The background of the film is beautiful, and the story takes place during a wet rainy season.
A middle-aged woman named Ah Ling is facing a crisis. She is 40 years old, from Malaysia, came to Singapore to work as a Chinese teacher in a school.
The female protagonist has a gentle personality, works seriously, and takes care of the family, which is a very typical traditional woman.
But good women, sometimes don't necessarily get a happy relationship. Under her peaceful appearance, in fact, it is more depressed.
The most emotional scene in the film is that Ah Ling and the male student hug each other in the rain and say goodbye, a love affair, and it ends like this. After the rain stopped, the sun came out, and Ah Ling divorced her husband, broke up with the male students, and started a new life.
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In the whole film, the role of Ah Ling's husband is very small, but from their daily communication, in fact, this middle-aged marriage has long existed in name only.
Two people have no children, Ah Ling in order to increase the chance of pregnancy, has been doing hard work, every day before going to work, ovulation injections, every time to the ovulation period, Ah Ling will do more efforts.
But what was ushered in was only the perfunctory and indifferent husband.
Ah Ling's ovulation period arrived, and her husband came home drunk late at night:
"The doctor said it should still be tried."
"It's been eight years, and I've had it for a long time."
"Do you really want to?"
"I'm not in the mood today."
Even, she went to test tubes alone and did not have her husband to accompany her.
Their lives, there is no intersection, the husband comes back late every day, and rarely talks to her.
On the contrary, Ah Ling, every day after work, will take care of her father-in-law. The father-in-law was paralyzed and could only sit in a wheelchair all the time, and every day, Ah Ling fed the father-in-law on time and talked with him.
Ah Ling's depression and despair were slowly accumulated. The pressure of preparing for pregnancy was borne by her alone; the task of taking care of her father-in-law, she was alone.
After the death of his father-in-law, the husband was even more honorable and brought another woman to the funeral. Those relatives, only sneering: it is not that she will not give birth.
Eight years of pregnancy, not the husband's understanding and pity, but betrayal and indifference, when the marriage is no longer beautiful, in fact, too much forbearance and perseverance, is a mistake.
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At Ah Ling's school, students are generally not interested in Chinese. But with the exam time approaching, Ah Ling still decided to make up lessons for the children who Chinese poor.
There were very few children who voluntarily stayed, and Aaron was one of them. The boys are sunny and delicate.
Aaron would secretly photograph Ah Ling's back between classes.
The two of them shared durian in the classroom.
Ah Ling even took Aaron home and chatted with her father-in-law. Aaron would, like Ah Ling, feed the old man and wipe away the food left over from the corners of his lips.
It seems that they are more like a family.
Sometimes, When Ah Ling corrects Arun's homework, her heart will involuntarily drift.
This peaceful relationship makes the hearts of the two people gradually close, and also allows Ah Ling to enjoy the emotional flow that has been missing for a long time.
Later, her father-in-law died, and she took a leave of absence for a while. But after returning, he still gave Arun tuition every day and sent him home. One rainy day, Aaron fell asleep in the car.
But when he woke up, he found Aaron bleeding from his nose. In order to take care of him, Ah Ling accompanied him home and brought him ice cubes to stop the bleeding.
At that moment, Arun hugged Ah Ling, and the two had an electric spark and had an intimate relationship.
Every time Arun was with Ah Ling, she was happy, but Ah Ling was obviously under more pressure. Although she also liked him, she knew that such feelings were a mistake in the first place.
In the end, the relationship between them was discovered by the school, Ah Ling was dismissed, and the relationship between the two came to an end.
On the day of the breakup, Aaron said, "My heart hurts, it really hurts." ”
But Ah Ling said, "That's right, you will get used to it slowly in the future." ”
The two embraced each other goodbye in the rain, and for Aaron, it was the first experience of love. For Ah Ling, this is a new starting point for life.
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Ah Ling's career was frustrated, and she divorced her husband. She left Singapore for Malaysia.
She helped her mother dry the sheets together, and the sheets were in the sun and swayed with the wind. Ah Ling supported her forehead with her hands and stood smiling.
She didn't seem to have anything. Family, work, love, everything left her. But at this time, Ah Ling felt more relaxed than ever, such a smile, when she was in Singapore, we never saw it.
Every woman, in this life, is actually looking for herself, whether it is marriage, love or career, there will be times of frustration, but how to get out of this quagmire, it takes courage.
A life of 100 percent perfection does not exist.
Ah Ling's dilemma, in fact, in our lives, is played out every day, women are not only the mother of the child, the wife of the husband, she is also herself, a person with flesh and blood and feelings. No matter what happens in life, brave to say goodbye, then you can definitely usher in your own light.