Author: Fox Fairy
Comparing the Taiwanese film "Lonely Taste" with "Hello, Lee Huan Ying", the high and low immediately know each other, director Jia Ling is lucky, her film meets the psychological needs of contemporary people to reduce the burden - relaxed, pleasant and empathetic; and the "Lonely Taste" film style is quite similar to the Japanese director Kore-eda's film, more is deep into a family, facing a real and ordinary life of fragmentation, sadness and helplessness.
Everyone lives in reality, itself is already very bitter, the director does not send red envelopes to the audience, and why go to other people's stories to mourn. Therefore, for those who only want to relax and vent, they are naturally willing to look for the happy one.
This is also the reason why online entertainment programs have shined in recent years, and first-class stars have also been guests in various entertainment programs, and the audience loves to watch, and the ratings are naturally high. However, the film also carries a higher sense of mission, opens its arms to every ordinary individual, and allows more people to absorb the wisdom of life, which is also an art, and art itself is not only to meet the temporary needs of the audience. Therefore, it is also about the topic of mothers, this "Lonely Taste" directed by Xu Chengjie is more chewy and thicker.
"Lonely Taste" is based on the personal experience of director Xu Chengjie's deceased grandmother. In the film, Lin Xiuying is often heard sitting in a taxi and repeatedly singing a song "Lonely Taste": "The taste of youth is sour and sweet, and good songs do not need lyrics." Take a big sip of the cup of youth, don't be afraid of inner sorrow. ”
In fact, on the surface: lonely taste is to focus on making a good dish, to make its taste to the extreme, and to become a signature; on another level, lonely taste is the taste of Lin Xiuying's loneliness all her life.
On her seventieth birthday, Lin Xiuying received a notice of the death of her husband, who had been away from her for ten years. Although they had not seen each other for ten years, although her husband had already had a family of his own, she was still nominally his wife. She snorted disdainfully from her nose: I haven't seen it in ten years, and it still bothers me on this day, and the birthday feast in the evening continues.
So what is the relationship between Lin Xiuying and her husband?
Although the husband seen in Lin Xiuying's memories is tall and handsome, he rarely returns home, and he is idle and hangs out with other women, and the only reason to come back to find her is that he has no money.
One day, however, her husband handed her a divorce agreement. It is clear that the husband wants to give the other woman a name. She could raise three daughters alone, she could take her hard-earned money out for him, and she could even pay for the hotel with other women. However, she just didn't want to let go.
As long as he doesn't let go, he will always be her husband, and he will die.
From this point of view, this man is really more lascivious than Ximen Qing, more affectionate than Hu Lancheng, and more ruthless than Xu Zhimo. However, from the perspective of his three daughters, the father was a friendly and kind person, the white moonlight in their hearts. They longed for their father from the bottom of their hearts, in order to be able to meet their father, the second daughter strived to get the first place in every exam, so that the father might go home and celebrate with her; the younger daughter when she grew up secretly interacted with her father and Aunt Cai of the "little third". At the birthday feast, they resented the uncle who slandered their father; in the spiritual hall, they confronted the uncle's insults against the father. It can be seen that the three daughters did not affect their love for their father because of their mother's hatred for their father.
So, what kind of a person is their father?
At that time, Lin Xiuying was the daughter of a large family, married to a small policeman, so that her brother has always looked down upon, in order to get the affirmation of the mother's family, she assisted her husband in business, but the business failed, in order to pull the money, she stole her father's seal, borrowed money from the bank, did not expect her husband to take gambling, live will be the old man's popularity to death, became the "common enemy" of the whole family.
After that, he rarely returned home and became a prodigal son.
Lin Xiuying refused to show up at the funeral of "Little Three", and also rejected the portrait she chose, in short, at this last moment, her husband is still hers, and everything is up to her. However, when "Little Three" quietly hid in the crowd to give the "lover" a funeral, she sensed it, and she ran out after her and gently called "Miss Cai".
