But soon, the refreshing tranquility was broken by a shabby noise. As the young girl Xin carried a white lotus that had just been picked off her shoulders and came to sell in the city, the gray Vietnamese city of Saigon appeared in front of her eyes. This is a backward and poor city. But there are many cities with vitality. There are ordinary citizens who are desperate for three meals a day, and there are upper-class people who go in and out of high-end hotels day and night. It’s just cruel that the former kind of people are local native residents, while the latter kind of people are mostly stuck here. of Westerners. As a result, a repressed national atmosphere loomed. Putting aside the sad history of the Vietnam War and the Civil War, Vietnam's embarrassing situation in front of its own development is still inseparable from the involvement of Western countries, which seems very helpless. The director of the film is an American Vietnamese who grew up in the gap between two cultural and historical backgrounds, resulting in him having a nostalgic and sincere hope for his homeland. Although it is clear and true in reflecting the reality of today's society in Vietnam, There is less of an insider's criticism, and more of an outsider's ideal color. I have seen a work "Tricycle Driver" directed by Chen Yingxiong, who is also a foreign Vietnamese. The camera is also aimed at the toiled people living at the bottom of today's Vietnamese society, but the director made a lot of crying about the ignorant and backward reality. A tearless accusation, its contagious power is directly in the hearts of the people.
On the other hand, the soothing camera lens is full of desolate little people, lepers and flower girls, tricycle drivers and prostitutes, stray orphans and veterans, but they all look extremely beautiful, lamenting their desolate life experiences, they are so beautiful. It is difficult to sympathize with them, because each of them has found the meaning of life and has a seemingly happy destination. The atmosphere of this movie is very touching.
The beautiful singing of the flower girl moved the leper who was hiding in his own world and did not dare to come out to meet people. He used to be a talented poet, but now his whole body is festering, he is terminally ill, and his courage and dignity are also lost. It was the girl's singing that reminded him of the good times in his life, the woman he had when he was young, and the beautiful scenery of the Lotus Floating River in his hometown, and aroused his inspiration and passion to continue writing poetry. The girl's love for poetry and the poet's nostalgia for life are intertwined in beautiful and elegant poems. The passion emerging from it dispels the grief and despair at the end of the poet's life, and also embellishes the youthful life of the flower-selling girl. vitality. Although it is difficult for a poet to keep his life, his passion for life and poetry will continue in the life of a young girl. Life is interlinked. When life is passed down in the form of poetry left over, I think, the poet who passed away is not Taste a kind of happiness in the kingdom of heaven?
The tricycle driver Hai is obsessed with falling in love with the prostitute Lian, and he loves without any regrets. Lian was deeply puzzled by this. Her confusion was also a disgust for her own life experience, and of course there was also a bit of contempt for the tricycle driver. In her values, there is no possibility of a tricycle driver and a prostitute. It is not a question of who cannot accept who, but who will feed who after the two come together. This is indeed a very serious problem. Compared to the way of life that Lian pursues, her ideal is to live a life of a high-class person, sleeping in an air-conditioned room every day until she wakes up cold. The money for Hai and Lian to spend the night together was won by participating in a tricycle race that he had never participated in. But there is always a thing called truth that can make people forget all sorrows and misfortunes, and the bleak reality becomes colorful in front of truth. It was only when she wiped the fake face that she realized that she really had a status, a status of being a real woman in a man's heart. Finally, under the phoenix flowers falling from the sky, she accepted the sea, and then, the life of the two of them will definitely be as gorgeous as flowers.
The veteran who participated in the Vietnam War always sits in front of the hotel smoking cigarettes, drinking wine, watching the sunset go down, maybe he is watching himself slowly approaching his old age, and the various life experiences of the past must be haunting him at this time. In my heart, if the past is let go, and I decide not to mention whether it is right or wrong, then the only thing I should do now is to find the daughter who was lost in the war, otherwise, the rest of his life will be meaningless. In a lonely city on a rainy night, a lonely person encounters a homeless child who sells on the street. Two orphans who have been forgotten by their family drink together and communicate in two different languages. But the old soldier couldn't understand a single word of the wandering child. He could only look at the unfamiliar world in front of him with cowardly eyes. The most terrible thing was that the guy he was eating was stolen after the power outage, so he also began to look for it to survive. Pillar of life, just as a veteran is looking for his daughter, he is also looking for a pillar of survival. In the end, the old soldier finally found his daughter, who had become a dusty woman, at the dining table of a party, and the homeless boy finally found his small cargo box on the drunken man who fell down beside the garbage heap. No matter what, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that you can finally have it again. It is the most cherished thing that is lost and then tried so hard to find.
Perhaps it is the director's compassionate heart that the stories of the three groups of people with ups and downs are all told with warmth and emotion. The living environment of poverty, depression and loneliness does not give people the feeling of despair, but a glimmer of hope that is rising. The brewing of hope may be intentional, but after all, what we need is this kind of heart-wrenching beauty, even if it is a little hypocritical.
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