After losing their only son Liu Xinghe and his job, Yao Jun and Li Yun chose to leave their hometown, both to escape and to make a living.
They have been to Hainan and eventually take root in a seaside town that can't even understand the local dialect, trying to cut themselves off from the past.
In the words of Yao Jun, "They have their lives, we have our lives." ""
Yao Jun and Li Yun
Yao Jun and Li Yun adopted a child and changed their name to Liu Xing, trying to make up for the huge void in the couple's soul after the loss of their only son.
This is also a realistic choice for many families who have lost their independence and are helpless.
But as the child grows up and rebels, Yao Jun and Li Yun find that the child who has been raised for several years can not replace their own son Liu Xing.
They can't fool themselves.
After a series of family conflicts, Yao Jun and Li Yun finally let go.
They changed the child's ID card back to his original name and left him to chase freedom with other fox friends.
They let go of This Liu Xing, who was not Liu Xing, and completely let go of the last trace of sustenance in their hearts.
Since then, the body has been like duckweed and the heart is like dead ash.
The film adopts a fragmented narrative structure, and the plot is not linear, but switches between countless different scenes in different time and space.
And between scenes, there is no excess, no text explanation, so from a small scene 10 years ago, directly to another 10 years later in the small scene.
One second, it was Still Hao Hao who told the truth to the elderly Yao Jun and Li Yun, and the next second, he switched to 20 years ago, Yao Jun shouted to the wise man who came to make reparations, "People can't say it when they are alive."
One second, Yao Jun, who was still far away from the south, ran to the hospital with Li Yun, who had committed suicide by taking medicine, and the next second, Hao Hao, who had grown up to be a doctor, watched the BRAIN CT film of his mother Haiyan in the hospital.
One second ago, in the 80s, the two families of Yao Jun were eating and laughing in the Tube Building, and the next second, It was Li Yun leaning on the truck driving on the southern seashore, closing her eyes and being speechless.
Sometimes helpless, sometimes strong, sometimes joyful, sometimes sad, sometimes silent, sometimes panicked.
Blurring the concept of time, from one life scene directly to another life scene, the audience is thus pressed into the dusty life by the director, unable to breathe freely.
It is no wonder that the audience's evaluation after watching the movie is two words: ""holding back".
I needed to patiently pick up the pieces and gradually piece together the whole picture of the story over the course of 3 hours.
And in the process of patchwork, gradually feel the passage of time and the desolation of life.
This alternating between emotion and time and space has always left me in a complex mood that is difficult to reconcile.
I seemed to float above history, overlooking the sorrows and joys of the two families in the world for more than 30 years, adding a sense of wandering in the sea and the mulberry field out of thin air.
Forcing Li Yun to undergo induction surgery has become a boulder that has long oppressed Haiyan's heart, and for more than 30 years, it has overwhelmed her.
Petrels
When she died of a serious illness, her only wish was to see Li Yun and his wife again for many years.
Haiyan's last words in life were to say to Li Yun, who was also old: "We have money, you can have children!" ""
The barriers that lie in the hearts of the two families begin with the child and should end with the child.
After the funeral of his mother Haiyan, Shen Hao, who has grown up, made up his mind to face his former father and mother and tell the secret that had been buried in his heart for 20 years.
Adult Shen Hao and father Shen Yingming
And this secret is what his parents asked his parents not to mention again.
From the day his childhood friend Liu Xing died, this secret planted a tree in Shen Hao's young heart.
Shen Hao grew up, and the tree also grew, and after 20 years, that tree was finally going to penetrate Shen Hao's body and flourish.
The Slovaks are gone, and the truth is meaningless.
However, it is precisely because of the determination and courage of the younger generation that chen bing, which has been frozen for many years, has finally been dissolved in the hearts of the older generation.
At the end of the film, when the elderly Yao Jun and Li Yun are embracing Shen Hao's newborn son.
At that moment, the sky was high and the clouds were low, and at that moment, life continued, and life regained meaning.
Yao Jun and Li Yun, there is no longer any concern in this life.
Huge social and economic changes have impacted and changed the individual's private spiritual field.
The reason why Yao Jun and Li Yun left their homeland and left their homeland was because their roots were gone.
The root of man, there are two. One is a life-sustaining profession, and the other is a life-sustaining offspring.
When both roots are cut off, they can no longer stay in their homeland.
You can only follow the tide of the times and go with the flow.
Drifting is actually a key word that runs through all the Chinese spiritual worlds in these 40 years.
Yao Jun and Li Yun left their hometowns, workers Xinjian and Mei Yu went south to pan for gold, Ying Ming's sister Jasmine went to the United States to study, and the adopted son "Liu Xing" followed the fox friends to pursue freedom.
Chinese in the 40 years of social changes in reform and opening up, for dreams, for livelihood, for freedom.
On the earth, north and south migrate, and the seas drift.
This sense of wandering is both physical and even more spiritual.
This is a sense of confusion under unprecedented social change, a sense of wandering under the violent turmoil of the living environment, and a sense of wandering after losing the spiritual homeland.
The most touching scene in the film is that 20 years later, Yao Jun and Li Yun, whose sideburns are stained, return to their hometown to visit the grave of their only son, Liu Xing.
When the two old men, who were in a hesitant move, laboriously bent down to pull out the weeds around their son's grave; when the couple sat left and right by their son's tombstone, drinking the wine they had brought with them when they swept the grave, eating the oranges they had brought when they swept the grave; when they looked at the new city at the foot of the mountain.
The couple, who have contributed to the country's economic development, are speechless and desolate.
The title of the film is "Long Time on Earth", which may be the background of this sense of wandering, Chinese the desire for stability in my heart.
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