"Children want to grow up quickly, and old people want to return to their old age." This is the most beautiful vision of time and life.
In 2014, South Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk brought this wonderful idea to the big screen – a comedy movie.
The film ranked second at the box office that year, and also won the Best Screenplay Award at the 19th Spring History Film Festival.
The film tells the fantasy story of a grandmother in her 70s who takes a photo in a youth photo studio and then instantly becomes 50 years younger.
Although "Strange Her" is in the name of comedy, as the plot gradually deepens, we find that the tear bomb of the grass snake gray line has long been laid in the humor.
Movies that can poke people's hearts are more or less with the epitome of real life, and today I will take three questions to accompany you to taste the charm of this movie.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 The older the more annoying it is? </h1>
Wu Moshun, a septuagenarian who has worked hard all her life, is deeply disliked in society and family, and only her long-time friend Old Man Park has a deep affection for her.
Wu Moshun's greatest pride in life was his son (Pan Xianzhe), who was a professor at a public university. Showing off her child's excellence to others all day became the only pleasure in her later life.
At the same time, Wu Moshun treated his daughter-in-law extremely harshly, and he had to preach and accuse her of the family's affairs.
As the saying goes, every family has a difficult scripture, and this 'mother-in-law's sutra' has always been the root cause of thousands of family contradictions.
A mother's index of loving her son is often directly proportional to her pickiness about her daughter-in-law.
The old man subconsciously feels that the daughter-in-law is not worthy of her son, and denies the value of the daughter-in-law, believing that she "is not spending the money earned by her husband as a housewife."
As long as the two are under the same roof, the atmosphere will continue to be depressed. Wu Moshun was nagging, and his daughter-in-law dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
In the end, the daughter-in-law suddenly had a heart attack because she could not stand her mother-in-law's stinky temper and was sent to the hospital for rescue.
We have seen many such old people, who talk a lot, go straight to the point, and do not care about the feelings of others. But apart from being unpleasant, they have no other bad eyes.
So is it that people are getting older and more annoying, or are people who are annoying slowly getting older?
I think it's probably because I'm old that the abomination is magnified. Just like when a child is a child and fights with people for things, people will most likely find it funny and make people laugh.
But when an old man starts snatching it unreasonably, people will only think that she is selfish and rude. And the reasons behind selfishness are rarely investigated.
Perhaps just like Wu Moshun in the film, everyone praises his son vigorously. Because he was a towering tree that was carefully watered by his mother in the barren years, it was a glorious medal that she had suffered for half a lifetime.
Wu Moshun, who regarded raising children as his life's mission, was extremely lonely in his later years.
Because there is a daughter-in-law in the family who specializes in taking care of her husband's children, she gradually becomes the "useless person" who only blames others but cannot help anything.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Old people are not worthy of talking about dreams? </h1>
It seems that in the lives of the older generation, the youth is negligible, and they are wrapped up in children and housework all day long, let alone dreams.
Wu Moshun was once a big lady in the old social family, and her husband died of war a year after the two were married. After that, Wu Mo incidentally began a hard life of raising his son alone.
Living for children seems to be a devotion trait unique to them, or the instinct of parenthood.
In the film, even when his son can already afford to support the family, Wu Moshun is still reluctant to spend money to buy a pair of sandals for himself for a long time.
Later, with the deepening of the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the family had to consider sending Wu Moshun to a nursing home. Disheartened, Wu Moshun thought that he was old and decided to keep a posthumous photo for himself.
It was in this youth photo studio that something magical happened. The moment he pressed the shutter, Wu Moshun turned into a young girl.
She named herself Wu Douli, the consonant of the idol Audrey. Although he has a young appearance, he still has an old heart.
But from this moment on, the different youth of "old girl" Wu Douli is quietly blooming.
Dressed in a beautiful dress, she took a brisk step through the streets; she sang and danced on the stage with her little grandson who played music; she had an object of her heart again.
The noisy youth that Wu Moshun missed in those years was all restored by Wu Douli.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 live a lifetime as a child? </h1>
What is worth scrutinizing in the film is that Pan Xianzhe, the son of a university professor and a so-called expert on the elderly, knows nothing about the contradictions in his family.
He followed the rules of his students and treated the elderly kindly, but ignored that his mother was also a member of the vulnerable groups.
It wasn't until After Wu Moshun ran away from home that Pan Xianzhe recalled the difficulties of his mother raising him, that he realized that his seemingly competitive mother also had a fragile side.
The female is weak, and the mother is strong.
She was aggressive, she put on a face and pretended to be an evil person, all so that orphans and widows would not be bullied.
You grew up with me, but I forgot that you will also age and be lonely.
At the end of the film, Pan Xianzhe's young son was sent to the hospital for rescue due to a car accident, and only the grandmother's blood type in the whole family could match him.
At this time, Wu Moshun, who was wearing a girl's appearance, said that his blood type matched and was willing to give him a blood transfusion. But once her body bleeds, it will gradually age and eventually return to its original form.
Then, her dream of being a singer, the lover who made her heart move, will leave her.
Pan Xianzhe, who accidentally learned the truth, refused Wu Moshun's request, saying: "Please go, don't eat leftovers that others don't eat, don't eat seafood with a fishy smell." ”
"Don't live like a slave for the sake of your children."
"Don't look for a short-lived husband, don't have a filial son like me."
Pan Xianzhe hopes that his mother can have her own life and live for herself.
Wu Moshun said, "Even if there is an afterlife, I will remain unchanged and live like this." ”
No mother in the world would regret becoming a mother. Even if you carry thousands of burdens, as long as it is for the sake of children, everything is worth it.
There is never reciprocal love between parents and children. They always love their children far more than themselves.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 Old people have more memories than young people's dreams</h1>
After harvesting a wave of tears, the film finally ends with a happy family reunion. Wu Moshun, who had changed back to her grandmother, finally reconciled with her daughter-in-law, and she saw the young man who had touched her heart in the distance at the door, and then turned away.
Returning to the warm youth experienced at the age of 20, it dissipated like a dream.
But it is so real that it reminds us that young people have dreams, and old people have memories.
As said in "Jia Ma", we always think that the old man is the old man, but in fact, everyone has been young. And what is left behind in the young age will stay in human life for a long time.
Perhaps, we are old, but youth is not.