"おくりびと (Entering the funeral teacher)"
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Death is not the opposite of life, but exists forever as a part of life.
Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Forest"
has watched a lot more movies in the past two years than before, which may have something to do with his previous professional development in this area. However, no matter what the motivation or the occasion, I always care about the spirit of the story that the film tells is given by the production team, and how they make me feel. A good story is made into a film. In the invisible movement of light and shadow, a soft aura will permeate, penetrate deep into your bone marrow, flow into your heart, and gently touch your lacrimal glands.
When tears rolled down his cheeks silently, he always took a few seconds to notice.
This time, I finished watching "The Undertaker" when the sun was receding and the clouds were gradually becoming denser. The tears that fell several times in the process were too gentle to be restrained. It was like a rain shower in place of the dense clouds.
It is true that I went to see this film for the title of this year's Oscar for best foreign language film, and I was not disappointed at all. After watching it, I had a chat with my friends, and I said, even if this is not the best movie, it definitely can't be bad. The original solemn interpretation of life and death is presented in a slow and shallow narrative that does not even leave a trace, with a suitable temperature.
"Entering the burial" is a ceremonial part of the funeral service, which is the process of dressing and putting on makeup for the deceased. Our first impression is the coldness of white and the solemnity of black, a dark profession dealing with the remains of the deceased. Just like the resistance and incomprehension in the film when Dawu's profession is known to his friends and wife, this is definitely a thankless job, both in Japan and in our country.
The scene when my grandfather passed away in 2002 is vivid in my mind. Many people, elders, friends and friends from all walks of life came to the house. I can still vaguely remember the funeral staff who came to take care of the funeral affairs at that time. It was a middle-aged woman with a pale face and kept saying good things. Even remember what he said to his family about zombies. In short, I don't have a good impression at all. The relatives' gratitude to the funeral company is just out of etiquette and business, and there is no emotion at all. It is said that our motherland is a country of etiquette. After watching the film, I compared the fragments in my memory, and my emotions are indescribable.
Yes, the mortuary is dealing with corpses, "feeding on the dead", and is a special marginal occupation that people are reluctant to approach. But friends who have watched this film must have another kind of pure recognition for this "unclean" profession.
Dawu's first job was an old lady who had passed away for two weeks, and her body was already rotten. The first contact with a corpse at such a close distance is a big blow to anyone, not to mention such an unsightly situation, not to mention the ambivalence that will be a career in the future. After work, I took the bus home and was pointed at me. I felt strange in my heart, so I went to my childhood bathroom to wash myself. When I got home, I saw the slaughtered chicken on the table, and I felt disgusting uncontrollably, and then I felt uncontrollable impulses towards my wife, for nothing else, just because I had endured a heaviness I had never endured in such a short period of time, and cross Such a shallow and deep ditch between the dead and the living. What I thought of at that time turned out to be from "The Analects of Confucius • Advanced": If you don't know life, how can you know death. And I want to say: I don't know death, how can I know life.
It is because of touching death that I truly appreciate the value of life. Knowing the impermanence of the world, knowing the end point that can never be escaped, and not just imagining, but touching the moment personally, can you understand the supremacy of life. Being alive can mean everything.
Dawu gradually became accustomed to and deepened the work of the mortuary master, and gradually saw the various states of the world, and saw all kinds of warm and cold farewells to relatives. After being questioned and opposed by relatives and friends, he insisted on his insistence. And the persistence of Dawu at this moment has already seen the unspeakable sacredness of the mortuary master.
People are willing to believe that life can be immortal, but the facts always let people down and despair mercilessly. The grandfather who likes to take a bath but is in charge of cremation said that death is like a door, and after walking through it, it is another journey. He always said to the deceased in front of the cremator: Be careful on the road, there is always a chance to see you again. NK Agency's job advertisement reads: Help others on their journey of stability.
The journey through the door is new and painless. Even if this is what people imagine, it can be a blessing or a prayer. It is at this time that life reaches immortality.
What is immortal is not the body, but the thoughts of the living people for the deceased, and the precious and heavy memories left by the deceased to future generations. The immortality of life lies in such a spiritual inheritance. And our burial master is standing between the two and handing over the pair of warm hands.
At the end of the film, Dawu is buried for his father. The small stone held tightly in my father's hand fell gently. At that moment, the emotions that had been suppressed and accumulated for many years were clearly revealed, and it was self-evident. And more importantly, Dawu put the small stone in the hands of his wife, Mika, and gently pressed it on her stomach. After many years of silence, the love that finally appeared even hotter on the already cold body was passed on silently to the next generation. So the father's love reached immortality between these hands, exuding a gentle warmth forever.
Annie once said that life is a passer-by, traversing the realm of nothingness. It is about the journey in "Lotus". If our life is nothingness after all, then even if we travel thousands of miles, we will not be able to escape. And I think that the ultimate detachment of our life's trek may be a sentence from our relatives: You have worked hard, be careful on the road.
Some people may say that such a soulful mortuary teacher, but very few. And I'd rather lie to myself that they are all.
Who makes me willing to believe in beauty, willing to believe in love and light.
"The Undertaker" made me more willing to cherish everyone I met in my life and cherish every time spent together. Make me willing to believe that the door between life and death is no longer full of fear.
In this way, the immortality of life, even if it is vague in the cycle of heaven and the eternal calamity, is still shining.
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