You said to me that you have a mother who loves you very much. Me too.
At the end of the film, the soft light of the cinema gradually brightened, and Debussy's "Moonlight" slowly sounded as the ending song, and people's hearts softened at this moment.
Far from being a simple children's film, "McDougal and My Mom" tells the story of McDoubt and her mother, Mrs. McTay. The movie gives people a kind of sentimentality of memory, which has the hardships of life, the love and dedication of mothers, the confusion and uneasiness of McDougal's growth, the changes of the world, and the heaviness of life. Behind the light and beautiful picture of the film, it is the perception and nostalgia of life, just like this song "Moonlight", calm, long, long, beautiful to the extreme with delicate sadness.
Mai Du has been stupid since childhood, but Mai Tai is an extremely shrewd and capable mother. Mai Tai can design a home of less than 300 feet into two bedrooms and two living rooms, with saunas, fitness rooms, and a library home; in a shop of less than 100 feet, he can also operate real estate agencies, snacks, water and electricity projects, beauty, second-hand mobile phone sales, private detectives and other industries; only use rice, salted fish, cabbage, concoct international dishes.
In the eyes of the child, the mother is omnipotent. McDougall's mother is actually a single mother struggling at the bottom of society. She is strong, persistent, kind, and like all the mothers in the world.
In McDougall's mother, we see our own mother.
In my mind, my mother is such a person. Before I was born, my mom worked as a female worker in a factory. For a while, she worked as a salesperson in a supermarket and then as a marketer for beverages. She is very good at cooking and loves cleaning the room. She often asks me, "What do other people's mothers buy for their children, or "what do other people have?" I always felt that she lacked opinions, but then I realized that she was most afraid that she was inferior to other people's mothers, and she always wanted me to live no worse than others.
Life is never an easy task, everyone is pursuing a happy and ordinary life, but each has its own misfortune.
McDougall's mother traveled from place to place, working part-time in various industries, doing everything in her power to make a simple and warm home. However, she eventually fell ill, and she tricked McDougall into saying that she was going to travel to space and was in the hospital for professional training. Then she went to space and never came back.
The so-called tv station director is actually just a small announcer who helps people sell advertisements and propaganda. Every day, I drive through the streets and alleys, broadcast some weather and traffic information to people, and help people advertise by the way.
The photographer, Miss Chen, was the assistant of the director of the station, and later became a single mother.
Liangbao Huang is a very small vegetable shop, the small shop is very warm, the food is delicious, but it was finally demolished in the process of urbanization of the town.
You see, these characters and things are very ordinary, they are simple and kind, but they struggle to maintain their lives at the bottom of society. They all have their own vision of a better life, and honestly work hard for it, but helplessly, the world seems to be too complicated, the change is too fast, many things that think that the same will collapse in an instant, and a lot of effort is exchanged for a dream shattering. But they still have that little courage to want a better life, and they rush into the quagmire of reality again and again.
Little McDougall doesn't understand, what's wrong with life, what's wrong with the world? So why can't a savvy and capable mother get rich? So why is the kind and naïve Miss Chen deceived? Why did the Gollum Chicken Rice So Delicious Emperor close its doors? He couldn't understand that life couldn't always be about eating noodles and eggs made by his mother and then living day by day? Why do I grow up with so much confusion, annoyance, regret and tears? Why are there contradictions, alienations, estrangement and indifference between people?
Sometimes we are trapped in the quagmire of life for too long, often ignoring the profound absurdities and contradictions of life itself. When we look at life once again with McDougall's eyes, what we feel is a sadness, a sadness that is difficult to retain from childhood life, a confusion and uneasiness about maturity, a fear that arises when facing the darkness of the world, and sadness and helplessness in the face of the parting of loved ones.
Are we all like this: we don't know the true meaning of maturity, we are tiredly caught up in the whirlpool of life, we only know that once we stop, we can't catch the train of time.
Are we all like this: looking for direction in the flashy world, looking for warmth in the cold raindrops in the morning, we only have our own thin strength, we hope to one day go to the bustling city, to find dreams, to build extraordinary. But apart from dreams, we have nothing.
The growth of that wheat pocket is exactly the same as our growth. He did all kinds of industries, and even went to sea, tired, difficult, and full of confusion about the future.
We really have nothing, and maybe the occasional poetry, music, alcohol can paralyze us temporarily. We really have nothing, and if we can't keep up with the city, we will be abandoned. So is there anyone who is willing to face all the difficulties and losses with us, to face this crowded and chaotic world?
I thought this person would be a friend or a lover, but then I found out that it was my mother.
When urban life alienates people, the appearance of the great cousin gives us a poetic way forward.
McDougall's cousin is an introverted, quiet, and even somewhat neurotic noodle vendor. He pulled the noodle stall into the deserted valley, ready to serve a steaming bowl of egg instant noodles for the lost.
One night in the starry sky, McDoubread finished eating a bowl of noodles, lying on the grass with his big cousin listening to the sounds of nature. It can be said that this is an idyllic ideal of life, a Thoreau declaration of life.
The wilderness, the mountains, the starry sky and the night soothed Mai Du's longing for his mother. I like a japanese essay by the Japanese essayist Takayama Tsukihito, "The Beauty of the Moon and Night", which has a sentence: "Don't think that the consolation and happiness of life are only in the world of fame and fortune." Man can live in activity, in chants, in light, in darkness; in the present, in the past in the future, in reality, in ideals; isn't night exactly what manifests half of this life in time? The world of the night is not men, it is women, it is not prose, it is poetry, it is not philosophy, it is religion. It is not the sound of a big drum, it is the sound of a horizontal flute. How joyful is the heart of those who are usually still immersed in meditation and pouring out their chants, washed away in this blue and white dream-like light. ”
In the face of the confusion and unbearableness of life, we can also devote ourselves to the beautiful tranquility.
Faced with an unknowable chaotic city, the Great Cousin gives us a poetic way forward.
Some people say that McDougall is just chicken soup for the soul, and I think it is far from that. At least in the proposition of love and life, this film gives a profound answer. I don't think I can find a more appropriate ending than the following two sentences—
About love: Some things are to be said, don't wait for the other party to understand, because the other party is not you, do not know what you want, and wait until the end can only be sad and disappointed, especially feelings.
About life: We are glad that there is always a song in our hearts, so that the world of the hard state will not be hard into the heart, and the weak heart will not collapse.