Another old film from 1999, Zhu Xu, Jiang Wu, Pu Cunxin, Li Ding, He Bing...According to today's saying, the cast is strong. The young actors in "Bath" are all veteran actors now, and many of them are still "strong generals" of Beijing Renyi.
The first paragraph is super "magic": automatic bathing machine, a future product, convenient, fast, fully automatic, and the selection mode is all in one step, you are really covered. Turning around, it turned out to be just an "idea", an idea "worth a million". In the next shot, the combination of boxing, massage, Beijing opera, cupping, pedicure, chess, tea making, and cricket fighting are all old stuff. Pu Cunxin in a suit and leather shoes, and Jiang Wu in short-sleeved trousers, looked at each other deeply, eh, this story started.
This is a Beijing-flavored movie, full of the wisdom of old Beijing. Inside the bathhouse and outside the bathhouse seem to be two worlds. Inside the bathhouse, there are old Beijing gags, old Beijing's sophistication, and old Beijing's vulgar taste. The bathhouse has become a symbol of old Beijing. Its temperature, its smell, and the people and things in it are the epitome of old Beijing's emotions. The bathhouse of old Beijing has even become a kind of medicine for heart disease. It resolves the conflict between husband and wife, and melts the ice between father and son.
The bathhouse is a symbol, and the old craftsmanship in the bathhouse is also a symbol. The bathhouse will be demolished, and the flavor of old Beijing will face the impact of the new century. In the bathhouse, most of them are elderly people, who are like the bearers of the old Beijing style.
A few young people are very unique, Miao Zhuang, in the bathhouse, singing freely in the water, outside the bathhouse, but can't sing when there is no water. As a young man, he should accept new things, but he was soaked in the rain and dew of old Beijing, which gave him self-confidence. Pu Cunxin left Beijing and went to Shenzhen. At first, he rejected the bathhouse, wearing suits and leather shoes, but in the bathhouse, in the dense moisture, he gradually felt warm and learned to smile. In fact, his roots were in the bathhouse. In the atmosphere of old Beijing, returning to the "water" of old Beijing is his original appearance. As Mr. Li Ding said: once the cricket leaves the earth, it will not be able to feed. Er Ming played by Jiang Wu is a "fool", but he is the defender of the bathhouse. The bathhouse has become his home, a place where he can live freely. I have to say that Jiang Wu will play the fool Erming alive. He is the youngest person in the bathhouse, but he has the most old Beijing temperament in his bones. He has become a part of the bathhouse.
The name of the movie is "Bath". In addition to the bathhouse that runs through, it also tells two stories about bathing: a girl from northern Shaanxi gets married and bathes; grandparents and grandchildren bathe in the holy lake. In fact, whether it is northern Shaanxi or the holy lake, they all point to one word, water. Water is the source of life, as well as a custom, a character, and the root of a culture, just like the words on the plaque at the end of the movie: The best is like water.
"Bath" may be like "The Piano of Steel", it remembers a life that has passed away or is about to pass away, and that life has emotions and roots. The family affection in "Bathing" is touching and the most talked about, but this precious emotion comes from the bathhouse and the soil cultivated by the continuous flow of water.
The bathhouse has been demolished, a new era has come, and the changes of the times are unstoppable, but the tide of the times seems to be constantly impacting the old-fashioned things, the rotten and the beautiful, washed away together. I especially like "Lugang Town", it is so sad, but it clearly writes a pain, it tells the power of the trend of the times: the red bricks of the parents were dug up and built with cement walls , People in their hometown get what they want, but lose what they have... Some old things are gradually passing away, but they are like water in the water of the highest good, moisturizing the roots. It's a pity that times have changed, and many people no longer like the original puddle of water, nor do they like to go to the bathhouse.
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