Hong Kong or other countries in the world are facing the problem of an aging population. Young people have no time to support and cannot afford it, so many elderly people are sent to nursing homes with poor equipment. There are many people with the same fate there, and everyone is living in a mess. Some people pretend to be stupid, some are really stupid, but after entering, you can even see your future self...
Sister Tao has worked in Luo's family for more than 60 years, and she has no children and daughters all her life. There is no husband, she can be said to have sacrificed her life for the Luo family. I still remember that there are several scenes in the film where Sister Tao was beautiful when she was young, but she was still alone when she was in her seventies. I don't know what motivated Sister Tao to give her life selflessly like this. She didn't want to trouble the Luo family, nor did she want to trouble Roger. She met a lot of strange people in the nursing home. She was unhappy and wanted to escape. But she never told Roger, she always said she was fine. Yes, she's fine because Roger is fine.
"Sister Peach" is adapted from a true story, and many plots in it can be studied. It’s true that the director’s partner cheated investors out of money, it’s true that Andy Lau’s movie premieres no one goes to see it, and it’s true that Sister Tao is also true. What is not real is us as the audience.
Some people criticize "Sister Peach" for being boring, the storyline and emotional drive are bad, or that this is just another version of "Days and Nights of Tianshui Besieged City", and some people say that Xu Anhua is just a lonely old woman who only knows how to cry about the pain of life . However, as the audience, have we really watched this movie seriously?
Sister Tao being sent to the nursing home is a microcosm of social imagination. Young people are unwilling to support their aging parents, and aging parents do not want to be a burden on their children, so they spend the last part of their lives alone. But Sister Tao is very happy. She did not walk the last journey of her life alone. She has a godson, Roger, who has been holding her in the palm of her hand since he was born. Take her to the premiere of the movie, because she is often visited even when she is busy with work, and praise her as a beautiful, godson who never dislikes her.
I've always found this to be a tender movie, despite its brutality. Charities and celebrities who visit the elderly will only do superficial work, and they will turn around with disgust on their faces; the elderly who are disliked by their sons and daughters eventually die in the nursing home; the owner of the nursing home has changed several times but has never been affected. The old man, no one has ever asked...
But it made me feel the warmth that I have never experienced before. Sister Tao was sent to a nursing home after a stroke. Roger's elementary school classmates still remember her singing to her; Roger's mother came back from Canada to visit her; Luo's family still remembers her and remembers her goodness; she has been borrowing money from Sister Tao. Uncle Jian, who was looking for happiness, lent money to buy flowers for Sister Tao after her death, and he bowed devoutly to Sister Tao.
When I watched this movie, I thought of my mother many times. She called me at the right time. I talked to my mother a lot, and my mother listened all the time. She said that she was the only one at home, but she was not lonely; She said that her body seems to have improved a little recently; she said not to be homesick all the time, but to take good care of yourself... I don't know which one of my mother's words is true, but I know that something in my heart is changing.
I've always been an ambitious person, and I don't understand why my mother would sacrifice her life just for her children to "have a good time." I often imagine that I can fly freely under the blue sky, my world is still so vast, there are still so many places I have not been to, and a person's life is so fascinating. But now, I just want my mother to be happy by my side. I just want this, I want you to be happy, Mom.
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