The film uses a narrative method similar to the flow of life to tell the film, but it does not show too much skills, but just faithfully records the life in reality. It seems plain and natural, but the emotions are vivid and delicate. Sister Tao goes to the street to buy vegetables, go home to cook, eat, and take care of Roger's daily life. These trivialities of daily life are linked together. If there is no reminder before watching the movie, we will definitely mistakenly think that Sister Tao and Roger are mother and son. relation. The ordinary life scene of Roger supporting Sister Tao on the street and chatting and joking with Sister Tao makes us forget that this is watching a movie, and it is more like a very ordinary life portrayal of a mother and son that happens in the daily life around us.
The film does not have a very strong dramatic conflict, and the development of the story is not driven by the plot, but is maintained by the emotions between the protagonists of the film, allowing the audience to integrate into the life of the characters in the play and understand the warmth and touch of family affection. Roger (played by Andy Lau) is a young master from a middle-class family. He is taken care of by a servant, Sister Tao (played by Ye Dexian), who has worked in his home for 60 years. At this point in the film, the relationship between the two may be limited to the master-servant relationship between the master and the servant. But suddenly one day, Sister Tao had to be admitted to a nursing home because of her illness, and the relationship between the two had a more subtle change. This is also a turning point in the emotional development of the film. At this time, Roger also began to examine his past, recalling the dedication that Sister Tao made to his family. Just as Roger expressed emotion when chatting with his friend Huang Qiusheng: I didn't expect that Sister Tao has come to my house for so long. It is very appropriate to describe the relationship between the master and the servant in the film with the crow feeding back. Roger grew up under the care of Sister Tao since he was a child, and underwent heart bypass surgery when he was an adult. Fortunately, he recovered quickly under the careful care of Sister Tao. Now that Sister Tao is suffering from a stroke in her old age, Roger takes care of Sister Tao just as she took care of herself before, and repays Sister Tao with a grateful heart, interpreting a love story of master and servant. As for the handling of this family relationship, the director deliberately avoided the deliberately provocative and pretentious way of expression, but adopted a relatively implicit and restrained expression method to handle this family relationship. Therefore, the emotional expression between the master and the servant in the film is extremely subtle, and there is no excessive force at all. Even so, we can still feel the relationship between the two in the film that is not family but more than family through the natural and delicate life fragments.
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