Hong Kong's most prestigious female director, Hui Anhua, adapted her own experience with the film "Ketu Qiu Hate", should be the director's special work.
In fact, the film also won the Best Screenplay Award at the 27th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
The protagonist Xiao En, starring Maggie Cheung at her peak and directed by Xu Anhua herself, runs through Xu Anhua's growth as a child, her relationship with her mother, her growth in study in the Uk, and the story of visiting her mother's homeland with her mother and growing up together.
Through this film, you can also get a glimpse of the director's calm tenacity and warmth.
The pain and joy of children's growth
Xiao En (Maggie Cheung) grew up in the newly established Macao of New China, and the whole country is in ruins to be rebuilt. While inland cities are booming in production, Macau, as a colony, is quiet.
Like many children today, Xiao En grew up under the knees of his grandparents. Grandparents are kind and meticulous, Grandpa is a cultural person of the previous generation, with poetry etiquette and old people's care, Xiao En is a happy little girl who is loved by people.
It's just that if you gaze at the family for a few minutes, you'll find something weird.
Generational parenting is mostly because parents are busy and have no time to take care of children, but Xiao En is different, his father is like a guest from afar, and his mother accompanies him every day.
However, my mother was serious and withdrawn, and rarely spoke, as if she was incompatible with the whole world, including Xiao En.
But Xiao En was the only intimate person her mother could reach.
Xiao En is like a balance, with gentle grandparents on one side and mothers who can't understand on the other.
Xiao En naturally favored his grandparents. So, when her mother followed her father to Hong Kong, Xiao En firmly chose to stay.
As Xiao En grew up, her grandparents followed her uncle to the inland, and the teenager Xiao En was "put" into Hong Kong, the family with her father and sister, and the adults said that it was her "deserved" place.
What should be is not appropriate, Xiao En becomes a strange person in the new family, and from then on, she begins her painful growth and fission.
The other side of Mom
If you have known a person long enough, you have been separated long enough.
Then, the memory of him and the reunion of him, more than the same.
Xiao En's re-encounter with her mother is already an adolescent period when her self-consciousness is expanding, and the serious and taciturn mother in her memory has suddenly become a pampered and proud little wife in front of her father.
My father came home, my mother was playing mahjong with my friends, and Xiao En had just returned from school. While taking off his coat, his father arranged for Xiao En to cook, and instead sat next to his wife with a smile and asked for warmth.
As a daughter, Xiao En is angry and confused.
And the answer to all this is in my father's words: In fact, your mother is Japanese.
With the answer, adolescent girls have no solution.
Leaving with doubts and setting foot in the homeland with my mother is many years after returning from studying abroad.
Ketu Qiu hates
In Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang's "Rouge Buckle", there is this "Ketu Autumn Hate":
Cool breeze has a letter, autumn moon boundless, thinking and melancholy is like living like a year...
This song also exists in Grandpa Xiao'en's tape recorder and in the life situation.
Xiao En listened to it since he was a child, and when he grew up, he became a wanderer, and suddenly looked back and found that his mother was the wanderer who had been away from his homeland for many years.
Coming to Japan with her mother, the mother who has always been quiet in her clothes and dresses between friends, is at ease, and the kind of handy in a familiar environment is another mother, perhaps a real mother.
In "Rouge Buckle", it is said that the real thing is the most ugly.
For Xiao En, facing the truth and the truth is usually painful, and this pain is mixed with shock.
Xiao En watched her mother write down her real name, and said, "Mom, this is your name!" In exchange for her mother's proud and complicated look, it was most of her life.
The characters are reversed again, and in her mother's homeland of Japan, Xiao En becomes the one who can't understand, can't understand, is lonely and confused.
Complaining to my mother: I don't want to go out with you tomorrow, I can't understand what you are saying?
Mom sneered: You can't stand it for only one day.
The latter words, the mother did not say, but Xiao En already understood, at least began to understand.
I'm with Mom, Mom with Me
Xiao En had not understood her mother, and her mother had not been understood by her life.
Xiao En's heart knot is her mother, and her mother's heart knot is her homeland.
Xiao En and her mother went to her mother's homeland together, her mother and I looked back on the past, and I faced the future with my mother.
A journey that took more than twenty years, they finally reached a reconciliation.