Wen/Peng Shaojun
In a corner of the street full of cherry trees, there is a small shop of Tongluo Shao. The owner, Sentaro, is a middle-aged man. In order to make a living and repay the owner's loan, he sells Tongluo Shao here every day. There are not many customers and he can barely manage it. He is a little confused and depressed about life. For him, this job is just a means of making a living. He seems to be pushed forward by an invisible hand, just running his body mechanically.
One day when the cherry blossoms were blooming, a 76-year-old grandmother named Dejiang came to the store and said that she wanted to work in this small shop. Considering her age and physical condition, Sentaro naturally turned her down, but when she left, Sentaro gave her a bronze gong burn made by herself. A few days later, grandma Dejiang came to the store again, hoping that Sentaro could hire her to work in the store. This time, Sentaro turned her down again. When she left, she told Sentaro that the burnt skin of the bronze gongs he made was not bad, but the taste of the bean paste stuffing was still lacking. In addition, she left a box of bean paste stuffing made by herself. After a period of time, grandma Dejiang came to Tongluoshao store again. This time, Sentaro took the initiative to ask grandma Dejiang for help in the store, because he had eaten the bean paste stuffing made by grandma Dejiang before and tasted a delicious food that he had never experienced before. As a result, grandma Dejiang began to help in the shop. As the taste of Tongluo Shao was improved and the number of customers increased, Sentaro's life became more and more active and happy.
However, the good times did not last long. After a period of time, no customers went to the store to buy Tongluo Shao. Because everyone gradually discovered that grandma Dejiang had suffered from leprosy, although she had recovered, her wrist was bent and deformed because of the sequelae, leaving a terrible scar. For this reason, the owner forced Sentaro to dismiss grandma Dejiang. In the inner struggle, Sentaro had to leave grandma Dejiang. This experience also gave Sentaro a new view of life.
the outline of the story is roughly like this. Naomi Kawase, the director, reveals the discrimination and ruthlessness dormant in the society with the help of the painful experience of an old woman who once suffered from leprosy. Of course, this film not only draws people's attention to the social discrimination against leprosy patients, it reminds us of more kinds of discrimination: either because of infectious diseases, or because of family background, or because of the mistakes made the day after tomorrow ... In short, discrimination has been lurking in society like a stubborn disease. Sometimes, we also become the ruthless perpetrators of this kind of discrimination.
However, if you think about it carefully, each of us is not a perfect person, and we all have some deficiencies (such as birth, appearance, health, talent, etc.), and such deficiencies have become the kindling that causes others to discriminate. Many times, when we discriminate against the defects of others, others are also discriminating against our defects. So to be extreme, we are all discriminated against. A film will not completely change the discrimination deposited in the social structure, but it reminds us that when discrimination may be imposed, we should also think about the discrimination we have suffered, take care of each other and try our best to give respect and warmth to the discriminated. In the film, when a girl was looking through a picture book about leprosy patients, she saw such a sentence: "We also want to live in a sunny society". In fact, not only leprosy patients, we all want to live in a sunny society, and such a sunny society needs everyone to actively create.
It seems that it is not the ultimate goal of the director to let the discriminated people get respect and sympathy. She wants to tell us that only those who are self-respecting and self-reliant can gain real respect from others. One of the most impressive scenes in the film is that grandma Dejiang made bean paste stuffing with red beans for the first time in the store. She washed, cooked and honey-stained red beans slowly, just like a group of children or elves, with care and love. Sentaro said anxiously, "This is too much trouble.". However, grandma Dejiang didn't change her rhythm because of this. She replied, "Yes, because I want to treat them warmly." Sentaro immediately asked, "Entertain customers?" Grandma Dejiang replied: "It was a warm hospitality to the red beans, which grew out of the ground with great difficulty." The process of making bean paste with red beans is no longer a manual operation for grandma Dejiang, but a kind of hospitality and gift. From her attentive eyes and skillful and respectful actions, I feel her love for this job, her respect for life and her philosophical attitude towards life. I think people who still treat life seriously and positively can really gain the respect of others, no matter what kind of pain they have suffered in the past. A person's self-esteem and self-reliance are just like the image of "cherry blossoms" that often appears in movies, so beautiful and gorgeous.
how to evaluate a art cinema? I think a good art cinema lies not in the novelty of the story content or the unique shooting technique, but in whether it has the role of "baptism spirit". A good art cinema makes our hearts clean and dust-free as if they had been washed in the clear Nilian Zen River. Just as the world has changed instantly, it makes us see a new side of the world, and it also makes us love and cherish life more. From the perspective of the spirit of baptism, this film is a good art cinema. This film also inherits the beautiful, simple, melodious and soothing style of art cinema. Of course, besides the warning sound of cherry blossoms, trams and railway forks, what beautiful images are there? Please look for them yourself.
? Delicious copper gongs. Would you like a piece?
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