"There are always people in life who can't completely cut right from wrong."
In the daily trivialities, the lines of everyone's life are intertwined and inseparable. But often it is such a group of people, who hide from each other and cannot be honest. Because our relationship is different from ordinary people, we love too much, so we are too wrong.
"Lonely Taste" tells the story of a family, and it has always attracted my attention more than other stories. It's hard to think of so many living individuals being held together for the rest of their lives because of their kinship. People with many brothers and sisters have more friends in disguise, and thus have a richer life.
A good movie, but also a typical Taiwanese film genre. While watching it again, I can't help but sigh that such delicate and introverted feelings can only be portrayed in East Asia. But it's still a very fragmented film, revolving around a series of pasts, entanglements, and forgiveness that are pulled out after the death of the father.
Many life trivialities are portrayed very well, for me who grew up in a female family with many sisters, the sisterhood, mother-daughter love and even the daughter who was adopted in the play are the same as real life. The characters' respective expressions, language, and demeanor are in line with the psychology of the characters.
It is precisely because of the life of the movie, some shots are too fine, always let people have a sudden jump and confused confusion.
It's a good story, with a strong sense of conflict in the calm, and the acting skills of each of the main actors are also in place, although some of the shots are too strong and seem a little deliberate. Taiwanese movies can always portray the theme of family very deeply, and Grandma finally signed the divorce agreement that was twenty years ago and burned it to Grandpa to make me cry.
But I can't understand why a father who is so irresponsible, who has to pay his wife to open a house and care for his daughters can get the love and understanding of so many people just by relying on a box of pastries? And why the third daughter did not give any explanation to others at all, and forcibly reconciled warmly at the end... However, the flaws are not hidden, Grandma's acting skills are full of points!
It is inevitable that those who are left behind will blame each other, which is an inescapable pain after one of the parties in the family escapes.
In particular, children inevitably carry traces of people who have fled, and they are bored and helpless when they see it, and the child is more innocent. The younger daughter's person has the suspicion of using (unreasonable) emotions to drive the plot. According to the story, the father disappeared for more than 20 years, then his sudden reappearance will never be such a straightforward reaction.
In this kind of family, there will be a lot of ambiguous emotions between people, non-love and non-hate mixed with longing, and I think the director has not bothered to think about it at all. He created so many conflicts, and finally used a bland routine to resolve, awkward.
Overall, this movie is full of mixed feelings, even more tragic than "Sunshine".
The film is indeed very similar to the new generation of "Eating Men and Women", but the difference is that "Lonely Taste" pays more attention to the compromise, helplessness, persistence and reconciliation of women surrounded by the patriarchal society on all sides. A man died, but it caused pain to many women, bringing out a devastated home because of him. We may lament the tragedy of women in the film because of their sympathy for men, but what is even more sad is that most people, including us, in real life, may be like this.
Just as children can't make choices when parents divorce, most people probably have a dilemma and chaos in most things. Taiwan has really liked to make films that are relieved and reconciled over the years, and people can only forgive and put down on their own in the end, and people still have to reconcile with themselves in the end.
The empathetic gesture shown by Taiwanese films is beyond our reach. However, the identification with the "concubine" culture shown in the film is not an artistic case, and it should not be limited to the discussion within gender. In fact, de-gendering and focusing on minorities have been the spiritual core of Taiwanese cinema in recent years.
However, the recognition of the "concubine culture" that does not have contemporary legitimacy can still be said to be a legacy of the tradition that has not been completely liquidated by the mainland. This kind of non-mainstream self-whispering is an artistic refraction that reflects Taiwan's current international situation.
The story in the film is very real, and even I have such examples around me, everyone has their own grievances, but I think the most difficult is still the mother Lin Xiuying, after all, there are thousands of ways to say love and express love, there are thousands of reasons for disregarding the family, it can also be said that it is for the good of the child, for the business, for the future.
But the real most difficult thing is that a mother like Xiuying who has been raising three daughters with hard work for decades is what kind of daughter does not think about her father's goodness? This is especially true for a child who lacks paternal love, even if he has done a lot of wrong things...
I don't know how to describe how hard it is to decide to let go of this thing. You look at a person, get used to a person, hope that the two of you are one person, working together for the material life, and as a result he falls in love with another person, he runs away, you resent, resentment and resentment for many years, simply do not allow his love is no longer you.
Many years later I also let go, let go of him, he can really feel at ease to go home. Choosing to let go, what a tough thing it is, we all know all too well. It's my homework to keep the sea blue.
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