The low and elegant cello accompaniment, exuding a sad and helpless atmosphere, Baroma, a little girl with serious suicidal tendencies, intelligent, withdrawn and eccentric, and a slovenly and inconspicuous girl. The concierge Honey, an elegant and polite gentleman-like resident Ozu Grand, the three seemingly unrelated people are linked together. The arrival of Mr. Ozu opens up the airtight life of Baloma and Honey. A window, ushered in a precious light.
The noble workaholic father, the neurotic mother of the mentally ill, the cold and arrogant sister. Looking at the pretentious exchanges of pretentious dignitaries, the absurdity of the mother's willingness to spend all her energy on flowers and plants, the estrangement and estrangement from her father, made Baroma feel the pretentiousness and boredom of life, just like a fated animal. The fish who have to be trapped in the fish tank for a lifetime has formed a pessimistic and negative outlook on life. She often thinks and studies problems from a dark angle, and regards life as a foregone conclusion, meaningless and fun.
But with the arrival of Mr. Ozu and the in-depth understanding with Honey, Paloma felt the long-awaited understanding, encouragement and consensus, and gradually forgot the helplessness and sadness brought by loneliness. The influence of the family environment on the growth of children has long been a topic of discussion, but it is still a social phenomenon that deserves people’s keen attention and improvement. This film portrays the character of Baroma, that is, the negative impact of a bad family environment on children. It is a reflection of the child's growth, and it is also a magnification of the needs of the child's inner and spiritual world in the process of growing up.
Widow Honey is the concierge of the high-end apartment. She is unkempt, short, and fat. She is accompanied by a cat all day long. On the surface, she looks like an ordinary person who is regarded as living in the lower class, a low-level marginal person. for instructions, complaints, discrimination and disregard. However, Mr. Ozu spied the truth behind Honey's identity as a concierge. It turned out that what was hidden behind the rough labor was actually a scholar who was full of poetry and books. Concerned, after crossing the inner line of defense, the two began an ambiguous friendship, but the sudden "tragedy" brought it to an abrupt end.
In reality, many people are actually like a hedgehog like Honey. They look ordinary and insignificant on the outside, but they are actually elegant and beyond ordinary. Under the dictates of society, the influence of the environment and the spiritual needs, they are only used to it. hidden and understated. In addition to the protection of the self, the sharp thorns in the body are also the defense and protection of "another true face of the self and the ideal small world". Honey's concierge's high-end apartment is like a miniature version of Western society. The status is very clearly divided. Those who claim to be high-end people have strange vision, clear boundaries and hypocritical treatment of others and high-level instructions. It can be summed up as a social difference. Living in the midst of these commonplace and tragic phenomena, the profoundly unfair and uncommon manifestations of class living patterns, often make one have to become a forgotten and neglected hedgehog.
Ozu Grand is like the incarnation of Ozu Yasujiro (Honey said a very funny sentence in the film: "Are you related to Ozu?"), as long as you are fans of Ozu movies, it should be easy to feel the film. The kind of life-like and connotative fan that is revealed, through the insight and experience of ordinary life in Ozu's films, people feel many of the true meanings of life that are often overlooked and need to be valued, just like using the most ordinary life. The simplest lines outline the most perfect picture scroll, and this movie does that too. The appearance of Ozugran in the film is like the intervention of a fresh and elegant oriental fine culture. Through his own moral cultivation and ideological concepts, he has made an elegant and profound attack on the corrupt, superficial and deep-rooted concepts in Western culture.
In the end, Honey's death gave Paloma a great impact, letting her understand the impermanence of life and the horror of death, temporarily dispelling her urge to end her life from beginning to end. When Paloma saw Honey being carried into the ambulance, death instantly changed from "comedy" to "tragedy" in Paloma's eyes. Let people realize that death always comes inadvertently, and many times it happens quietly when people are happiest and happiest, so try to make life more meaningful and less regretful, not to be easy, blind and impulsive To put a stop to your short life in advance, you should try your best to get out of the fixed and pessimistic thinking mode, find the true meaning of life from the ordinary life around you like Baroma, and learn to cherish everything you have.
Paloma finally said something: "What matters is not when to die, but what we are doing at the moment of death. Honey is ready to love." Although the sudden death left Honey with some regrets, but At least she left with happiness in her arms. In fact, a reflection of the value of life is to be able to leave this world with a smile, and Hani did it. Ozu helped her remove her pretense, helped her find the confidence and happiness in life, and let her feel confident and happy. She was given rare attention, love and equality. No one is perfect, but each has its own advantages and specialties. Often, it is due to some vulgar and decadent external factors and fate that make it seem that there are distinctions between people and people. Sometimes it should be brave to change. And express yourself, enjoy respect and fair treatment, and be your true self.
Watching Honey's departure also made Paloma experience the uncertainty of fate, as she said: "Life and death are a result of good or bad layout." But don't forget that chess pieces are always tight. Holding it in your own hands, it depends on whether you have a heart that wants to plan carefully and invest in the layout. There is a section in the film that left a deep impression on me. In order to test the medicinal properties of baloma, the medicine was ground into powder for the small fish in the fish tank to eat. Seeing that the small fish turned over and lost consciousness, he threw it into the toilet and flushed it away. Zhi Xiaoyu miraculously appeared in Honey's toilet. Many times people actually have to be like this little fish, brave to face and try to change, maybe they can get out of the boring and lonely situation, and what is in front of them may be another long-awaited life scene.
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