A few days after the Double Ninth Festival, I watched this well-received movie.
Sister Tao is old, and after a stroke, she asked to go to a nursing home. Sister Tao has a sensitive mind and was not very comfortable with it at first. Those old people sitting in the hall at the entrance are either sleeping or in a daze, and those who can't take care of themselves have to be fed by others, and some even take other people's dentures by mistake. Sister Tao sees all this in her eyes, but she has no other choice. Later, she gradually integrated into the life of the nursing home and became friends with the people around her. The elderly in the nursing home also have their own characteristics, such as the mother-in-law who has always looked forward to her son, Mei Gu who needs kidney dialysis, and Uncle Jian who borrows money to call chicken. Life in a nursing home is not as convenient and free as home, but it is worse than having someone to take care of and a group of friends. Sister Tao always had a smile on her face.
Sister Tao is lucky, although she never married and has no children. But her 60 years of hard work have made the descendants of the family close to her like family, and Roger is like a son, dedicated to accompany her through the last part of the road. Sister Tao's luck lies in the fact that she can enjoy the high-quality elderly care services in Hong Kong, and there are so many kind residents in the nursing home. In addition, Sister Tao is also very generous in dealing with money. Several details can be seen. For example, if she needs to pay for the nursing home, she refuses to accept money from Roger's mother. She gives gold and silver jewelry to the younger generation, and lends money generously to Uncle Jian (similar to giving, it seems that he never paid it back) and so on. Her disregard for money made the Roger family and friends in the nursing home pay special respect to her and were willing to share good things with her.
A theme in the film is attitudes towards aging and death. Residents in nursing homes come and go, sometimes live and sometimes die. There are always new arrivals, and there are always people who leave here, or transfer, or leave forever. Before Sister Tao's surgery, Roger invited the pastor, and the pastor led everyone to pray together, and what he said was exactly the content of facing death calmly. And the Tang poem sung by the lonely old man at the end is also a kind of echo, expressing the helplessness of parting vividly: when we meet, it is difficult to say goodbye. Death is the way the world must take, and fate is so, only obedience.
Another theme of the film is about the service of children to the elderly. I believe that everyone watching the film will always touch something in their hearts. My parents are also getting old. Fortunately, I can still take care of myself. However, in the face of the irresistible natural aging process, one day, I will have to face the escort before the sickbed, and deal with the news when I hear the news from the doctor. resignedly. I am not unfamiliar with the scenes of the nursing home in the film. A few years ago, my mother-in-law was living in a nursing home because of dementia and no one at home to take care of her. There are several scenes in the film, which are similar to my personal experience. A bunch of old people are sitting there. There are handrails and railings everywhere. They live year after year like candles in the wind. On a day when the oil was running out, everyone just watched indifferently even if someone was loaded into the ambulance. But what can we do? We can only try our best to provide all kinds of care, visit her more, and make her happy and dignified to finish the last journey.
In terms of humanistic care, the film has a very novel angle, showing the problem of old-age care for the elderly, which is also the reality that the current aging society must face. The radio station said that it is difficult to find a local public elderly care institution, but private elderly care institutions are not recognized, and some only occupy 20% to 40% of the beds. This is related to the weak medical and nursing capacity of the private sector. This phenomenon is compared with the enrollment of public and private kindergartens. like. The bigger problem is the shortage of old-age beds. There are as many as 100,000 elderly, single-living, empty-nest, disabled and sick elderly people in our city. Among them, 5% have a desire to live in an elderly care institution, and it is gradually increasing. At least 24,000 beds are required. However, the number of old-age beds in the city is only more than 8,000. Private nursing homes urgently need strong support from the government to make them more standardized and stronger.
The same rice raises hundreds of people. The film also condemns two kinds of people and praises two kinds of people. One of them is the children who abandoned the old people (such as the sons of grandmother Jin, and those who immigrated with the whole family and left another mother-in-law) ; The second is to use the holiday to condolence to the elderly to do a show, a false businessman. The first is the dedicated nursing home for the elderly, and the second is the caring "animal doctor" institution. A small family, a big society, and the issue of old-age care concern everyone, especially in this aging society, the issue of old-age care requires the joint attention and joint efforts of the whole society. Here, I invested and made such a good film for Mr. Andy Lau Salute to him!
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