There are almost no extra lines, and there are no big-name actors to join, just relying on a few actors and sincere emotions, it has become a must-push film for word-of-mouth explosion.
The first time I watched "Love, Go Home", I was washed by the rare simplicity and purity it showed on the screen.
This Korean film, released in 2002, in the era of fierce competition between various commercial films, with "simplicity" to resist all the noise, after 20 years, now ranks at the high score of Douban 9.1.
There are not too many commercialized villages in the film, and the rural life that is getting farther and farther away from us is repeated.
"Love, Go Home" expresses the ancestral feelings of the next generation, and it has a lot of similarities with another domestic film, "Grandson from the United States".
The two little boys in both films are the younger generations who have lived a modern life in the city, and are accidentally "thrown" into the countryside that their parents have never touched, and since then, they have begun the innocent affection between grandma and grandson, or between grandfather and grandson.
Cows running freely on the mud, green forests, simple houses and simple bicycles all vividly depict the real countryside covered by urbanization.
In "Love, Go Home", the seven- and eight-year-old Xiangyu used to live with her mother in the big city of Seoul, but after breaking up with Xiangyu's father, she became a single mother. The hardships of life and the pressure of finding a job made her temporarily not have much experience and take good care of Xiangyu, so she took him to her hometown in the countryside where she had not returned for a long time.
The film briefly explains the background of her mother, which provides us with enough information about Xiangyu: her mother has him at about the age of 17, perhaps out of guilt or fear of being pointed out, her mother almost never goes home, let alone takes him home.
Even when she sent Xiangyu to her mother, she ignored her mother's enthusiasm for letting her stay overnight, and insisted on taking a ride back.
She once said she was having a bad time.
But through these few words, what we see on the screen is a daughter who is extremely indifferent to family relations. What does home mean to her, it is difficult to say exactly what it is?
Look at Xiang Yu again: the little boy looks very beautiful, but most of the time in the film appears in a very contrived, bearish, and annoying image.
In this way, in terms of the correct education and guidance of this child of several years old, Xiang Yu's mother is obviously out of place.
His various mischievous performances can be seen from the small bus that the mother and son took all the way to the countryside.
When her mother impatiently talks to Xiangyu, Xiangyu will hit her with her hand.
When they first got out of the car, Xiang Yu kicked her because he did not want to follow his mother to his grandmother's house, and his mother would unceremoniously reach out and hit him.
When he first met his grandmother, when Xiang Yu faced her friendly and wanted to reach out and touch him, she directly and rudely said, "No, she is so dirty." Although his mother duly reprimanded him not to be so rude, many of his bad habits had obviously formed into habits in his mother.
It is not difficult to understand that when she faces her grandmother, she does not understand the respect of the elderly and the young, and when she wants to play with other children, she also does not understand apologies and politeness.
There have been many times when I saw him calling his grandmother "stupid", pushing her with his hands, deliberately smashing the altar that his grandmother had specially cleaned for him, and also complaining and smashing the original stewed chicken made of chicken that his grandmother braved the heavy rain and went out of the city to buy him back.
It was funny to just see a comment: I wanted to stew him when I saw him push the stewed chicken that my grandmother had made for him to the ground. Full agreement with the mental activity of the classmate (but disapproval of behavior...) ）
Growing up in the city and not being properly taught the common diseases of the children in the city, Xiangyu has all the same.
He can't eat KFC fried chicken, he can't get on the battery of the video game console, and he is ugly when his grandmother cuts his hair, all of which can become the cause of his explosion in place every minute.
The great thing that is touching and inclusive is that Grandma accepts it all.
She couldn't speak, she accepted; she couldn't walk straight, grandma lived on this crutch and walked slowly; she got up and couldn't find her original silver hairpin, she recognized, the bun was replaced by a rice spoon; the grandson pushed her because he wanted to buy a battery for the game console, she almost fell but accepted, all she did was pat her arm that touched the ground; even when she took her grandson into the market, she wanted to hand the package to her grandson who was sitting in the car, but was pushed away by the grandson, and the car that drove out almost made her fall. She accepted all of these things.
In my grandmother's life, some of them are calm and completely accepting of life, washing their own clothes, making their own food, rushing to the market, sewing their own shoes and socks, and trying to keep the sleeping beds clean and tidy in their small rooms.
The bitterness and stuffiness of living alone for a long time, Grandma did not complain in the slightest.
Even if the daughter did not return home as an adult, the grandmother did not complain a word; when the daughter put her son here, she still accepted silently, like the earth, accepting all things.
No matter how life treats her, the truth and goodness that Grandma maintains in her heart are touching. This is the reason why Xiang Yu can really feel the love of his grandmother from the bottom of his heart.
In the face of all kinds of provocations and impoliteness of her grandson, what Grandma did was always to accept everything.
Although Grandma's social circle is not large, her kindness can win the respect of the whole village. The little boy in the village will take his own vegetables and fruits to his grandmother to eat, another grandmother in the market will also expect her grandmother to chat with her, and the grandfather in the village who once rode a bicycle to Xiangyu fell ill, and the grandmother would give him the health products that her daughter gave her.
There are many people who have been touched by the sudden transformation of Xiangyu in the last ten minutes, but the person who touched me has always been my grandmother.
Of course, it is not denied that before Xiangyu was ready to be taken away by his mother, the letter written to his grandmother made people tearful, and he still remembered that his grandmother's eyes were not good, and he took the initiative to put on the needle that could be threaded, but what really moved people was always the selfless efforts of grandma.
The subtle teaching of the child that is manifested from the grandmother should be like this.
The love and quality expressed in Grandma's body are like the "silent and silent" spring rain in nature.
Although speechless, but warm enough.