For middle-aged people who are tied to work by the burden of supporting their families, the most romantic thing to do is to think about life after retirement. Is it possible to live the life you want after retirement? uncertain. The family is still demanding from you, tying up your freedom. There is also a slowly aging body, which will one day make you unable to move an inch.
The two empty-nesters in "Soul of the Night" adopted the method of cohabitation at night in order to comfort each other, just to fight against loneliness together. They can bravely ignore the ridicule of their neighbors, but they have to compromise with their family. The images of children in the film are representative. The male protagonist's daughter is an open-minded type who does not interfere with her father's private life, but she seldom goes home. Such children belong to the harmless and useless category, living in a parallel space with their parents, neither relying on their parents nor taking care of them. The heroine's son, his life was not good, his wife ran away, leaving a son that he had no time to take care of, so he had to ask his mother for help, but under the pretense of worrying about his mother. Such children are quite common in China. I always feel that my parents owe me, I always feel that it is only natural for my parents to help me take care of their children. They don't care about their parents' emotional needs, and they interfere with their parents' twilight love. In their eyes, parents should not have their own emotional lives, their hearts should always be on their children and grandchildren, and parents only live for their children.
The end of the film presents the warmth of the tragic. What a poor old man! After finally finding a partner who can talk, they are forced to separate again, because the heroine wants to be a good grandmother, and the two can only talk to each other on the phone to get through the long and difficult night. Even at an old age, a woman can't get rid of the family's role requirements for her. So I was thinking, what is family to everyone? Is it more warmth or more restraint? This snail shell can shield us from the wind and rain, and it may weigh us down.
I think everyone can see themselves in this movie. We are both the children who want their parents to look after their children, and the parents who are unwilling to change their lives for their children.
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