Before Tanabata comes, poor single dogs seem to be deeply hurt by the festive atmosphere when they walk on the road.
If you're still struggling with no one to spend Tanabata with you, it's better to open a good movie, put down your phone, and look at the story in the movie. Let a movie come into your heart.
This is a very poetic film, the film uses the old man's monologue to retrace the story of a teenager's growth, the story in an English pastoral village, with an interstitial flashback way to tell the boy Lol's first nineteen years of life, the childhood and youth interspersed in front of our eyes, this movie does not seem to have any great plot ups and downs, even a little bland, but its charm is that everything in this ordinary life happens so romantically, and it can be called real and pure literature.
The film begins in the summer of the year after the end of the First World War, when the male protagonist Lol's mother and his large group of brothers and sisters moved to a small mountain village, which is very beautiful, with brilliant white flowers on the hillside, a meadow at the foot, and a forest in the distance, shrouded in a sense of tranquility.
The film tells the first nineteen years of the boy Lol's life in the form of interstitial flashbacks, and childhood and youth are interspersed with unfolding before our eyes. Life seems to be so plain, but isn't it that most of our growth is occasionally mixed with a surprise?
Lol's dad, a soldier, hadn't seen him since he was three years old, and Lol's mom was dad's second wife, who moved here with her ex-wife's three children and her own, and at this time she had a new life in her belly.
Lol after two life and death catastrophes, the first time Lol got jaundice, when everyone was ready to give up, his mother insisted on inviting the priest to pray for him, lol survived. The second time, again, because of illness, he lay in bed, but miraculously survived, while his sister Frances was taken away by the disease. For this reason, Lol also decided to live more seriously, because he had the lives of two people on his body.
The mother she loved Lol's father dearly, despite the fact that she had abandoned them. But she was still carefully preparing for every day that her father might return, and she was convinced that her distant lover would definitely return. The mother is like an artist, lighting up the children's lives, riding a bicycle in the field, it is so free, she will also help the child find true love with her own understanding of emotional transparency, her singing voice is always very affectionate, as if she injected all her love into the song.
Lol's youth has two loves, Jo and Rosie. Lol and Jo's love is more like the first love of a teenager, green. But Rosie is different, she takes the initiative to be enthusiastic, dares to love and hate, dares to fight for her own love, perhaps the adolescent boys have an inexplicable restlessness, Lol after peeping at Rosie's bath, he empathizes, he and Rosie drink cider under the hay-covered carriage, and then kiss, everything is so natural, with a wild nature that never dared to touch.
Lol's neighbors live with two grandmothers, Trill and Wallon, who often scold each other, born like a pair of wrongdoers, but in fact they also love each other, just care for each other in a fighting way, in the dry season, Grandma Wollan will let Lol give cherry wine to Grandma Trill, and Trill, although his face is very disgusted, still left the precious wine. Unbeknownst to Wollan after Trill's death, Wollan tearfully chants God bless after hearing Lol knock the floor with a crutch instead of Trill. The love of the two grandmothers is so proud and so unique. How can this kind of feeling not be touching in real life?
In this bland movie, the most heart-stirring should be the separation of the play, separated from his father since childhood, and the best sister Frances in childhood also passed away. In their youth, the two grandmothers passed away one after another. At the end of the film, her sister Marj marries her beloved soldier and leaves the family. In the end, he also decided to leave the house and go to the distance to see a different kind of wonderful. Mom sang her father's favorite song to bid him farewell, and to commemorate her short love and long wait.