Taking people as the main line to make biographical descriptions, it is necessary to dress up with emotions and desires, but the most important thing is life - a response that fits your identity in this class, tolerance for the surrounding, resentment and disdain are all expressions from the inside out , The reason why people are people is that they are active in the environment. The film tells about Sister Tao, not a monument for her to be handed down, but about a solid and real life state. From this, it is seen that human feelings are gentle and life-and-death. There is no sadness and tears, but there are sincere feelings for those around you.
Sister Tao appeared at the vegetable market. The vegetable market is to the peach sisters like the red hall is to the emperor and superstar to confirm their identity and coronation. Before Sister Tao came, a certain mistress was picking things up, making the stall owner impatient. Sister Tao is hanging out in the vegetable market, picking vegetables with no expression on her face. Sister Tao walked in. Peach is here. "嚟la! 嚟la!" The stall owners greeted each other privately, with smirks on their faces, wanting to prank Sister Tao, and greet each other in person like friends. She was indeed a customer. Sister Tao showed her affinity and greeted everyone, even the cat greeted him, "You don't care about the coffee", the cat ignored her, and Sister Tao just smiled. When the audience was expecting her to pick dishes, Sister Tao took out her clothes and said, "put on a shirt first"! She actually changed clothes and picked vegetables! Such a big project? Sister Tao was a little embarrassed. Although she was accustomed to doing this, she showed humility. "You own your own house." The boss also joined in. Sister Tao put on the reading glasses again, the work procedure was ready, and she entered the cold storage. Closing the door, the greengrocers laughed. Sister Tao shivered and picked garlic inside: "Ghostly frozen coffee?"
This appearance, which is very in line with the identity of Sister Tao, is really exciting. In "Forty Women", A'e (Xiao Fangfang) also appeared in the vegetable market, staring closely at a dying fish, buying it back cheaply when it died, and slapping the fish to death when the boss turned back, "Hang it!" What is the difference between a 10-year-old nanny and a 70-year-old sister (maid) in the vegetable market? Forty-year-old A'e has a job and a family, and she is very energetic. Fighting in the vegetable market is only a means of family life. It is a habit of her own hatred. The vegetable market buys "cost-effective" dishes for the host's family, and picking and choosing is also enjoying work. A'e is like a fighting cat in the vegetable market, ready to fight quickly, while Tao Jie is like a duck to water in the vegetable market and has a good plan. Sister Tao's expression in the vegetable market is very intriguing. She greets the vendors with a kind of humility. She also knows that being too picky will lead to dissatisfaction, so she dealt with it in a low-pitched smile, which is also in line with her identity as a younger sister.
Sister Tao went home to cook after shopping and waited on Roger. The dishes were served one by one, Sister Tao was busy, and Roger just ate. After eating, I sat on the sofa and drank tea, and Sister Tao brought it over. After Roger finished eating, Sister Tao took the rice and ordered dishes and stood in the kitchen to eat. She was used to being a servant in the old days and didn't care. Communists will recognize that class contradictions are irreconcilable, but, this stable and regular living state has no complaints and dissatisfaction, what reason is there to overthrow? Behind the behavior is an intimate trust that transcends emotional expressions, identifying each other. Those who see that parents work so hard for their children that they will lament their children's unfilial piety have ever thought that this kind of voluntariness cannot be limited by the cold crown of rights and obligations. I was very touched by the scene where Sister Tao served Roger. They all expected this scene to last forever, and I would rather not see the drama in the future.
Roger said, "I can't bear to eat beef loin." (I haven't eaten beef tongue for a long time). "I'm so patient, just eat it." (If you haven't eaten for a long time, don't eat it) Sister Tao said while standing while eating. She wouldn't let him eat because he crossed the bridge with the heart tower. The idle pen can't stain a trace. The whole film never has the memory of scene reproduction, which is excellent. Sister Tao has been in the Liang family for 60 years and has served four generations. There are many details that can be written, but there is no scene reproduction to make Sister Tao young and perform. The director is smart. No matter how turbulent and beautiful the past was, it was dismembered into fragments and the mood was unbearable to repeat. When Xianxian thought about it, it was only a flash of inspiration and resolutely blurred. Sister Tao is a seventy-year-old sister. Time is one-way, she can recall, but cannot go back.
Roger is bad. Sister Tao makes braised beef brisket, step by step. Tidy up the house. Alone in the bedroom, sitting by the bed, drinking water and taking medicine. The sunlight outside the window shone on her face, and the expression on her face that had just swallowed the medicine was a little choked, her face was red, and there were traces of tears. I cried when I saw this. When she's busy, she's everyone's and even Roger's peach sister. When she's alone, she's herself, Zhong Chuntao. Where are her joys and sorrows alone? People who are used to being busy will be overwhelmed when they stop, and the younger sister who serves the master will be lazy when the master leaves when he is young. Losing is hard. Youth is such a paradox. When you are young, you have infinite energy but complain about being tired. When you are old and weak, you can envy busyness and worry when you don’t have to worry about it.
Just when Luo Jie was on a mission, Sister Tao suffered a stroke. After the stroke, Sister Tao was disheartened:
"Call your grandma, I won't do it, I want to live in a nursing home."
"Do you really want to live in a nursing home?"
"Yes."
Roger contacted the nursing home. There was no expression of pride in the cheesy novels, movies, and TV shows that the host made a big benevolence in his retirement. It was just a dispute, and Roger went to the nursing home to contact him. Because he knew Sister Tao's temper, and he understood that persuasion was useless. Living in a nursing home could give Sister Tao a dignity, and he also had a job, so he couldn't manage his own life. It is Roger who understands Sister Tao. Although Sister Tao is a servant, she does not claim credit for serving the master's family for four generations.
