"Bath" is a work that can be labeled "Chinese Movie". The movie contains China (not only the bathing culture of Beijing). Taking a bath in the Qinghai-Tibet area can cleanse people's souls. In northern Shaanxi, brides must take a bath when they get married. Taking a bath in Beijing City can be a place for old people to chat, a place for children to play, and a place for young people to relax. But let's push "Chinese film" out of these "old things" can't be discarded without these things or "Chinese film"?)
Let's talk about the old Liu played by Mr. Zhu Xu, who is indeed an old artist's role-building ability, which undoubtedly perfectly expresses the persistence of a bather and his pride in this profession. In the movie, he has been an operator for decades. The bathhouse until the last moment of his life There is a passage in the movie where he recalled the scene when Erming his mother got married, which is the sublimation of the word "bath". "Bath" is not just a bath, it carries the love of parents for their daughters to their daughters reluctance.
In the first half of the movie, when Daming Hui came home, he found that he was out of tune with the life of his father and younger brother. He couldn't understand his father's love for this profession (the difference in the two's ideas was the reason why he went to Shenzhen, maybe just as his father said, he I look down on the industry of rubbing and I look down on my father.) He returned home and saw his father and Erming living a simple and fulfilling life together. He couldn’t fit into the lives of the two of them, so he could only get up secretly to take a bath at night (unwilling to disturb the two of them) life) but how could his father not notice him? In many places in the movie, his love for Daming is shown. Daming boiled hot water for him when he took a bath at night, and he looked lonely after learning that Daming was leaving (Daming's departure should be a big blow to the old man, plus Erming's "disability" So he gave a lot of love to his younger son. In the movie, the old man is a person who helps others and obeys the principles. The world is very small. The bathhouse is his whole world. With any tap on the roadside, he can play the appearance of being in the bathhouse. He also represents the last adherence to the bathhouse. After the death of his father, it was because of him that he continued to operate the bathhouse. (Jiang Wu's performance in the movie is still excellent. Er Ming's stupidity and stubbornness are handled very well. In my impression, he has created a lot of characters of this type)
The movie uses the demolition of the "bathhouse" to commemorate the end of an era and a culture, not only the bathhouse in the old courtyard of the Bell and Drum Tower in Beijing, etc. These have gradually faded out of people's sight. The film was made by Zhang Yang, one of the sixth-generation directors in China. I have only seen "Yesterday", so I don't know much about his work, but these two films both record the mental journey of a generation and reflect the social changes in China. They are the only people who can be called filmmakers.
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