This movie tells us a common story that is not very common, and every detail is heart-wrenching.
There was a couple who bought a deceased old man's apartment and their antique furniture at a low price and sold it at a high price. Many children feel that the taste of their elders is outdated, and the furniture they cherish is nothing but rubbish that no one wants. For $4,000, they can sell the entire apartment plus furniture and sundries to the couple. In a packaged apartment, a round table may be sold for as high as $5,000, and a small flower pot may be sold for at least $700. Therefore, the couple had a good life, and they still had spare money to buy the apartment next door. When the owner of the apartment, the 91-year-old old lady, went west, they could open up the walls to expand the space of their house.
There is such an old lady who is about to celebrate her 91st birthday. She didn't know how long she hadn't walked out of the apartment. Due to the limitation of vision deterioration, joint rheumatism and other diseases, she can only be taken care of by her two granddaughters. She stubbornly insists on her weird taste, bad temper, and stinky mouth, insists that others act according to her own instructions, quarrels with the building management over maintenance costs, and throws away the birthday gifts that the neighbors kindly gave her as garbage, so that she has no friends. , and also caused her great-granddaughter's disgust and mean attitude towards her, but she did not take it seriously.
There is such a beautician who has been holding a grudge against his ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend since he was dumped by his ex-boyfriend. Every day when she was commuting to and from get off work, she would deliberately pass by the woman's store, pretending to look at the clothes and go in to look at the woman. Then spread the shortcomings of that woman to others everywhere, and then laugh at how the ex-boyfriend can find such a girlfriend who has no self-awareness. She hated her grandmother, even a little bit. She felt that her grandmother caused her mother's suicide, but unknowingly, she became as annoying as her own grandmother. She feels that she is a fashionable, beautiful, tasteful and well-maintained woman who has a strong attraction to men, so she wants to prove her charm by seducing her neighbor's husband.
There is such a man, who has a keen business sense, a bright mind, and is good at salesmanship. He can introduce ordinary used goods into antiques worthy of collection, so the furniture store he and his wife runs is doing well. In an increasingly dull life, he wanted to seek some excitement, so he went to beauticians, and went to have sex with the neighbors who worked in the beauty shop, hoping that he could get back the enthusiasm of the young man from this affair, because he felt that he and the The wife is so compatible with everything, like an old friend, but lacks passion. And a teenage daughter in the family is often in trouble, giving him a headache.
There is such a girl, she is in puberty, she loves beauty and has a personality, but she is slightly fat, and she has inherited her father's skin characteristics, and her face keeps getting pimples. She felt that her parents' praise and comfort to her were hypocritical, and she liked people who spoke directly, so she fell in love with the beautician in her neighbor who spoke a little bit harshly, and went to her for a beauty treatment. She wanted to buy a pair of stylish jeans, but her mother would rather give $20 a day to a beggar on the street than $200 for a pair of pants for her biological daughter.
There is such a woman, who is doing a lucrative antique furniture business, living a prosperous life and having plenty of time. But her kindness made her feel that every piece of furniture she bought was haunted by the soul of a dead old man. So she tried her best to do good deeds. She gave money to beggars every day, took pity on the building manager who had many poor children, celebrated birthdays for the elderly in the neighbors, worked as a social worker to chat with the elderly, and accompany the mentally handicapped children to exercise. She hopes her good deeds can make up for her immorality in business, but she feels that no matter how hard she tries, she can't improve her self-blame, and even if she stops buying these old furniture, someone will continue her business . So finally one day, she began to return the acquired items that could make huge profits to the owner's children, and she felt that her conscience was at peace.
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And did the facts really continue as they expected?
After enjoying the material life, the couple had a tense relationship.
After being annoying, the old lady had to die alone in front of the TV.
After the beautician successfully seduced a man, he was scolded by his ex-boyfriend's girlfriend as an old woman.
After the man sought stimulation, he felt more and more that he had become an old man.
The girl ruined her skin after the beauty treatment.
After the woman returned it to the flower pot, the flower pot was smashed by children who didn't know how to cherish it.
In every story, between every character, there is a deep gap. Children who do not understand children, but also children of the elderly. The generation gap has become an abyss that cannot be bridged and cannot be bridged.
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There are a lot of details in the film worth noting, and the beginning is also very interesting, all kinds of breasts. Maybe this is also a metaphor. When a woman is young and radiant, it is a symbol of beauty and youth, a testament to a woman's attractiveness to a man. When a woman gets old, sagging breasts suddenly become a nest for cancer cells to grow slowly. The pride of youth has become a life-threatening ticking time bomb at this time.
With the increase of age, all problems seem to have another new situation. The young hate the stubbornness of the old, the old hate the frivolity of the young; the young hate the taste of the old, the old hate the personality of the young; the young hate the nagging of the old, the old hate the straightforwardness of the young... …In short, we do our best to maintain the fashion, style, preferences, and environment of our own era, and we have to declare war, reject, and isolate against another era, until a war breaks out.
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I don’t want people to take this film as a textbook for “American imperialists” and say to me in a political class when I was a child, “Look, in a country like American imperialism, there is no family concept at all, and the elderly are so lonely. When it comes to support, children are not educated, there is no connection between neighbors, and there are only pictures and material desires everywhere.”
In fact, the social problems reflected in this film are not there in our “superior” society. Woolen cloth. A netizen wrote in a film review, "This is New York, it's just Shanghai..."
In this gradually aging society and serious class differentiation, how to allow people of different ages and different classes to communicate has become a challenging problem. Like our post-80s generation, they cannot understand the social turmoil experienced by their parents, nor the doting they received after the 90s and 00s; an only child like me cannot understand the family atmosphere of brothers and sisters. At the same time, parents born in difficult times fail to understand the fashion that our generation strives for in what we eat and what we wear. Children in the city can't experience farmland, crops, chickens, ducks, frogs, children in the countryside can't understand roller coasters, Harry Potter, Japanese-Korean combinations... There are many, many more, and they are divided into two kinds of people who can't communicate and coexist harmoniously.
So the real story is far more disturbing than the one in the movie.
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At the end, I just want to repeat the title again, we are all getting old in the process of disgusting aging.
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