There is a passage where a little boy asks his mother when he can not go to the women's bathhouse to take a bath, and his mother replies that you can't go when you want to go. Of course, this is not to discuss the relationship between the sexes, but to illustrate a truth, the truth is very simple, when we realize what is precious, we will find that we can never go back.
This principle is applied to time, which can be very much in line with the movie recommended to everyone today, "Childhood Past". When will we grow up? It's when we realize that childhood can never go back.
"Childhood Past" is a work created by director Hou Xiaoxian in the 1980s, this movie is very simple, simple is a story, this movie is not simple, not simple is also a story. Why I say this is not to play with words, but to say that simple stories often contain more stories, and those well-crafted stories will lose the ability to tolerate because of their careful structure. How simple is this story? A sentence can be summed up, the joys and sorrows of a small family in Taiwan, of course, here is full of some people's childhood.
In a family that immigrated to Taiwan from Guangzhou, he has his own tragedies and joys. Because the father was invited by a friend to come over, but after coming over, he was ill and had lost the strength of a father. The mother quietly took care of her father, and the two did not feel that after leaving Guangzhou and coming to Taiwan, their lives had changed in essence. Grandma wanted to return to Guangzhou, but when she was older, her legs and feet were inconvenient, and her eldest daughter wanted to go to university, but because of her father's illness, the family spent too much, and she could only give up her dream to go to the teacher training examination. The younger son was as mischievous and playful as the other children. Life continues to kill time in the dullness.
The family's life was originally uneventful, but this ordinary life did not last long before it gradually fell apart. His parents passed away one after another, leaving behind several children to live with their grandmother. The youngest son, Ah Xiao, runs the family, but he does not have any sense of responsibility, and he does not realize that life is actually quite cruel to the family. Ah Xiao continued to have the same puberty as the other children. However, when Grandma also left, Ah Xiao finally realized that he was no longer a child, that is, at this time, Ah Xiao grew up, and Ah Xiao could not go back when he grew up.
Hou Xiaoxian's story is not so exquisite, so it can carry more information in it. After analyzing these characters in the film, it is not difficult to find the real feelings of the people hidden behind these characters, which comes from the times and is also a kind of fragmented information, and we can peek into the general environment of the times.
My father was a man who had experienced hardships as a child, but who had achieved little in the end. After coming to Taiwan alone, he initially felt that his good days were coming. But it was just coming from one place to another. After his father was disappointed in Taiwan, he wanted to go back to Guangzhou, but he failed to fulfill this wish, and went back to Guangzhou to seek a stable and stable life, but such a life did not exist in the mainland in the 1970s. My father, who was always concerned about the situation in the interior, did not have the courage to go back until he died.
From one place to another, people like his father are definitely seeking a better life, but the mainland can't go back, Taiwan can't stay, these two problems can't be solved, the father is depressed all day due to illness, but he has no ability to completely overcome the current predicament, and finally he is depressed.
Mother is a traditional mother, she endured everything, but did not go to everyone to talk, she took care of her father for decades, but she could not better live the life she wanted, what did her mother want? No one can know, but in the daily dialogue with the daughter, we can think that this mother wants nothing more than a normal and ordinary life, for Guangzhou or Taiwan, the difference is not big, he only wants the father not to get sick, the family is more peaceful, but he has not been able to see the realization of this ordinary wish.
Grandma was a persistent person, so persistent that she wanted to go back to Guangzhou to see it all the time, and as a result, this idea could not be realized even after she died. Fortunately, Ah Xiao had already walked a long way with her grandmother, which was a kind of disguised remedy, because Ah Xiao knew that Grandma was very happy when she walked with her that day.
The sister sacrificed her future, for the family first made an example of an eldest daughter, she did not want to have her own life, but in this family there is no way to complete this dream. Fortunately, it seems to have gotten better after my sister got married. For Ah Xiao, the thoughts and lives of these people did not have much impact on themselves, Ah Xiao continued to have the same youth childhood as other children, but after graduating from high school, he instantly felt that he had grown up, and after saying goodbye to his grandmother overnight, Ah Xiao completely witnessed the changes in this family and finally bid farewell to his childhood.
Hou Xiaoxian did not make any judgment on this family, but we can clearly feel the sadness and joy of this family, which is the expression of the inclusiveness of the simple story, when the relatives gradually leave, without too much preparation, we will naturally find that childhood is gone.
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