Please don't be so kind to the world and yourself

Luther 2022-10-06 20:47:28

Riding a motorcycle on the street, I met the person I liked when I went to school, and recognized each other almost at the same time. The two were opposites. She glanced at it and was about to walk away. He rode the bike and folded back. Greetings. He said hello first, and she embarrassedly said to leave. He watched her go away.
In the next shot, her photo hangs in the most conspicuous part of the photo studio.
From the conversation with my sister, I learned that the three are classmates, her name is Zhiyong, and she is not doing well now.
He didn't respond to his sister, changed the subject and spit out watermelon seeds. He must be very sad. It's always like this, covering up what you like, obviously you care a lot and pretend to be indifferent.
Later, Zhiyong came to find Yongyuan. With the following dialogue:
Zhi Yong: You have been here for more than 20 years, still not tired of it?
Yongyuan: Well, I don't know either...
Zhi Yong: Why don't you get married?
Young Won: I'm waiting for you (hahaha, laughing awkwardly).
Yong Won: You have two children?
Zhiyong: Yes...I didn't expect to come back. I heard you are seriously ill.
Young Won: No, nothing (hahaha, laughing awkwardly).
Zhi Yong: Is it really serious?
Young Won: I'm fine, I'm fine (hahaha, laughing awkwardly).
After the awkward conversation, Zhi Yong asks Yong Won to take her picture from the window.
I'd rather the story after that is Yong Won and Zhi Yong.
When she was in school, Zhiyong must be the best looking girl in Yongyuan, the best and most different girl, Yongyuan was firmly attracted by Zhiyong early on. But Yongyuan didn't have the courage, he felt that he would always be ordinary, and Zhiyong was so good, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't catch up with Zhiyong, she would always be the most perfect existence. Yongyuan gave himself a long-lasting secret love. He secretly watched Zhiyong every day, and the most beautiful photos in the world were hidden in the workbook. He actually had feelings. He could feel that Zhiyong was in love with him, but he enjoyed the love but didn't dare to say it. Not all love stories have a happy ending, or most of them should be regrets. Later, the excellent Zhiyong left this small world and went to a bigger and bigger world, thinking that she would never come back, and left forever with this regretful love. Yongyuan would think that Zhiyong should have a colorful world that he can't give. What he thinks is that Zhiyong will be wronged or defeated by this world in the future, and he is willing to be the bottom layer of Zhiyong, He is willing to bear the burden for Zhiyong. Later, Zhiyong came back and had a lot of things to say to you. How are you doing? The most serious sentence, a sentence that I have held back in my heart for many years, I took it as a joke. Years later, the boy is still the same boy. Time is not easy to change a person, think about it carefully, you are not the same virtue you used to be. Both of them understand that a love that never ends. The best, I love you and you love me too. The most beautiful, two people who like each other are not walking together. The most beautiful, actually has a story you don't know, she once wanted to hug you well.

Dereen asks: Why are you smiling at me?
Yong Won did not answer.
Delin asks: Why aren't you married?
Yong Won: Married? Too busy.
lie. Obviously because he still likes Zhiyong. In fact, Yongyuan prefers to regard De Lin as Zhi Yong.
Yong Won fell ill and was hospitalized.
My sister asked him: Have you met anyone?
Yong Won: No, I'm fine, I don't care about anyone.
lie. Obviously it is not good, and it is obvious that the most people remember it.
It hurts to lie. The world is so unkind to me yet so kind to the world. Always laugh. Willing to retake photos of customers, asking customers to wait for sorry to deliver ice cream, pulling a fight when the fart children are fighting, drawing a knife to the female traffic policeman... He should be a cold person, don't think about everything all the time.

Yongyuan saw Delin's letter, and wrote a reply with a sense of ceremony, but he didn't find Delin when he went to the place. Sitting in the cafe, he saw Dereen who was working outside the window, and reached out his hand to touch through the glass. The left half of the glass is the scene outside, Delin walks away, and the right half is Yongyuan staring at it. A piece of glass nicely participates in the narrative.
Yongyuan has a big box with photos of Zhiyong and Delin, letters and letters from many people. It's full of Yongyuan's memories, and it's full of Yongyuan's regrets.
Dereen's photo is placed in the most prominent position.
Yongyuan's life is very short, and there are many things he doesn't have the courage to do. Yong Won gave up a lot for various considerations. In fact, it is not for myself, I am afraid of being hurt or changed. Everyone said plainly that everything they do is for themselves, which may be tall or wretched in the eyes of outsiders. When Liu Feng in "Youth" is Lei Feng or touches Lin Dingding, it is for himself.
There was no one in the photo studio, Yongyuan hadn’t come back yet, Delin threw a stone hard and smashed the glass. Delin expresses her resentment for Yongyuan for leaving without saying goodbye or escaping. Zhi Yong's thoughts on Yongyuan should also be expressed in actions. Maybe Yongyuan is not so good to herself, and Delin's story It happened long ago when I was with Zhi Yong.
Zhiyong knows Yongyuan, and Yongyuan always hides Zhiyong in his heart.
Yongyuan finally said: I know very well that the feeling of love will fade, just like the old photos, but you will always stay in my heart, forever beautiful, until the last moment of my life, thank you, goodbye. This you, I prefer to understand Zhiyong, or the Zhiyongs in Yongyuan's heart.


The wife whispered a few words to her husband.
The son stopped the mother: Mother, since you are here, let's take a solo photo.
Mother declined: Maybe later...
The son grabbed his mother and made her sit down: No, let's shoot now.
At this time, the whole family was talking about the house and money.
In the evening the old man came back in better clothes.
Old lady: The one I took this afternoon...
Yong Won: Do you want to take another one?
old lady: can you?
Yongyuan: Of course you can
. Old lady: You won't charge me any more?
Yong Won: Of course not.
The old lady smiled and said that it must be taken well, and this will be my last photo.
Still photo? old man? death? The attitude of the children to the elderly and how the elderly face death is beyond my imagination.
In "Tokyo Story", Noriko said Shiman: When she reaches the age of her sister, she will have a life of her own that is different from that of her parents. Life has made a person pay more attention to money, and his attitude towards the death of the old man has become indifferent. Maybe it costs 100 to take a posthumous photo, so it is better not to take a photo of the past and use the previous photo. The old man faced death calmly, but he would also have some regrets, just like I regret you.

The son covered the quilt and cried. The father heard it and wanted to open the door to see the child, but in the end he didn't bother the child. Growing up, we learned restraint. When we were young, we cried at our throats. When we grew up, we were afraid that others would see our tears. Your parents know your pain and troubles, but they have nothing to do. All this is to be experienced as a person. What they can do is not to disturb you and keep the dignity you face alone.

Yongyuan and Delin went out to play, and Yongyuan bought two oranges at a time. In 1988, President Li Jin's family of four bought five oranges at a time.

Delin looks really good in the traffic police uniform.

The composition of the picture at home is very similar to Ozu, and the camera is fixed at a low position. How can I have the feeling of Ozu, whether it is similar on the screen, or is it emotionally shared?

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Christmas in August quotes

  • Jung-won: [Sitting on a rubber tire in his old school playground] When I was a kid I always sat alone in the playground after the other boys had gone. Thinking about my late mother, it struck me that we'd all disappear in the end... my father, my sister, all my best friends.

  • [last lines]

    Jung-won: [narrating] I always knew that feelings of love would fade - just like old photographs. But for you... you will always remain in my heart, as you are in my last moment. Thank you, and goodbye.