A Falling Leaf Knows Autumn

Lucie 2022-03-23 09:02:52

"Yi Yi" is so similar to life that it doesn't even look like a movie. This is another characteristic of many Taiwanese films. Watching a film is watching life. "One One" covers almost every stage of life: grandmother - old age; NJ and his wife Minmin, NJ's first love girlfriend Ari - middle age; uncle, Xiaoyan, Yunyun - young people entering middle age; Tingting , Lily, Fatty - teenagers enter youth; Yangyang - childhood, plus the birth of uncle and son and the death of grandmother, constitute a complete life process. Very ingenious structure.

Throughout all stages of life, old age is transparent and open-minded; middle age is embarrassing; young people stumble into middle age; adolescence is green, and carelessness is costly; childhood is full of interest. The embarrassment of middle age is that the heart is not dead and the love is not yet exhausted, but everything can't be controlled by oneself. Careers, relationships, and life are all the same. How to see through, how not to see through; how to change, how to maintain. There seems to be no difference. To be truly transparent, is it possible that we have to wait for a short while when the light returns? To be truly pure as an angel, everything is new, and you can paint the latest and most beautiful paintings, but it must only be a newborn baby. A quasi-middle-aged man like Adi who has not grown up and down, looking at his newborn son, is also moved to tears. Is there envy, jealousy and hatred in love? Of course I hate myself.

No matter how chaotic, troublesome, boring, helpless and meaningless life seems, life is passing by day by day. As long as it's not too extreme, for example, the teacher who had an affair with her daughter and her daughter's mother ended up being killed by her daughter's boyfriend Fatty.

It is almost difficult to detect the traces of the drama, although it is a drama, otherwise we cannot look at a complete life story in three hours: birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows. There are hardly any traces of performance visible. The young and old in the film all talk, walk, and look like people in life. Every time I watch such an excellent Taiwanese film, I despise mainland film and television over and over again in my heart. The handsome men and women in Yishui all live in luxury houses, drive luxury cars, carry famous bags, and wear fancy clothes. The makeup on their faces is extremely delicate, and they sleep with deep eye shadow and red lips.

Favorite scenes from "Yi Yi":

NJ and Ari met in Japan at the hotel entrance. It must be like that, two middle-aged men and women, who have not seen each other for more than ten years, have a deep emotional foundation, and have long-lasting thoughts, guilt and resentment. Then we met in a foreign country, not a deliberate date, but a business trip, just a coincidence. There is no burden, only joy and excitement. So when the two met, they hugged again and again, smiled and laughed again, the corners of their brows and lips were full of laughter, and they sat with Japanese merchants, still laughing. It's true, it must be so. Compared with the same time, NJ's daughter's first love in Taipei is much more flavorful. Youth is always youthful, even if it will be unforgettable. As a bystander, I still like to see the situation of men and women.

Brother-in-law and brother-in-law were chatting in the car. My brother-in-law said that I heard that you have been in close contact with your ex-girlfriend recently. A Di explained that his wife has been pregnant for so long - how reasonable, pregnant women have to be more vigilant, and their ex-girlfriend has been in a relationship of more than ten years, sometimes they still have to do her a favor and serve her . I burst into laughter in the first second, NJ laughed a few times slower, thought about it, laughed again, and couldn't stop laughing. For a man like him—sexually loyal to his loveless wife, and lovingly loyal to his sexless first-love girlfriend—the brother-in-law's sexiness and abundance of love are too ironic. But if people are biological to the level of a younger brother, honest to the level of a younger brother, don't go around in circles, don't go around in circles, don't dress up, don't hide, and are naked and honest, life will probably be messy, right?

What is it that sustains a marriage? For example, if one spouse has an affair, no matter how long it lasts, as long as you hide it well, you can still live happily; once it is revealed, the sky will collapse immediately. It seems that few people ask what is the essential difference between these? Are you deceived, he (she) is loyal; conversely, he (she) is disloyal? Of course not. You and Dao don't know, it has nothing to do with his (her) loyalty or disloyalty. In this way, lies, often dubbed "goodwill", become the rope that binds marriage or relationships. For example, Xiaoyan, her husband's ex-girlfriend came to attend her son's full moon banquet, that's okay, she would rather ignore this joyous banquet with her son as the protagonist, and make him turn the world upside down. However, what if she knew that her husband still went to serve his ex-girlfriend from time to time? Is loyalty the same as love? NJ is loyal to his wife, but he only loves his first love girlfriend, which one is happy? The relationship between men and women is so unreliable, men and women are still going forward and backward to fall into love and love, and they are very happy.

Minmin cried to her husband about that scene. How can I tell my mom the same thing every day, what to do in the morning, what to do in the afternoon, and what to do in the evening, all in a few minutes. How come there are only so few? I feel as if I have lived in vain. I'm like a fool every day, what am I doing every day? ... This sense of emptiness is indeed quite universal. I am afraid that in one's life, people will ask themselves the meaning of life more or less many times. Minmin cried like that, but NJ didn't hold her in her arms either. NJ gave a solution to the problem and discussed with his son how to make his mother happy. This good man and husband with both ability and political integrity, but avoided the key point of the problem, that is, he has never loved a woman other than his first love, of course, including his choked wife. Minmin escaped to the mountain and lived in a temple to pay for cultivation. How could she solve the great regret of lack of love in her life. A woman, a fruitless love and a loveless marriage, which one do you choose? Or pick one get one free? You might mumble: not so bad!

Yangyang jumped into the pool. Although he has practiced holding his breath in the basin, the basin is different from the swimming pool after all. That long empty lens really challenges endurance. So when the little guy came home wet, the smugness at the corner of his mouth was nothing, he should be contemptuous of everything, right? Are the little Taiwanese friends so calm, composed, and wise? He never plays tricks. When adults accidentally burn a balloon with a cigarette butt, he immediately learns to use it, and frightens a few girls who have been teasing him. It's not a big deal to pour water into the balloon with a big funnel. The boy's bathtub game, the implementation object changed from the director's big red man to the director, can be regarded as a crooked fight; as for the place he used the camera to record the places others can't see, the letter he wrote to his mother-in-law has more significance than what an adult thinks and does. , until life, life and death. He asked his mother-in-law: If one day I know where you have gone, can I go see you with everyone? He added: "Mother-in-law, I miss you so much, especially when I see that little cousin who doesn't have a name yet, I will remember that you often told me that you are old. I'd love to tell him that I feel like I'm getting old too. The meaning of life, Yangyang even gave the answer, and it is the most simple expression: I am going to tell others what they don't know, and show others what they can't see.

Several encounters at the elevator entrance: Tingting and her grandmother met Lily who had just moved in; Lily's mother met Tingting; an aunt met Yangyang who was taking pictures of mosquitoes at the stairs; Yangyang and her father met Lily's mother. Taiwanese are really gentle, polite and polite.

There are thousands of problems in life, and no one can give them the answers, and "Yi Yi" is no exception. But in the course of life, no matter how low the score is, there is no chance to retake it. It seems to be a well-known principle to do it step by step.

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  • Garnet 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    You know too much. Actually, Yang Dechang is like Xiaobo, so calm and sharp. After you read it, you never remember what story he said, but you always remember his sentence.

  • Vincent 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    very impressive. Reflects all stages of life.

Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Ting-Ting: [Subtitled Version] Why is the world so different from what we thought it was? Now that you're awake and see it again... has it changed at all? Now I've closed my eyes... the world I see... is so beautiful.

  • Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?