love white lotus, love life

After watching "Tricycle Man" and "Three Seasons of Love", I think I already understand Chen Yingxiong's style. A literary director who is good at making boring films, he doesn't care how much the box office is. He only cares about his own understanding and his own imagination. , the camera is still aimed at the Vietnamese civilians at the bottom of the society. It may be that only the majority of these people can reflect the real Vietnam. Therefore, such a film must be a fragrance outside the wall.
This is a movie to watch with a calm mind. If you are very impetuous, you may not see it for five minutes. There are no male and female protagonists, only the tricycle driver who loves to read, the flower girl who understands the meaning of life, the prostitute who shuttles in the hotel, the homeless boy Woody, and the American veteran who is looking for his dead daughter. Their stories unfold in parallel. It's still the hot weather, the rain, the dirty streets, the old tricycles, Hanoi in Vietnamese movies always seems to be like this, as if the wounds this country has suffered will never heal, but this country People still have a yearning for life. The tricycle driver did not dare to speak of love because of his low status; the flower girl was poor, but she had a more open-minded attitude towards life than ordinary people. She even allowed the teacher who was closed down due to leprosy to start reciting poetry again; The prostitute who entered the upper class was finally moved by the perseverance of the tricycle driver. At the end of the film, the prostitute stopped the tricycle driver in the hut beside the railway, implying that she and the tricycle driver had a hundred years of friendship. The children in Vietnamese movies are very poor, homeless, and controlled by others. They either sell cigarettes, polish shoes or pick rubbish. They have unfortunate childhoods. Fortunately, Woody, who relies on boxes to eat, still found the lost box. The American veteran who had been away for many years came to Hanoi to look for his child because he regretted the mistakes of the past. Unexpectedly, the girl also embarked on the same path as her mother, but it is a kind of luck to find it. Some people have started a new life, and some people's lives continue to be the same as the old ones. The Vietnamese society is changing, and the old and the new coexist in this imperfect society. Just like some people began to like plastic white lotuses, some people still love fresh white lotuses. But whether it is plastic or fresh, white lotus is always beautiful, something that people can never get rid of, and a belief for people to live in difficult situations.
The pictures are beautiful and the music is good. It is recommended to enjoy it alone on a calm night.

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