The long river of the times moves forward slowly. Every family is like a quiet duckweed on the long river. A small change is like a stone falling into the river. For duckweed, it can also become a huge wave. Layers washed away the forbearance generation.
The story focuses on two ordinary families who can no longer be ordinary in the early days of reform and opening up. Liu Yaojun, Wang Liyun and his wife Li Haiyan and Shen Yingming work in a factory in Inner Mongolia, and they are very close. The two only sons of the two families, Liu Xing and Shen Hao, were born on the same day in the same month and in the same year. They are also very good playmates. The relationship between the two families could have been close, but in the torrent of the times, Liu Yaojun and his wife lost their son and the family planning policy. The second child, Wang Liyun lost his job due to the reform of state-owned enterprises. Liu Yaojun and Wang Liyun left the sad place, the tube building, the machine tool, the Shen Yingming couple, and the family moved to a fishing village in Fujian and adopted a child, Xingxing. I thought I could live a peaceful life, but the stars in the rebellious period did not accept them...
At the end of the film, Liu Yaojun and Wang Liyun finished sweeping Liu Xing's tomb and sat on the tomb with calm expressions on their faces. Some of the audience under the screen were already weeping...
Before the screening, the mother and daughter who were sitting next to each other whispered, "Have you brought a napkin?"
"Take it, in the bag"
It seemed that all the audience came prepared, and so did I. The tissue was never used, but I felt that I couldn't breathe normally during the viewing process. I was holding a sigh of relief in my chest (even left the scene and went out to smoke a cigarette and washed my face) until Xingxing returned to Fujian to call Liu Yaojun, Liu Yaojun's face It was only relieved when the smile appeared on the face, and this breath was held for three hours, while Yaojun and Liyun had been waiting for thirty years.
After the movie, I drove alone to the airport to pick up my relatives and friends. During the one-hour journey, there were always broken bridges in my mind:
Li Haiyan's dying redemption: "We have money, and you can give birth." Thousands of words can't match the imperative permission, just like Li Haiyan used the director's voice to give you a loud command to do what you should do. But this is another sincere repentance for the harm he has caused to Liu Yaojun's family. She lost her beloved son to Liu Yaojun and his wife, and was forced to become an accomplice in Liu Yaojun's loss of his second child. The guilt in her heart was not redeemed until her death.
Liu Yaojun hugged two people throughout the film, one was the son who could not be rescued, and the other was the daughter-in-law who was rescued. From the long-distance attack in the prime of life to the end of the arrow in the middle-aged. After rescuing the child in the hospital, he was able to stop Yingming from blaming Haohao, to the tired eyes that sat on the bench. Liu Yaojun seems to have been accustomed to resignation. Beating the wall with his fist and then compromising to get into the car, he grabbed the wise knife and promised not to mention it again. Liu Yaojun is a good person through and through, even if the extramarital affair of the abnormal master-apprentice relationship happened, I still think he is a good person.
It seems like the whole story is like "Three Billboards" where all are not bad guys, they are just playing their own Willoughbys in their respective paths.
Wang Liyun made me feel that the women of that era were really beautiful, gentle and virtuous, willing to accompany her husband to the south to continue mourning in the brokenness, to protect her son, to cover all housework, to wait for her husband to come home for dinner, and to give it to her husband who was working outside. Fan, sometimes I really think Wang Liyun looks like my mother when she was young. A good woman who has lost someone three times and still smiles kindly at her newborn baby in her twilight years.
After the car parked in the airport parking lot, I decided to take my mother and father to the cinema again. Take them back to a time when I couldn't really empathize with them.
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