There are several details that are easy to notice:
1. This mad and lively old woman in her late 80s is a Jew who once escaped in a Nazi concentration camp. This is evident from the digital imprint on her arm. can be seen. For such a person, she has experienced a disaster that is close to death, and her outlook on life will be rebuilt because of this encounter. Her contempt for many rules comes from her desire for the true meaning of life.
2. The work of the three blind date objects introduced by the boy to his mother respectively includes the following factors: the first is politics (current affairs and home economics), the second is economics (processing invoices), and the third is culture ( actor).
The first girl who represents politics, you can see from him that politics is a gossip interest of three aunts and six grandmothers. This kind of serious topic suddenly becomes very boring, as if playing politics and caring about politics are no different from idle and boring behaviors who are keen on gossip.
The second girl representing the economy, you can see the epitome of the bombastic talk of all those who are engaged in business activities in her pretentious remarks with this obvious pride and self-importance. The kind of feeling that makes me want to sneer in my heart when I see such words.
The third girl who represents culture is an actress. She was not intimidated by the teenager's suicide performance, but performed with him, so her performance subverted the first two girls. But she still left, why? Look at her exaggerated performance in the music room, that is a face of her exaggerated performance of admiration and vanity for people in the literary and artistic circles. If you have come into contact with such a person, you can feel the resonance in the movie. Because they are extremely hypocritical, not only that they always want to attract your attention, but they are actually extremely selfish people. Although they are people who engage in culture and art, they are more aggressive than others.
These three girls here represent not only themselves, but also the satire of the political, economic and cultural, and the satire of these meanings, that the filmmakers wanted to express.
3. The opening song and ending song of the movie are the same song, and this song also runs through the movie, it expresses the center of the movie. The lyrics are to the effect that there are thousands of roads in the world, you can take any road you want, and you can take it whenever you want. It tells us that what people want and what is their own business, as long as you want to do it, you can do it while you are alive, whether you are a teenager or an old man, this does not prevent you from facing life and choosing the life you want.
4. This old woman said something that resonated with me very much, that is, don't care too much about what others think of you, everyone can do silly things to amuse themselves. The old woman also said a lot of things like this, such as breaking morals if you want to live a truly interesting life. So the young man who listened to these words was fascinated and his eyes shone brightly. The old woman was accused of stealing a car. In fact, every time she went out, she drove someone else's car on the roadside. This behavior of course seems illegal, but we all know that the old woman did not take other people's cars. I mean, she never wanted to take anything as her own, she said she did it to remind others to let them know: you don't really own anything, nothing belongs to you. It's like that little tree, that car, that axe, the best gift that the old man has received over the years (the teenager gave the old man a game coin, and she threw it into the water). You have to remember that when you live and die, nothing is yours, you come and go naked, and the meaning and value of life does not lie in these external things.
5. The old woman stores smells, such as the smell of snow on the avenue of so-and-so. She collects those smells in jars, and she also makes a strange-shaped device to emit the smell. The old woman explored the sense of touch again. The weird wooden product reminded people of a woman, and the hole in the middle even made people feel like the hole in the woman's body, but in fact it is very different from women. But the old woman asked the young man to caress it, and when the young man caressed the woodwork, his breathing became thicker and thicker. When he buried his head in the hole, there was a clear sense of sexual pleasure. Add that you can have a lust for wood, and of course you can to that old woman with sagging breasts and skin folds. When a teenager looks at an 80-year-old woman, we can see a so-called timeless love, that is, when she is so old, I still love her, as if her age is not a problem at all. She is a woman, and a woman must go from childhood to old age. In such a process, whether you meet her in old age or when you meet her in youth, she is the same woman. From how the old woman looks at the youth, we see that the old woman is rejuvenated, and we will feel that the old woman is a naughty little girl, and age has no meaning in love and life and death.
6. The boy's uncle was an American soldier who had participated in the war against Germany. His patriotism and patriotism led to the absurd and wrong conclusion that we like to kill people. So this corresponds to the old woman's conversation, that is, the country, the nation, the patriotism and so on are bullshit. She used to fight and participate in demonstrations for grand ideas of rights, justice, freedom, etc., but now she uses her own small ways to change what she can. Whether it is German, American, Jewish, what country, what king, what does it matter? The old woman who has gone through hardships, bereaved her family and bereaved her country, the huge contrast from court life to concentration camp life, from the Nazis killing and abusing Jews, to the war between American soldiers and German soldiers. The dehumanizing perverts caused by the classification of meanings.
The whole story takes the acquaintance and love of a young man and an old woman as an absurd appearance, but in essence what it wants to express is beyond the political, economic, cultural and military serious and grand social issues, and returns to how people spend their lives. But the deepest question of faith.
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