetry, so that the end of life can also feel the tenderness of being embraced by others. As a coffin master, he seems to have put his dreams on the shelf; in fact, the cello has become a beautiful episode that embellishes his life: it awakens his childhood memories and brings unprecedented moving times to others. It turns out that a dream can also be just a dream, it does not hinder anyone, and does not restrain itself paranoidly, filling the small gaps in monotonous life with romantic feelings It is no longer work, but has a deeper existence than work. The situation in which the male protagonist is forced to give up his career as a cello is also a situation common to many modern people. The global economic downturn continues to spread fever everywhere. The enviable job has become precarious. Many people have been forced to take unpaid leave, and have even been laid off without warning. They live today without knowing where they will be tomorrow. life? Anxiety all day long. Losing has become a natural state. However, many people lose not only their jobs, but also their self-confidence and expectations for a better life. When life goes beyond your expectations, how do you continue? The road that has always been accustomed to walking forward suddenly collapsed and a sign indicating that this road is not accessible is posted; the only thing I see is a completely unfamiliar road. Stop, there is no way to go, only frozen in place. However, life goes on all the time, there is no pause button to press, since we can't change the world, let's change ourselves! Change the way you look at the world, change your inexplicable insistence that you have to do something, turn when it's time to turn; be soft, sometimes to see the scenery of life from another angle, to see unexpected beauty. When everything is out of control, it seems to be pushed forward by time, so I can only wait and see, and occasionally I will be thrown over by the stones along the road. However, when you don't care so much about the state of falling, you gradually become more enlightened, become more and more smooth, and begin to truly master your own life. Just like the hesitant male protagonist in the movie, from the very beginning, he was full of doubts and fears about the "coffin master" to the frustration of personal contact, and then he moved forward from the frustration. Qing, treating every still body with the tender heart of playing the qin, and seeing all the different aspects of life in the face of death, gradually realized the holiness and value of the cashier, and re-identified with himself. The key is to "go on" and integrate into real life. He puts his dream in his pocket and carries it with him, with poetry and beauty, to decorate the last moment for those who leave. [Occupation is not high or low: the prejudice of people's hearts creates the gap between high and low] Another impressive thing in the film is the prejudice of ordinary people against "coffin masters", including the hero himself. At first, he did not dare to let his wife know the content of his work. He couldn't face the odor on his body either. Before returning home, he rinsed vigorously in the bathroom, as if he wanted to wash away the dirt in his heart. He became reluctant to eat meat, and the smell of meat made him nauseous, like a knot in his heart, haunting him. In contrast, the president who looks ordinary but is full of wisdom, eats meat like he is after work, and does not forget to tell him: "If you want to eat, you must eat delicious food. "Say After wearing it, the meat we eat is the corpse of animals. How can ordinary people be afraid of eating meat? That being the case, what is there to fear from the dead? As long as you treat it with a normal heart, this work is just a part of life. When relatives and friends learned about his work, they all looked at him with contempt, including his wife who had always supported him the most. His wife even went back to her parents’ home in despair, thinking that he couldn’t do any job, so why did he choose to engage in this line of work? Although the profession itself is not good or bad, however, from the enviable and elegant cellist to the inexplicably humble coffin master, the nobility of the profession has long been marked with a distinct label. Perhaps because death still belongs to the category of unknown and fear in people's consciousness, coupled with the fact that eastern society has always regarded death as a taboo, almost all those who used to do this as a profession have no other choice, so it is a matter of course. prejudice. The movie naturally presents the internal and external dilemmas faced by the male protagonist. He did not deliberately defend, but still did it silently, because no amount of explanations could easily eliminate the prejudice in his heart. When the time came one day, the wife witnessed how he used his delicate hands to smooth the gradually decaying body of the deceased. She saw that there was a calmness in his eyes that he had not seen for a long time, and he used a very humble and solemn attitude. , Complete each step meticulously, without the high-spiritedness of playing the cello before, but with an unprecedented power of silence, and that power makes the dead quiet, the living feel at ease, and she is deeply moved! Since childhood, everyone