1992 Chinese family love film, directed by Wang Junzheng, starring Li Ding, Shi Chen, Xiao Xiong and Liu Shu.
Chen Chen is a left-behind child, cared for by his grandfather who works at the post office, his parents are working abroad, he does not return all year round, the grandfather and grandson get along well, Chen Chen likes to circle around grandpa, for him this is much more interesting than going to kindergarten.
Chenchen likes to pedal three wheels to take Grandpa to run, like to follow Grandpa to the post office to see him sort letters, Grandpa will accompany Chenchen to play chess and fly kites at the end of work. Chenchen is well-behaved and sensible, will take the initiative to do housework to help Grandpa share, the grandfather and grandson have no age barrier, they are like children with a childlike heart, and they live happily every day without trouble.
Chen Chen knew that grandpa had a bad heart, and he cared about his grandfather like a little adult, so that he should not forget to take the pills in his pocket when he was unwell. He did not feel lonely because his parents were not around, because his grandfather's meticulous love for him made Chen Chen even ignore the existence of his parents, for him, his grandfather was the closest person. So when Grandpa pretended to be dead in the hospital to deceive him, Chen Chen cried very sadly, threw himself into Grandpa's arms and said that he didn't want Grandpa to die, because he was afraid that Grandpa would really leave him.
Grandpa knew that he was old, and told Chen Chen that people would die when they were old, and if he wanted Grandpa, leave a letter for Grandpa, and he would receive it.
Mom came back from abroad and brought changes to the lives of her grandchildren, she couldn't wait to hug and kiss her child to express her guilt, and came home to clean up the house, which made them very uncomfortable at first.
Dutch pig is a good friend raised by ChenChen from childhood to adulthood, eating together and sleeping together every day, which makes the mother who loves to be clean very disgusted, a cleaning house accidentally knocked the Dutch pig off the balcony and fell to her death, Chenchen sadly hit her mother and said bad mother, bad mother, and then the mother confessed, Chenchen and the little partner buried the Dutch pig and forgave the mother.
His mother packed Chenchen's old toys, bought him a lot of new toys, arranged for him to learn English and piano, and no longer slept with grandpa at night. At the New Year's Day, Chen Chen would rather accompany grandpa to the post office to work overtime than follow her mother to her friend's house, and her mother slammed the door angrily, saying that the child was used to being out of shape.
Grandpa saw the contradiction in the family, and took the initiative to tell his daughter-in-law at night that he would leave this family and go back to his old house to live, because he knew that if he did not leave, he would not be able to restore their normal mother-son relationship, and he could not accompany Chenchen for a lifetime, and he should hand over Chenchen to his mother. The last time he sent Chen Chen to kindergarten, Grandpa was speechless all the way, this grandson was already the person he was most worried about, he was reluctant to separate, but he also had to make up his mind.
Chenchen came home and couldn't see Grandpa, so he rushed out of the house and went straight to the old house to find Grandpa, he cried outside the door, but Grandpa didn't open the door, just kept comforting Chenchen to go home and listen to his mother's words. Chen Chen had no choice but to follow his mother home, because he had promised to be a man with his grandfather, and his grandfather was crying in the house and could not help himself.
On Grandpa's birthday, ChenChen took out all his pocket money to buy a birthday card for Grandpa, and the happy Grandpa took Chenchen and his little friend to fly kites outside, although the electric toys bought by his mother were also very interesting, but he was not as happy as smiling with Grandpa. When the kite flew back, Grandpa tiredly lay down on the chair and slept, and this sleep never opened his eyes again.
The two children did not know, only that Grandpa was too tired to sleep for a while, until the mother brought the cake and found that Grandpa had passed away. Chen Chen and his friends went to fly a kite, wrapping the words he wanted to say and the greeting card on the kite and keeping it very high, because Grandpa told him that so that the dead could see and write back to him in heaven.
The growth path of life is inevitably accompanied by the departure of relatives, and in this process we all play different roles, life, old age, illness and death, and we can't miss our loved ones.