Recently, a movie set a box office miracle for Taiwanese family films.
The 81-year-old lead actor Chen Shufang became the oldest winner in the history of the Golden Horse Awards after winning the Golden Horse Film with this film.
81 years old, old age theme?
Taiwanese literary and art films, not stuffy?
After reading it, Uncle Meat only sincerely felt:
It is a box office miracle.
"Lonely Taste"
The story is simple.
Lin Xiuying (Chen Shufang) is alone, from setting up a stall to opening a restaurant, and strongly raising her three daughters to grow up.
In a few days, it will be her 70th birthday.
Her granddaughter, who was far away in Taipei, also rushed back to wish her a happy birthday.
At this joyful and warm moment, suddenly came bad news - the husband who had been out of the house fell ill and died.
A body that shattered the peace before the birthday feast.
The three daughters were tearful at one end of the body, and Lin Xiuying and her granddaughter sat at the other end.
Instead of being half sad, she looked sad:
There has been no contact for more than ten years, and death has added to the trouble.
It even announced:
Eat the meal!
The granddaughter looked at her grandmother in confusion and shock, in stark contrast to the complaints and anger of the daughters on the other end.
Why?
An unqualified husband and father, not only did not let the mother and son who had been dependent on each other for many years form a united front, but instead separated them at both ends?
In one word:
kindness.
My father was never an unreliable man.
The poor daughters could not afford to raise them, and they were busy cheating.
Caught in bed by his wife with a kitchen knife, he did not show up to jump out of the window to escape, broke his bones, and broke his eyes.
Treat your home as a hotel, and when you come back, you always ask your wife for money to do business, but you always lose money and fail.
He even secretly stamped the official seal of the old man and embezzled the money.
After the deficit, the old man had to sell his family property and never got sick.
The uncles turned against their mothers.
But even so, when dad handed mom a divorce agreement, she still didn't want to get a divorce.
Obviously, he is a person who has always endured hurt and has been abandoned, but he still holds back his tears, and in turn advises the man who has no sense of responsibility:
Being a husband and wife is a lifetime.
In the end, she didn't sign it.
What does it mean not to sign?
She also chose to forgive when the man was the husband, and she chose to forgive from the bottom of her heart.
This kind of forgiveness is difficult to understand in today's unkind and unjust, fair and gender values.
But in Lin Xiuying's view, it is taken for granted.
Because the husband who has been wandering away all year round and does not want to go home is like a kite.
She wanted to tie up her husband with uncomplaining love.
Therefore, the more the husband owes herself, the more tolerant she is, and the heavier her kindness to her husband.
Kindness is the most confident chip for her to keep this home.
There is a detail.
The three sisters folded paper money in front of their father's spiritual hall.
Speaking of their father's goodness, they even began to joke with each other:
It turns out that you are the one who loves Dad the most.
At this time, I don't know who interjected a sentence.
After being caught in bed, Dad returns.
Ten months later, the little sister Jiajia was born.
In fact, mom is the one who loves dad the most.
After saying that, the sisters laughed loudly.
The wife in the "story" raises her eyes and blames her daughter for "nonsense", and the husband has long since turned into a black and white spiritual image.
Only the love of Lin Xiuying in the mouths of the sisters is suspended in the past.
Like a rare poem, it was recorded in a real way, and even gave birth to a living daughter.
But no one could explain Lin Xiuying's state of mind at that time, and the semantics were unknown.
I only know that this cannot escape her bottomless forgiveness and corresponding to it- a heavy grace.
And for the three daughters.
Eldest daughter Wan Qing (played by Xie Yingxuan).
From childhood, he followed his mother to catch adultery, and it seems that he left behind the stink of his father's unhealthy life style.
Even if I have suffered from cancer, I still smoke and drink as usual.
The number of husbands who have been disapproved of divorce falls:
Habitual marital infidelity.
But she herself was at ease and a free dancer.
Of course, her mother, Lin Xiuying, was not used to her.
Anger burned, and even said sarcastic words:
You like to mess around outside as much as your dad.
No wonder you have cancer.
After the mouth did not choose to say, the guilt surged into the heart, but the bad words thrown out could not be recovered.
Cruelly, the eldest daughter replied with a stammer:
Indeed, my retribution came quickly.
Well, the cancer has returned.
Lin Xiuying was so distressed that she immediately turned her mouth:
Mom takes care of you and you'll be fine.
Such a favor, how can the eldest daughter have a way to accept it calmly emotionally?
For her, her mother's love was always tinged with hate.
Because the eldest sister is like a father, how much Lin Xiuying hates her husband, how much she hates her eldest daughter.
Her sense of dedication as a mother is still there, but with a familiar calculation.
One more point of dedication, one more point of chips.
The rope of the control can be pulled a little tighter.
Second sister Wanyu (played by Xu Ruoxuan).
Under the brainwashing of his mother, he studied hard and became a doctor.
Therefore, the uncle who studied medicine contacted this niece who had a career and had contact with his mother again.
At Lin Xiuying's birthday banquet, the uncle couldn't help but blow rainbow farts for this niece.
Wanyu married a famous doctor, gave birth to a daughter, and had a happy family.
But is it really perfect?
She insisted on sending her daughter to study abroad.
When her daughter resisted, feeling that she had no choice and wanted to stay with her grandmother, Wanyu suddenly lost her temper with tears in her eyes:
Stay here, your life is to read, get married, have children.
Only by going out do you have more options.
It turned out that she was so dissatisfied with her life that she had been arranged clearly.
This dissatisfaction is projected on his daughter one-to-one.
