Today, I would like to recommend zhang Aijia's film "Love and Affection", which was released in 2017 and received seven nominations for the Golden Horse Awards and the closing film of the Busan Film Festival, with a Douban score of 8.4 points. There was no excessive publicity, but after reading it, my mood could not be calmed for a long time.
Stills from "Blind Date"
The story begins with a grave relocation, the mother of Yue Huiying, played by director Zhang Aijia, died, and no one heard the last words said before her death, Yue Huiying stubbornly believed that her mother wanted to be buried with her father, took her husband and daughter Wei Wei to the countryside to give her father Yue Zifu a grave, and moved the grave by the way, only to be obstructed by her father's original partner and the villagers. It turned out that there was a grandmother in the countryside, the villagers called her Azu, it was an arranged marriage arranged by Yue Zifu's family, and within a few days of marriage, Yue Zifu went out to work, never came back, and became a family outside, Azu waited for him in the village for a lifetime.
Azu prevented the grave from being moved
Worried that her husband's grave would be removed, Azu stayed in front of the grave all day.
Vivi is a TV reporter who comes to the countryside to find Azu in order to shoot the material, and Azu is worried that she has come to move the grave and does not accept her. After Vivi had been drenched in rain for a day, the kind Azu still accepted her, and Vivi told Azu that in fact, her grandmother did not say anything before she died.
Azu does not want to move the grave, and Hui Ying tries desperately to move her father's grave, and both parties are trying to prove their relationship with Yue Zifu. The only family tree that can prove that Azu and Yue Zifu are husband and wife, and the Yue Zeng clan written in it does not even have a name. The home that has been guarded all my life has not even had its own name, what a sad life.
genealogy
In order to prove that he and her husband Yue Zifu are husband and wife, Azu took the initiative to participate in the program of Vivi TV. In the show, Azu tells his story for the first time, and Huiying says that as a daughter, she wants to bury her father and mother together and asks Azu for permission.
After the show, Azu came to Hui Ying's house and saw the photos of her husband Yue Zifu and Hui Ying's mother, she could not remember what her husband looked like, she looked at the photos and fell into thought.
Azu looked at her husband's posthumous photograph
In order to comfort Azu, Vivi's boyfriend Ada synthesized a photo of Azu and her grandfather Yue Zifu and sent it to Azu, but it was wet by the rain, Azu was anxious to wipe the stain off, but it wiped her husband's face, and Azu cried sadly.
At the end of the film, Azu agrees to remove her husband's grave and says to her husband's bones: I don't want you. And Hui Ying's side also wanted to understand, and sent her mother's columbarium to the countryside.
The film ends, leaving a space for the audience to imagine. The end focuses on the village's chastity arch. It is the epitome of many traditional Chinese women. Azu guarded her husband for more than seventy years, but finally waited for a corpse.
In fact, the movie should be three lines, Azu, Huiying, Weiwei, the love concept of three generations, and the story of three generations. Azu xie unhappy knot, with the traditional and ancient way to guard their love; Hui Ying and his wife are implicit love, the husband prepared a retirement gift for Hui Ying, but did not personally send it out, waiting for Hui Ying to find out, and Hui Ying obviously ate the vinegar of Mrs. Wang upstairs but never said, and finally untied the knot with her husband, which is a kind of love; Wei Wei and Ada are the love of young people, Ada would rather not go to Beijing for Wei Wei, Wei Wei is willing to steal the household registration book for Ada to get married, and the two people are vigorously talking about the love of walking away.
Three generations, three ways of expressing love, are touching.
As for why the movie is called "Love and Blind Date", I think that love is instinctive, but blind date needs to be learned.