Today I would like to recommend to you an unpopular high-scoring film "The Two of Us", which premiered at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2005 and was released in China in 2006. The characters of this movie are simple, the story is simple, the scenes are simple... The film that seems to be simple in everything shows a different story, and it has won many awards for this.
The story tells the daily life of an old lady living alone in a Beijing hutong, and a young female student tenant, the whole movie is 80 minutes, the basic characters are two, the scene is this courtyard in the hutong, nothing more. From the initial needle tip and Mai Mang, autonomy and stubbornness, to the final warm communication, all come from their daily lives, human fireworks, simple old and young feelings.
This film is also very able to show the hard life of contemporary young people floating in the big city, in order to rent a house close to the school, met this stubborn and calculating old lady, like many locals or landlords today, there will be discrimination against foreign young people, and the old lady is no exception, hanging on the lips of "foreign poor students". The strong tone of "love to rent or not to rent, do not rent and hurry up" is also very similar to today's sharp landlords...
Obviously it is a shared telephone, water and electricity bills, and I have to be the wronged boss... Several contradictory quarrels also inadvertently pulled into the relationship between the two. To know that the old lady is living alone, the only adopted daughter rarely comes back, the grandson also comes back occasionally, most of the time needs her to live alone, she also said that sometimes when she is alone, the most expected thing is to collect the rags to come in, or to go through the wrong door to come in and say hello and nag, worried that they have lost their language ability.
Therefore, the arrival of the girl changes these things subtly, even if it is a quarrel, it will make the old lady feel that there is breath in the courtyard, not to be quiet and lifeless, so that later she will take the initiative to chat with the girl and talk
There are a lot of details that you'll feel so close to your life, even if it's a 2006 movie.
One of the scenes that exposed my tears the most personally was when the girl moved away from the courtyard, and the old lady took the girl's hand and repeatedly asked, "Really moved away, all empty?" "At that time, the old lady's heart was the same, it was also emptied, and the old lady could not afford to be sick...
Even the neighbors said that the old lady and her relatives had never been so close, but they were clinging to this girl who had not been with her for a long time. At this moment, have you ever wondered what kind of mood an old lady living alone is in...