The "little third" in front of him usually eats and prays the Buddha, and his face is peaceful and peaceful. She told Lin Xiuying that the reason why her husband left home to do business was to make her and her three children have a better life and not let her uncles laugh; he did not dare to return to Tainan because he was afraid to see them, because he stole the seal of the old man, resulting in the death of the old man, and he had always felt guilty; he also quietly took her from Taipei to Tainan to visit the small house where they once lived...
Sadly, all these Lin Xiuying did not know, she just always hated her husband, but never understood his bitterness and helplessness, she turned love into hate, turned hope into despair, pushed him farther and farther away.
Everyone has a knot in their heart, and if they don't untie it, it's a lifetime.
At that time, Lin Xiuying was abandoned by her mother's family and set up a stall alone to sell shrimp rolls, but she ran a restaurant and became bigger and bigger, and also trained three daughters to be outstanding: the eldest daughter A Qing was an international dancer, the second daughter AYu was a plastic surgeon, and the younger daughter Jia Jia took over the family restaurant business.
Although Lin Xiuying is capable and stubborn, she is not vicious, unlike Mrs. Tang in "Blood Guanyin", for the sake of profit, regardless of her daughter's happiness, or even life. Lin Xiuying's three daughters have completely different personalities, she has love and selfishness like every mother. In order to restore relations with her brother and brother, she encouraged her second daughter, Ah Yu, to study medicine, and finally made her brother willing to associate with her. Because of this, the second daughter also forced her daughter to study in the United States, and although her daughter resisted vigorously, she still insisted on going her own way. When the granddaughter cried and complained, Lin Xiuying couldn't help but intercede for her, but the second daughter said, didn't you force me to study medicine in the first place, I will have a good life, I now let her go to the United States to study, is to let her have more choices...
Anyone's selfishness, life will always return to you in another way.
In addition, it is the eldest daughter A Qing, her personality is most like her father, free and loose, the boyfriend is innumerable, it seems that it does not matter to anything, in the face of her husband who asks her not to divorce, he said: I am a kite, I like to be free and unfettered. Lin Xiuying and the people around her feel that she is too selfish and does not know how to cherish at all. In fact, in addition to being dashing and uninhibited, she, like her father, suffered alone from the bottom of her heart, she had been separated from her husband for three years, and this time when she learned that the cancer had recurred, she did not want to trouble anyone, she just wanted to face it alone.
The three generations of women have fully outlined the inner activities of the characters and the complex and changeable personalities in the transition.
We will be sad, we will be happy,
Even death itself makes life more amiable.
In the sober moments of life,
Under the shadow of grief and sorrow,
People are the closest to their true selves.
—Hemingway
Lin Xiuying really understood her husband and her heart in "Little Three". She finally opened the knot in her heart, took out the divorce papers that she had laid out for ten years, signed them, and handed over the final formalities of the funeral to "Little Three", while she sat alone in the taxi, crying and reminiscing, while singing the song - Lonely Taste.
Another: "Lonely Taste" did not have the same ups and downs as "Hello, Li Huanying", with neither laughter nor tears. The mother was not selfless, but annoyed and said to her three daughters: I have been a cow and a horse all my life, but I have not heard you say thank you to me. This is all too familiar, and probably many children have heard similar complaints.
Chen Shufang (playing Lin Xiuying) will be a failed marriage woman strong and reserved, unwilling and put down, layer by layer of stripping cocoons to interpret the meticulous, she won the Golden Horse Award for this film. Xie Yingxuan (playing the eldest daughter A Qing) was nominated for best actress at the Golden Horse Awards, and the film's executive producer Xu Ruoxuan also had an outstanding performance. Rather than blockbusters, I prefer niche films from ordinary life, especially those who focus on the lost, the lonely and the marginalized. If they are not mentioned again, it is unfair to them and unfair to society.
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