Korean dramas are on the air.
There was a just-concluded "Snoop" focusing on psychotic murderers, reversing the restriction level.
After that, there is "Model Taxi", revenge drama, hanging scum.
There is also a heart-warming word-of-mouth work "Like a Butterfly", a ballet theme, focusing on the health of the elderly and the workplace presentation of young people.
And recently there was another one, from 9 points to 9.2 points, known as the "Mortician + Rain Man" combined version of -
Move to Heaven: I'm a relic sorter
Move to Heaven: I'm a memento organizer
"I Am a Relic Finisher" is adapted from the personal experience of Korean relics finisher Kim Hee-bie.
He was originally a ceremonialist who accidentally helped sort out the relics of the deceased, and later became a relics sorter.
He wrote what he saw and heard in his work as a collection of essays, "What Was Left After Leaving.".
This is perhaps the heaviest social issue in recent Korean dramas:
death.
The deceased cannot speak.
The story behind them, as they passed away, was no longer known.
Through the patchwork of relics collation, their stories and wishes were finally made public.
Han Kelu (Tang Junxiang) is a Patient with Asperger's disease, commonly known as autism.
When he was young, his mother died of cancer.
He followed his father and started a relics sorting service called "Heaven Migration".
For the Koru father and son.
The work of the relics sorter is not only to sort out the relics of the deceased, but also to say goodbye to the deceased.
The work of the relic sorter is like a small mirror.
When you wipe the dust over it, you can catch a glimpse of the various stories of human warmth and cold.
Their task is to read out an answer through dialogue with the relics -
Where do relics come from?
Because the relics arranger needs to make a final expression for the deceased.
This silent expression is infinitely heavy-
There are grievances that have been imprisoned, there are shouts of injustice, and there are residual thoughts of love.
One day, my father suddenly had a heart attack and died after being sent to the hospital.
Entrusted by Kelu's father's last wishes, his uncle Cao Shangjiu (Li Dixun), who intended to benefit from it, agreed to be Kelu's guardian.
Therefore, Cao Shangjiu and Kelu began the journey of comforting the deceased.
The first deceased, Lee Young-soon, was a dementia patient living alone.
She was not discovered until a month after her death.
After the family arrived, they did not want to dirty themselves to clean up the scene, so they called "Heaven Migration" to sort out the relics.
How disgusting was the scene?
Ahead of dense phobia please retreat in time!
Listening to the neighbors, the son and daughter-in-law left Mrs. Li Yingshun living alone here, and they did not come several times a year.
The old lady was gone, and the son and daughter-in-law had to come and deal with the aftermath.
Even more outrageous.
These two people did not come to care for the deceased elders, but came for money.
If you find a passbook or cash, get it out and give it to us right away
From the house, Koru picked up a pile of personal belongings like family photos.
The two monkeys hurriedly opened the box, rummaged roughly, saw that there was a passbook, and their eyes lit up in an instant.
As soon as it was opened, the money had been withdrawn. Grinning, he dropped the passbook and handed the box back to Kolu to them.
Old things, she took out all the money, what did she do with it?
Why did you just take some garbage out? Throw it all away
The two were still not dead-hearted, and kept asking if there was any money in Kelu's room.
There is, but it is hidden in...
With a foul smell from the mat, the two covered their noses in disgust and had to tear the money out of the mucus of the rotting corpse.
What happened to Mrs. Li Yingshun unforgettable?
Through her relics, Kelu traces the footsteps of her life and restores the story like a puzzle.
It turned out that Mrs. Li would go to the bank almost every day at the same time before she died to withdraw 50,000 yuan of banknotes.
Because of dementia, today she does not remember that she withdrew money yesterday, so she will repeat the previous day's process every day to go to the same bank.
Even when the bank clerk asked, she would only answer the same thing.
What is she going to do?
At one point, she was hanging out and stopped for a long time at a suit store on the side of the road.
I was fascinated by the suit displayed in the window.
She wanted to buy her son a suit.
So, since then, she's been going to the suit store every weekday and muttering the same thing at the door.
Withdrawing money and going to the suit shop became the fixed schedule of the old lady.
Then I'll buy it tomorrow, I'm rich, I'll go to the bank to withdraw the money and take it
So I made an appointment with you? I promise to bring my son with me next time
Her son and daughter-in-law saw her as a liability.
But demented, her memory only stays in certain moments.
She didn't even know if her son didn't want to take care of himself.
Just remember --
Many years ago, on that cold snowy night, my son used his first salary to buy her a warm underwear.
She was reluctant to wear it, as if it were a treasure.
Years later, she couldn't remember her son being gone.
Just remember the promise to buy your son a suit.
I'll buy you a good suit next spring, and I'll buy you one even if I borrow money
This commitment and intention will end in vain.
It was the life experience that the deceased had been so attached to and persistently.
But in the end, it had to go to the end of death that could not be escaped.
From the relics of the old lady, Colu reads the emptiness and helplessness of a demented old man.
It's a tragedy wrapped in love.
It does not sharply condemn or over-incite anger.
On the contrary, some emotion inexplicably came slowly and more intensely like flowing water.
