In the season when the white lotus is in full bloom, the lotus-picking girl Xin met Mr. Du, who wrote poetry, the tricycle driver Hai met the prostitute Lian, and the retired Vietnam War veteran James met the salesman Woody, forming a picture of the secular customs of Vietnam. The relationship is deep and the relationship is shallow, and the love rises and falls. The two meet each other, comfort each other, and seek a hopeful tranquility between frustration and loss.
Xin is a female worker who picks lotus flowers for a large family. The owner, Mr. Du, is a mysterious person who has been in a dim room for several years. One day, Xin sang a song in the lotus pond, which attracted Mr. Du's attention. Xin was awakened in the middle of the night to meet Mr. Du. Mr. Du is an old man suffering from leprosy, disfigured face and missing all ten fingers. Not only was Xin not intimidated, but he was amazed at Mr. Du's beautiful poems and volunteered to be Mr. Du's copyist. Xin reminded Mr. Du of his pure, honest, free and unrestrained youth, and the two became confidants through poetry. Mr. Du passed away shortly after, and gave all his poems to Xin, who spread white lotus flowers in the running water to comfort Mr. Du.
The tricycle driver Hai fell in love with Lian at first sight on the way to take the prostitute Lian home. Even if he understood her work, his love was deeply rooted, and he often waited until Lian got off work and hoped to take her home. Lian is eager to get rid of the fate of living at the bottom, and hopes to sell herself in a high-end hotel to meet rich men. Lian realizes Hai's affection, but Hai is not a person of high society. , Hope the sea give up the unnecessary pursuit. Hai wanted to spend the night with Lian with the money he won from the tricycle race. Lian accepted the job without any imaginary desire for sex, only the gift of a white gauze dress carefully prepared by Hai and the care of "I just want to watch you fall asleep" . Lian was insulted and abandoned by the guests, and her body became ill from exhaustion. Hai was always by her side, and the two became married.
James, a retired Vietnam War veteran, went back to Vietnam to find his daughter. By chance, he found a Navy soldier's lighter in the sales box of the hawker Woody, so he invited Woody to drink and chat. Woody is a teenage orphan who perpetually roams the streets and sells in a raincoat. The drunk Woody woke up without James and the box he was selling. Without the box, he couldn't go home, and he had to look around for James who stole it. James is drowned in the grief of not being able to find his daughter, completely unaware of Woody's suitcase. Fortunately, at the end of the turn, Woody found his box and the drunkard who stole the box in the garbage, and met the little girl who was also living on the streets and made a living by picking up scraps. James also met on the last day of leaving Vietnam. For the daughter who sells her laughter for a living, she has the opportunity to express regret and apology.
Three pairs of people, six people, experience their own lives without disturbing each other in the same city. They have different stories and different emotions, but they are all silently thinking about the beauty of the past and gently pursuing the hope of a life. The interactive way of telling the film makes the three stories parallel and isolated and reflect each other at the same time, and the occasional collision of characters even connects the broken story line. The story of human life. Sadness is the foundation of life, and hope and beauty are the pursuit of life.
Cailian Nuxin is a hard-working female worker living at the bottom. Hard work can only be exchanged for a reluctant life. Poetry and poetry are an unreachable and elegant art for her. She became Mr. Du's scribe and became Mr. Du's confidant. The object is a different color in the heavy life; Mr. Du is an ugly old man who is riddled with illness. He is imprisoned in a dark temple. His physical disability makes writing poems and lyrics a delusion, even if he is in a white lotus pond. In the fragrance, there is a soul with no support after all. Xin's songs and Xin's kindness have injected youthful vitality into Mr. Du's restrained life. The final death is like a white lotus in flowing water, regaining freedom and freedom. Pure; the poor and ordinary life of the tricycle driver Hai has aroused expectations because of the appearance of lotus, the seeds of missing sprout and grow up and become the appearance of love, Hai's sincere love is spotless, tolerant and powerful; prostitute lotus fantasizes betrayed The body is exchanged for the rise of class life, and the full of fighting spirit can only be exchanged for the helplessness of being toyed and abandoned. Her love in the face of the sea is a prayer, "Please don't make me feel powerless", unable to change life, unable to refuse to pursue, Finally learn to accept the ordinary beauty; James can only reminisce the beauty of the past year by staring at the bar alone, crying bitterly in the face of his daughter's life selling laughter, but fortunately there is an opportunity to express his apology by sending flowers; Woody is like a lonely soul wandering on the street Wild ghost, I am helpless at such a young age, forever raincoat and everlasting rain are like an ever dark childhood life, retrieving the box, getting to know the little girl, it seems that there is no change to be comforted, but at least there is hope. .
The film is full of oriental charm, and a lot of blank space and silence make people feel unsatisfied. The movie is like a style painting, with beautiful scenery, beauties, and beautiful feelings slowly unfolding, such as the fresh and pleasant white lotus, as well as the colorful and colorful leaves.
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