The concierge is an ordinary member of the city that can't be more ordinary. They are buried in the army of people coming and going. You may meet them when you receive express mail, but when you turn around, you may not even look like them. Can't remember anymore. Their survival is like a defective product on the production line, and they need to be ready to be replaced and abandoned anytime, anywhere. And Honey is one of them. She is 54 years old this year and has been a concierge for 27 years and a widow for 15 years. He lived on the ground floor of this mansion with only a few residents, and opened the door opposite the resident mailbox. She is not good-looking, fat, and sloppy. She never buys clothes. She cuts her own hair and doesn't communicate very much with others. She lives in her own world and is usually responsible for managing mailbox keys, collecting garbage and cleaning. Originally, she lived in such an unhurried manner, without anyone's comments, as long as she was an invisible person. But this situation was broken by an uninvited guest.
He is Mr. Ozugran, an old Japanese man with a strong sense of gentleman. When he greeted Honey as a resident, he accidentally learned that her cat was called Lev, and blurted out "Anna Karenina" in Tolstoy. The happy people are all alike, but the misery of the unfortunate is different." He kept two cats of his own, named Levin and Katie after the characters in the novel. As a result, the unintentional communication has caused some subtle feelings in each other's hearts, similar to some kind of code that only you understand in the world and no one else understands. Two people who were originally parallel lines met like this. At first, Grand gave her a set of "Anna Karenina", and she didn't express her gratitude, but evaded that she had never been to school and couldn't read it. But Mr. Grand, instead of seeing through her poor cover-up, made an invitation to dinner.
She mustered up the courage to go. It was at his home, eating his own dishes, dumplings and noodles. The place was full of low-key luxury. The bathroom would play music when the toilet was seated, and Honey could listen to it immediately. It's Mozart's music. In fact, there is a kind of tacit understanding between people, so we will find that we are very close to one person, but we always talk with other people.
The second date was also at Mr. Grand's house. In his real home theater, Honey brought her carefully prepared pastries and discs, and the two relived a touching old Japanese movie. Talking about the death of each other's spouses many years ago, she talked about "Mr. Alden's death is a big deal, but a concierge's death is just a small matter." At that moment, she seemed to realize the gap between status and status, and her inferiority complex. It came to my mind again, and when I got home, I started to feel uneasy, I started to get irritable, and I felt that I had done something stupid and was an old and crazy woman. It's not that she doesn't have feelings, it's just that she knows the matching rules of all things in the world. We often say that the match is right. Before she met him, she never hoped for anything, just lived an ordinary life. But after meeting him, she began to worry, because what she expected might not be realized as she imagined, and her so-called idea was regarded as ridiculous by herself. So on the third time Mr. Grand invited her to celebrate his birthday with him, she excitedly refused the first time.
After crying a lot, she left a note saying she was willing to make an appointment, and they ended up in a Japanese restaurant, and Grand made her heartfelt generous, and Honey accepted it happily.
In all these exchanges, there is also an 11-year-old girl who wants to die trying to record her life with a camera in the last year of her life. After she set the time, the countdown began. She has mature thinking beyond her age, but robs her of the innocence of a child. She asked: "What about me? Is my destiny written on my forehead? I just believe in my destiny, so I want to die. But what if I can make myself what I haven't been? I can make my life change. Isn't it what it was meant to be?"
Her behavior was considered bizarre by her family, and she was always trying to hide herself. Her mother, who was suffering from mental illness, believed that she also needed psychotherapy. She inadvertently met Mr. Grand, broke into Honey's life, and this seemingly strange triangle grew steadily. Her name is Paloma. She gradually fell in love with the withdrawn but knowledgeable concierge, tasting chocolate with her and discussing "what's the point of chocolate? Is it the chocolate itself, or the technique of chewing the chocolate with your teeth? I like it on my tongue. It's slowly melting." She regarded Honey's home as another free world, where she could temporarily stay away from the hypocritical political family of origin. She took out a pill, used the only goldfish in the family as a test, ended its life in the fish tank, and flushed it away in the toilet.
Honey is like a hedgehog, "It's covered in thorns, it's like a fake fortress. She deliberately pretends to be lazy, but her heart is as meticulous as a hedgehog. This world keeps a distance, just to clearly realize their own insignificance and powerlessness. She never wanted to change, but God played a joke on her.
The little goldfish turned out not to be dead. It swam down the sewer to the toilet of Honey's house, and was picked up by Honey and kept in a glass bottle. I regarded the resurrection of the goldfish as a rebirth. I even thought it was a good sign, indicating that Honey will have a new beginning in her life. I began to believe that there is truly a great happiness that breaks through the secular world. What this film projected on Honey, I thought that 54-year-old Honey was about to start living a life truly worthy of her erudite spirit, and was about to move towards a fulfilling second half of her life, but suddenly she died. Hit by a car.
"Grand, my heart is like a curled up kitten. If possible, I would like to have one last glass of sake with you."
"How do you define the value of life? Baroma, I hope your future matches your expectations. Quite."
Baloma was sad and shocked. "It turned out to be like this, everything came to an abrupt end, is this death? You will never see the person you love again, and the person who loves you will never be seen again. If this is death, then it is really the same as everyone said. , is a tragedy."
Honey, who has never been to school and has been poor all her life, has a secret room, which is a private library with a single sofa and a coffee table, exactly as it was painted on the pop-up card given to her by Paloma. . This is the place where Honey enjoys her spiritual journey, no one knows, she never told anyone, until after she died, Baroma and Grand helped her pack up, there were twenty boxes of books, she hid here, It contains her soul.
"It's not about dying, it's what we were doing when we died. Honey, what were you doing when you died, you're ready to love." What's so good about life, you can only taste it carefully knowledge.
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