Film Review▕ "Lonely Taste" - Flowers bloom and fade, they are the taste of life

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No matter how the kite flies, it still has to land

Every character in "Lonely Taste" has his own way of expressing love. Even if they can't have the same connection, they are all really paying for each other. However, no matter how much you pay, it is in vain not to be understood. "Lonely Taste" takes this as the theme, and uses funerals to build a journey of reconciliation one after another, for people, for love, and for yourself.

First of all, let's look at Wan Qing, the eldest sister of the Chen family. Logically speaking, after the parents divorce, the eldest sister should take up the role of motherhood and take good care of her younger sister, so as to share the pressure of her mother. However, it was too heavy and burdensome for her when she was young, and she was never ready. She was even more similar and closer to her father than her mother. However, this resemblance and intimacy, which should have been proud, turned out to be the problems and flaws that made him a surrogate victim after his parents fell out.

From this, it can be seen that the eldest sister is not only expected to be a mother, but also likened to a father, a small shoulder, but has to undertake two contradictory identities and tasks at the same time. Huge pressure and contradictions prompted Wan Qing to make a decision. She can't do both identities perfectly. With the choice, she knew that she was not as savvy as the second sister, and not as lovable as her. In order not to cause more trouble for her family, she abandoned her responsibility and chose freedom, but she also had to bear others' incomprehension towards her.

In addition, it is difficult for Wan Qing to hate her father from the bottom of her heart. Although she is not a good husband, her father's chicness is also the way of survival that Wan Qing is envious of. However, she didn't want to repeat the mistakes of her father and hurt anyone. Therefore, when she came back to herself, she always kept setting up warning signs, and even refused to invest her life in the decision to give her husband and classmates who loved too much to her. Push away, thereby protecting them from harm.

As far as this is concerned, Wan Qing is not unwilling to take responsibility, nor is she simply fond of freedom, but she is afraid that, like her father, she will let others down and cause harm, so she pushed aside the relationship and hung up on capricious rebellion, and everything doesn't matter. cover up. In this sense, Wan Qing's decision to pursue freedom is not a selfish evasion and irresponsibility. To a certain extent, she is afraid of screwing up others, so she screwed up on herself first, so as to make others afraid to approach her broken and embarrassed self. .

Therefore, Wan Qing, as a woman who dreams of becoming a kite, her absurd and unrestrained unrestrainedness implies not really running away, but also a lot of protection, hoping that others will no longer be hurt because of herself. . However, things didn't go as smoothly as she thought. No matter how hard she pushed or made trouble, her husband, classmates, sister or mother still wanted to be her roots without reservation. After all, in the eyes of relatives and friends, no matter how the kite flies, it still has to land, and it needs a stable traction to avoid falling and breaking.

However, the unrepentant love, although warm, also ignited Wan Qing's guilt. Her mother's constant chattering from childhood to adulthood made her believe that she was the dereliction of duty and eldest sister that her mother called her. In this regard, Wan Qing believes that people who neglect their duties do not have the qualifications to ask for happiness. After all, good people have good rewards, and they are only harmful substances to others, without the value of being loved, and they should only wait for retribution.

However, even if people can screw up their own lives, it is impossible to screw up their thirst for love. The death in front of them still makes Wan Qing take off her disguise and say, "When you die, can you hold my hand? "It's like a question buried in my heart for many years, that is, "Even if I'm so bad, will others still love me?"

As mentioned earlier, Wan Qing feels a lot of guilt towards her family, which is why it is natural for ordinary people to be with her family when she dies, but for her, it is a question that must be asked. , The interpretation of dereliction of duty makes Wan Qing have the thirst for love, but does not dare to have too many extravagant demands.

All you have to do now is let go

For this reason, the movie let go, not only to her mother, but also to Wan Qing to remind her that she is not the same as her father, remember to come back, and come back, not leaving anyone behind, so that Wan Qing can stop To torture myself with my mother's complaints, to tell myself that there is indeed value in being loved well. Later, even though the current situation was embarrassing, the knot in my heart was unraveled. My mother even knew how to let go and let Wan Qing take care of herself, and Wan Qing also understood that her mother's love was all hidden in the smallest details, contained in the details. The resentment in the mouth is actually full of love.

Since then, the relationship between the mother and daughter has grown a little bit further, but also a little closer. In the process of pulling and pulling each other, they tasted the capriciousness of love delicately. Wan Qing is also reborn from the ashes, and then understands that chicness and dependence can coexist, the performance is good or bad, it has nothing to do with love or not, as long as she is mother's daughter, she will be well loved.

On the whole, the film uses the metaphor of a kite to represent that the eldest sister is very clever. On the surface, it is expressing her love for freedom and unrestrainedness, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a vague expectation of belonging, which means that the kite always Someone has to hold onto this fact. In this way, the kite represents the inner and outer sides of the eldest sister, and then helps the viewer to understand the self-pulling and questioning of the eldest sister in each line of dialogue. It can be said that this makes the yearning for love covered by guilt. There is an opportunity to talk through the subconscious level, from the extravagant desire that dare not speak clearly to the desire to be understood and understood by others.

