In the opening scene, the camera followed a butterfly to the white-haired male protagonist, borrowing the expression of Forrest Gump, and at that time I had a premonition that this was a historical fact about the country. This is indeed the case. The film is 2 hours long. In the first half hour, a foreshadowing of the separation of the family was buried, telling the situation when he first arrived in South Korea. In the next half hour, the male protagonist went to Germany to work alone in order to help his younger brother and sister go to school. Here Coincidentally met a lover, encountered misfortune, and finally returned to China with a life. After a short stay, in order to close down the shop and prepare gifts for my sister, I went abroad to participate in the Vietnam War again, and was almost killed, and finally left one leg in Vietnam forever. The last half hour focuses on the process of looking for relatives, echoing the scene of the first act, and finally it is a happy ending.
The film doesn't have a clear story goal, but like Forrest Gump, the male protagonist has a consistent underlying emotional motive: sacrifice for his family. Sure enough, East Asian cultures are roughly similar, and the idea of sacrificing oneself for the family is so similar. The plot of such a movie is to make concessions to the characters. In other words, the plot is to portray the characters. Obviously, the character played by Huang Zhengmin has stood up. After watching the movie, I believe that most People will be moved by his obsession with family reunion at the end.
The tide of the times is carrying you and me forward, and no one is spared.
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