No matter how strong the heart is, I can't cover my stomach

Spencer 2021-12-28 08:01:34

I watched "Lunch Box" casually, and glanced at the news last year during the Oscar season: This film won the Cannes Film Critics Week Audience and Critics’ Choice Awards, and it was very popular, but it was not selected as the best foreign language film for the Oscars. It became an issue in the Indian film industry. The simplest reason I cited this film is good is that for so many years, this is the first Indian film that I have watched. The protagonist did not suddenly sing and dance in half of the Indian movie, and also shot the crowded Mumbai in my impression. Some kind of subtle and clean beauty.

The story of "Lunch Box" is well-regulated. A woman Ira, whose husband had an affair, tried to keep a man's heart with a delicious lunch box, but the lunch box was mistaken by the most reliable express delivery system. Delivered to an insurance company, a widower Fernandez who is about to retire early. Two people who have a little thought in their hearts, just make the mistake and make the mistake. You come and I pass the book through the lunch box, and the story continues in a letter a day. The ending was not unexpected. The mutual affection, the hesitant to speak, but the climax was a little lingering, and I felt a little bit of a feeling that I didn't get up even after I stepped on the accelerator. I feel a little sorry.

The end of the film is lazy. To a large extent, it is the director’s weak, hard-working hero and heroine. They can only vaguely think of Bhutan, who is the first in happiness index, as a paradise. But if life is a closed boring circle, chance encounters Escape is just the beginning of another closed loop. That kind of ambiguous, implicit and sticky, like the stuffy summer afternoon, making people sleepy and weak, the repeatedly emphasized line: "The wrong train will take you to the right place", which seems very unconvincing. This kind of words that make great efforts to support literature and art is like the second male who loves to blow water in the film. Only by adding "this is what my mother told me" can it instantly become simple and powerful, Mean Sth. .

Putting aside the loss of going high and low, most of the script in the front of the film is still very neat, and Mumbai, which is full of style, also has the loneliness and loneliness common to the metropolis. The screenwriter allows lone men and widows in the spiritual world to continue to create new ideas in the seven or eight rounds of communication without meeting each other. It is even rarer to have a cold humor that makes people laugh but sinks from time to time: Fernandez describes Ira In my own life, I can only stand while squeezed on the bus every day. Unlike before, I can occasionally find a place. "I want to prepare a coffin for myself in the madam’s cemetery that was the same as that given to her in the past. They told me that they can only sell it now. Standing upright, I stood for a lifetime, but I didn't expect to continue to stand after death."

In another email, Fernandez told Ira about the artists he met on the street every day, "He painted the same picture repeatedly, but each one is a little different, with multiple people, multiple cars, or multiple dogs. Crossing the road. Whatever attracts the painter’s attention, there will be more, and I saw one of them, at least I think it’s myself." —Irhan, who played Fernandez, is the adult Pi in "Young Pi" The actor, the performance in the film is as calm and steady as ever. His biggest advantage is that even if he stares at the camera with blank eyes, he seems to have a lot of past events. At the Asian Film Awards at the beginning of the year, Yierhan used this role to put a generation of Grandmaster Liang off the ring, which is justified.

One more personal reason for recommending "Lunch Box" may not have much to do with the film itself, but the lunch box. In the film, the sudden delicious lunch box brings freshness and anticipation to Fernandez, who is about to retire. This is the biggest surprise in his few working days. I remember when my mother was studying in junior high school, my mother prepared lunch and brought it to her work place. In the fourth class in the morning, I often couldn't help but wandered off: "Is my mother stewed eggs or fried meat today?", Thinking about it, I’m happy on my face, even English and politics don’t feel so bad. I think of it again, during the most discouraged period of my ten years of work, I still think about eating the most every day. In the morning, I think about what to eat for lunch, and what to eat for dinner in the afternoon, and to escape from the office at the end of my meal is the greatest motivation in life.

You see, upstream and downstream, young and sophisticated, life is the only thing to think about eating. It's true, no matter how strong the heart is, it won't be able to cover the stomach. Even if there is no paper kite teaser, you can always learn how to feed yourself. Those feelings that have no results, if no one listens, let's try to rot in your stomach.

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Extended Reading
  • Daphney 2022-03-30 09:01:05

    An unconventional Indian film with an international production style.

  • Wilburn 2021-12-28 08:01:34

    It’s a bit like the final ending of No. 84 Charing Street, leaving enough space for imagination. The heroine looks great @ugc ciné cité les halles

The Lunchbox quotes

  • Saajan Fernandes: When my wife died, she got a horizontal burial cot... I tried to buy a burial cot for myself the other day, and what they offered me was a vertical one... I've spent my whole life standing in trains and buses... now I'll even have to stand when I'm dead!

  • Ila: Somwhere I read that the wrong train can lead you to the right station...