Ah Ling, who is nearly 40 years old, has been married to her husband for 8 years, but has not had children, encountered cold words from relatives, and has been vaccinated for 8 years, but after divorce, she found herself "infertile" because her husband was "infertile".
The Singaporean film Tropical Rain was released in 2019 by director Tan Chel Yi, born in 1984. "Tropical Rain" is a kind of observation of men and women, through observing himself and the male friends around him, seeing the flaws of men, he believes that "men sometimes just escape and don't face it."
The director's mother image is particularly stressful and baggage, but her face is not very sad, very plain, no matter how squeezed, she still will not erupt.
This kind of feminine flexibility can be found in the protagonist of the film, and it can also be found in our lives.
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The protagonist Ah Ling comes to Singapore from Malaysia, where she and her husband have been married for 8 years and have no children.
Ah Ling worked as a Chinese teacher at school.
On this day, Ah Ling drove to work to arrive at the school, and before getting out of the car, she skillfully injected herself with egg aspiration, and then went to give lessons to the students.
When she came home after work, she had a paralyzed father-in-law who needed to be fed for food, washed with help, and sometimes had to in her pants and needed to be cleaned up.
All of this needs to be done by Ah Ling's family.
What did her husband do?
Her husband was often away from home, so Ling took on more of these family chores.
Feeding the father-in-law, washing dishes, bathing the father-in-law, changing clothes, putting on diapers, completing this series of standard actions of eating and drinking Lasa, and when the father-in-law went to bed to rest, Ah Ling began to correct the homework for the students.
This is basically a day of Ah Ling's normal work.
Tired.
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At first, Ah Ling and her husband often accompanied her to the hospital for examinations, and the two worked together to give birth to a child
However, after a long time, her husband slowly did not go to the hospital, and Ah Ling had to go alone.
On this day, Ah Ling calculated her ovulation period and waited at home for her husband to come home.
The husband finished drinking with the client outside and came home.
Ah Ling told her husband that she wanted to have children.
But the husband said that after 8 years, he would have already had it.
Ah Ling reluctantly went to pull her husband's clothes, but was pushed away by her husband, making Ah Ling stunned in embarrassment.
At her niece's full moon party, Ah Ling gently went to hug her niece, but as soon as she picked up the child, the baby began to cry, and relatives said:
"She hasn't given birth, and certainly won't hold it."
Whether it means that the person is unintentional, the listener must be intentional.
Being nearly 40 years old, but having no children, or being unable to have children for physical reasons, this kind of statement does not sound harsh and impossible.
The news on tv broadcasts Malaysia's not very good social environment, so Ah Ling, who is from Malaysia, cherishes her life in Singapore.
Under the husband's inactive and reluctant attitude, he was sneered at by relatives.
Ah Ling had no choice but to use her husband's frozen sperm to do artificial insemination.
She hopes that with children, life should be better. However, on the way to work, Ah Ling saw a young woman and her husband hugging intimately on the street, and she knew the reason for her husband's indifferent attitude.
While driving, I burst into tears.
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One day, the father-in-law died, and at the father-in-law's funeral, the husband openly brought the woman who hugged him on the street, and a little boy.
This completely made the original sneaky thing completely public.
Life is a mess, and there are many worries at work.
Ah Ling teaches Chinese in school, but in Singapore, Chinese is not valued, the students' attitude towards learning Chinese is lazy and casual, and Chinese teacher is also a marginal figure who is not respected.
Once, Ah Ling went to the hospital for examination as usual, and met her student Wei Lun, who also came to the hospital because of his martial arts training and injured his foot.
When she returned home, because it was pouring rain in the sky, Ah Ling sent Wei Lun home.
Since then, Wei Lun has often rubbed Ah Ling's car home.
Wei Lun's parents are not around, and his life is relatively lonely.
After being taken care of by Teacher Ah Ling regularly, for a long time, Wei Lun developed an unspeakable affection for the teacher.
Middle school students in their 10s are the age of sensitivity and impulsiveness,
Wei Lun often used his mobile phone to secretly photograph the back of Teacher Ah Ling, which was stored in the mobile phone.
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Wei Lun's Chinese, like other classmates, often failed.
One day, the teacher left the failing classmates to make up lessons, Ah Ling went downstairs to get things in the middle of the way, and when she came back, all the students were gone, except for Wei Lun.
The reason why Wei Lun did not leave was because his father told him that he could only do business in China after learning Chinese.
One day, Ah Ling gave Wei Lun homework and was driving home, when Wei Lun suddenly had a lot of nosebleeds.
Ah Ling quickly sent Wei Lun home and used ice cubes to help Wei Lun stop the bleeding.
At home, Wei Lun couldn't help but kiss Ah Ling.
Ah Ling did not expect this, and then Wei Lun was too excited, and finally, something that should not have happened between the two of them.
After waking up, Ah Ling knew that this was wrong, fruitless and shameful, and she told Wei Lun to go out, sort out her own clothes, and go out.
However, for a middle school student who is only in his 10s, he does not think so much, and he is reluctant to let go.
Whether it was in public at school or in the car, Wei Lun always wanted to hold Ah Ling's hand.
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Soon, the photo of Ah Ling saved in Wei Lun's mobile phone was seen by classmates, and Wei Lun had a crush on Ah Ling, and often took the car home together, making a lot of noise.
The principal approached Ah Ling and said that he was about to be promoted, not wanting it to affect his future.
Let Ah Ling go home temporarily to rest, and when he is promoted, Ah Ling will come back to class, anyway, Chinese class is dispensable.
This unsightly teacher-student relationship made Ah Ling pay the price, and the job was gone.
This was not originally a serious love affair, but because of a momentary impulse that should not have happened, Ah Ling knew that it was wrong at the beginning, but in the eyes of middle school student Wei Lun, this is love.
In the car, Ah Ling told Wei Lun that she couldn't go on like this.
Wei Lun felt that he had been "broken up", he rushed out of the car in the heavy rain, Ah Ling chased up and asked Wei Lun what he wanted, Wei Lun said that this was his first breakup, and he wanted to hug Ah Ling and then break up.
Ah Ling gave Wei Lun one last hug in the heavy rain.
Wei Lun said: "My heart hurts."
Ah Ling comforted and said, "Yes, you will get used to it later."
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After so many things have happened, Ah Ling's heart slowly cooled, and she proposed to divorce her husband.
At the time of signing, the husband said that if Ah Ling used his frozen sperm in the future and a child would be born in the future, he would not bear legal and financial responsibility.
Hearing this, Ah Ling said firmly, "You can rest assured, I will not use it again." ”
Finally, in the grinding of time, Ah Ling finally stopped tangling and finally found relief.
After the divorce, Ah Ling prepared to return to her mother's house in Malaysia for a while. When she was packing up her things, she found that there was a box of unused pregnancy test sticks, which may have formed a habit, she pulled out a test, and found that she was "pregnant".
Ah Ling cried, crying out so many years of grievances, being ridiculed, her husband's indifference, and her own efforts, so that she could feel better after crying.
Then, Ah Ling packed up her things and took a car back to her hometown in Malaysia, and the film's painting style also swept away the gloomy, rainy scene of Singapore, and turned to a green tree, the sun was shining, Ah Ling looked at the white clouds in the sky, as if returning to the long-lost childhood time, her eyes were full of memories.
At this moment, Ah Ling's ease after saying goodbye to the pain was written on her face.
She finally escaped the shackles of repressive life and stood at the beginning of a fresh start.
(End)