Life is a practice, and marriage is also a practice. Many experts from both genders say that if the partner chooses to forgive, he must truly forgive, but I think it is difficult to truly forgive. How much practice is needed to let go of those scenes of catching evil people in bed, unwillingness and dissatisfaction with betrayal? Some people choose to let go, let themselves and the other party go; some people choose not to let go, and use time to heal the wounds and heal the boring marriage.
I watched the movie "Cultivation" at home today, which tells the story of a boring marriage that never lets go.
movie is directed by Qian Xiang and starring Chen Xiangqi and Chen Yiwen . It describes the middle-aged housewife Mrs. Yan repeating her daily life of practicing with her master, doing housework, and taking a dog to see a doctor every day, and living a marriage life with her husband with nothing to say. One day, Mrs. Yan received a call from her husband's cheating partner's sister many years ago. She was unable to return to China due to the epidemic. She hoped that Mr. Yan would visit her sister who was sick in the sanatorium, causing a stir in the seemingly peaceful days of the couple.
Marriage will reach this point and be related to an affair. Mrs. Yan's past memory was aroused. After hesitating for a while, she decided to visit the third party. She went there for the first time and then took her husband there. Even if the third party was diagnosed with a small flat head and was not very clear about it due to mental illness, Mr. Yan said he wanted to go to the toilet before leaving. Before leaving, she walked back to the ward to go to the toilet. Mrs. Yan was waiting outside and was uneasy. She still couldn't help but wonder if the two were doing something in the ward. When she wanted to turn the door handle and entered, the husband happened to walk out of the ward.
The story is interspersed with the old dog Terry, who was rushing to get married because his girlfriend was pregnant and raised, and suffered from a venereal disease. He used it to enter the marriage and welcome a new life. Compared with the middle-aged marriage that was in middle age due to an affair, the veterinarian suggested that Terry be ligated forever and avoid future troubles. Mr. Yan learned that it was rare to tell his wife, is it necessary to do this?
seems to be sympathizing with the experience of herself and the old dog. Mr. Yan took the old dog who was about to undergo surgery and ran away from home. Mrs. Yan looked for someone in the credit bureau and went to the sanatorium to find someone. The master of cultivation told Mrs. Yan that he was watching the abyss and jumping into the abyss, and then turned into a bird and flew away. She saw pigeons everywhere in the sanatorium, but she was accidentally teased by the mistress and locked on the outdoor balcony.
Later, the credit bureau found Mr. Yan who was staying in a hotel to call a prostitute. Mrs. Yan was so angry that she dragged the dirty gentleman to the bathtub to wash. In order to ask the gentleman to cooperate with the cleaning, he pressed his head into the water and almost drowned him. This is the most emotional and powerful scene in the whole play.
Mrs. Yan was anxious to find the husband. It was not like in the past to catch a villain, but to let the husband attend his son's wedding on time. There were wedding photos of the two in the video broadcast of the wedding. Compared with the present and the past, it made people feel sad. When they got married, they were a perfect couple, but after the sweet wedding of their son, they sat in the car home, and were still speechless.
"Cultivation" is a slow-paced film. The plain plot contains many profound arrangements and designs. It can be seen that the director carefully lays out the character's mood. The heroine Chen Xiangqi accurately interprets the middle-aged wife who pursues family integrity and is trapped in the role of marriage. Until the end of the movie, she still cannot see the transcendent changes after practicing, and there is not much change in the end, just like the choices of many women in real life.
This movie has a very profound description of the powerlessness in the marriage of a middle-aged man and the loneliness of a middle-aged woman who had an affair with a husband. It is just that the slow pace must be patient and carefully savored. Perhaps this boring slowness is the suffocation that the movie wants to present.
