Title: Sister Tao
Director: Xu Anhua
Starring: Dexian Yip / Andy Lau / Qin Hailu
Release date: 2012
Douban score: 8.3 points
Initially, screenwriter Li Enlin took the story "Sister Peach" written by his personal experience to find Xu Anhua and hoped that she would make it into a movie, but Xu Anhua could not find investment everywhere, fortunately, Andy Lau shot in time and invested 30 million to shoot this movie, achieving a classic. In order to balance the cost, Andy Lau also personally starred, saying that even if he lost money, he would only lose my remuneration. Coupled with the influence of him and Xu Anhua, many big names starred regardless of film remuneration, such as Hong Jinbao, Xu Ke, Cen Jianxun, Ning Hao, etc.
Some netizens said that they did not dare to look: people are so terrible when they are old, I don't want a stroke, don't have incontinence, don't have a face full of old age spots, don't live without self-care, don't live in an old people's home! Why some people are so resistant, only because the film explains life, old age, illness and death thoroughly, and it is recommended that the elderly do not watch it.
In this play, basically all the plot is based on what really happened in life. For example, there is a scene in the movie where Yu Dong, the boss of Bona, is played by Andy Lau and the two directors Hong Jinbao and Xu Ke joined forces to deceive him of additional investment, which is true, but the person who deceived Yu Dong is not Andy Lau.
There is also a scene in the movie where Roger Lee, played by Andy Lau, took Sister Tao to see his own movie premiere, and Sister Tao said that she saw many people quit the scene halfway, and Andy Lau said that because my scene was too ugly. It's also true, and that play is called "Heaven's Mouth."
"Sister Tao" focuses the camera on the old people's home in Hong Kong, and tells a touching story between a pair of masters and servants that is not family affection but is better than family affection. There is no strong dramatic conflict in the whole film, and the details of life such as chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea are also expressed.
The performance of the ugly phenomena in the film circle and the television circle in the film, such as Andy Lau, Xu Ke and Hong Jinbao, three directors and producers who acted together to cheat the money of Boss Yu Dong, and the TV station went to the old people's home to comfort, the camera immediately changed its face before and after, and other directors may be reduced to a ruthless whipping and thorough criticism, but Xu Anhua just presented them and did not do too much evaluation.
People think that Hui Anhua's concern for social reality is the integrity she has maintained since the beginning of the new wave era of Hong Kong cinema, especially when the same generation of directors are either retiring or transforming into business, she still holds the title of "box office poison" to insist on her own path, even Marco Muller said that "Sister Peach" is the masterpiece of the new wave of Hong Kong cinema.
According to the tidbit documentary "No Regrets" of "Sister Tao", Sister Tao, formerly known as Chung Chun Tao, is from Taishan and has been fostered in a Macao family since childhood. When life was at its most difficult, he met Roger's grandmother, who was taken to Hong Kong and became a small maid of the Lee family. At the time, she was only 13 years old. Sixty years have passed, raising five generations of the Li family.
Xu Anhua patted Sister Tao, as if he were also photographing himself. What is said is nothing more than: people have a lifetime, there is one thing that slowly runs to the end, why should there be regrets.
What is more terrible than death is that no one cares about your life or death, and you walk in the world like a lone ghost, unable to perceive the tenderness and beauty given by the world.