No matter how accustomed to wandering, people still need a harbor where they can snuggle

unfold naturally, it will bloom

After talking about the eldest sister, let's take a look at the second sister and the younger sister who are like mirrors, Wan Yu and Jiajia.

As the second sister, Wan Yu saw the eldest sister's unsatisfactory performance. She took up her mother's acting position and became the foreman who took care of the family's affairs. However, this job is not easy. Many times, in order to do her job well, Wan Yu has to hide her vulnerability and tears, and the method she uses is anger. Therefore, we will see that when Wan Yu folds the lotus, her hands are always stronger than hers, her walking speed is also faster, her tone is always strong and straight, and that beautiful cheek is always more Tension, after all, if this anger is not maintained at all times, she will lose control of tears and exhaustion.

However, Wan Yu never thought that this control seemed to allow her to control everything, but it also made her lose a part of herself, and thus pushed away some relationships and connections. Putting the cart before the horse, control was originally for the purpose of Allowing families to keep functioning can now be a rift in relationships of all kinds.

I'm all for your good

Of course, many times, the second sister Wan Yu's control is not just for herself, but like the eldest sister, her intentions are rarely heard and understood, not to mention a crack in the relationship, and this crack even spread to Xiao Cheng. , Unconsciously, Wan Yu copied the relationship and interaction of the previous generation into her own family, and packaged the control as good intentions, but neglected that the children did not necessarily want to be willing. In the end, the unrealized freedom became Wan Yu's chains, binding Xiao Cheng's will, which was an ironic and sad cycle.

In order to prevent Wan Yu from following her own footsteps, as a mother, Xiuying, she gently reminds her as a senior, but the knot of the next generation still has to be solved by herself. For this reason, Xiuying (played by Chen Shufang) has only good intentions. Reminder, I didn't want to interfere more, and this letting go, to a certain extent, was reconciling with Wan Yu, who was most like him. She has long understood her good intentions, and unknowingly she has become a bondage to Wan Yu, just like Wan Yu to Xiao Cheng, Xiuying also has a lot of expectations for Wan Yu, and Wan Yu is so considerate, even if she is dissatisfied, she will still Work hard to meet expectations, and this Xiuying also sees it.

Therefore, although Xiuying was saying to Xiao Cheng that she was happy, she also seemed to remind Wan Yu not to continue to be so strict with herself. Unfortunately, for Wan Yu, she is not only a mother, but also Xiuying's daughter. She is still secretly looking forward to Xiuying's comfort as her own mother, instead of reminding herself how to be a mother. Therefore, the reason why Wan Yu in that scene looked angry was not entirely caused by Xiao Cheng's confrontation, but more of her inner loneliness. For this reason, she had to use familiar anger to hide her tears.

This part of the arrangement is also a pity for many moviegoers. It seems that Xiuying and Wan Yu did not talk about it, but I think that for Xiuying, the one who always performs well and is most similar to herself. Wan Yu may be the most important piece in her heart, even more than the restaurant, only she can bear her expectations, or even exceed her own expectations, what she has done must have been self-evident. Otherwise, she would not have jumped directly to Xiao Cheng after explaining her worries about the eldest and younger sisters. After all, Wan Yu has never been the person she needs to worry about, so I think that she doesn't worry, to a certain extent, what she didn't say is Xiuying's intention and reassurance towards Wan Yu.

In the end, he came to Jiajia. As the youngest, he was deeply protected by members of the family, but because of this protection, Jiajia became the person in the family who didn't know anything. In this regard, what Jiajia feels is not protection, but not being trusted. Therefore, as far as Jiajia is concerned, what she needs most is affirmation. She hopes that her mother will let her take charge of the restaurant, and she also hopes that her sisters will let her go. Informed.

Perhaps, on the surface of the movie, Jiajia's performance is often like against Xiuying, but in fact, Jiajia doesn't really want to betray anyone, she just wants to prove herself and can help , so she was always so loud, hoping that at least one person could hear her, affirm her or even agree with her.

Facing Jia Jia, Xiuying also chose to let go and told Jia Jia that she wanted to go home, but she was not worried about the decision of the restaurant. She knew that Jia Jia could do it, and believed that she would go all out to respond to the expectations of the villagers. In addition, Xiuying's letting go is not only that she wants to let Jiajia go, but also reminds Jiajia to let go of herself and avoid thinking about the affirmation of others in order to seek her own happiness. In this regard, Jiajia understands her mother's intentions even if she is reluctant to give up, not to mention that this time she has already been affirmed, and it is indeed time to start thinking about the happiness she wants.

In addition, in the seating arrangement in the living room, we can see the director's intentions, ranking the three sisters according to their situation and their relationship with their mother. The eldest sister, who is most like her father, will also defend her father's point of view, and she is the most repulsive to her mother, sitting the farthest; The mother is the closest; the younger sister, caught in the middle, in a bewildering tug, is the sister who knows the least, but is the one who can most neutrally explain.

