I will generously give 5 stars to the small-scale " lunch box " , this unprecedented Indian film without singing and dancing moved me especially, and what moved me was its restraint and introvertedness, or the omnipresent loneliness , or is it a dead end?
I saw a comment that said, "Why did those letters open up? How could her husband make her want to cheat? Why did he suddenly become inferior and dare not run away together? Director, you will die if you explain it clearly", but , Why do I feel that the director has already said everything and can't understand it any more! Sure enough, people are different, alas.
One is a lonely old man with no end in sight, the other is a lost young housewife who doesn't know where to go. The problems to be faced in life are actually not too different. The "Bhutan" in the movie is not the ultimate, just like the Paris in " Revolutionary Road " is not the other side of happiness; it's just that people need to face the problem bravely, instead of escaping and evading their lives , just like the old life repeated every day in " Yiyi ".
The lunch box is being passed around every day, but the two people haven't seen each other until the end of the movie. Can you say that love itself is meaningless because of this? What is meaningful is the good taste of curry, the tangled longing after tossing and turning, and the life that is struggling to find the next stop. So, I especially like this sentence in the movie- Sometimes a wrong train will take you to the right destination.
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