This movie tells us in a humorous and warm way: death may be another beginning, but our love for the deceased will not disappear, because life can always give people comfort
About " Life Events ", although it was officially released on June 24, netizens have given high praise. Some say that this is a movie with tears in laughter, warm and healing without intention; others say that this is the best movie so far this year.
movie tells the story of the funeralist Mo Sanmei who inherited her father's mantle. At a work, he met Wu Xiaowen, a little girl who depended on her grandmother. The two of them saved each other. The film is titled "Death", allowing people to observe human nature at funerals, face family affection in life, and think about the meaning of life in "death".
story is not complicated and does not require profound theoretical analysis, because every individual can empathize with and find some projection in it. What is valuable is that in the attitude of lifting weights and lifting people easily, people can find warmth in their emotions of crying or laughing, and cherish the flow of love between people in the topic of life and death.
How should people who have been "abandoned" be saved?
The third brother, who had just appeared, picked up the paper money in the brazier and lit a cigarette for himself. This is his ancestral family business, from grandpa to father to his generation. In his unscrupulous actions, there is a mark of industry handed down by his father, but it is also his indifference to "death".
The third brother who is engaged in the funeral industry is a person who is looked down upon by his father and cuckolded by his girlfriend. He is also a person who has been in prison and pointed at by his neighbors. Both family and love are lost, and his career is still hindered. The third brother falls into a meaningless dilemma until Xiaowen appears. This little girl has a strong emotion and a fierce personality, which makes life turbulent.
One is a child who has lost his grandmother and looked for family affection, and the other is an adult who is disliked by his relatives and friends and self-doubted. Two people with hot tempers and no blood relationships are in the same space, so they are naturally a bit "tight", but they also have needs and are needed.
The child that no one loves needs the care of adults. At first, Xiaowen was only in foster care for a few days, which was a burden. But when my aunt spoke ill, only the third brother cared about whether the family was good to her. Xiaowen’s return to the third brother was: he chose the latter without hesitation at his uncle’s and the third brother’s house. This unconditional trust and firm choice were a feeling that the third brother had never had before.
Adults who don’t care about need care of children. In the eyes of many people, those who are in funerals are always "lower" and the third brother is a person who should be "feared and distant". When my father beats the third brother, most people were watching the fun, and only Xiaowen stood up without hesitation and said: You can't beat the third brother. Behind the few words that are crisp and fresh is the determination of the child to protect the adults even though he is young, and it is also the strong and irresistible emotions she has towards him, just like her grandmother.
In fact, the meeting between Xiaowen and the third brother is a mutual redemption. Xiaowen's appearance allowed the third brother to see the meaning of himself to others. The appearance of the third brother made up for Xiaowen's emotional gap in losing his grandmother. The need for the dual emotional blessings of being needed makes San Ge and Xiaowen no longer "silent" individuals, but the souls of love and being loved. The two abandoned people finally came to life because of their concern. On the other hand, it is precisely because they have the ability to love others that they can save themselves.
Of course, as a strong emotional existence, Xiaowen also resolved the conflict between the third brother and his father. My father was dissatisfied with my third brother, but he had more expectations, but my third brother was always unsatisfied and even wanted to change careers. Xiaowen's appearance made the third brother gradually understand how to be a father, and therefore began to understand his father. Xiaowen's "Grandpa" made his father see a turning point, hear the echo of life, and see the hope of inheritance. He understood that it was Xiaowen's existence that his son, the third brother, "since he had something to do," only then could his emotions have sustenance and life have a direction to work hard.
"Death is a big deal" How should we look at it directly?
"Every star in the sky is the one who has loved us."To be honest, in our culture, this "emotional comfort" with a huge mass base is not easy to interpret, and it is even easy to behave in a vulgar way, but "The Great Events in Life" is just right.
Xiaowen didn't understand grandma's "death", so she chased her to her third brother's house. She thought her grandmother was pulled away by her third brother, so she repeatedly asked her "my grandmother". After making a big fuss in the funeral home, the third brother pointed to the chimney of the crematorium angrily and said, "Your grandma was burned, turned into smoke, drifted to the sky, and couldn't see it." Because this was too cruel to the child, he made a statement for himself, "She went to another world and drifted to the sky and turned into stars." The casual speech in desperation became a child's consent, and then looked up at the stars in the middle of the night and listened to the voice left by my grandmother on her phone watch. From the perspective of a child, grandma is the star in the sky, so the third brother who helped grandma go to heaven is the "people who planted stars". Such a novel interpretation has made the funeral industry less chill and more poetic. What is death in
? Even though he has been walking in the funeral industry since he was a child, the third brother has never really thought about it. On the contrary, he is worried about his "eating" and it is Xiaowen who repeatedly asked questions that made the third brother start to think. Death is the only way for everyone, but we always "tighten" death, so we are so twisted that we are both unwilling to look at it directly and attach great importance to it. However, in the film, watercolor paintings are painted on the urn and the joyful funerals such as "live funerals" are gradually understood that death must always be faced, so there is no need to be so "disabling". Life may have difficulties, and there will be shortcomings in one or another when you die, but as long as you love or be loved, it is a kind of perfection.
's understanding of "death", the old funeralist - the third brother's father said that there is nothing important in life except death. He opened his heart to tell the story of his second son's death in order to save a dead person, which made the third brother begin to understand the value of family tradition. It is also such an old man who has understood life and death, who gave his child the last test question with his own "death". The third brother answered the question as follows: He held his father's ashes and put them in the fireworks, allowing his father to bloom in the night sky by the river. The fireworks are like the starry sky, and the father who left him has become the stars in the sky. And this is the most romantic response of a child to his father who has been "planting stars" all his life, and it is also his understanding and attitude towards death after his understanding.
When it comes to "death", people always think of sadness, solemnity and sadness, but this movie with the theme of "death" can make you cry and face it with a smile. It makes people understand in a relaxed atmosphere that people who leave, whether they are mother-in-law complained by their daughter-in-law, daughter who dies sick, or husbands who are hit by a car without recognition, will always be missed and loved by someone.
philosopher Heidegger 's "living towards death" is too heavy. This movie tells us in a humorous and warm way: death may be another beginning, but our love for the deceased will not disappear, because life can always give people comfort. Just as Xiaowen said to his third brother: "I can't see my grandmother anymore, but I'm not afraid because I have a home."
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