"Mr. Sheng's Flowers": the strength of a marginal woman

In such a society, pension is an inevitable social topic, the aging of the population is becoming more and more intense, everyone will have an old day, when you are old, who will be around you? The movie "Mr. Sheng's Flowers" is based on this theme and exposes the problem of old-age care in big cities.

Mr. Sheng, an empty nest old man played by Wang Deshun, has a deteriorated memory, is unable to move, and is taken care of by the nanny cotton hired by his daughter, so Mr. Sheng, Mr. Sheng's daughter Sheng Qin, and nanny Cotton, the lives of the three people are entangled with each other. Mr. Sheng's deceased wife Miao Hua and Cotton Yin are similar, the two people also have the same situation, Mr. Sheng until his death is recalling the days when Miao Hua was pregnant, which is his deepest repentance for the abandonment of his wife and daughter later. And pregnant cotton is also an abandoned person, a story reflects two lives, in Mr. Sheng's eyes, cotton is all the shadow of his wife Miao Hua. The movie mentions a plot, "Flowers" is a small tune sung to the beloved in Shaanxi, Mr. Sheng met Miao Hua in Shaanxi when he was young, and cotton from Shaanxi naturally replaced Miao Hua as "Mr. Sheng's flower". In the end, Cotton put on the bride's clothes, which fulfilled Mr. Sheng's original wishes and also satisfied Cotton's fantasies about the family from another perspective.

Just like in "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", Yan Bingyan once again dedicated a textbook acting acting for us, one person supported the whole movie, and even the emotional infection of the whole movie overwhelmed Grandpa Wang Deshun, and he was indeed a powerful faction. From a middle-aged woman abandoned by her husband, to a temporary couple in a big city, to a living nanny of an empty nest old man, and finally to a single mother who was abandoned by a man again, Yan Bingyan's cotton has experienced the most tragic processes of women, but this role is not sad, she has a will to survive beyond men, and the persistence of life and the resistance to fate reflected in cotton allows us to experience what is called "a person can be overthrown but cannot be destroyed.".

In addition to exposing the living conditions of empty nesters, the film also portrays the living conditions of marginal characters in big cities. What are the marginal figures in the big cities, most of them come from small places, have no long skills, and can only sell hard labor. Cotton was like that, and so was her sister. Perhaps many people have negative emotions about this role in the plot of Cotton being a little three but accidentally pregnant, while some people feel that Cotton will also give birth when she learns that the doctor advises that she may give birth to a congenitally mutilated child, which is a manifestation of courage to love and courage to bear. Maybe you are not the kind of marginal person, so you will not appreciate the mentality and way of survival of the little person. The screenwriter of this film tells us that in the big cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, more and more people who come to the city to work will form "temporary couples", and they may have their own families, just to find a moment of warm comfort in this strange city. This also explains why Cotton, as a simple person by nature, has a relationship with a man in the city and becomes pregnant, and alone bears everything. In the view of this matter, men and women can taste different things from different perspectives, and the multi-faceted understanding of art can also be reflected in this grounded film.

Finally, Cotton takes the baby and the dog to a road full of cotton, which is the end of a journey and the beginning of a journey, just like the end of "Holy Death", wanting to talk and stopping, but it broke out a lot. The camera is given to his child, the smile is so bright, the plot does not explain to us what this child is, but we are willing to believe that this child is healthy, and cotton's future life is also sunny.