Text/Xiao Dong
Piping hot love Douban score 8.0
Introduction: "Piping Hot Love" is a family drama film directed by Nakano Mitawa and released nationwide in Japan on October 29, 2016. The gentle and tough Futaba originally ran a bathhouse with her husband Kazuhiro, but with her husband's disappearance, the bathhouse closed with it. One day a year later, Futaba learned that she had cancer, and at first she fell into endless despair, but she thought that she still had to do something, and tried to cheer up and laugh at life. She goes out to find her husband who has run away from home, to reopen the stalled baths, and to help her daughter gain bravery. Her passion for life infected everyone she had come into contact with, united her originally detached family, and warmed everyone she had ever been in contact with.
When I first saw this film, at first glance at the name, I guessed that it should be a film with a very intense plot conflict, a very tense emotional relationship, a full mobilization of the audience's tear glands, and a sufficient shock.
The reason is the word "piping hot". But a closer look reveals that it's more than that.
After watching this movie, two key words came to my mind: maternal love and warmth
As a woman who is about to die, Futaba has warmed everyone around her with her love in the few months.
You never know how great a mother's love is
When Futaba learned that she had cancer and was sitting in the bathroom crying in despair, her daughter called and asked her in a worried tone why she hadn't returned. At this time, Futaba pulled away from her own pain, realized the responsibility on her shoulders, and realized that she had a lonely daughter who had just entered junior high school, and she began to cheer up and formulate a series of tasks to be completed.
Daughter Kono Ansumi was bullied at school, Futaba encouraged her daughter to bravely face all the obstacles and fears in life, under her encouragement, Ancheng finally found her bravery and ended her demons. From that timid and inferior girl to a sunny and brave child.
In order to have someone to take care of her after her death, Futaba personally recovered her runaway husband and led him to put the baths that had been abandoned for a year back into operation.
In order to ensure that her daughter's future life can be guaranteed, she took her daughter to meet her biological mother on the pretext of travel. The truth that has not been told for more than ten years is poured out at this moment. A mother's worries and reassurance about her child also fill the film. And this feeling has a strong sense of resonance, and at the moment of learning that she is about to die, a mother uses the rest of her life force to desperately protect her child.
In fact, the first point that triggered my tears in the whole film was that Futaba bought An Cheng a mature underwear, and An Cheng said shyly: "At this time, I can't use it, but Futaba said, "When you have a boyfriend in the future, you can wear it." ”
This plot shows that An Cheng is not mature enough to wear adult underwear, and as she grows up, her mother will naturally tell her how to do it. But this matter was advanced, because Futaba could not wait for her daughter to grow up and not see her daughter have a boyfriend.
As a mother, at this time, she should want to tell An Cheng everything in the future and arrange it properly for her. But she had no time left, and Death was slowly approaching her.
Futaba's love and reassurance for her daughter has always supported her in her fight against death.
Warmth is also based on warmth
Futaba was abandoned by her mother when she was four or five years old, and she hoped to find the mother who told her she would come back to pick her up before she died. She asked a private investigator to look for him, who had a four-year-old daughter whose wife had died very early. In the communication with Futaba, both father and daughter are infected by Futaba's tenderness and love.
Finally, detectives find Futaba's mother, who drags her emaciated body to see her. One of the episodes was my second tear point.
When Futaba was waiting in the car for her mother to come to see her, she looked down at herself, turned to her daughter with a worried look, and asked, "Do I look normal?" The daughter said: "It's normal, and then An Cheng said to go to get a wheelchair, (because at this time, the legs and feet of the double leaf can hardly support her body.) Futaba hurriedly said, "Don't take it, I'm afraid she's worried." ”
After getting out of the car, she tried to make a normal gesture and walked step by step to the car, waiting for her mother with a worried, worried and excited heart, but her mother did not come to see her, and she did not admit to having her daughter.
Abandoned Futaba, dying Futaba, trying to stand up when her feet can't support her, in order not to worry about her mother, to meet her mother, to tell her that I am doing well now, you don't have to worry. At this time, she may have imagined that after her mother saw her, she would regret and cry bitterly, and she could be hugged by her mother again. But there was nothing, and her mother did not come to see her, and did not even admit to having this daughter.
The film expresses this delicate emotion with language and action to the fullest, not only mobilizing the audience's emotions and making people feel as if they are watching a documentary, but also giving people emotional imagination space.
Futaba infects everyone around him with his warmth, and in the end they all come back to help the An cheng family. Every lonely individual who is broken apart is gathered together because of Futaba's love and warmth.
At the end of the film, the third tear point, when her husband was young, he promised Futaba to take her to see the pyramid, but it never came true. Watching Hanger Lang as an unreliable husband, he began to ask for help from everyone and built a pyramid of human flesh for Futaba. When Twinfold looked at the pyramids given to her by her favorite people under the window, she turned to cry and said, "I don't want to die!" I want to live! ”
This tear point is because when we see Futaba using his own strength to drive the people around him, everyone is slowly getting better, suddenly pulled back to reality by the director, and directly tells us that Futaba is a dying person, there is no time to spend a good life with them in the future. This moment is a vivid display of the helpless normality of life.
That cry to life is not a helpless cry of many times in life, but also shouts out the unknown voices of those who are on the verge of death in life, and it is also a strong call for life for everyone to face death.
At the end of the film, the word piping hot no longer becomes a symbol. Rather, it is a word that combines symbolism with truth. Futaba was cremated after death and was put into his bathroom to burn the boiler. Everyone bathed with this scalding body, the boiling hot water.
She also really did it with her "piping hot love" to infect everyone she came into contact with.