2018 has started, but the Chinese still don't celebrate the Spring Festival until February 15th. Every Spring Festival, it is said to go home and reunite, but can ordinary individuals feel the joy of family at such a moment? There are also many remarks about blind date, marriage, and childbirth. If you want to achieve happiness as defined by people, can you be happy?
The film "No Love to Sue" from Russia, a man and woman whose divorce procedures are pending, each starts a new relationship, and his 12-year-old son suddenly disappears. The film won the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Director Andrei Sagintsev likes to metaphorize the ruthlessness of the political and social environment in the disintegration of individuals. Like the Russian sky, it has been snowing and icy desolate. The story of this film has little to do with the environment. The story is also valid in the context of China. It is better to say that the long-term immersion in the environment has brought the irreversible indifference of modern people, which can be seen in many countries.
The couples played by the hero and heroine are very common in our daily life. Because of youthful desire, impulsiveness, rebelliousness, and carelessness, we enter into marriage carelessly. In the future life, there are complaints and regrets, and the unfortunately born children become victims. It is doomed not to be healthy, not even to survive. Divorce is imminent, but parents do not want to raise their sons like football, and the young children cry silently in the dark. The mother served breakfast like a routine, but she didn't care about her son's tears. Even if the weather was bitterly cold, he chose not to return and escaped from this loveless "home".
"Every man should be with his wife and children." Even if he lives in modern society, a romantic male protagonist still needs to worry about his boss's religious beliefs when he divorces, and whether he will be fired for it. People go around in circles in the "rut" of happiness, unknowingly feeling the fear of the end of the world. The hero also seems to believe in such an unfounded statement, but after modern people have reached a certain material civilization, the outdated concept has to be said to have long been not applicable. Reckless marriage and childbirth are no longer necessary for modern civilization. The era of gathering the strength of ethnic groups by reproduction has long passed. Since human development, people should pay more attention to spiritual needs, otherwise they will not find happiness and meaning.
Both the male and female protagonists find new lovers respectively, and find that they have found true love and happiness, and can break away from the wrong marriage of youth and start a new life. In fact, they refuse to find the cause of the problem from themselves and their family of origin, thinking that a different person and a different start will lead to good results. But in the end, it just entered the cycle of life. People come together for desire, want to say goodbye to loneliness, and finally fall into the quagmire of mutual resentment.
The abandoned villa building is a secret base for children, and the barren land of the mind has been overgrown with weeds since childhood. In modern families, it is no longer difficult to meet food and clothing, but other things have not been valued because of changes in conditions. The middle class may have been spared the many oppressions of the political environment for a while, but the fears of mental anxieties are also growing day by day. Everyone longs to be loved, but they don't know how to love others, even a young life can be abandoned, and they are farther and farther away from happiness without realizing it. The problem that money can't solve can only get worse in the cold winter.
The film gives us a lot of thinking, to pay attention to the predicament of interpersonal relationships, to pay attention to the scars of the family, and even to pay attention to the environment of different social strata, to find the source of the problem, maybe only by rooting out the roots and obtaining redemption.
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