How many people will we meet in our lifetime? Maybe we will meet 20,000 people in our lifetime, 5860 people will greet, we will be familiar with 3686, and we will be close to 275 people. But in the end, they will disappear into the sea of people. Those who disappeared, did they leave us with anything? "The Two of Us" may give you the answer.
The Two of Us is a drama film directed by Ma Liwen and starring Gong Zhe, Jin Yaqin, Luo Zhongxue, etc. In 2005, it won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director and Best Feature Film nomination, and was released in China in 2006. The production of this film is not complicated, and most of the scenes are confined to the courtyard. The director shows the warm story of the old woman living alone and the students in the North Drift from "killing each other" to "loving each other" with the expression of micro-knowledge. The storyline is simple and clear, and even the actors are not well-known, but its score is as high as 8.7 points, which makes it difficult for many domestic movies to match.
The film has no ups and downs, no dangerous bridge sections, and some are just scenes of daily life. The sense of substitution in the film is very strong, and even allows the audience to have an illusion that the film plot happens to them and happens to themselves, is not the relationship between the pony and the old woman exactly the relationship between the granddaughter and the grandmother in reality? Not really.
The north drift student pony came to the old lady's house after running all over the house and not being allowed to rent a house. The first contradiction between the pony and the old woman is the rent, the pony thinks that the rent is expensive, but the old woman is stubborn and does not retreat, because of the proximity to the school, the pony has to rent it. Sometimes one mistake leads to another mistake, and so does contradictions. The contradiction between the pony and the old lady is like a butterfly effect, more and more, more and more intense, more and more big. The two talked harshly about daily chores, from the point where the pony sold the old woman's waste products privately and was criticized, to the pony calling. It was on the phone call that the two had serious differences, the contradiction intensified, the two had a big conflict for the first time, the pony shouted "You are a bad old lady, no wonder no one is waiting for you", the old lady was not willing to show weakness, "You are a mushroom cold, no boy will marry you", this is also the first time the old lady wants to drive away the pony. But with the appearance of the old lady's grandson, the old woman not only let the pony stay, but also changed her attitude by 180 degrees, booing and asking for warmth.
Wave after wave of peace rises again, old contradictions are resolved, and new contradictions appear again. For the sudden extra 300 yuan call bill, the pony angrily questioned the old woman, but the old woman said that the pony played a long distance, the contradiction between the two intensified again, the old woman proposed to let the pony move away for the second time, and tore up the pony's carefully prepared stickers, red lanterns and other decorations symbolizing the New Year atmosphere. To say that the old lady and grandson are plague gods or rescuers? The contradiction arose because of the grandson of the old woman, and the original 300 yuan call bill was a long distance played by the grandson. After the old woman knew that the pony was wrong, she hung the lantern high again and waited for the pony to return Chinese New Year's Eve night. When the old bell is about to ring and the new year is approaching, the pony returns, and the contradiction between the two dissipates in the Chinese New Year's Eve meal and the fireworks that bloom.

The eccentric and unkind old lady and the ignorant and upright little sister-in-law Liang, who originally belonged to two different worlds, came together because of renting a house. In the face of the old woman's difficulties, the pony saw the tricks and dismantled the tricks, and the two lived under the same roof in creating contradictions and resolving contradictions. After the contradictions have developed to the extreme, they have developed towards the trend of easing relations. After turning Gan Ge into a jade warrior, the relationship between the two tended to ease. In order to complete the homework left by the school, the pony pulls the old lady out of her sleep, and learns through the neighbor's pony that the old lady's past is not simple and sad: she has been a soldier, riding a horse, saving the wounded, her husband has died, there are no children (the daughter is adopted), and all kinds of misfortunes are the factors that cause the old lady to be lonely and lonely. The old lady's consent to the pony recording herself was the beginning of the old lady's opening to the pony, and the old lady's release of loneliness. "I wish that sometimes there would be a ragged, electricity bill collector who would go through the wrong door and talk to me, or my language function would have deteriorated." This is the old lady's experience of loneliness, and it is also the sustenance of the pony's feelings. There are several fast shots in the film, it is the old lady shouting the pony to do things, Yanran grandma makes the granddaughter do the pie, in the old lady's heart, the pony is not a granddaughter better than a granddaughter.
The pony began to dislike the old lady's house as dilapidated, to the point of sleeping on the old lady's bed without restraint, simply taking the old lady's house as his own home, and transforming himself from a tenant into the owner of the house. This transformation of the pony is the reward for the pony's meticulous care for the old lady, and it is also the old lady's emotional dependence on the pony. When the pony and her boyfriend went home for a few days and came back, the old lady took the initiative to care, "Where have you been these days?" You've lost weight", the originally bitter and mean old lady, now transformed into a kind grandmother, caring for her granddaughter in general, caring for the pony.
Until one day the pony was going to move away, and he couldn't bear to say goodbye to the old lady, so he could only secretly move the things in the house with his boyfriend. After a few days when I went alone to get the rest of the books, I was bumped by the old lady. The old lady looked at the restored dilapidated room and said silently, "Really moved away?" Really empty? It's really empty! And so it moved away? The old lady's heart was empty, as if everything had returned to the original, and only she was left. After the pony left, the old lady fell ill with longing and eventually fell ill. When the pony learned about it, he immediately rushed to it, as if to confirm the old lady's words, "I really hope that sometimes there is a broken, electricity bill collector who goes to the wrong door and talks to me, or my language function should be degraded" - the old lady can't speak. The most tearful thing in the world is not the beautiful words, but the mutual understanding of each other's hearts. The pony and the old lady silently shed tears, "at this time silence is better than sound", I believe that you who are watching the movie have already been in tears. After learning that the old lady had died, The pony returned to the old lady's house to see the "home" that once belonged to the two of them for himself and for the old lady.
The film begins with a snow scene and ends with a snow scene, as if to tell us that life, old age, illness and death are like the rotation of spring, summer, autumn and winter, which will always come; and it seems to tell us that some people are just passers-by in our lives, and when the passers-by are gone, everything will return to the original; and even more to tell us that even if we are passers-by, they are also the kind of important people who leave something worth remembering in life.
The old lady in the film has a daughter and a grandson, but she is not around. It should have been the age when her children and grandchildren were on their knees, but because her daughter and grandson had gone to the city, she was alone, at home, only with loneliness. The old lady said that the grandson would vacate the house when he got married, but she did not expect that not only the house was vacated, but also her own life, the word "囍" on the doors and windows, the old lady could no longer see it, and the pony she could no longer see.
At present, there are many elderly people in the current society who are busy with their children all their lives, but in exchange for loneliness. Sometimes the phone call is not a problem, but to hear the voice of the child; sometimes I just want the child to go home to see himself, but in exchange for a sentence of "I am busy, another day". Many old people left alone in waiting. The two people who were originally strangers to each other, but they "fell in love", and strangers can cultivate love between them, not to mention between relatives? As children, we always say that we love our parents, but many times, we don't know what kind of love our parents need.
Companionship may be very cheap, but only after losing it will you know that companionship is something you will never find again.