"Bath" tells the story of a series of stories that happened when Daming, played by Pu Cunxin, received a postcard from Erming, a silly brother played by Jiang Wu, and mistakenly thought that his father, played by Zhu Xu, had passed away, so he rushed back to his hometown from Shenzhen. The proposition of the conflict between the old and the new in the society that the film wants to express, the beginning of the story is straight to the point, and the use of contrast directly points out the theme of the film. At the same time, in the scene of the bathhouse, the dialogues were used to start the shaping of the father and other characters, which accelerated the rhythm of the film. Then a set of montages appeared, showing the lifestyle of knocking back, cupping, drinking tea, and reading newspapers in the bathhouse, which directly echoed the detailed depiction of the first sci-fi scene and deepened the theme. The film uses flashback montages many times. The film uses flashback montages many times, such as recalling the scene of Erming's mother taking a bath before marriage and the scene of her grandmother taking her granddaughter to take a bath in the holy lake. The conflict between the old and the old leaves the audience with unlimited space for thinking. Perhaps, the "goodness is like water" on the plaque that was taken down is the true meaning of happiness.
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