To sum up, no matter who the three sisters are, or even the adopted daughter, Xiuying always uses letting go to face it, which adds more flavor to "Lonely Taste", so that letting go is not only the freedom in love, but also Relationship redemption between mother and daughter.

Letting go is not a helpless act under the loss, but a preparation before holding on to the relationship.

The flowers are blooming and withering, and the smell is good

Since ancient times, flowers have been used by the Chinese as a metaphor for love, youth and girls. At the end of the movie, Xiuying picks up the flowers in the bushes, and when they look at them, they drop them, which symbolizes Xiuying's open-mindedness and letting go. Afterwards, what appeared in the water tank was no longer the moon representing women and thoughts, but three beautiful fish in the water, which meant the harvest and satisfaction of being a mother.

In this regard, the film delicately uses silent pictures to bring out Xiuying's transformation, expressing not only her feelings, but also the accompanying youth and no regrets, and uses this to metaphorize Xiuying's maturity and contentment. For this reason, Xiuying was also able to generously let Mei Lin take her place in the main palace and send her husband off for the last ride. Afterwards, Xiuying gave her old friend a good song, and sang it with the lyrics of "The breeze is dripping with feces, and the flowers bloom and fade away." No regrets either.

Interestingly, the movie let Long Shaohua, who plays the old Chen Bochang, sing in the taxi with his classmates, as if two old friends were playing around. This also shows that Xiuying's letting go is not giving up, but letting go and accepting.

However, the reason why Xiuying was able to let go is that the person who untied the bell still had to tie the bell. Although her ex-husband had passed away, those debts and understandings were still expressed through Merrill's mouth. For this reason, Xiuying's life-long grudges were indeed resolved by her ex-husband's warmth. By coincidence, Merrill was just like the butterfly that danced gracefully to bring sunshine to Xiuying. Later, in response to the bond forged in love, with Xiuying's break and let go, she finally got a clear solution under the witness of Yue Lao.

After talking about Xiuying, I pulled my perspective back to the butterfly, Merrill. In fact, the two of them were like two sides of a mirror. What Xiuying needed was to let go, but what Merrill needed was a tight grip. However, the relationship between the two is not a rival or a deadly enemy. Although each has holes due to the other, those holes are filled by the encounter and understanding of each other. It can be seen that Xiuying and Meilin The relationship between them is not only not mutual resistance, but also a kind of complementarity, and it can even be said that they complete each other's lives.

In this way, "Lonely Taste" creates a new frame of view, allowing viewers to reconsider the possibility of relationships, love and marriage, thus reminding that there is no absolute good or bad in love or not, let go or hold tight Can achieve different life landscapes.

I think the reason why "Lonely Taste" is so fascinating is that there are three generations of family members, but there are not only three kinds of interlaced love, it not only talks about marriage, but also talks about the contradictions and wrinkles between family members, and those, which rarely float Now the words are buried in the bottom of my heart, and the love is implicit because of the Chinese culture.

However, even family members may not be able to communicate with each other. Therefore, those buried loves are only a shadow, and become a candle in the wind. Along with quarrels, incomprehension, doubts, cover-ups and complaints, they suddenly disappear. dark. If the introversion of "Dear Tenant" is due to guilt, the omission of "Lonely Taste" is for protection. However, unspoken love, even if the blood is connected, may not be understood, but will become a rift in the relationship.

Therefore, as most people have said, the main axis of "Lonely Taste" is to expound on letting go and recall, but we also know that before letting go, people need to sort out carefully. Letting go is not a decision in the blink of an eye, but a careful cleaning up. . Therefore, the movie arranges a lot of scenes to tell the story, not only for the development of the plot, but also for the tangled love between the characters to have a solution, and then have the opportunity to draw the next movie for the movie or the family. complete circle.

It can be seen from this that the brilliance of "Lonely Taste" lies not only in the decision when letting go, but also in the struggle and hesitation before letting go. It can even be said that it is because of the eight o'clock noise and the ease and calmness after letting go that it is even more moving with perseverance.

The moon is cloudy and sunny, and love has good luck and bad luck

Epilogue

The word loneliness refers to the concentration of the craftsman's spirit, but the reason why this film has such a rich and charming point is that it has more than one flavor, even if they are all called love, different people have different flavors. They have their own cooking habits, just like the old saying, "Xishi in the eyes of a lover", their own love is difficult for others to understand, and only those who are intoxicated can taste it. However, rather than saying that "Lonely Taste" wants to explain the answer that love has only focus, it is better to say that "Lonely Taste" is to open our taste buds and let us understand that even if the focus of love varies from person to person, the attachment to love is still human. Universal instinct. Even "Lonely Flavor" takes this as a starting point, elegantly combining the persistent pairing of Taiwanese women with delicate taste, and then full of perseverance feasts. For this reason, the film itself is not only a pastime after a meal, but also arousing emotional taste buds. Deep dive.

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