The love story of middle-aged people no longer has the romantic fantasy of innocent love that was like when they were young. Single middle-aged people, either a middle-aged uncle who has been hurt by cheating, or a middle-aged woman who has suffered violence from her ex-husband, of course, or the husband and wife have been old for a long time, and when they get to the itch of seven years, they have no freshness of love, and life is full of all kinds of trivialities of chai, rice, oil and salt and the troubles of raising children. Perhaps even more tragic is the single mother played by Kate Winslet, who has suffered numerous miscarriages that have left her infertile and abandoned by her ex-husband. He lives with his son in a lonely town.
From a personal point of view, all three characters are very sensitive to feelings, but in the face of the tilting balance of fate, they may not be able to love, or be loved. Adele is a woman who longs to be loved, but her physical condition makes her suffer multiple miscarriages, and she longs to get it back, but unfortunately, the poor fate eventually prompts her husband to eventually leave her, which is why she became hysterical. In addition, why Frank became a criminal is also because of his wife's infidelity, when he was young, he was a housewife and a man, but he was treated as a fool by his troubled wife, and he pushed her under the impulse of men's self-esteem. It was this gentle push that made him endure the pain of half a life of imprisonment in prison. His son Henry is a young man who loves his family, and he is also in the era of the beginning of his love. First of all, he loves his mother, is a "husband" for a day, and "dates" her, hoping to pull his mother back from the abyss of loss. But the man's arrival seemed to alienate his mother's relationship with him. At this time, he ambiguously flirted with a rebellious smoky makeup girl, she always thought that the parents under the sky would often give up on them because of their bad deeds, and she even taught Henry to "do justice" and "rebel the family", but the family had extraordinary significance to him, and he still wanted to help his mother.
The fugitives "kidnapped" their mother and son, saying they wanted to spend the night at their home and flee the next day. Saying that hijacking is actually going to be a guest, he did not hurt them in the slightest, and helped them repair cars, bathrooms, and other things that men should do at home. The single woman's desire for love and body is also obvious, and there is a spark between the single mother and the fugitive, they dance together, they teach the children of the mentally handicapped neighbors to play ball, and they fall in love. The said good day became 3 days, and it became longer.
It was Labor Day, and the peaches sent by the neighbors were about to break, and the fugitives taught them how to make pies. The touch between hands, the contact between eyes is the beginning of witnessing everything. The mother planned to escape with him, and the son gradually felt that he was not valued, and the suspicion between the neighbors eventually let the fugitive be arrested, but this was not the end.
In short, the film is a movie about love, and his plot is as full of ups and downs as life, full of tragedies and joys, but when the son opens a pastry shop based on Henry's exclusive recipe and becomes a local celebrity; when the aging Adele hugs frank frankly, it is hard to imagine that only a few days under the same roof have had an impact on several characters for decades. If you use the metaphor of vacation: people will always take holidays, whether it is a public holiday or a long vacation after retirement, but love will never take a holiday, it will always exist in everyone's heart, this is the power of love. As the fugitive in the play said, I am willing to spend 20 years in exchange for three more days with you.
The pressure and loneliness of middle-aged people always have to find a window for catharsis. This is the charm of this movie, when we are extremely disappointed in life, we meet true love, and I have seen a show before, there is a good saying. This means that if you like a butterfly, you don't have to chase her, but you have to spend time chasing her to plant flowers. When the flowers bloom, the butterfly will naturally come, it may not be the butterfly you liked in the first place, but you deserve to be more suitable for yourself. At that time, you will understand the hardships that life has given you, and it is to make you wait until the right one or her. Say a word to each other and finally wait for you.