The documentary "Alive", launched in 2011, truly reflects the real ordinary family situation after the Wenchuan earthquake. The only child lost their lives in the earthquake, leaving countless families torn apart, and young couples have the option of having children again, but what about those in their forties?
The main family in the documentary is farmers in their forties, and after the death of their only daughter, they came out of their daily depression and decided to do IVF. However, due to their age, they have tried many times, suffered a lot of sins, and still have not been able to conceive children, and the families around them who are in the same situation as themselves have successively had children, but they have not been able to conceive, and their desire for children has become more and more intense. The man could not bear to see his wife suffer so much, and persuaded his wife to adopt one, but the hostess said that it was not his own child who was not very comfortable after all, and if he could have another daughter, he would feel that his dead daughter had returned, which was the continuation of life. In their eyes, the idea of life is their own daughter. The man also shed tears from watching the hostess suffer too much, it was a man, a family real bitterness.
Later, Xu was by fate, the couple accidentally got a child again, all blessed for them, and when we were all immersed in joy, the child was born, a boy.
For the couple, they didn't know how to face it for a while. In the last shot, the man looks at the past photo of his daughter and says: "Child, I'm sorry!" A sorry, is an endless sour, but also a new turning point in life, their lives are alive again.
Their children were born in 2002 and I was born in 2003. They would have seen the beauty of the world and felt the splendor of life like me, but now that I am 19 years old, their lives have been forever stagnant in that year.
When life is frozen forever, can life go on?