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Movie: "Flowerfall"
Director: Zhong Menghong
Screenwriter: Zhong Menghong/Zhang Yaosheng
Screenwriter: Zhong Menghong/Zhang Yaosheng
ml5 starring: Alyssa Chia/Wang Jing/Chen Yiwen
Release time: 2021-10-29
Film length: 129 minutes
Region: Taiwan, China
Douban: 7.6/10
Now I write another movie about him, "The Waterfall".
I really like this director's works, so I want to recommend his movie to everyone.
"Flowers" is a very warm movie, and the ending gives people hope.
As a family-themed movie, its biggest feature, or what makes it unique lies in the fact that its main characters are the mother and daughter, and their abilities are interchangeable.
I may not be easy to understand. What I mean is that in most family-themed movies, the common things are rebellious of children, the selfless love of parents for their children, etc., while this film is the daughter's endless care and care for her mother, compromise and concession.
This is what attracts me more. In many family movies, adults take care of children. In fact, most of the situations are the same in reality. In this movie, the daughter takes care of the mother.
In reality, children's care for adults (parents or grandparents) are often common in news reports. It seems that good stories are indeed metaphors of life. The director/screenwriter can extract a part from the complex events to build a complete movie story, a complete life of a movie character.
Like most families, the video begins with a scene where the mother urges her child to go to school. This is a typical story of adults taking care of children.
But as we continue to penetrate their lives with the director's camera, we will find that it is not the case.
Mother and father have long been divorced.
Before the divorce, the father was with other women, and the woman was pregnant.
After the parents divorced, the daughter lived with her mother, and the mother always believed that her father would come back.
Mother even kept his father's book.
When the epidemic broke out, the student in the back row of his daughter was diagnosed, and then the daughter needed to be isolated. As a company executive, the mother had to accept the company's arrangements and stay at home with her daughter.
company is not to give the mother a good rest, but is worried that the mother will also be diagnosed.
During the stay at home, the daughter finally discovered that her mother was abnormal. Because of the broken marriage and the pressure of work, her mother finally had mental problems.
Speaking of Taiwanese movies, Yang Dechang is an iconic figure in family themes. In addition to Director Yang, directors such as Ang Lee, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Cai Mingliang have also made very good family movies.
But as this generation of directors grows old, it is difficult to see films with eye-catching family themes, or movies with my tastes.
At the moment when the quality of movies is getting worse, there are still one or two good movies in Taiwan every year. In my opinion, Zhong Menghong's movie belongs to the category of good movies.
This movie gave me the feeling I had when I watched Yang Dechang’s movie, which was a kind of viewing experience mixed with rich life insights and rich emotional experiences.
A glimpse of another life state that you have never experienced before and feel the emotions of different people in the family. At this time, the movie enriches the life experience of the moviegoers and adds to the thickness of life.
Family exists as a whole, and there will always be conflicts between this whole and individuals in the family. When the family disintegrates, conflicts reach the peak. Love and understanding provide an opportunity to resolve conflicts.
If summarized in one sentence, then the movie tells the story of collapse and reconstruction.
collapse can be divided into external collapse and internal collapse.
External collapse was mainly at the family level, parents divorced, mother was fired by the company during the epidemic, and mental problems arose, and the daughter assumed the heavy responsibility of taking care of her mother. When her father was absent, she was both like a mother and a friend, and eventually had to go to an ordinary university.
When the mother, a company executive, lost her job, her daughter thought like an adult and decided to sell her house, it was the most violent time.
From the perspective of the drama, external collapse is an external conflict, and internal collapse is an internal conflict.
internal collapse. In the film, it is mainly expressed through the inner emotions and emotions of the characters, namely the mother and daughter. From the beginning, the mother urged her daughter to go to school to the later stage of the daughter taking care of her mother like an adult, and then to joke with her mother like a friend, the inner hearts of the characters in this film are reflected through performances and scene scheduling.
The waiting after the husband left, the stubbornness after losing his job, the concerns when reading the news after something happened to his daughter, etc.
reconstruction is a process of self-healing.
The troubles in my heart pour down like a waterfall with a noisy and harsh sound, but in front of those who long for love, the heavy pressure and heavy damage will eventually be digested, and the sun will still shine on the earth.
In this film, the mother is strong and the daughter is brave.
Even though she encountered a series of unsatisfactory situations, the mother still tried to move forward strongly, find a new job, and date the man who pursued her.
Everyone has an unsatisfactory past, but life has to continue, and the mother and her beloved daughter.
Everyone has an embarrassing past, but the size is different, and no one will know what the future will be like.
Hold your head up and walk down with a smile.
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