When Wanyu slammed the door and came out, Lin Xiuying comforted her granddaughter:
Your mom was a lot like me when I was younger, and it was hard to get it.
Yes, it really looks like that.
The second sister, like her mother Lin Xiuying, transferred her dissatisfaction with life to the next generation.
Similarly, the daughter responded with no promise:
In fact, I don't really hate going abroad to study.
This sense of manipulation of unconsciously helping others decide their lives has been passed down from generation to generation along with the umbilical cord.
Mother Lin Xiuying used "for your own good" to help her second daughter choose a good life, "for your own good" is a chip, but also a favor.
Finally, there is the third daughter Jia Jia (played by Sun Kefang).
The restaurant that Lin Xiuying has worked hard to run with her life was handed over to her third daughter.
She felt it was a great gift.
But for her daughter Jiajia, it is mixed.
On the one hand, she is indeed grateful for her mother's hard work.
On the one hand, I was tired of dealing with my mother's nagging that I was not at ease with myself, and I was unauthorized to change the menu.
It's like the beginning of a movie.
Even if it is your own birthday feast, you must go to the seafood market early in the morning to wholesale the ingredients.
In the "Boss Lin" of the stall owners, the majesty of the strong woman is there, and there is no intention of retreating to the lake at all.
Jiajia woke up to find a steaming pot of delicious lobster soup on the table.
A second ago, she was happily absorbing the soup and sighing:
Eat lobster early in the morning.
But the next second.
I saw that my mother did not wash the dishes, picked them up and washed them again, and was blamed by my mother for wasting water.
Jiajia is the most direct face to Lin Xiuying's kindness.
It seems that she has inherited the family business and is still cared for by her mother day and night.
but.
Jiajia gave up studying and only became an empty shell treasurer, which also made her dissatisfied for a long time.
So, whether it's a husband, or three daughters.
They should have been close to Lin Xiuying because of her kindness.
The truth is the complete opposite.
First, it was the husband who escaped.
He found a lover and never returned home.
Then, it was the reaction of the three daughters after the husband's death:
alienation.
The three sisters hugged and cried together, forming a strong conflict with their mother's sullenness.
They form a defensive line of their own.
Especially the youngest daughter Jiajia.
Even the rebellion against the mother was unconsciously transferred to the pity for the father's lover.
Jiajia always shouted in front of her mother, one by one, aunt.
Even blame Mom for not understanding Dad's lover in turn:
The same is the mood of a woman, can't you understand?
And this lover is indeed in stark contrast to Lin Xiuying.
She also brings one of the most interesting details of the whole film.
The man died.
The spirit hall was very lively.
The lover invited a Buddhist master to chant the sutra for the man.
And Lin Xiuying invited a Taoist master to practice for her husband.
Two completely different religions, in the supposedly solemn spiritual hall, are like two women's inner secret contests.
The young granddaughter poked her face:
Is this a game?
Unfortunately, this is only Lin Xiuying's one-man game.
The Buddhist master retreated first, and left her something to advise:
Never too late to mend.
Turning her head, she shoved something into someone else's hand:
I don't have this Huigen.
Buddhists represent suiyuan.
Taoist representatives guard.
Lin Xiuying is obsessed with maintaining the family with kindness, even if her husband has not returned for many years, she is still unwilling to sign a divorce agreement.
Her obsession lies in keeping this home.
For decades, she practiced it like this.
And what about the Buddhists.
It is shown by the lover, not forced.
She met the man after abandoning his wife and son and took care of him until his death.
She never got anything out of this man.
When a person dies, she cries, but it is time to end it.
He even took the initiative to talk to Lin Xiuying about the man's last words:
When he stole the seal, he wanted to flip the plate and argue with you and the children.
Before he died, he wanted to return to his hometown.
Yes, the lover selflessly informed Lin Xiuying of the man's final evaluation of her.
Years of kindness or resentment have turned into tears.
This was the first time Liu Xiuying cried after her husband's death.
She finally stopped framing a dead man.
She finally cried.
At night, she signed her name on the mottled divorce agreement and asked her granddaughter to burn it.
At the funeral, Lin Xiuying was absent.
The daughters, in amazement, waited for their father's lover.
Lin Xiuying was at the door, but the taxi was gone.
She left the matter of sending the man away to others to do it.
She sang karaoke in the car.
In the trance, it seemed that the husband was singing to himself.
Lin Xiuying finally stopped getting angry.
She let go of the man who had just died in reality, but had long since died in her life.
It is also equivalent to letting go of yourself.
She no longer has to threaten her family with kindness.
She distributed the gold that had been stored for many years to her daughters and confessed a shocking secret.
It turned out that it was not the father who stole the seal.
It was herself.
Yes, the husband is still a down-to-earth scumbag.
But she wasn't at all wrong either.
She is vain and calculating, and lets men carry the pot for themselves for many years, so that they can look great and men look more negative.
The granddaughter once spoke in this muddy family conflict:
Why don't you make it clear?
Why not?
Because it's not clear.
Affection is like the pot of seafood soup cooked by Lin Xiuying.
Delicious and refreshing.
It is also already so viscous that it is connected by flesh and bone, and it is not clear and unclear.
Grace is also love, and love is also love.
Emotions in family life are not pure.
Even if it contains calculations, exploits, and bad words.
But it must also be cloaked in love, grace, and affection.
It's like the title "Lonely Taste".
Originally referred to the specialties in the restaurant, the unique delicacy.
But the lonely taste of the restaurant owner Liu Xiuying is her lifelong obsession with grace.
At the end of the day, it's lonely and boring.
Edit: Yi An An