The story begins, let's see what happened to the people in this city.
They put down their work and ran to the hill of garbage piles in droves, making intimate contact with the smelly garbage that they usually avoided, and rummaging desperately inside.
Someone was brandishing a hoe, and someone was driving an excavator, and their goal was the same—a worn-out mattress.
The reason is also very simple, it is said that this mattress hides 1 million euros in cash!
Now, let's start at the beginning.
A girl named Emma, 13 years old, has something to do, every day before and after school to deliver newspapers and milk to her grandmother Anne, which has become a new task assigned to her by her parents.
Mrs. Anne is about to turn eighty, a bit old-fashioned, always likes to argue with people, although Emma is a little reluctant, but she still does what she says, and often helps her grandmother to do some housework within her ability.
On this day, Emma took time to hang out with her grandmother for most of the day before returning home. As soon as they entered the door, Anne's children rushed out to surprise the old lady.
It turned out that they had deliberately bought Emma for twenty dollars to open the old lady, and then they went into battle together to thoroughly clean the inside and outside of the house.
The old lady was really frightened, but where did the joy come from? The children said it was a special gift for her birthday next week, and the whole house was not only clean, but many old objects that were reluctant to be lost before were also decisively replaced.
Although in the eyes of the old lady, many things have commemorative significance, the children feel that doing so will make the old lady's living environment look new from now on, and they are proud of the fruits of their labor and filial piety, waiting for their mother's praise, touch and even hug and kiss.
However, there was no trace of joy on the old lady's face, and she hurriedly asked about the so-called tattered whereabouts, especially the old mattress that was a little smelly.
Seeing that everyone was very confused, she finally told the truth, "Buy Karma, all my savings are there, there are nearly a million euros."
The expression on everyone's face instantly froze, but soon a burst of laughter broke out at the same time, where they believed it, they all thought that the mother was shaking the baggage and amusing it.
The old lady, on the other hand, with a serious face, reported to her children the origin of the money, the money from the sale of the garage, the rent from the basement rental, the inheritance, and the fruits of fifty years of squeezing out of the teaching salary and pension.
The old lady listened to some of the media and chose to put the money at home instead of in the bank, thinking that this was the way to firmly hold the money in her own hands.
At this point, everyone was completely dumbfounded, and such a large amount of money was thrown away as garbage.
To know that there are two big men in this big family who live by receiving relief money, how can they tolerate passing by wealth like this, and they must hurry up and get this baby mattress back.
Before going out, they learned of the characteristics of the mattress in the old lady's mouth, the blue and white plaid pattern, which was also printed with the three trademark letters of AQP.
The priority was to find the driver who was disposing of the garbage at the time, the lazy guy was an acquaintance of the old lady's son, Collum, and the mattress was still lying in his pickup truck.
Everyone hurried to the bar he often went to, but they could open the door of the truck and look at it, and it was empty. Under questioning, I learned that the driver was so diligent today that he said that he had transported the mattress and other rags into the garbage station.
Soon, the family appeared outside the garbage dump, and tried to turn over the closed door after work, but Colem was clumsy and ended up in failure.
There is no other way to think of it for the time being, everyone can only go home and wait patiently, and more importantly, because the next day is Sunday, the garbage dump will also be closed.
After such a painful wait, I finally looked forward to the opening of the garbage dump on Monday.
Corom told the garbage station caretaker that the mattress was very memorable because Mom and Dad had slept on it together and had to be taken back, otherwise Mom would be very sad.
The other party was touched, but replied that last week's rags had been sent to the landfill.
Collum, with his mother, with the help of the kind caretaker, went to the landfill and turned over all the old mattresses in there, but he didn't see the baby mattress in his own house.
Collham was disappointed, but the old lady skillfully told her son that I had a hunch that the truck driver must be lying, and that the mattress had not been delivered to the dump at all.
They found the truck driver again, and after some coercion and seduction, he finally told the truth, and indeed did not throw the mattress to the garbage dump.
