Only your mother is good in the world, because your joys and sorrows are always related to her. The audience can see their mothers in "All About My Mother", they have the same nagging, the same gentleness, the same laughter and tears, it is really the same world, the same mother.
The scene of the mother and daughter played by Xu Fan and Zhang Jingyi eating together in the film reminds me of my mother, who is not good at cooking. Every time I came home when I grew up, my mother would always put an apology on her lips, "Today's meat is not stewed enough", "This shrimp should put a little more sugar", "The salt of the dumplings is less"... In fact, my father secretly told me that because I was going home for dinner, my mother would start to open up the afternoon before, and she would be busy in the kitchen.
Sometimes I deliberately didn't call and suddenly came home to surprise them, and my mother would wonder why I didn't say it earlier, the dishes in the fridge weren't fresh enough. Only then would my mother not veto my offer to go out to the restaurant, but would only ask me to order less hard dishes, because the meat in the restaurant was oily and salty. It was also my father who secretly told me that my mother would nag him every day when she ate, worried that I would eat takeout again, which was not good for my health.
Between my mother and me, I don't know when it began, it became a matter of reporting good news to each other. On the phone, I was the boss sympathetic, friendly and relaxed at work, and my mother was a community choir, square dance, and suburban day trips. I also inherited her nagging, and we reminded each other that every meal should be delicious and not to be combined. She was anxious about my life's events, and I was worried about her cervical and lumbar vertebrae.
Rare days at home, we occasionally look at each other and get bored, I am not satisfied with the blind date she arranged for me, she will retort one by one, the theme is still: girl, you don't have to be too picky. I didn't expect that what destroyed our mother-daughter relationship was actually because of "men". Arrange a blind date for me, the two of us come and go, she called the introducer to refuse... So it goes on and on, I guess she found pleasure in it?
I think she wants to share some sadness for me, and she doesn't understand what work troubles are, but she has a lot of say in life and about her other half. After more than thirty years of being in the same boat with her father, she knows what kind of character the other half worth entrusting to her life should have, which I am very convinced. If it weren't for a pair of parents who followed each other's example, how could I be so obsessed with feelings that is the first foundation of marriage?
Every festive season, I think of my family. One day, you have a lover, you have children, your heart is divided with them, but your mother will always leave the most important place in your heart to you. No matter where you are, whether you have a successful career or nothing to do, you are your mother's concern. And her concern is also very simple: may you be healthy and happy, without troubles.
In recent years, the image that Xu Fan left the deepest impression on me was the mother in "Tangshan Earthquake". There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's hearts, and actors can have free creative space, but mom is too close to life and the audience to allow actors to play in the slightest. Xu Fan's portrayal is very successful, she embodies the grief of the family being destroyed overnight, the helplessness of making life and death choices between a pair of children, the tenacity of rebuilding the broken home on behalf of her husband, and the sadness and joy of reuniting with her daughter.
Due to his superb acting skills, Xu Fan was nominated for Best Actress at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. Unexpectedly, eleven years later, Xu Fan once again played the role of challenging her mother, still using meticulous acting skills, so that the audience could see her playIng Peizhen, just like remembering her mother.
"After watching the trailer, I want to miss my mother in particular", "I want to buy a ticket to go home to see my mother", "I want to take my mother to see this movie with me during the Mid-Autumn Festival"... Compared with the award, it can make the audience have emotional resonance, which is the most successful interpretation of the actor.
Autumn is getting thicker, and the wind dances with the first fallen leaves, and it snaps gently on the ground, but it rings heavily in my mother's ears. Her memory is very good, and she has begun to include your favorite dishes in the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet; her memory is not good, and she always forgets your impatience and ignorance. Because in this world, she likes you the most.
Mom, thank you for liking me so much. Take your mom to the movies on September 19th.