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The film "Childhood Past" is one of Hou Director's representative works and an autobiographical film of Hou Director.
I have heard a saying that it is useless to tell your own story before you become famous, because there is no market, no attraction, no one cares about the growth experience of an ordinary person, but after a person becomes famous, some people will be curious about how this person grew up to what he is today.
This film reflects the social background at that time, many people crossed Taiwan, could not come back, became a province in Taiwan, reflecting the living conditions of the first and second generations of other provinces in Taiwan.
The film is shot from a distance viewer's point of view, and there is a feeling of watching a documentary, feeling that it is not like a performance, and people can't help but fall into the story. In the film, we will find that this plot, we have experienced it ourselves, and that plot has also experienced it, which is a very magical thing.
The characters in the film are very successful and real, and the characteristics of each person's behavior are combined with the history of a small family for more than ten years.
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The first to leave in the film is Ah Xiao's father, who often sits in a chair by the door to read, write, and read letters. Dad looks like a solemn person, in fact, he feels that he has lung disease, dare not be close to the child, for fear of infecting them. The dishes and chopsticks for eating should be separated, and the cough should be kept away.
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In many traditional Chinese families, the role of the father is also like this, far away from the child, love is like a mountain, not as fine as water, serious and rigid, and less communication with children. Dad didn't know how to express his love, or because of the burden of the family, he was left with only the back of his head buried in work at home.
The role of the mother in the film is to cook for the family, teach the husband and children, and nag. After her father's death, she took on the burden of the family, and when she got sick and had to go to Taipei for a check-up, she also had to worry about no one cooking at home.
The mother said to the eldest son, "The family has so many mouths, how many things do they need to eat a day." We have many children, and if you grow up, you don't need to use money to study teacher training, and you will have books to teach in the future. ”
If there are conditions, parents want to give their children the best conditions and take care of each child, but when there are many children in the family, they have to sacrifice some big brothers and sisters, and parents are forced to do nothing.
Sometimes it is not the cruelty to let the eldest child sacrifice, but the life is forced and powerless.
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Grandma's role is that she is in a foreign country and has always wanted to return to her hometown, and when She was a child, she always wanted to ask Ah Xiao to go back to the mainland with her and return to her hometown. Grandma's traits are family and son preference.
The old man did not like to leave his hometown, and missed his home more than the young man, but she could not find the way back to her hometown.
In the film, her grandmother often wanders outside, trying to find the way back to the mainland, and finally the bicycle master pulls her back to the house.
The happiest time Grandma was to take Ah Xiao out, because Ah Xiao was admitted to junior high school, and Grandma wanted to take him back to his hometown to worship his ancestors. When walking on the road, Ah Xiao saw the ballet on the side of the road and picked a lot of it back, which also became Ah Xiao's long-term memory.
Grandma finally forgot everything, and still remembered to go back to the mainland, but this idea could not be realized until her death.
The words that Grandma said to the eldest sister are the portrayal of the lives of many Chinese women in that era: what is the use of girls reading so many books, stove head pot tail, needle head needle tail, field head field tail, three tails will be, so it can be. Grandma favors sons over daughters, but this is also a true portrayal of many families.
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When the eldest sister wiped the floor, she would murmur to herself, what had happened before when she was on the mainland.
If she stayed on the mainland, she would still have the opportunity to go to high school and college, but after she followed her family to Taiwan, she could not go to school, because she had to go to school for her brother, and the eldest sister had to make sacrifices for her family.
The eldest brother has good grades, he still has to read books when eating, he is very thin, it is a pity not to go to college, it is also for the younger brother of the family to read more books before giving up going to college, going to a teacher's college, and becoming a teacher after graduation.
The eldest brother and the eldest sister can be described as a good brother and sister in The Chinese style, for the sake of the younger brother, they can make great sacrifices. Whether or not going to school affects a lifetime, and the fate of a lifetime will be rewritten.
We cannot judge from the moral high ground whether brothers and sisters should make sacrifices for the future of younger siblings.
The images of dad, mom, grandma, big sister, big brother, these five people are portrayals of the characters in many Chinese families, following the trajectory of their lives, doing the corresponding things for a lifetime.
There is nothing wrong with following the rules, and living a peaceful and stable life is also a kind of happiness.
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The most prominent and rebellious in the film is Ah Xiao, a stomach with bad water, a little thief and a little clever, which makes people hate, but Grandma's favorite is Ah Xiao, just because when he was a child, he told him that he could become a high official in the future.
Ah Xiao would steal the family's money to go out and play marbles, afraid of being known by the family, buried the money and marbles under the tree, and as a result, they were stolen.
He copied the answers to the exam for other children, collected money after the exam, took the money and immediately went to buy buns to eat.
He would take a pair of iron tongs and cut a piece of wire to sell for money on a rainy day when the wire fell, and then buy his own snacks to eat.
After he went to high school, he waited on a tree with a group of friends, and after the cloth sellers collected the stalls, they went up to collect the protection fee, but they did not receive it.
He fights and fights, when threatened by veterans, rush out to pick up stones and smash glass, unhappy people will go to prick people's bicycle tires, for a hundred pieces of fare to beat the car master, will go to the red light district to hunt, take a long knife to fight with people, and have been mixing outside.
He went after the girl he liked, but the girl told him, "Wait until you get into college."
Because of this sentence, he gave up the opportunity to guarantee the military school and participated in the university joint examination, of course, he did not pass the examination later, which also affected his life.
A person whose mother is very bad in her eyes has always worried about him, what to do when she grows up. When his mother died, the eldest brother looked back at Ah Xiao and felt that people who were rotten to the bone could cry.
But Ah Xiao did not lose his conscience, when his mother died, he originally took an IOU, asked pig friends to drive a motorcycle, and pulled him to Mrs. Ye's house to collect debts.
When he saw the situation of Mrs. Ye's family, who was poorer than their family, he turned around and walked out. Later, he also told the eldest brother that he would not take back Mrs. Ye's money.
After tasting life and death, Ah Xiao suddenly woke up and then made some changes. Some things, when you understand them, you will mature.
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Some of the growth stories are very sensational and tearful. However, when watching this film, from the beginning to the end, there is not much emotional fluctuation. I just think in my heart, oh it turns out, there are some shadows of our growth in the film.
When watching this film, if you have been watching it with a very peaceful attitude, it means that you have experienced it and put it down, and living well in the present and the future is the best memory of the past.
This film is suitable for the post-80s, almost everyone can find their own growth clips from the film, and then they will become more and more aware of their current state, have a deeper understanding of their past and future, and live the present and future days, which is the best remembrance of the past!