"Walking with Grandma" ("Grandma") this title, listening to the special main theme, I can make up a piece of the teenager and the kind grandmother can sing and cry, straight to the heart, tears under the warm story, however, this movie painting style is strange, the opening is a tear war, Grandma Elle is breaking up with the little girlfriend, oh, right, Elle is a lesbian, once a famous feminist poet, erudite, but has been old, career reputation, financial shyness, emotionally, Her lover of 38 years passed away, and she and her young girlfriend only spent four months together before she had a love affair.
The little girlfriend said "You are a bad lover", Elle said "You are just a footnote to me", what a ruthless sentence, portrayed the mean and unsympathetic side of this poet, and between turns, Elle cried bitterly in the bathroom because of the emotional wound, so, we know, she is just a poisonous tongue, she cherishes love, but she lost her courage before the huge age gap.
Just when Elle was nostalgic for the past and crying alone, her granddaughter came, she was pregnant, she had scheduled an abortion in the afternoon, but she had no money, she didn't know what to do, just like that, Grandma and granddaughter, the two began the strange but reasonable way to raise money.
From the granddaughter's boyfriend, to the grandmother's demon friend, to the grandmother's ex-husband, and finally, the desperate grandchildren can only go back to the granddaughter's mother Judy to ask for money, along the way, the grandmother shows how funny and how cool an old lady can be, how much she can do, she scolds her girlfriend, she beat her granddaughter's irresponsible boyfriend, she gets tattooed, smokes marijuana, and turns over old accounts with her ex-husband.
In the process of raising money along the way, borrowing the mouth of others, gradually sketching out the life story of her grandmother, she did what she wanted, indulgent, she had lost many people, and sometimes she also lost herself, but she has been stubborn and proud.
Elle has had a terrible past, is judged by friends to be "not easy to get along with", difficult to communicate with her daughter, she is grumpy and emotionally unstable, however, all this aside, she is a good grandmother.
When the granddaughter was the most helpless, the first to ask for help was the grandmother, Elle did not blame, for the granddaughter, she was willing to sell her beloved book, for 500 yuan, she was willing to kiss her ex-husband, she and her granddaughter complained about her daughter, no condescending preaching, like friends. It is also because of this abortion that the family of three, granddaughter, mother, grandmother, three women unexpectedly reached a reconciliation, after anger and roaring, finally able to understand each other.
Back to Grandma Elle, she looks like a wandering skeleton, but in fact she is deeply affectionate, she reads her dead wife, and she also loves her little girlfriend deeply, and tattoos their names on her body. When the dramatic day is over, the injured Elle sits in the taxi, in the turbulent night, she is stunned to think about the jokes that her deceased wife once told, suddenly laughs, and says to herself, "You will really make fun of me", this picture is too sad, mixed with happiness, sadness and sadness, the reason why the past is unforgettable, because it is beautiful enough, when alone, there are still memories to warm the cold night, but also a comfort.
Before, when visiting Paris, I encountered a sudden grand protest parade on the street, I was walking in the crowd, I accidentally saw a group of grandmothers, they waved slogans, shouted slogans, and were radiant, one of them was even more dazzling, she was riding boots and leather clothes, tattooed earrings, her hair was all white, but there was a light that could not be hidden, she was smoking a cigarette on her mouth, smiling and chatting with her companions, her eyes were bright, it seemed to be able to see her wild and uninhibited life, not panicked, fearless, at that moment, let me feel, Living like her, she didn't lose the next life.
When I watched "Walking with Grandma", I thought of the grandmother in the parade, that kind of dashing and handsome is too memorable, just like Elle, who has a cool enough life, and I guess that on the back of the light, they have also borne the sad loneliness.
Just like the last picture of the film, the long night is long, and the road of life always has to go by yourself.