I have always believed that a good movie is not a movie that makes you cry. But let your tears stay in your eyes, you will leave deep heart palpitations after watching. That kind of throbbing doesn't make people deeply sad, but like lighting a match on a winter night. Although its light is faint, it has warmed somewhere in my heart. That slow, penetrating warmth.
The characters in the film are missing something from the beginning, they are struggling to find hope and the essence of life, they have gone through the changes that have happened in this country. Things change all the time, and continuity is absurd, but history often has many similarities. Everyone is connected.
The tricycle driver was hopelessly in love with a young girl, and he waited outside the hotel again and again that sultry night. waiting for the woman you love. The girl in white walking among the flying red flowers said to the cart puller who adored her in the sweltering summer: "You don't believe me, I like summer the most."
The little boy who sold groceries broke into the door of a hotel , the bright lights, the men and women in bright clothes, he does not belong to this world. He's lost the grocery box he depends on for survival, and he's going to get it back.
The American man who came to Vietnam to look for his children ate with other men and was served by their respective young ladies. Suddenly, he stared intently at her, the woman who was smiling like a peach in the arms of other men. He was weeping at the dinner table, unable to be himself, he was his daughter.
Seeing this, it seems that this is a beautiful tragedy. Everyone who lives here has an inexpressible pain that is difficult to express and unwilling to express. Those beautiful and naive wishes vanished in the hustle and bustle and embarrassment. But I'm a firm believer that that's what movies do, not make us cry.
The ending of the film is beautiful.
The little boy accidentally finds the lost small cargo box, and has a smaller girl as his little companion. This six- or seven-year-old boy can once again pin his dreams of the future and life on the small cargo box, and continue to sell and continue to live, even if he can only live the life of the bottom of the society, even if he picks up rubbish , the little girl will silently follow the little boy who has nothing, even if she can only give him half of the food.
The man pulling the cart finally got the girl's heart, and on a quiet red flower flying road, he took her back to the summer she liked. He said to her, who was dressed in white, "You don't have to force a smile in the future. You can look at the world with dignity." The
Americans finally met their daughter when they were about to give up their search, and the two recalled the past. Seems like a mixed-race girl with an American dad will have a bright future. He wept, and we cannot doubt how real his grief was in this dramatic encounter. There are always some cruel reality that our efforts cannot change, so we often speculate about their later fate and story. Although the movie is made up after all, I believe there is absolutely no deception in this story. Life is indeed full of helplessness. They are making choices they can make and living a life they can't choose. They are people who are struggling to survive in the cracks of life, but they love and know how to love. With their longing for beauty and persistence, no matter how cruel the reality is, they cannot make life and human nature material and empty.
I believe this is the essence of life that the film wants to express.
2006-03-22 18:25:21
Note: The film won the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (Sundance Film Festival) Jury Prize, Best Cinematography and Most Popular Award. It was the first American film since the end of the Vietnam War to be filmed entirely in Vietnam and spoken entirely in Vietnamese. It is also the debut feature of Vietnamese director Tony Bui.
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