has known the saying that "professionalism has no dignity", but this society is full of prejudice like in the movie. The same is selling things. Compared with selling chicken chops, most people think that selling coffee is more noble, because coffee has long been labeled with a "cultural" code, and the coffee group tends to be literati, and ordinary people in the market mostly eat chicken. Pai, do not drink coffee, so there is such a distinction. I think the value and position of a thing depends on self-perception, the difference is, do you see that tiny bright spot in the dark when everyone is blind? That highlight is your unique scenery. Only with your heart can you see the beauty that comes from the bottom of your heart. The same simple truth: we can't change other people's prejudices, but we can listen to our own heart, should we continue to do it? Also has the broadest answer. [Father's position: the softest place in the heart] The taciturn male protagonist in the movie left a deep scar after his father ran away from home when he was young. He is accustomed to hiding his thoughts in his heart, and he is also accustomed to treating the family affection he once had but suddenly lost in an indifferent way. Although he remembered his father's romantic feelings, he couldn't remember his father's appearance at all. "Father" became the last thing in his heart to understand question mark? The existence of his father seemed to have little to do with his life. However, when he finally looked at his father's body and took out the little stone that connected happiness from his father's clenched hand, he suddenly understood one thing: no matter what What's going on with your father's life? In his wandering life, his father has always had his place. Just like his father has always existed in his heart in a subtle way, once the hard stone is endowed with the warmth of the heart, it will become an important outline of memory. Everyone has an unsolvable knot in their heart, and that knot may not be solved by "seeing you again" or "coming back", and life's regrets often form quietly under the unsolvable heart knot. In the end, the answer didn't seem to matter anymore. His father's fuzzy face gradually became clear. He saw the picture of the family enjoying themselves by the stream at that time: father and son exchanged stones, as if entrusting each other with a lifetime of trust, mother smiled at the side, and he Finally felt the faint, but real, happy times. In the old house full of memories, there is a luminous past hidden everywhere, and with the brilliance of the past to the present moment: the cello used as a child, played for him the quiet and steady mood of life at this moment; The first stone given to him is like giving him a precious moment of life. He gives it to his wife and future son to pass on his blessings; his mother arranges his father's collection of records neatly, as if a metaphorical love, but it is already unspoken. Brilliantly revealed. The coffee time he and his wife shared at home overlapped with old memories, and every warm moment reappeared the light of happiness at that time. In fact, the father's position has always been firmly entrenched in his heart, which is the most tender place in his heart, allowing him to move forward slowly in the face of adversity; to caress the sorrow in fear; The moment, choose to believe in yourself. With the hands of the coffin master and the love of his son, he sent his father the last journey, and also sent away himself, who was full of resentment towards the past. The whole movie moves forward slowly in a quiet atmosphere. The soundtrack interspersed in the movie comes with a strong lyrical narrative. Sometimes you don't need a line of dialogue, you can also get a glimpse of the charm of the hero playing the piano. The soundtrack can be said to be the best supporting role in the movie: cello, violin, piano, sometimes surging, sometimes low, interweaving the joys and sorrows of every turning point, hiding the unspoken affection. The male and female protagonists who play husband and wife: Masahiro Benmu and Ryoko Hirosue are both Japanese drama actors who were once popular. As they get older, they instead have a light and elegant temperament, which is in perfect harmony with the atmosphere of the movie. It turns out that the beauty that can accompany the years in peace is even more endless, just like this movie. "Etiquette teacher" played "moving music of life" with delicate and dexterous hands. i like movies Presenting the meaning of the coffin master in a real and poetic way seems to tell us that every moment of life can be both realistic and magical, just as "death" can be an end or another beginning. No matter what? Each has its own meaning. As long as you are willing to be in it, you will surely find your place in the vast world and play the most beautiful music with your heart. It happened to be the March season, and it seemed that the cherry blossoms were raining in the splendid garden again, the smiling moment when Ryoko Hirosue was watering the flowers, and the quiet profile of Masahiro Benmu playing the cello. After walking through the cold and hesitation of the snow season, I saw the re-blooming life posture, as slow and delicate as the beginning.
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