Life is full of flavors, and the loneliest taste is the strongest.
The movie "Lonely Taste" is too heart-wrenching. 2 hours, a funeral, a departed father, a resentful mother, three daughters who are bonded, each plot pokes my tears, crying from the beginning to the end, and then it is difficult to calm down for a long time.
The heroine of the film, Lin Xiuying, has run away from home for decades, and she has raised three daughters by selling shrimp rolls at a roadside stall with hard work. On the day of his 70th birthday, he received the news of her husband's death. She is tenacious and independent, but stubborn and stubborn, so many years there are grievances, there are unwillingness, there is resentment, but there are also concerns and love.
The eldest daughter said that she should let go, but as Wang Defeng said, in the traditional Chinese marriage relationship, there is less romantic "i love you" after the Western Enlightenment, and more is the love and hatred of you and me like "killing a thousand knives".
The eldest daughter, Chen Wanqing, is a free-spirited dancer with a free and debauched personality very much like her father. She knows her mother best, but she is always over-disciplined and stressed by her mother, and she herself faces the problem of cancer recurrence.
The second daughter, Chen Wanyu, is a plastic surgeon, who has been obedient and self-motivated since childhood, and has studied diligently, but because of her mother's intervention and arrangement of life, she is grumpy, but like her mother at that time, she imposed her obsession on her daughter.
The third daughter is the most innocent and naïve, and there are many things she does not know in the family, such as when her mother once took a kitchen knife to catch her father, such as the third sister who inherited to others, she inherited her mother's restaurant, but she was depressed because her mother pointed fingers.
The mother always had a grudge against her father, but there was still a trace of guilt in that resentment. At the end of the film, she finally put it down, signed the divorce agreement, and let Aunt Cai attend the funeral as Mrs. Chen, and she sang alone in the taxi, "The taste of youth is sour and sweet, and when the sea life is gone... The past is like a cloud, and I can't think about it."
The film is about letting go and reconciliation, bondage and love, and it is a very old-fashioned and timeless theme. Perhaps life itself has no end, complex and insoluble family relations will not be so easy to sort out, even if the old contradictions go, there will still be new, but because it is a family connected by blood, because it understands, so compassion, so there will be forgiveness and understanding, it will still go on, this is the Chinese family.
"Lonely Taste" is the box office of the 2020 Taiwanese film, which was nominated for 6 Golden Horse Awards, and finally Chen Shufang won the Golden Horse Film Queen. The film is very restrained, not sensational, not bloody, and several of the female characters in it are too good. Chen Shufang, who plays her mother, is 82 years old this year, and she reminds me of Kore-eda and The Old Lady in the movie, Lin Xi, who has a story for every wrinkle.
Xie Yingxuan, who plays the eldest sister, I also like it, from "Who First Sees and Loves Him" to "The Cultivation of Ordinary Women", and then to "Lonely Taste", the theater goddess, the Golden Horse Shadow Queen is really deserved, from the shrew Chen Sanlian, to the vulgar woman Chen Jialing, whether it is external or introverted, her several roles are surprising. Xu Ruoxuan, who played the second daughter, the pure goddess in the early years is also old, but more charming, the ending song "Someone Else's" is sung by her, the lyrics are also her, it is indeed a talented woman, I cycle for a day, too good to listen.
Finally, absolutely good piece, highly recommended!