The film is dominated by dark green and dim yellow, and is filled with a rich, moist sadness that cannot be melted away. The light yellow water surface full of lotus flowers, the severe rainy night, the clear but heavy season. Countless beautiful pictures are filled with prophecies and prophecies, and countless people walk in the middle of the road with their innocent eyes open. The story takes place in such a Vietnam, in a great web woven by endless human affairs.
Gan Xin, a lotus-picking girl, sang on the calm lake. In the distance, the water and the sky meet, and the misty mist seems not to be the color of the world. Her singing reached the ears of Teacher Du, the owner of the lotus pond, and opened a door full of unknowns for her. She approached him with singing, and he resisted because of the pain hidden in his heart, but finally gave her his poetry and endless sighs. Illness destroyed his face and life, but Gan Xin became his finger, writing line by line on the yellowed paper. Their secret garden, blooming in the clear night, the real and the unreal, the hope and the waiting, happen slowly in the growing season.
The humble tricycle driver Ah Hai, with a dark complexion, records all the hardships and hardships of life. His greatest pleasure was turning over an old book and being silent under the scorching sun. By chance, the gorgeous woman Lian broke into Ah Hai's field of vision and fell for no reason. He was waiting at the door of the hotel where she haunted, just to accompany her through the rough road quietly. Every day, every day, he watched her in the arms of different men, helpless and full of compassion. Ah Hai's feelings for Lian are so sacred that they are almost worshipped. Although she has the identity of a prostitute, in Ah Hai's heart, she is as holy as a lotus flower. He didn't dare to blaspheme, and he didn't dare to approach, but Lian's resistance had clearly betrayed her heart inch by inch. Contradictions and entanglements, and fearful love are enough to touch the softest part of the audience's heart. What impressed me the most was Ah Hai lying under the starry sky, happily taking a bite of the bread that Lotus gave him, looking up at the stars. As Ah Hai said, "I have never stayed in a four-star or five-star hotel, but I have my own home full of stars, that is, sleeping under such an open-air night sky, looking up at the countless stars in the sky." Maybe. Innocent as A Hai, there is no extravagant hope or force, just to complete an emotional watch that does not stain the fireworks of the world.
Little orphan Woody makes a living by selling cigarettes and chewing gum. Standing at the door of the hotel, Hu Di's curious and eager eyes could clearly see the magnificence and flowers inside. This is a world different from his life situation. In his world, there seems to be only rain that never ends. James, a soldier from the United States, kindly invited Woody to drink a beer, but the moment the power went out at the bar, the box of goods that Woody depended on for a living was stolen. The rain fell violently on Woody's face and body, mercilessly burying the poor child. He began to look around, and the endless road seemed to never end in an article. The rainy season in Vietnam is wet and indifferent. There is only a little girl who picks up rags, and innocently breaks up her own food and hands it to Woody. The small figure symbolizes irresistible disappointment and despair in the film.
James, a military veteran, had a daughter with a local woman in Vietnam many years ago. Years passed, and time took away his youth and the woman's life. In charming Vietnam, he also has a daughter, the most primitive and original blood connection in the world, which constitutes the biggest reason for James to return to Vietnam. He was used to waiting for the street where everything was recorded every day, waiting for his daughter to appear. At a gathering of American soldiers, several Vietnamese women betrayed their smiles in the arms of American soldiers. He accidentally found a half-dressed daughter among the group of women. At that moment, old things piled up, infinite emotion and sadness flooded into my heart, and James' eyes were red.
The plot of the film proceeds in an orderly manner, the branch line and the main line interweave complexly and simply, and four different life experiences ferment and grow in the blurred air. Blurred Vietnam, fresh Vietnam, the vicissitudes of life. Teacher Du finally passed away due to illness. Gan Xin said quietly that his lyrics would have a confidant in this world. On the rippling river, she threw down the white lotus flowers. On both sides of the river, the clear voices of the lotus-pickers kept singing the songs left by Teacher Du. A Hai's deep affection saved Lian, she changed into a gorgeous costume, and she spun in the sky full of red flowers, laughing. The smart wind blew away the tiredness she once had, and Ah Hai told her that from now on she could look at the world with dignity. Woody finds the box dramatically, perhaps despair is a prelude to hope that no one will be completely abandoned by such a beautiful Vietnam. James met his daughter and opened up memories of the past in his eloquent account. All the people and things have settled here, and all the seasons are slowly accumulated in the mutual exchanges between people.
Vietnam is a strange place, like flowers in the dark night, gorgeous and proud, simple and humble. Here, life is full of ambiguous entanglements, the past and the present are attached to people and are vivid. Crowds cross each other, love and leave, experience and watch each other from birth to death. In this magical land, what the director wants to grasp and convey is the conflict between different regional cultures, modernity and tradition, and also a little bit of regret left over from history, but the most important thing seems to be a kind of beautiful disappointment and hope. A part of the vicissitudes and purity that this country and such people were born out of. Something that lives deep in people's hearts forever. They have weathered the storm and will last forever. Perhaps the most essential, always needs to be experienced with the most secret heart.
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