yes Yes, that bloated, smiling, warm, aging, kind-hearted neighbor aunt. This character made me reminisce involuntarily after watching the movie for a long time.
The protagonist of the film, Liz, is a strong, independent, thinking girl. I remember that when I learned about this story from the Global Times in high school, I was already sighing or rejoicing: I didn't live in such a bad environment.
Children are the ultimate needs of parents after a lifetime of disappointment. This is true for Liz's mother, Liz's father, and many parents. It may not be too rare for Liz to find her own hope in a state of complete "weightlessness", because she still has love: father's, mother's, sister's.
Then my father went crazy, my mother died, my sister was blind... At this time, who is the only bit of warmth that Liz has? I think it's the neighbor's aunt. I always felt that if the neighbor aunt closed the door after Liz knocked, it meant that Liz had lost hope. Fortunately, the neighbor aunt did not.
Aunt Neighbor appears three times in the movie.
The first time, next to the trash can downstairs at Liz's house. Big Mom is bloated and a little filthy, but gives Liz a warm smile that warms the winter sun in this movie.
The second time, a hug from Liz's mother's funeral (if it's a funeral at all). The death of Liz's mother is Liz's greatest pain. The closest and dearest person in the world went, and the meaning of my life disappeared in an instant. The sadness and attachment of Liz lying on her mother's coffin is so heartbreaking. Before the neighbor aunt left, she hugged Liz tightly. Yes, the neighbor aunt is a person who also lives at the bottom. All she can give Liz is a hug. But in her heart, she was full of love for the little girl Liz. "Love the calf" is not just for his own children.
The third time, Liz wanted to go to school, "there must be a phone to get through", and went to the neighbor's aunt. The movie is put here, if I were the neighbor's aunt, I would refuse. Because deep down, I find this troublesome. I am a villain to save the belly of a gentleman, and maybe most people will refuse. Because "the old lady can't live on her own, why bother you little bastard!"
Some people say that the neighbor's aunt's failure to reject Liz is a kind of "class sympathy", maybe it is. The neighbor aunt is facing a child who has grown up by herself, a child who no one cares about anymore, a child who has found a possible way out, and a child who needs a support to seize this way out. The neighbor aunt can do very little, but she is willing to give her a little warmth when the child is in the most difficult time. We can guess a lot. For example, the neighbor aunt has no children. For example, it is a great thing for the neighbor aunt to see Liz getting out of her old life through hard work...
No matter how much you guess, the neighbor aunt is still the neighbor aunt. She has her own tenacity, because some of the people around her are drug addicts, some criminals, some... and she is living a plain life, although poor and desperate...
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