The story of the film takes place in Vietnam, three men of different backgrounds and ages, their love story, either past or present, flows smoothly like poetry in the hot and rainy season: the first story is a memory And hope, one is an old poet who was forced to isolate himself from the world due to leprosy and lived alone in a temple in the lotus pond. The girl named Xinghe, like a clear spring, nourished his long-dried poetic soul. With her encouragement, the poet's heart ignited the flame of poetry again, and Xin took the initiative to help record the poems he sang. Beautiful verses, these verses, express the poet's deep nostalgia for the beautiful emotions of the past and his incomparable desire for freedom in the future. The second story is about search and repentance. An American veteran who participated in the Vietnam War, with deep guilt, returned to Vietnam to atone for his love impulse when he was young, and searched for his abandoned daughter. This story is also intertwined with the story of a young boy looking for a cargo box to survive. The third story is about love and destination. The most beautiful and moving one is also the third story. The love in the first two stories is just the narrative background of two men. A three-wheeled, kind-hearted coachman who likes to read books, falls in love with a woman who is amorous. They are at the bottom of the society and struggle every day for survival. It seems that there is no good love, but this coachman has a rich heart and delicate emotions. For the woman he likes, his heart is full of incomparable tenderness and love. In his eyes , Lian, the prostitute that others look down on, is the goddess in his heart. Although this Lian who wanted to live a rich life began to look down on him and often mocked him, he still protected her in his own way. Pursuing her, in the end, the softness in Lian's heart was touched by the true love of a man. The director used beautiful and romantic pictures to place infinite beauty on the destination of this love. The picture style of the whole movie has strong Vietnamese characteristics: the streets are full of narrow and dirty streets with motorcycles, dilapidated civilian buildings, busy street vendors, luxurious star hotels, huge Coca-Cola billboards... , the director used a simple, soothing and low-key style to present Vietnam's backward economic development level and the tenacious vitality and hard life of the people at the bottom. The camera shot was smooth and gentle, especially a few scenes that were extremely beautiful: the girl was picking lotuses in the lotus pond, the little boy was playing football in the rain, Ah Hai was scraping the lotus, and the girl was sprinkling lotus all the way in the floating market. The simple and plain episodes in the film and the soundtrack of traditional oriental folk music with profound artistic conception are very suitable for the film. There are also poems written by lonely old people, the words are smart and natural, Emotional abundance. The structure of the whole film is relatively loose, and the story fragments, one character, through the white lotus symbolizing purity and beauty, are intertwined very consciously and subtly, and they become a prose that is loose but not scattered. . Although the stories of several protagonists have a relatively complete and satisfying ending at the end, I feel a little unfinished. Characters who seem to have a story line, such as writing poems for the elderly, a poetic girl selling lotus, and a little boy who is carrying a cargo box and reselling cigarettes at the hotel to make a living, the movie has a lot of ink, but it has a romantic atmosphere. , The symbolic ending is slightly thin and does not echo the fullness of the previous shape. I don't know what kind of expression purpose these two characters carry the director.
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