In the movie, the fat Jiang is a music teacher in a normal school in this city. Her name is Wang Cailing. She is fat, withdrawn and arrogant. She has buck teeth, and her face is covered with black spots and acne. She likes Italian opera, and her biggest dream is to sing at the Paris Opera House. In the 1980s, few people in the inland towns of northern China could appreciate this, and so did ballet and modernist painting. So she went back and forth to Beijing again and again, was interviewed for employment by various troupes and conservatories, and entrusted her with a Beijing hukou with money, hoping to leave the city. Asking for help in Beijing is always rejected mercilessly. Back in the town, I had to hold my head high as if I were full of ambition. Everyone told me that I want Beijing, and the Central Opera House is tuning me up. People breathed a sigh of relief She is single, friendless, ugly, and sings songs that no one understands. In this small place, she tightens her heart and lives only for the goal of being unwilling to be mediocre, and all the sadness and unbearable are swallowed up.
In the movie beginning of spring, there are three young people who have dreams but are frustrated. In the play, he plays Huang, a worker who loves painting and wants to be admitted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The other is a male dance teacher, who was obsessed with ballet since childhood and was ridiculed and hostile by small-town people. Three people in the same city have an intersection because of the same fate. I remember that in Chekhov's novel "Three Sisters", Wang Cailing lay on her side in bed and made a nude model for Huang. She said that the three sisters lived in a small place far away from Moscow, and it was impossible to miss Moscow. One of the sisters said that living in such a small place, knowing six languages is like the burden of six fingers, and then she kept silent and said it was just like us. It's really bitter, but two people are in the same boat and understand each other, which is very comforting. She said to tell you a secret, I am still a virgin, and I don't want to have love in this city. But love came anyway. She fell in love with handsome, decadent and naive Huang, and was even willing to give up her Beijing hukou for him. But he doesn't love her. After she had forced sexual relations with him, Huang, who was deeply disgusted, humiliated her in public and left Shenzhen. She was usually very proud. She climbed the tower that night and committed suicide, but she didn't die. Cousin Huang, who has always admired her singing, came to propose to her, saying that they are about the same age, so let's be together. She said absolutely, "I would rather eat fresh peaches than rotten apricots in the basket." I mean, a woman, no matter how ugly or old, has the right to choose whether to love or not. Later, when the male dance teacher who couldn't stand the strange eyes of people around her and her family came to ask for a fake marriage, she was very angry, knowing that she was the one who suffered, and how different this man who could not live without ballet was from herself. Wang Cailing attaches great importance to her life value in her bones and will never accept casual settlement and settlement. In this backward town with which she didn't want to have emotional entanglements, she met someone by chance and fell in love with him for a moment, even if she was hurt.
The most vivid picture I remember is that Wang Cailing took her Protestant students and her mother to participate in the competition in Beijing. On the crowded and dim train, she said to her sleepy mother and daughter, "It doesn't really mean anything when spring comes every year, but I always feel that something big is going to happen. My heart is always ready to move, but when the whole spring passed and nothing happened, I was very disappointed, as if I had missed something. " How does this eager young town yearn for something to change her established life?
The river of time flows, as if nothing has changed, but it seems to have brought something. In order to avoid the inquisitive and contemptuous eyes of the world, the dance teacher deliberately wants to rape female students, so he is satisfied to be able to dance. Huang turned into the boss of a marriage agency, driving a car and making a fortune by cheating people. After the sudden stomach trouble, Wang Cailing, who has always disdained to associate with small-town people, began to make friends with her female neighbors, no longer went to Beijing often, and used various methods to clean up the black spots and acne marks on her face. She also asked for money from the Beijing hukou to help the female students who claimed to have cancer successfully participate in the singing competition in Beijing. Her heart slowly let go, and she even concealed the registration of the matchmaking agency, but still failed to find love. She passed Huang on the road. Later, she went to the welfare home to adopt a rabbit-lipped child, because when she approached the group of playing children, everyone else ran away, and only the little girl sat there and smiled at her. She named her daughter Wang Xiaofan. Maybe after a walk, she found herself the happiest as an ordinary person. She brought lambs from the grassland alone and opened a mutton shop to make money to treat her daughter.
At the end of the film, Wang Cailing took her daughter to Beijing again. In front of Tiananmen Square, she played happily with her recovered daughter. When the music in the square started, the mother and daughter listened attentively. At this time, Wang Cailing stood on the stage of the Central Opera House in costume and sang an opera. There is a line printed on the screen: This scene is dedicated to Wang Cailing. At that time, she should think of her unfulfilled dream, but she won't regret it or be sad.
Everyone's efforts and uncompromising efforts for their dreams are touching and admirable. There will always be people who can't realize their wishes because of lack of talent or conditions. After the long winter, spring has finally begun. If something big doesn't happen or you've missed it, things will change slowly. In the movie, Wang Cailing read to her daughter about the process of caterpillar changing from pupa to moth. She read that the male moth has only a few days to find a mate and only a few months to live. When her life was coming to an end, Wang Cailing, who had changed her winter clothes into summer clothes, stopped and lamented that people were much happier than them. You see, I don't know what will happen in the future, so we just keep going. I believe that with love, everything will come true