I haven't written a movie review for a long time, because I haven't been to the cinema for a long time.
Mr. Yi, who is Bi Gao, is not there. Since the Spring Festival, movie tickets have become more and more expensive.
From "Captain Marvel" to "Green Book", I have been holding back, and I feel that I have not encountered the film that must be contributed to the box office by entering the theater.
You said that you asked me to write something sadder than sadness. After seeing the actors, I basically gave up. Chen Yihan is basically acting in her true colors. I admire her self-discipline in fitness, but the heroine, like herself, has an excessively flooded view of love.
At this age, after experiencing so many stories, the focus is no longer on the love between men and women. I don't mean to criticize any classmates here. At your age, life is still on the way. Finding a lover together must be a big theme in youth. Therefore, "Something Sadder Than Sadness" can earn your tears, but not necessarily. earn mine.
I would say that at each stage of life, the emphasis is different. When you have completed finding a partner to get married and have children, maintain the basic operation of a small family, and undertake corresponding social responsibilities, what you really care about may be the GDP of this country.
In addition, Taiwanese movies have always had a big problem, and this movie is no exception: too much personal will and emotion, too much incitement. This may be related to the characteristics of Taiwanese society. Most of their daily life and politics are separated, and it can be said that they play their own way. Therefore, it will magnify the individual indefinitely, but it may not necessarily think about the complexity of society.
However, Marx said, "Man is the sum of social relations." I am for me because of my family, my surroundings, and the times and circumstances in which I live.
Compared with the love between a scheming boy and a green tea bitch, I want to see the cleansing that the changes in this era have brought to us individuals.
Good creations have their humanistic concerns. Some people pay attention to the poor life at the bottom, and some people pay attention to the extravagant upper class society. For me, the camera is aimed at ordinary people, who are the fabric of this society.
So, what made me walk into the cinema after a month was the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award movie "Long Time", which pushed TFboys Wang Yuan to the forefront.
I never thought that I would be able to watch Wang Xiaoshuai's movies in my life. Compared to Lou Ye and Jia Zhangke, he is the sixth generation director that I have the least feelings for. But I have to say in this movie, the actors are really strong, and the costumes are all in place. In the director's words, "burning briquettes in a steamed building and making a fire for cooking, these stoves must be really usable, ignited, ventilated, and smoke away; the cooking pot must be brushed several times with oil and cooked several times."
There's not much ups and downs, but this 175-minute movie ended up crying over a pack of tissues and wetting a pair of pants. After the movie was over, the lights were all on, and when I turned around from the front row, there were actually several big men crying uncontrollably.
Who said Dongguan has no culture? ! Such a niche film, more than 20 people, old and young, male and female, all with red eyes, not only understood it, but also cried.
The story begins in the 1980s.
Liu Yaojun, played by Wang Jingchun, and Liyun, played by Yong Mei, are a couple who work in a lathe factory. Their colleagues and neighbors, Shen Yingming and Haiyan, are their children and close friends. The two children, Liu Xing and Shen Hao, were born on the same day in the same month and in the same year. This is a good thing. However, in an accident, two children went to the reservoir to play with water, one died and the other was alive, which changed the two families...
Liu Yaojun and Liyun became a family who lost their only child, but they had a child after giving birth to Liu Xing. But at that time, the national strength was scarce, and if the population was not controlled, it might be at the Malthusian threshold. The state had to implement a family planning policy. If the Liu family gave birth to a second child, one would be punished, and the other might lose their iron job. And Haiyan happened to be the director of the Family Planning Office, so she still took Liyun to the hospital to take away the child. But this minor operation had an accident, causing Liyun to be unable to regenerate.
This is also the reason why Haiyan always felt guilty after Yaojun Liyun lost her son.
The end of a family is a product of an era, and there is no right or wrong in that era.
There is no hysteria, no shouting, even the scenes of birth, old age, sickness and death, there is no trace of performance in the film.
Sadly, the friendship between the two families was suddenly cut off when tragedy intervened.
Yingming said, "They did not resent our family and were very polite to us. However, we had nothing to say."
The Liu family left Baotou to Fujian and adopted a child (played by Wang Yuan) named Liu Xing. However, what this Liu Xing brought to the Liu family was the defection and severance of family affection.
What struck me in this movie was probably the test and support of the couple over the past 20 years. Yaojun and Liyun were also tested for losing two Liu Xings in a row. The truth of life is often not necessarily to embrace each other in peace and harmony. Therefore, when others feel that the intervention of Shen Yingming's sister Jasmine is abrupt. I disagree.
Between Yaojun and Jasmine, it cannot be said that there is no affection. It's just that they have experienced so much, but Yaojun and Liyun both understand: husband and wife are one body, it is better to say that they are living together rather than loving together. Husbands and wives are more like partners in life cooperation. Passion alone is not enough. What is needed is mutual help and practice. This life is not easy, husband and wife partners need mutual support in faith.
So, when Yaojun said, "After my son died, in her (Liyun) words, time has stood still, and the rest is to grow old slowly. Liyun and I are living for each other now."
Here, I am so unhappy crying.
While writing this review, I just finished a video with my mom. She said that she often thinks of her father. Without him, the house feels empty with all the things in it.
At this time, silence and breathing become a language, completed quietly in repressed emotions.
At the end of the film, Yaojun and Liyun returned to Baotou to see Haiyan for the last time.
Shen Hao told the second elder about the situation that day.
It was a 20-year forgiveness.
I cried uncontrollably again.
The English name of the movie is so long, my son, which means more than the longevity of the earth.
The film deliberately created suspense and did not explain the real situation of the accident. We only knew at the end that the Liu family and the Shen family knew the real situation for a long time, but both of them chose to remain silent and the other chose to flee to protect their living child, Shen Hao.
man, what is it?
Man, what do you live for?
Seeing the friendship between these two families, life is so difficult, don't betray easily.
Forgiveness and hope.
When Yaojun Liyun was sitting on Liu Xing's grave and received a call from Shen Hao's wife giving birth to a son, when Yaojun received a call from his adopted son Liu Xing at Shen's house...
At this point I really remember standing ovation.
Hope, it may not come the way you imagined it, but it always brings a smile to the tearful eyes.
Hope, understand the hearts of parents in the world.
To be worthy of parents, don't let the white-haired person send the black-haired person.
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