The movie " Life Events " tells the story of: During a funeral, the funeralist Mo Sanmei saved Wu Xiaowen, who was almost "cretified", and Xiaowen pestered Mo Sanmei, which brought a series of life problems to Mo Sanmei, who was already troubled. After a series of laughter and cry, the special father and daughter who were mingled in the funeral industry collided with a wonderful friendship.
This is a funeral comedy. Unlike the sad and serious atmosphere commonly found in funeral themes, under the lens of Liu Jiangjiang, who was born in a funeral family, the funeral ceremony was filled with the heat of the city. The protagonists spoke a hot and crisp dialect, shuttled between the inside, sang, danced and shouted, and were noisy to handle funerals, and were also close to the philosophy of life and death hidden in it.
Life and death are a mirror of each other. In the view of director Liu Jiangjiang, the purpose of pointing the camera at death is to "standing at the end of death and going back to how life should be lived." Using death as a mirror can untie the knot that living people cannot untie.
"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 the third brother's house. She thought her grandmother was pulled away by the third brother, so she repeatedly asked the third brother "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 the 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.
Finally said: "The biggest thing in life is death. Life does not bring you death, but it will not take you away. Time and space go away. All troubles will return to a slope of loess and turn into a trace of dust. Setbacks and suffering will eventually be smoothed out by the years. Don't torture yourself, and don't torture others. Learn to reconcile with yourself every time."
