Rudy and Du Li are a couple who have lived together for decades. They have been living peacefully in the countryside, with a dull and happy life. The two old people's children have gone to live in Berlin, and they rely on each other and spend their days regularly. Husband Rudy works in a garbage disposal company. He has only called in sick once for many years. He has otitis media because of a cold. He commutes to and from get off work on time every day, eats an apple in the lunch box prepared by his wife at one o'clock every day, and says, "An apple a day keeps the disease away from me." The wife waits for her husband to come home every day. After the husband returns home, the wife helps the husband take off coat, help him put on the gray sweater, then put on his slippers, and then the two of them have dinner together. The day goes on like this, and they are already used to what to do in every moment of the 24 hours of the day. Habits are scary and hard to quit.
Dancing with my wife
"I have always wanted to travel to Japan with my husband, to see the cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji. I have never thought about leaving him alone. Because without his company, everything is meaningless." Wife Du Li She suddenly got news from the hospital that her husband was suffering from cancer, and the doctor advised her to hurry up and go out with her husband. Dolly told Rudy the truth, but only offered to see the children working in Berlin, and Rudy agreed. However, the meeting with the children was not successful, the originally close family became very unfamiliar, and the parents felt that they did not know their children. Rudy suggested to go home early, but Du Li said he would go to the Baltic Sea. Rudy faced Du Li's abnormality and had no objection - "Go as long as you want." On this special trip, the careless Rudy didn't notice anything at all. Du Li's sadness, Du Li burst into tears several times, but Rudy didn't realize it. One night in the Baltic Sea, the music and noise outside the window kept Rudy awake, and Dolly, too. So Du Li dragged Rudy to dance, Du Li clinging to Rudy's back, holding Rudy's hand, spinning, swaying, but her husband was very embarrassed, and while dealing with the matter, he complained: "You crazy woman ."
The next morning, Rudy called Du Li to get up for breakfast, but Du Li did not open her eyes again...
Rudy returned home, everything was the same as the day he left, the same as before, but this time there was no Du Li. Li helped him take off his coat, change into a gray sweater, and put on his slippers. In the future, Rudy will eat alone, sleep alone, there is no one around to talk to, and every day will be quiet. Rudy went to Japan to see the cherry blossoms, but he still couldn't find Du Li. He was wearing his wife's clothes, walking on the streets of Japan, calling: "Where are you Du Li, where are you?" He met unexpectedly. Thanks to the excellent dancer, the two became good friends. Buta was his wife Du Li's favorite dance during her lifetime, and finally, in the dance with the shadow, he found Du Li. At dawn that day, Rudy put on the kimono that Du Li liked to wear and walked to the foot of Mount Fuji. He was painted white all over, and he seemed to feel Du Li standing behind him, holding hands and dancing dance steps together. Yu found Rudy's body at the foot of Mount Fuji the next morning.
Rudy in the past, although he has been with Du Li for decades, has never really entered Du Li's heart. He may know that his wife has given up a lot for the family, but he has never thought about what to do to make up for it. With thinking about how painful it is for the wife who gave up her beloved Buta. It was only when his wife left that he began to think. In order to find his wife's soul, he even came to Japan alone. After understanding his wife's heart, he finally calmed down and died with peace of mind. The deep affection of the two old people is very touching. They are like one body. When one dies, the other cannot live. The best proof is that the healthy Du Li left first after learning of her husband's illness. But the love between the two is worth reflecting on. I wonder if the emotional accumulation of the two of them for decades is worthwhile before someone dies, before learning that the other half is terminally ill. They originally had a lot of time to truly be with each other. I understand, but Rudy didn't ask his wife's thoughts, and Du Li didn't take the initiative to tell her heart to her husband. On the contrary, they tortured each other only when they had no time for each other, and dragged their seriously ill bodies to find them. Just like the shortness of cherry blossoms, if they know how to cherish, then the ending may not be so sad and regrettable. As the movie said - "Nothing can represent a moment more than cherry blossoms. She came overnight, bloomed for a few days, and died overnight, and she couldn't keep her."
Stranger than a stranger
If the beautiful love between the elderly is the main line of the story, then the relationship between the elderly and children is the secondary line. The old people went to Berlin to visit their son and daughter living in Berlin, only to find that they were unfamiliar and had nothing to say, only deep embarrassment, and they could not even find Zhang Wenxin's family portrait. After the death of their mother, they also complained that the mother left their father alone to them, and that the father did not have the mother to take care of them. What strikes me especially is this scene, Rudy tries hard to be a father, learns Du Li's cooking technique, cooks a meal for his youngest son Carl, Carl cried while eating, saying that he missed his mother, The original touching scene, but because the children in the previous film had no intention to take good care of their father's image, in my opinion as an audience, Carl was just sad that his mother had gone too suddenly, leaving this worry-free scene. Dad, it's embarrassing for him. He's sad because he's dragged down by his dad. What he misses is that in the past, his mother took good care of his father and didn't need their children to be distracted, not his mother herself. This scene makes people feel very sad and makes people feel that they have failed as children.
In contrast, the mutual acquaintance between father and a stranger, the Japanese girl 'Yu', is very touching. Although they meet by chance, Yu can hold Rudi's arm like a family member and send Rudi home, who does not know Japanese. , and even accompanied Rudy to see Mount Fuji. They don't speak the language, but they can communicate well, and they can communicate with each other even with their bodies. You teach Rudy to dance, they dance under the cherry trees every day, and they can understand without language. The other side. Just like Rudy finally found Du Li's soul in the dance, Yu, who lost his mother, and Rudy, who lost his wife, can communicate well. Finally, after Rudy's death, Yu put on Rudy's clothes, Just like when Rudy put on Du Li's clothes, from now on, You will bring his mother to dance with Rudy. Comparing Muran's children with Youyi, it is not difficult to read the irony in it.
This is a meaningful A profound movie, which contains too many things, made me think a lot. The story describes the bloody reality, forcing people to think and solve it, unlike the previous tragedies. .
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