At the end of the movie "Lonely Taste", Lin Xiuying (played by Chen Shufang) sang "Lonely Taste" (the theme song of the movie) in a taxi, saying that a woman's life, the realization of love and the tolerance of letting go. The plot of this movie, lightly speaking of the entanglement of family affection, but there is a deep sense of women's emotions, after watching the end of the film, the closing subtitles at the end of the film, with Xu Ruoxuan singing the ending song "Others", is also worth listening to, which is equivalent to caring for the role of women and mothers from another angle.
The meaning of "lonely taste" in Taiwanese was originally to describe a restaurant that only sells one dish and strives to make the best dish possible. The metaphor is in people, that is, to concentrate on one thing and insist on doing a good job, even if it is lonely, it does not matter. Such an attitude toward the world is the philosophy of many traditional Taiwanese people of the older generation and life.
In the play "Lonely Taste", that is, Lin Xiuying's attitude towards life, such an persistent principle, between the two generations, what will be the family gap? What adjustments will she have to her feelings for her "loneliness"? The following content, for the "Lonely Taste" Xiuying grandmother's life and story plot and ending to do an analysis, sharing the experience will have some spoilers, such as not watching the movie, please read it at your own discretion.
"Lonely Taste" Xiuying's grandmother at the seventieth birthday banquet, the doctor's brother (played by Hong Shengde) beautifully introduced her sister's remarkable life. From selling shrimp rolls at a roadside stall to opening a restaurant, raising three daughters alone, in fact, four, the three daughters Ah Mei (played by Zhang Junning) can't afford to raise people, and the only thing that embarrassed Xiuying's grandmother in life is her husband Chen Changbo (played by Long Shaohua) who is constantly having affairs with home. On the day of the seventieth birthday feast, in the past, I insisted on blindly and dedicated my life to the family wholeheartedly, but on this day, my husband died, and a big wave arose.
"I worked hard all my life to raise you one by one, but I lost to a father who hadn't contacted you for twenty years." "I've been a cow and a horse all my life, and I've never heard you say thank you to me." These are the grievances in Xiuying's grandmother's heart, she does not understand that she is single-minded to her husband, loves her children so much, and pays for this family, but in exchange for her incomprehensible returns.
Did Grandma Xiuying do anything wrong? In fact, she is trying very hard to support this family, but her wholehearted love makes her daughter and husband feel pressure, why is this so? From the beginning of the movie, she runs a restaurant for her youngest daughter Jia Jia (played by Sun Kefang), which on the surface seems to have been handed over to Jia Jia, but in essence, she still intervenes in managing many things, from the fish market to the ingredients to the dish arrangement, she follows her own ideas to do things.
She is very concerned about the situation where her younger daughter is now taking over the business, but she gives her little daughter limited and unreachable space. The second daughter, Ayu (played by Xu Ruoxuan), is obedient and serious about reading since childhood, but when she grew up as a plastic surgeon in Taipei, she seems to want to escape her mother's control in life, while the eldest daughter A Qing (played by Xie Yingxuan) has long been incompatible with her mother and has lived her life.
"Do you know that you put a lot of pressure on others?" Ah Qing resisted his mother's words, which was a shame for Xiuying. And the family problem, all the fault fuse comes from Xiuying's love? At first, she felt that her husband's police income was too small to support the family, and as a result, her husband failed in business and took the debt of stealing the chapter, which led to the resentment of her mother's family. Then her husband had an affair, and in her later years, she met cai Meilin (played by Ding Ning), a restaurant girl, and her three daughters did not stand on her side in the end, such a result is not something that Xiuying can imagine, or even the life she wants. Xiuying wants to be a competent mother, but there are difficulties, no matter what is afraid of things, too much management is also good.
"Aunt Cai is sincere to Abba, the same woman's mood, can't you understand?" Yes, what does a woman suffer as a woman, when the youngest daughter Jia Jiaqi mother, what does Xiuying think in her heart? Although Xiuying is a traditional woman, she is also not stubborn, she began to pursue herself, recalling the bits and pieces with her husband, and wanted to untie the knot of family feelings, she herself had to let go of the preset position in her heart.
In fact, Merrill Lynch is as single-minded as Xiuying emotionally, and even more than Xiuying, she does not ask for Chen Sang's return. When Xiuying learns from Mei lin's mouth that Mr. Meilin is not a heartless person, and also feels guilty about her, untangling these knots of grievances and misunderstandings in her heart, Xiuying decides to let go and let go of her body. She signed the divorce agreement left by her husband at the shrimp roll stall more than 30 years ago, and at the farewell ceremony, let Merrill Lyn do her original position, which is not an easy decision for the woman's reputation, but Xiuying is very clear.
At the end of "Lonely Taste", Xiuying did not attend her ex-husband's farewell ceremony, chose to sit alone in a taxi, sang "Lonely Taste", she let go of her expectations in her heart, and chose to let go of love.