The first time I knew this movie was because of Li Jian's song of the same name - "August Photo Studio"
The wind blows through the window of the photo studio The time that slips away from the window When I pass by this place, it feels like I'm back in yesterday, you lean on my shoulder happily and say, just live every day of your life like this
The gentle melody of the whole song is vaguely filled with a touch of sadness, as if a person who has gone through vicissitudes of life is calmly telling his memories of the past. With a beautiful tune, I opened the film.
The film tells the story of a terminally ill person in the last days of his life. The rhythm of the plot is gentle and the development of the story is unremarkable, but even in the midst of everything seemingly plain, it delicately and profoundly expresses the love for death. Explore.
The movie starts from an early morning, an ordinary morning, an ordinary person, doing ordinary things as usual, the only exception is that the protagonist of the story Yongyuan is a terminally ill person. Despite the sad atmosphere that pervades the entire film, Yong Won always has a smile on his face, whether it's to friends and relatives, to the guests of the photo studio, and even to every stranger.
It is against this background that the heroine Delin appeared in Yong Won's life. Delin didn't know Yongyuan's condition, but was attracted by Yongyuan's attitude towards life, and Delin became the sunshine in the last days of Yongyuan's life.
The conflict at the police station after drunkenness brought the plot to a climax for the first time. In fact, no one can face death calmly. Behind Yongyuan's daily smile, he deeply repressed his heart, and the alcohol prompted him. Finally, the inner emotions finally have a catharsis outlet. But when I woke up the next day, everything was business as usual.
There is a saying in Japan: "Tomorrow will blow tomorrow's wind." Perhaps that island country has experienced too many earthquakes and seen too many sudden departures, and this is the birth of such a plain and true sentence. , the sun will still rise tomorrow.
The people around him have made Yongyuan's view of life constantly changing. He didn't want him to leave, so he pretended not to know how to use the video recorder, the father who wanted to have a good-looking photo, the grandmother who came back again, and the friend who grew up together as a child. , and Dereen who inadvertently made him fall in love.
As time passed, the smile on Yong Won's face became less and less, as if only Delin could bring sunshine to his life. He began to arrange things behind him in an orderly manner, meticulously recording the operating instructions for everything, and after a deterioration of his condition, Delin disappeared from his life due to misunderstandings and various reasons.
Yongyuan, who had a premonition that his time was running out, found Delin for the last time, but Yongyuan just watched quietly through the window, but he was unreachable in front of him. This scene has the deepest impression on me. At the last moment of a person's life, he happens to meet the person who he least wants to let go. Yongyuan reaches out and touches it, but he can no longer touch it. Death is like the glass in front of him. Those who are reluctant are separated at the two ends of the unreachable.
At the end of the film, along with the ticking of the clock, Yongyuan gently flipped through the old photo albums, recalled the past, and finally took a smiling photo of himself, bringing an end to his ordinary life.
Tagore said, "Let life be as splendid as summer flowers, and death as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves." I don't know if I will face death one day, if I can be as calm as Yongyuan, most of the time I can't. It's like when I'm about to embark on a new journey, I can't help but feel uneasy. No one knows what the other side of death is, dissipating? is eternity? Is it reincarnation?
If life really has reincarnation, I hope my previous life is a bird flying in the sky, and my next life is a swimming fish in the deep sea.
Each of us is taboo about words related to death. It seems that as long as we don't talk about it, death will never come, and often the end is in sight before we start to think about the proposition of death. But the reality is that when we start thinking about death, we begin to feel that life is more beautiful .
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