"The Big Events in Life" starring Zhu Yilong and others is a rare domestic film focusing on the funeral industry. It tells the story between Mo Sanmei (played by Zhu Yilong) who grew up in a family in the funeral industry and Wu Xiaowen (played by Yang Enyou) who became an "orphan" due to his grandmother's death.
The film currently has a Douban score of about 7 points, and the audience has mixed praise and criticism of it. Forced sensationalism and bad scripts have become the main controversy in the film. But looking back, the discussion of life and death, human nature, and family through the perspective of the funeral industry may be worthy of our thinking and discussion.
When watching the movie, the more I watch it, the more I feel that this movie has the shadow of certain movies. Many people will compare it with " Devourer ", which is also about the funeral industry. However, the editor thinks that putting aside the funeral elements, it looks very much like the movie "The Family of Thieves" that won the Cannes Palme d'Or.
The main place where the story of the film takes place is the "Going Heaven" funeral shop. In this store, there are Mo Sanmei who was imprisoned for trouble, Yin Baixue (Handler Liu Lu) who was a hawker, and even Wang Jianren (Handler Wang Ge) who was once a pickpocket. They are all at the bottom and edge of society.
, and Wu Xiaowen suddenly broke into here, just like Lily who was abused by her parents and brought into the "thief family" in "The Thief Family", caring about their own life experiences and becoming a turning point in the fate of a lower-level group. The temporary family formed with the three of Xiaowen after entering "Going to Heaven" is undoubtedly a concern for the issue of children who have lost their relatives.
In addition, the film also contains elements with traditional Chinese colors, and the more prominent one is the reflection of the image and image in "Journey to the West". There is a "five-finger"-shaped sofa in the film. When Mo Sanmei was lying and sleeping, the sofa overturned and pressed on Mo Sanmei, causing Xiaowen to laugh aside. The image of this "Wuzhishan" implies that Xiaowen is Mo Sanmei's "Wuzhishan", the weakness of this rebellious prodigal son, and also indicates that the relationship between the two will further progress and change.
And Xiaowen's image in the film actually represents the character and background of this character: lively and active, lawless, claiming to be "Laozi", and lacking the support of his parents and experiencing the death of his grandmother makes Xiaowen, like Nezha, a child who is "lack of love", which makes this character have a strong tragic background.
And there are many details and images like this in the film. For example, when Xiao Wen first entered heaven, he was afraid of a pair of dolls placed in the toilet, and he did not dare to go to the toilet. This doll was later transformed by Mo Sanmei and became a pair of toys for Xiao Wen. After Xiao Wen was picked up by his biological mother, Mo Sanmei also hugged the dolls when she was lying on the bed. The movie cleverly uses this pair of dolls to reflect Xiaowen's process from hostility and exclusion with Mo Sanmei to later having a father-daughter relationship with Mo Sanmei, and becomes a booster for the emotional transformation of the film.
Finally, let’s talk about the theme of the video. What is "The Great Event in Life"? It is obvious that when Mo Sanmei's father was about to die, he told us the answer through his mouth: Life eliminates death, no major issues . But even so, he asked Mo Sanmei to keep his funeral simple, and even the ashes were placed in a milk powder jar in the end, and he raised a problem to Mo Sanmei: how to deal with his ashes are the best. So we see that Mo's ashes finally turned into fireworks and bloomed in the sky. The "people who planted stars" finally became "stars", illuminating the face of the loved ones.
So, in the final analysis, "The Great Events in Life" may want to tell us that living is the biggest thing in life. Grandma passed away, but Xiaowen must come out of the haze of grandma whom she had been thinking about day and night. Her life has just begun;
Mo Sanmei's ex-girlfriend's husband was crushed by a car because of drunk driving, but for the sake of the unborn child in her belly and the debts she owed, she must carry the burden; Mo Sanmei's second brother drowned because he drowned while salvaging the body, which became a lifelong pain for Mo's father, but he still had to bear the pressure and pain of doing this industry and pass on this technology to his third son Mo Sanmei.
"Where the fireworks have not shined, there are smiling faces looking up. Life is so heavy, looking up itself is beautiful."