Mourn without hurt, show the truth.
This kind of attitude is very rare when discussing a heavy topic.
The more emotions are likely to be turbulent on the occasion.
The harder it is to restrain yourself from soberly seeing through the essence.
The touching point of this drama lies in this.
In another relic sorting, this emotion is continued, delicate and sensitive.
Dr. Ding encountered a troublesome patient.
In order to save the nurse hostage taken by the patient, he stood up and confronted the patient.
Although he successfully rescued the nurse, the out-of-control patient cut him with a knife...
He fell, and this time he could not stand up.
The doctor's parents inform Kolu to sort out the relics.
While sorting out, Kelu heard some conversations from the doctor's parents:
He is my son, how can I let such a person into the house?
Through the doctor's relics, They concluded that his lover's profession should be in the music industry.
With tickets and posters, they came to the venue.
After a round of searching, Kelu accidentally bumps into Dr. Ding's lover in the toilet:
His name is Park Lee-yan and he is a cellist.
But he did not admit that he knew Dr. Ding.
Until he heard the news that Dr. Ding had passed away, his face changed significantly.
The two met at the hospital on Christmas Eve.
Li Yan suffered a car accident and suffered severe bleeding from his legs.
After being taken to the hospital, he was extremely emotionally unstable, and Dr. Ding quickly calmed his emotions after receiving the treatment.
That night, he played a Christmas song.
Unblessed, they had a brief moment of happiness.
Eating ice cream, Li Yan wanted to hold hands, but Dr. Ding shyly avoided it.
Try to get close but don't dare to touch.
- Everyone is watching
- I don't care
After that, Li Yan received a notice to be selected for the International Music Foundation and went to San Francisco to perform.
One saves lives and the injured, one persists in art, and they come to a fork in the road.
The worldly gaze, the opposition of his parents, Dr. Ding did not want the relationship between the two to trap him in place.
They separated.
Is Dr. Ding a coward?
He had hovered between retreat and timidity, between certainty and confusion, and finally slowly became aware of his true heart.
This same-sex love is hot and intense.
Dr. Ding.
He secretly booked a ticket to San Francisco and secretly bought two rings.
He also secretly wrote a letter to the other party -
After meeting you for the first time, I had hope for tomorrow.
For your sake I want to be a braver person than myself yesterday.
For your sake, I will no longer humbly hide, and I will not let go of your hand again until I die.
I Ding Suxian will always accompany Park Lee Yan in this life, always cherish you, and love you.
And why isn't Li Yan the same?
After separation, it is still necessary to tattoo his name on his hand.
So every time you play the piano, it's like he's with you.
Despite the fact that the heavens are different, they have long become a firm bond to each other.
Finally, Li Yan stood on the stage and played the song he had when he first met Dr. Ding in front of all the audience.
From now on, you are the eternal lover in my heart.
Koru's words hit the nail on the head:
This restrained love is warm and beautiful but heavy and cruel.
"I am a relic sorter" is almost no publicity on the online Netflix.
After going live, the praise was overwhelming.
The British mass culture professional media NME named it "The Best of the Year".
The whole drama has a total of 10 episodes, and basically each episode is a relic sorted out story.
Heal sorrow without creating misery.
Ultimately.
This is also the most rational attitude to talk about the subject of death.
The best education for death is to face death head-on.
As the most classic line of "The Mortician":
Death may be a door, and passing away is not the end, but transcendence, to the next journey.
Just like Koru.
The sudden death of his father hit him hard, who was already suffering from autism.
No one wants to face leaving, but leaving is inevitable.
After many times of sorting out the relics of strangers, he also slowly got a metamorphosis.
Ultimately.
The collection of relics is the last time the deceased moved.
The reverence for death is like the respect for life.
Japan's NHK once made a documentary about the relics sorter.
Her name is Eda.
Through the collection of relics, Eda has had encounters with more than 150 people' lives:
She found a diary with memories of her late husband in the lonely woman's room; a picture of a child from the home of a divorced man; a lot of point cards from the old man's home where she saw a lot of cat coffee shops...
More contact, let her have a deeper understanding of this job.
I never thought that this person's life is meaningless, so that kind of place can realize that their own things can be accepted, I think it is still thanks to this job.
Even ordinary people, to their loved ones, mean the whole world.
It is precisely because of the medium of relics sorting that the deceased is alive again in the hearts of their loved ones.
And this provides a different perspective for the relic arranger, and even the living:
Respect for individual life and re-examine death.
In the journey of sending off the deceased, Kelu, who is both a relic sorter and a relative of the deceased, finally learns to let go.
There is such a scene, not deliberate, not sensational.
Kelu began to sort out the relics as usual, and he stood quietly by the bed, silently bowing his head and closing his eyes and whispering.
It was an essential ritual for every relic.
The only difference is that this time the object is his own father.
The gradually adapted Koru no longer seemed to panic——
Behind this calmness and calmness is a warm farewell.
It is a kind of courage and faith that we still regard as ordinary after being hit by irreparable life and death.
What is the ordinary?
It is to be able to let go after experiencing it, and then continue to work hard to live.
For the present, but also for the future.
Edit: Uncle Postman