Because of watching "The Lonely Game", a friend recommended "The Sunshine" to me. Chen Jianhao, played by Xu Guanghan, jumped down from the sky shortly after telling "Sima Guang's Story", but this story lingered in my heart for the remaining two hours. If living is hidden, we are always waiting to be "found" - being smashed into a water tank by others, looking at each other, and the sun shining on our body, the meaning of life can be realized, and the redemption of the soul can be completed. So we hid in the dark, waiting anxiously and sweetly. But what if others never find it? What if someone else gave up looking? What if no one cares where you are hiding? What if you have nowhere to hide?
In the movie, almost everyone has a "don't ask" moment. This kind of eternal silence runs through the film from beginning to end. Every silence is a mystery, but most of the time, the people who catch it give up questioning and searching again and again. Xiaoyu was pregnant, and her mother visited her many times but said nothing until Ah Hao said to Ah He who was in prison, "You never asked, it was an escape." After he was released from prison, Caitou pestered Ah He. On the way to the trade, he couldn’t help but say that he hadn’t come to see me for so long after he got out of prison. Ah He said, I don’t know where you are. Now, what Caitou did to Ah He was not so much because he was surly by nature, but rather resentment towards Ah Hao for not trying to find himself - he didn't care that the other party put all the responsibilities on him, but he felt sorry for him since he was released from prison. I don't care about myself. The bus girl adores Ah Hao, but at the last moment of his life, he did not reveal his feelings to each other, nor did he ask the true meaning of the specious text messages he sent her.
As the "Sima Guang" in the story, Ah Hao strives to meet everyone's expectations and spread light and heat into everyone's life, but he is hidden in the deepest water tank and no one is looking for it. Just like the "I" hidden in the big tree in the novel: "I waited for a long time until the sky gradually darkened. The feeling of happiness slowly disappeared with time, and finally, I saw Kong Zhaonian slowly like an old man. I walked over. He stood slowly under the tree where I was hiding, looked to the right, looked to the left, and then suddenly raised his head - I was stunned before I could scream. He stared blankly I, I should say, saw through me, my eyes were fixed on my back, not moving, and it was chilling. I have never seen such a completely expressionless face, and such a pair of empty eyeballs, turning a blind eye to me ." The people around him turned a blind eye, which turned Ah Hao's expectations into disappointment, and finally the water tank was smashed open by Ah Hao himself to end his life. So far, everyone has seen his "empty eyeballs" and the loneliness and sadness hidden in the depths of his life.
For the two sons he loves the most, the father has always been silent. The father's silence hides his deep love and is also the source of the tragedy of the two sons. For the eldest son, he projected too many expectations but never tried to enter the inner world of his son. When sending tuition fees, he hardly said a word, and the father and son just nodded silently; for the younger son, he grew up on the road. The apostasy, how could it not be noticed? It's just that he devoted all his attention to his eldest son, claiming to the outside world that he had only one son, and even saying things like "keep the old and die" in court. After the death of his eldest son, he finally decided to start looking for it. For two months, he stayed at the convenience store and car wash, and found the entanglement between his son and Caitou, followed him all the way, and killed Caitou in the heavy rain. At this point, the ceremony of "hiding and searching" has been completed. Caitou's death has dispelled the shadows of Ah He's life. He ran wildly on the highway, as if he had been redeemed and rushed to a new life. And my father's action of raising a big rock and smashing it at the vegetable head corresponds to the "stone smashing the cylinder", I think it's probably not a coincidence.
When sorting out the relics, Ah He found the notebooks that his father had given Ah Hao over the years. This scene reminded me of Yuan Zhesheng's "Sealed Jar" for no reason - his wife suggested that they each write down what they want to say to each other and put them in a sealed jar, which will be revealed in 20 years. The husband rolled a blank sheet of paper and went in. After the death of his wife, the husband opened the sealed jar ahead of time, only to find that there was only his empty piece of paper inside. When the living person finally wants to explore that hidden and subtle corner, only to find that the other party has already left with disappointment forever, leaving only a blank space. Ahao and the girl, Caitou and Ahe, Ahe and his father... The gap between people is so deep and so far away that even a poor life can't break it, and finally it becomes an eternal dislocation between life and death, constantly reminding us The sadness and loneliness of life. How lonely life is.
In the end, Ah Hao skillfully opened the U-shaped lock and took his mother for a ride, which constituted the only warmth in the whole movie. The tree-shaded avenues swirled, and the sun shone through the gaps in the leaves, like water flowing through a smashed water tank. Those words of aphasia finally constitute the silence of life, the life of silence.
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