But he had already seen from their anxious looks that there must be something valuable in it, a ring, an antique, or something else.
So he was not interested in the price of 50 dollars for Collum, and remained silent about where it was sent, and he would consider a suitable price unless he was told the truth.
Seeing that the two sides were in a bit of a stalemate, or the old lady herself went out, she asked the truck driver to tell her on the phone, saying that she would find him the next morning to solve the matter completely.
In fact, the old lady used a slow-down tactic, and when she walked out of the bar, she beckoned her son and granddaughter to hide in the car to observe.
After a while, the driver also came out and drove away, surely eager to see the baby in the mattress.
The old lady ordered her son to immediately send the car to keep up, this move is more called waiting for the rabbit, Collum is convinced, Mom, you are a genius.
Following the truck all the way, they came to the grave hill on the outskirts, and Collham could not scold the driver and hurried to find a mattress.
But there is no shadow of the mattress here, there are traces of being turned over at the scene, the driver guessed that it was taken by the homeless man or transferred to another garbage dump by the city government, and the clue was interrupted here.
Next, everyone split up and tried to figure out how to do things, some looking at the video taken when cleaning up the house that day, some looking at the map to find the garbage dump, all trying to find new clues to start the next action.
However, Collum, who was a little confused, began to be a demon, and he actually contacted the radio station to make public the fact that there was 1 million euros in the mattress, and offered a reward of 50,000 euros to those who found and returned it.
The color characteristics of the mattress were also spoken out by him, and the two sisters and brother-in-law rushed up to stop him and denounced him.
This is obviously a stupid idea, who would not want 1 million for a mere 50,000? But at this point, scolding is useless, and you can only fight with other people.
Everyone immediately drove to another garbage dump, and when they arrived, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, and their hearts were still cold.
That's exactly the scene that appears at the beginning of the story, and the national search for mattresses has begun in full swing.
The incident also appeared in newspapers and television, and became the focus of public attention.
Even Emma became a celebrity at school, surrounded by classmates asking all kinds of questions.
The TV station also made a special program, inviting the old lady and Emma to the program site, and through the polls conducted by the TV station, the results were very happy for the whole family.
As many as 91% of people said that once the mattress is found, the bounty is only a bounty, and the rest of the money will be returned to the elderly. This made Collham and others who watched the show excited and clapped their hands in celebration.
But a few days passed, and a person said in an interview that he found a mattress, but after cutting it, there was no so-called 1 million euros, which was only 670 yuan.
Collham began to question his mother's original statement, and quarreled with the old lady, slamming the door in anger and leaving.
The townspeople also felt that the old lady was confused, or that she was lying, and that everyone was playing around, and the sound of complaints and curses came over the radio.
When the night came, the old lady sat alone under the lamp and could not sleep, and under such great pressure, she had no one to tell, and she was secretly hurt, and even her own children did not believe their own words.
The next day, Emma arrived at her grandmother's house after school, as was customary, and saw that her grandmother was already waiting at the door, and it turned out that she had made a new discovery in the newspaper.
Most people only pay attention to the news that is published in the headlines, but ignore the reports on the back.
Take a closer look at the mattress in the photo, the corresponding position on it does not have the three letters of AQP, which is not the baby mattress at all.
The old lady told Emma to keep it strictly confidential this time and go out on her own to find it herself.
The old man and the young man hid from the other family members and used the weekend to carry out the operation, they walked through almost all the garbage dumps in the city, and after some efforts, they still failed.
At this time, even Emma expressed doubts about her grandmother's words, and the old lady was sad, it seemed that only she knew that she was not the old fool in everyone's eyes, and she did not want to be considered by her children as senile dementia and wanted to be sent to a nursing home, as she overheard.
A few days later, Emma came home from school, and through the window of the bus, she found a homeless man pushing a mattress and running desperately, looking like he had stolen it from nowhere.
