"The Smell of Sand" · Record

Salma 2022-03-27 09:01:20

Start: The pace is slow and every frame is beautiful.

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1. In the film, Ms. Dejiang taught the store manager to make red bean stuffing without abbreviating it at all. Just like the title of the film, she said it was Chengsha, so she carefully filmed the process, and it was obvious that it was One of the main lines.

2. Surprisingly, the manager of a dorayaki shop who doesn't like sweets only likes to drink. The manager didn't finish a complete dorayaki before Ms. Tokue's bean paste was made.

3. When it is still take-out bean paste, the manager usually prepares at nine o'clock and opens at eleven o'clock. And after Ms. Dejiang came to make the bean paste, before the sun came out, she had to get up to make the bean paste.

4. Ms. Dejiang respects nature very much. She talks to the cherry tree, talks to the full moon, and talks to the beans when making bean paste. She said: To welcome the beans, the beans come from the ground, which is far away, and you have to work hard.

5. One morning, the store manager opened the window and suddenly found many people queuing at the door. It turned out that these were the people who came to buy his dorayaki. The store manager was surprised that he didn't react at once. After waiting for a while, he said, welcome.

6. Ms. Dejiang told the store manager that she had always wanted to see the young and energetic girls who came to eat Dorayaki, and also wanted to receive customers. Later, although the store manager heard rumors that Ms. Dejiang was a leper, he still told Ms. Dejiang that she could receive customers according to her wishes. Ms. Dejiang was very happy. The store manager must have been moved by Ms. Dejiang! Ms. Dejiang has always been so persistent that when the store manager was reluctant to accept her as a part-time job at first, she reluctantly went there for the second time and brought her own bean paste, and finally conquered the store manager. When the store manager received a small threat and wanted to rest, Ms. Dejiang was alone in the store. In the case of trying to make pie for the first time, she entertained customers for one day, and she still went very early the next day. The amount of bean paste is ready. In fact, the store manager threw the bean paste into the trash can at first, but he may have felt Ms. Dejiang's persistence since then, so he took it out of the trash can, and then the follow-up development. Yes, just like what was said in the barrage, when Ms. Dejiang came for the first time, if the store manager said directly: You are too old, get out. Then the story is gone!

7. The store manager took the initiative to confess: I owe money to this store, and the owner of this store helped me pay it back. This is what I need to bear in my life. Ms. Dejiang: Each of us has a story.

8. The girl told the store manager that she had run away. She was holding a big thing that looked like luggage. When she opened it, she could clearly see that it was a canary cage wrapped in a coat.

9. The store manager and the girl visited the place where the Hansen-like patient lived. The store manager said that it was very quiet here. They walked through the quiet tree-lined avenue. The first thing they heard was laughter and laughter, and then they saw the patients laughing and talking in the sun. They just had some flaws compared to normal people, but they had the right to be there. Laughing in the sun. And Ms. Dejiang sat quietly in the flower room by herself. Her hair has turned a lot white, even her eyebrows, and her speech is not very clear. She told the shop manager and the girl about the past. It turned out that when she was a teenager, she was sent to this place to recuperate by her brother. She still remembers the white clothes that her mother knitted for her before she left.

10. Ms. Dejiang's friend Kako came and asked the store manager carefully, can I work there too? And Ms. Dejiang was beside her and let out a smug laugh.

11. The store manager and the girl were invited to the food store. The chefs and customers of this store were also sick. They ate the food made by Jiazi, who is good at pastry, and also ate the pickled plums in Ms. Dejiang's salted kelp. The manager asked Ms. Dejiang how to do it, and Ms. Dejiang said, "I won't tell you." The four of them laughed together.

12. The store manager went back. After returning, she wrote a letter to Ms. Dejiang. The letter said: When the store manager was in the bar, because of persuasion, he maimed a person. During the three years in prison, his mother died. . However, when the manager of the dorayaki shop was about to be remodeled, and was going to see Ms. Dejiang to take the letter to Ms. Dejiang, he heard the news that Ms. Dejiang had passed away "three days ago". The store manager held the letter tightly, expressionless.

13. Jiazi took the store manager and the girl to "visit" Ms. Dejiang. Jiazi said that they can't erect tombstones, so when one of them dies, they will plant a tree. Ms. Dejiang likes cherry trees, so they will plant it for her a cherry tree.

14. At the end of the film, the girl walked across the Cherry Blossom Avenue and continued to go to school; while the shop manager set up a dorayaki stall in a place full of cherry trees, next to the stall was the old piece of old that was almost thrown away. Shop sign. He was full of energy, with light in his eyes, and he shouted to the surrounding: Dorayaki, delicious dorayaki! I think they will think of Ms. Tokujiang when they see the cherry tree in the future!

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Epilogue: Although Ms. Dejiang was sent to the place where the leper was in her teens, she was full of hope and respected nature. She talks to all natural things, and she lets go of the canary named Mulvey because she says she hears "it wants to be free" in the birds' song. Finally, when Ms. Dejiang left, she said on the tape she left behind. When she saw the store manager on a weekly walk, she was thinking, if her child is born, it will be as big as the store manager, but why is there hopelessness in the eyes of the store manager? So she went to the store manager and saved the store manager and the girl with her passion for life.

Favorite quote from the movie: We want to live in a society where the sun shines.

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Sweet Bean quotes

  • Tokue: An is the soul of the doriyaki.

  • Tokue: We all have our stories.