The last work of director Yang Dechang's career, and one of his most important works, changed the sharp critical style of his own works for many years, he seems to have been called by some kind of inspiration, and realized the true meaning of life.
"One by one" - life is a kaleidoscope and a multi-corrugated mirror, let us have one to say and tell the story.
The protagonist in the film, Jian Nanjun, a middle-aged man with a strong sense of family, still has a pure heart in complex and changeable social life, and retains the most simple and pure values of a person in the world. He has an elderly mother, a son, a daughter and two minor children, and his middle-aged wife suffers from anxiety. As one of the partners of the company, he worked diligently, but the hypocrisy and treachery in the business always disappointed him and was depressed. As the pillar of the family and the core of the company, he is full of love and responsibility for his family in the complex and real family life and work, and although he is helpless to his colleagues, he is also tolerant.
His daughter Tingting is a kind and obedient child, she is not able to understand many things in the world at her flower-like age, she is kind to help others, but she has no intention of being hurt. She has also been blaming herself for her mother-in-law's fall and coma as her own fault. Although the development of events did not go as she wished, her friends left her, and left her with a psychological shadow, fortunately, she still had a family that cared for her, and she threw herself into Jane's mother's arms and finally released her suppressed emotions. For Tingting's age, the end is the beginning, although there will be temporary loneliness.
His son Yangyang is a beloved child in this movie, he is simple, kind, and a little eccentric, and the girls will gang up to bully him, but he is not annoyed, and occasionally he will fight back, but it is not the tyranny of a little boy. The most surprising thing is that the plot, actions and words of him holding the SLR photo seem to be meaningful - the child's eyes can see the side that adults can't see, that is, the truth of things.
By simply telling a family story, Yang Dechang uses skillful narrative techniques to connect the complex and helpless career of men, the disputes of family life, the confusion and confusion of young girls, and the kindness and perversity of ignorant children, and depicts a picture of the life of Taiwan's middle-class family through the lens language, which contains the director's sigh for things in the world. The film is as smooth and delicate as a cloud, the storyline is warm and touching, and everyone in the film thinks about their own life in life.
The film has a small set and a short time span, but it has the spirit of an epic and is a family epic. 这部电影不是要告诉你怎样才能过上好生活，它只是想表达，生命如水，喜悦、哀伤、甜美、痛苦都只是生命中不可或缺的一部分，人的一生既使可以重新开始，你是否能保证可以活出另一个完全不同的自己？