Very simple, I love it. The emotions of the characters in different relationships in the story are very delicately displayed. The core is a family story. It tells how an adult works hard outside and rarely has the opportunity to go home to see his elderly father and mentally handicapped younger brother. Once home by chance, he has the opportunity to re-examine The life of his father and his younger brother, as well as the relationship between his father and the neighbors who lived nearby, were both bathhouse guests and old friends. He felt the warmth in the old social relationships again, and he began to understand why the bathhouse was so important to his father. He and his father lived in two eras on weekdays. One lived in a traditional neighborhood based on neighborhood relationships, and the other lived in a modern city that was independent and focused on personal development. Love that interferes with the other person's life and does not want to express it. In the end, because of the sudden death of his father, the male protagonist was forced to contact his father's living environment for a longer time. In the process of living with his younger brother, he gradually understood and accepted the world he had been away from.
In addition to family relations, "Bathing" also projects the customs and culture of northern Shaanxi and Tibet, and discusses the extended meaning of "bathing" from the perspective of national culture - what sense of ritual and sacredness does bathing have in the cultural life of a specific region feel.
The last film presents the problem of contradiction and confrontation between modernization and tradition. The bathhouse that has existed for decades is facing demolition, and it is not only the business of the male owner’s family that has changed with it, but also the guests in the bathhouse can no longer enjoy the bathhouse and the social network built by taking a bath, their entertainment and entertainment. All forms of human communication will be replaced by newer ones. But no one knows what the future holds and how we're going to adapt to this fragmentation, so the film ends with an open ending with the mentally handicapped brother humming "My Sun" in the middle of the bath.
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