"Lonely Taste" is a glass of wine, the more taste the more mellow, long taste to know the depth of life. The film begins with Miss Lin's birthday and ends with Mr. Chen's funeral, showing the emotional world of two generations in a limited time.
Miss Lin's "Lonely Taste"
Miss Lin has a lot of complaints about Mr. Chen, because he ignores his family, picks flowers and weeds outside, and finally abandons the family. Most importantly, Mr. Chen "stole" the seal of the Lin family to take out a loan to do business, which made Miss Lin fall into a situation of injustice and injustice. However, Miss Lin's feelings for Mr. Chen are very complicated, and when Mr. Chen proposed divorce, Miss Lin kept the divorce agreement for decades and did not sign it, which means that she has never been relieved of this relationship.
She had the most say in Mr. Chen's funeral, and she had always presented herself as Mrs. Chen, making meals for Mr. Chen on his first seven days and welcoming him home. But when she knew that Mr. Chen had actually loved her before and was willing to bear the crime of filial piety for her to steal the family seal, she was finally relieved. Finally, the divorce agreement was signed on the morning of the funeral.
(Late but not absent divorce agreement)
Although such a divorce agreement may no longer have legal effect, with the death of Mr. Chen, the divorce agreement has no practical significance. But for Miss Chen, she can finally let go of all the resentment in her heart.
Miss Lin gave up the position of Mrs. Chen, and Miss Cai became the only Mrs. Chen at the funeral, while Miss Lin sang "Lonely Taste" in the taxi at the time of the funeral, and obtained imaginative satisfaction with Mr. Chen in the illusion.
(Miss Lin is with Mr. Chen in the illusion)
"Lonely Taste" originally refers to a restaurant that only specializes in one kind of cuisine, and does this kind of cuisine to the best, in the film not only refers to Miss Lin's career, the song "Lonely Taste" conveys the loneliness and loneliness of life. Whether it is the loneliness of stubbornness and not letting go, or the loneliness after letting go, the taste of life is always sweet and astringent. There are so many graces and grievances in life, but in the end it is nothing more than flowers that will eventually pass away with the wind.
From "love" to "resentment"
The entire film is almost entirely supported by female characters, and although only a few men are present, they are almost absent from the lives of several women, and women hold up all the burdens of life.
The vague image of Mr. Chen has been absent from the family for more than two decades. The absence of a father in a family makes the role of the mother particularly important, and she needs to take on all the family responsibilities and play the role of a strong woman. Miss Lin spread out from the side of the road to the hotel, and her career was successful and respected by others. At the same time, she is also extremely strict with her daughters and has a strong desire to control. But as daughters who have grown into adults in modern society, the control of the mother and even the family has become the heaviest shackle. The eldest daughter even feels that it is a sin for the mother to be sick, the second daughter has become a means for the mother to show off in front of the mother's family, the third daughter has inherited the mother's restaurant, and more important things and small things are constrained by the mother, so "you (Miss Lin) put a lot of pressure on others" is the common voice of the daughters.
(The composition shows the opposition between mother and daughter)
Miss Lin believes that she has given everything for her daughters, and the daughters should be filial to her. When her daughter was not as obedient as she thought, she also began to complain about her children. Mother and daughter began to speak ill of each other, and she even thought that the eldest daughter deserved cancer, and the daughters had a lot of dissatisfaction with their mother. "Love" and "resentment" are different reactions to human feelings, and "resentment" is born of "love", either because of excessive love, or because of insufficient love.
The mother's excessive love makes all three daughters flee to varying degrees, and concealing or even not communicating with the mother is their direct rebellion against the mother. Especially in the case of the father's funeral, the balance of the daughters' feelings is obviously biased in favor of the father. The third daughter even privately contacted her father's later lover, Aunt Cai, who is now worthy of the name Mrs. Chen, and had a good feeling for her. They not only forgave their father for his infidelity when he was young, but even thought that their mother's stubbornness hindered the true feelings between their father and Aunt Cai.
Love is the condensation of family
The film uses a limited narrative perspective, and the audience, like the three daughters, has limited knowledge of Mr. Chen's past. For the lower generation, the grievances of the elders, the right and wrong are vague, the deliberate concealment of the adults, so that the next generation is full of curiosity, the audience follows the inquiries of the three daughters and granddaughters, and gradually knows the old hidden feelings. But no matter what the truth of the events of that year, no matter what Mr. Chen really is, in the eyes of his daughters, he is first and foremost a father. They inherit their father's genes, flow their father's blood, remember their father's love for them when they were young, and their father's gentleness and amiability.
(Father and daughter wash their faces with moonlit water)
The daughter's emotional memory of her father can ignore those external right and wrong, no wonder Miss Lin will say: "I have worked hard all my life to raise you one by one, but I lost to a father who has not contacted you for twenty years." ”
Although there is a gap between the daughters and the mother, there is no doubt about the affection between the mother and daughter. Three daughters are always the most worried about the mother, and the daughters' greatest and simplest hope for their mother is that she is healthy and happy. The three daughters and their mother occasionally have friction, but there is no real contradiction, because they all know in their hearts how much they love each other.
And three sisters with very different personalities, living their own different lives, but they can return to the intimacy of their childhood in a second, and the scene is warm and peaceful. The second sister hated that the eldest sister and the third sister ate each other ugly, but the eldest sister and the third sister intensified and deliberately dressed up ugly. Perhaps only in the presence of our own loved ones can we so brazenly remove our masks and return to our nature.
(Warm Time for the Three Sisters)
Compared with the escape of her daughters, the granddaughter is bent on staying, and she resists her mother's arrangement to send her abroad to study, hoping to accompany her relatives. "Exodus" is a gesture of modern society, whether from the "exodus" of the family or the original social environment, "exodus" has become our most important action. The choice of the little granddaughter is a return in another sense, and this return spans two entire generations.
Life is a lonely journey, and each of us is alone, but constantly struggling to find love and connection with others. Whether it is sadness and loneliness, or sweet and joyful, it is the fangfei of life. Mr. Chen finally connected the relationship between blood and non-blood of three generations with his final funeral, allowing us to see the letting go of all people and the final gain.
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