The elderly home is an unfamiliar environment. Sister Tao, who is used to being self-sufficient, has to learn to get used to food and work and to learn to live and integrate as an equal.
"My name is Zhong Chuntao."
"Hey, Zhong Chuntao? My little sister's name is 嚟咵."
"Do I offend you?!"
Peach is angry. Her younger sister status only radiates to the Liang family. When Roger came to see her, she was so embarrassed that she didn't know how to introduce her, and someone else asked, "Is it your son? Qizi (god son)?" Roger admitted that it was Qizi, and Sister Tao smiled in relief. Don't think that Sister Tao has no self-esteem and is willing to be a younger sister. Her dedication to the Liang family is on the one hand responsible for her work, and on the other hand, she has established a strong family relationship, which has nothing to do with slavery. Sister Tao has old rules, and there are obvious differences between upper and lower. She is the same age as Liang's mother and has a real sister relationship, but she has to respectfully separate the status of young lady and maidservant. Liang's mother's concern goes beyond her own due in her opinion. Deserving points. She didn't want money, but she was happy with the cotton socks and scarf that Mother Liang gave, and Mother Liang also understood Ah Tao.
Nursing homes may be the last stop in life. A collection of various final expressive performances. There are Abo who is used to being the principal and strictly demands the residents, there is a grandma who has been confused and crying "go back to the country" at night, there is a middle-aged woman who lives in the hospital for the convenience of kidney dialysis, and there is Xian who borrows money to go to prostitutes. Wet guy. The so-called nursing home is also a place of routine. The groups of people who visit during the Mid-Autumn Festival are just for the act of visiting, not caring. The moon cakes are distributed and collected for the next nursing home. Moon cakes are props, and so are the elderly. This kind of environment is not a last resort. Sister Tao will not come, and no one wants to come. The people who come here have a story that is hard to tell, and since it is hard to tell, they won't tell.
Roger often visits Sister Tao, without any warm words, just joking with each other, taking her for a walk, eating, and going home. When I got home, I sorted out the old things. The five-yuan note when Sister Tao first gave out food (payment) was sealed with plastic paper, and there were several issues of "Southern China Pictorial". Roger's father did not allow Roger to read it, but Roger secretly After watching and answering the questions, the prize is soap. Sister Tao took out a piece of soap from that year and put it on the packaging and it smelled good. Roger's childhood is reminiscent of Roger's childhood, sweet and warm, but the view is hilarious. Her youth was his childhood, and her remaining years were his middle age. It was destined to be staggered, and one was destined to be sent away.
Friends who played at Roger's house recalled Sister Tao, and they all praised her. Call Sister Tao, who is playing cards at the nursing home, and sing the ballad together, "Seven Horses and Eight Tails" and so on. It is everyone's collective memory of Sister Tao. Sister Tao had no trouble guessing who the speaker was on the phone, "Break my bowl without paying me." She smiled happily.
I saw a kind of truth, and what is soothing is the daily life, the normal state, instead of seeing the patient and always reminding the other person that he is sick. It's just a few clips, and Sister Tao is happy and satisfied. To attend the premiere of Roger's movie, she put on clothes that were not "sisters", permed her hair and put on lipstick, and carried a handbag. Although she bowed her waist, she had a new look. She was Zhong Chuntao and went to the premiere. He is not the master, and she is not the servant. The way Qi Zai and Qi Ma are spiritually dependent on each other has changed.
A grandmother in a nursing home passed away. The daughter played by Jiang Meiyi weeps and organizes her mother's clothes. When her mother was alive, she was angry and complained because her mother favored her son regardless of her daughter, and was unwilling to pay alimony, and the mother only waited for her son who was a mistress in Shenzhen to pick her up and did not want to. Go home with my daughter. The mother really left, she cried, no matter how confused and eccentric her mother was, there was no one to complain about, and the heartache that was lost forever could never be repaired. When she went out carrying her mother's salute, the oldest mother-in-law who was arguing about returning to the country was crying in Roger's arms. After watching the footage, the mother-in-law was really crying. She said to Andy, "I think Zhai Zhong is worse than I am!" The director and the actors persuaded her, "Mother-in-law, we're filming, I'm not serious.
" Since then, Sister Tao has seen through life and death. In the face of Abo who came to borrow money to go to prostitutes again, Roger refused to pay attention, but Sister Tao, who has always been saving money, stopped Abo and said, "I have loose paper (cash)." Roger was puzzled, and Sister Tao said : "Yu Deya, how long can Zhong get it?" My heart sank, knowing that Sister Tao should be leaving soon. The second stroke, Roger pushed the wheelchair, she was bound in the wheelchair, wrapped tightly, and her speech was indistinct:
"I want to eat jelly..." The
saliva flowed down, and Roger wiped it. He turned his back to the trash can, wiping away tears. The tears that Sister Tao is not allowed to see should not be seen by the audience either.
When Sister Tao died, she was already in a coma. Roger had a job, and he said on the phone: "Fly tonight." Tell the doctor that if there is no hope, reduce the dose and let the old man leave naturally. The next shot is Sister Tao's funeral. It is said that the scene of Roger crying with Sister Tao was very sensational and was deleted by the director. This film is not to be sensational, but to reflect and respect life. A Simple Life.
Maybe not enough drama, this is life. Sister Tao has served four generations in the Liang family for 60 years, and is a drama herself.
Thanks to the director's restraint, the film is not indiscriminate and tearful, A Simple Life, I see the sincere warmth of life.
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