Te Amo

Allison 2022-11-02 23:10:05

Just lying in bed watching "Meeting Love at the Corner of the World", this year's Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. The title of the film is very vulgar, but it is indeed a good film. I thought it was a few streets away from "Mysterious Eyes", but the Oscar judges still don't want to see Eastern European films.

I can't write the feeling after reading it at all, but I remember a lot of things. When I was a child, I rarely got up early to see the poppies under the morning mist, the faint green mountains and bamboo forests in the slanting wind and drizzle, the roaring chickens in the village, the barking of dogs, the screeching of Xishi in the market, and the roar of the sky. Huoshaoyun often burns someone's roof in the evening, pedestrians go home, and the noise disappears.

This was the scene many years ago, and it is gone now.

When I got up in the morning, I received a call from my home saying that my third uncle died suddenly yesterday, and the whole family had already rushed to Z city for mourning. My grandfather was not in good health, so he stayed at home and didn’t go. He also told me to stay at ease and come back in about 5 days.

At the beginning of this year, two brothers of my father have passed away one after another, and the seemingly tenacious life is vulnerable in the face of unknown force majeure.

When I saw the grandparents and grandchildren in the film riding a joint car back to Bulgaria from Germany, I remembered the only time they went out on a bicycle for an outing.

About 10 years ago, my grandfather and I went to visit one of the few hills in the city 10 kilometers away. In the third month of the lunar calendar, it was very hot, and when I was going up the mountain, I clamored to buy mineral water for egg cakes. The wild flowers I picked all the way, all threw into the basket in front of the bicycle, and the fragrance was fragrant. When I got home, I poured the spring water on the top of the mountain that is said to be able to protect my studies. It was too dirty to drink it. It was used to raise camellias folded from my mother's factory. The white and red are dyed on a petal. Call it scratching the face of a beauty. When I got home, it was just in time for dinner. I had fresh Malan head, chopped and mixed with dried tofu, ate a big bowl of rice, and had a good dream for several nights.

The place where I was born is called Jiangnan where fish move lotus boats, but it actually exists in poetry or in dreams about childhood.

Before dinner, I received a call from my brother saying that I was in a hurry and I was finally on my way home. I remembered my grandfather's increasingly deaf ears and the obvious hoarse voice on the phone. .

I didn't cry while watching this movie, really.

2010.4.3 early morning

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The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner quotes

  • Bai Dan: I'm your Grandpa, from Bulgaria. Don't you recognize me? Are you all right? Tell me you are!

    Alexander 'Sashko' Georgiev: I don't know if... Please, I... I don't know you...

    Bai Dan: Sashe, Sashe... Have a good look. It's me, your Grandpa! I came from home. Remember? I taught you to play backgammon. You remember the song? Backgammon's played by those who can / Backgammon's played by those who can't, too.