The scene reminded Emma of another speculation by the truck driver that the mattress might have been taken by a homeless man.
Without further ado, she hurriedly disembarked at the nearest station and followed the tramp to an abandoned factory.
She carefully walked in, this is where many homeless people live, there are a lot of broken old mattresses, she looked for them room by room, and finally found a mattress that was exactly the same as what her grandmother said.
Emma tore open the trademark on the mattress, and bundles of banknotes came into view, and Grandma did not say anything, she had mixed feelings in an instant.
At this moment, someone coughed and walked toward this side, and she quickly hid on the roof.
When it was completely dark, and after carefully confirming that there was no one in the room, Emma returned to the room intending to take the mattress away, and in gratitude she grabbed a handful of money and stuffed it into the homeless man's shoes.
Then learning the appearance of a homeless man, Emma used the shopping cart to push the mattress through the street, passing by the aunt's pet store, she made a comparison outside the window, the aunt saw the mattress and suddenly understood everything.
Overjoyed, she ran with Emma despite the fact that she was pregnant, and along the way she met her uncle Colem and her uncle, and of course they happily joined in.
Even if the wheel of the shopping cart suddenly broke one, it could not stop them from moving forward happily, and the four of them simply lifted the corner of the mattress and continued to run towards the old lady's house.
When the old lady saw the lost and recovered baby mattress, she was surprised but had new worries, she told her family nervously that the total amount of money in the mattress was actually not so much as 1 million, and she just wanted to attract the attention of her children.
The children were looking at each other, and the old lady said that there were only a few hundred thousand. Of course, this was not a small amount, and the crowd began to celebrate with confidence and boldness.
Seeing that the happy moment of opening the champagne was coming, Emma turned and went out the door alone.
She sat on the steps, looking at the endless flow of traffic, as if she understood something, and showed a sweet smile on her face, but there was a little melancholy in her eyes...
The Irish-Swedish comedy is titled Million Euros in the Mattress.
Ostensibly, it's a family comedy about finding mattresses to hide money. In fact, the movie has always been about the helplessness of life itself, and it has nothing to do with the mattress. Removing part of the mattress is a living everyday life.
The title [Life's a breeze] literally translates to "Life is a Breeze" From teenagers to eighties, there are all kinds of real misfortunes of all ages.
So in the movie Lori asked her grandmother several times, "If life could be repeated, what would you want?" Who do you want to be? "Do you believe there is hell?" The mother-in-law's answers were some terrible truths about life.
At the beginning of the story, the cleaning said that the children wanted to make the old lady more comfortable, but the younger son cleaned to make himself more comfortable when he lived in the old lady's house, and the other son also cleaned in advance when he moved back to the mother's house. Maybe a little, but it's estimated that ulterior motives and being held hostage by morality take up more.
In the process of searching, everyone worked together and did not forget the brothers to settle the account, which was gratifying! Worried about the money that was not found, the old lady in the middle estimated that it was the most luxurious birthday party in 10 years. When someone announced that they had found the mattress but found that it was only a few hundred dollars, several children blamed the old lady together and looked really cold.
The film begins in an argument and ends in a quarrel (because the children begin to compete for a share of the hundreds of thousands of euros).
Throughout the movie, the child does not get the care it deserves, is prevaricating by the parents, and can only nibble on bread and bananas at noon.
Middle-aged people have not been able to obtain a decent, dignified, rich and fulfilling life, and can only rely on the old man to receive relief funds, blame each other, laugh at each other... Live like this.
The elderly are even more unappreciated, and are regarded as superfluous, useless, and stupid "old things" that occupy the house.
As soon as the television broadcasts spread rumors, the masses of the people rushed forward. 91% said that if found, they would return the money to the old lady, which was a laugh to death, and it turned out that only 9% of the world kept honest.
So "If you can do it all over again, you have to do what you want to do, even if it's not the right thing." ”
Alas, but life is played according to other people's scripts, and who cares if you like it or not.