Bai Dan, the protagonist's grandfather, won a cycling championship when he was young, studied in Germany for two years, and was sent back to China for leading a student revolution. He was then sentenced to death for taking dynamite to blow up a monument, and was released after 15 years in prison.
This is his sturdy past that has been locked away in the archives. However, from the beginning of the film, all we see is an old man who is addicted to backgammon. He looks wise and gentle. He loves his wife, daughter and son-in-law, and takes his grandson every day with his old friends. play chess. Those bloody storms he has experienced have tempered the treasures of the years in him: a wise and brave heart hidden under a calm and gentle exterior.
The peaceful life was finally broken. When his son-in-law encountered a political threat and asked him for advice, he used chess as an example to calmly analyze the situation, saying that the situation should be seen from the big picture, but when there was really no way out, he "takes the risk," Go all out and wait and see what happens.” These words made the son-in-law finally muster up the courage to start fleeing to the country. After the daughter's family escaped, the grandfather was arrested again in prison.
Time has moved to modern times. When the protagonist suffered a car accident in Germany and lost his memory, the grandfather went to Germany alone to visit his grandson. Perhaps because he was brought up by his mother alone, the male protagonist is an introverted and melancholy big boy. The house is messy and has no friends. Corruption from the mind to the body. He couldn't tolerate his grandson's stagnant state, and he hoped that he could live a passionate, lively, and youthful life.
So grandfather knocked the boy off the bed in front of the TV with a cane, forced him to go out to play chess together, taught him to drink, and the two laughed loudly. Afterwards, they used a tandem vehicle to carry their luggage, and the two rode to Bulgaria together. Along the way, the grandfather constantly forces the protagonist to imagine, talk, communicate, push the limits, challenge himself and enjoy life. He himself is so ardently alive, between the blue sky and the snowy peaks, before the rocks and the campfire, in the dance and the beat, in the battle of the chessboard, his blood has never been cold.
The male protagonist is unfortunate, but lucky. In his life, my grandfather played a role that was both a father and higher than his father. Every boy should have such a person in the process of growing up. He teaches you to play chess, play ball, take you to climb mountains, drink with you, encourage you to chase the girl you like, teach you to be strong, and tell you not to cry , ask you to do this or that, or he will really beat you. He is the embodiment of strength and manhood, he is the father. You adored him, at least as a kid, and tried to learn from him how to be a real man.
How lucky you are to have such a father. If not, then strive to give your son such a father.
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