Chatting with Ziwei Hua

Time never stops. On the road of life, each of us is constantly walking.

Based on his novel, Hirokazu Koreeda made a film "Go on", which tells the daily life trivia of an ordinary family in Hengshan Town, thus leading to other things of this family in the past decades and showing the director's thinking about life and life.

The father in the film, Gongping, is a doctor and owns his own small clinic. By that time, he had retired. Chunping, the eldest son, inherited his father's career, but drowned to save the drowning children 15 years ago. Many second sons refused to follow their father's arrangement to become doctors, insisted on leaving home to work as painting restorers in different places, but lost their jobs. Many of them married Yulixiang with their children, supported each other and moved on. On the anniversary of Chunping's death, Duoduo and his sister Qian Naimei returned home with their families, and the film kicked off here.

The smell of human fireworks has been passed down from generation to generation. Family reunion, nothing important happens, all the plots are shown in the details of daily life. Many scenes in the movie are set in the kitchen. When many families are still on their way back, their mothers are busy in the kitchen, cutting vegetables, cook the meat, pickles and peeling beans ... Daughters also help and chat with their mothers. Father went out for a walk alone, and stopped to greet his neighbors. In summer, birds sang in the shade. When family members get together, the activities of the characters are always carried out in daily life such as cooking, eating, bathing and chatting.

This family is like a frozen river, with a calm and peaceful surface, but an undercurrent of contradictions lurks in the depths. There is estrangement and alienation between father and Dodo, and there is little communication. Even because his father guided Li Xiang's children to become doctors, Duo Duo clashed with his father angrily. Many disgruntled mothers invite the person saved by Chunping every year on the anniversary of Chunping's death, thinking that this is torture to that person, but the mother insists on doing so. The mother is dissatisfied with her daughter's not working, but her daughter plans to move back to her family. The little contradiction between mother and daughter doesn't seem to affect their chatting together. The mother was dissatisfied with many single mothers who had married and had children, but she was very polite to her daughter-in-law and gave her a kimono, hoping that her daughter-in-law could have another child. Daughter-in-law is dissatisfied with her mother-in-law only preparing pajamas for her son, but she just complains a lot. At the dinner table, because we talked about pop songs, my mother went to get a record and played one, which led to a love affair of my father Gongping when he was young. My forbearing mother only said a few words to her husband through the door panel ... There are subtle relationships between father and son, between mother and daughter, between mother and daughter, between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and between husband and wife. There are contradictions but they do not affect family ties.

This is the family. There are contradictions, alienation and dullness between family members, but there are also responsibilities, fetters and warmth. Therefore, on top of the desolate natural life, there are beautiful summer flowers of Wei Zi.

In the trivial life, life is constantly circulating. Like the details of the yellow butterfly in the movie. My mother and many other families went to visit Chunping Cemetery. My mother watered the tombstone and met a yellow butterfly on her way back. My mother said that the white butterfly won't die in winter, and it will become a yellow butterfly the next year. Three years later, many parents died, and many people took their families to the cemetery, repeating what their mothers did. On the way back, they also met a yellow butterfly. He told his daughter the story of the yellow butterfly with what his mother had said. Life is endless and handed down from generation to generation, just as Xiang Li said to his son, "People are not really dead, your father is in your heart and becomes a part of you."

This may also be a feeling, a comfort and an excuse for Hirokazu Koreeda to express his parents' death through movies.

"On the road of life, I have been walking. Why is it always a beat slow? No matter how careful we are, life will eventually miss something. "

Things that are slow to shoot, such as the name of sumo mentioned in the mother-child chat, were never thought of at that time. I remembered it on the train home, and my mother remembered it on the way home. And until their parents died, many of them didn't accompany their fathers to watch football matches, didn't drive their mothers to go shopping, and their mothers didn't see him have their own children, even though these were the wishes of their parents before their death.

Even if you don't stop walking, there is always a little too late, and there are always some regrets.

Hirokazu Koreeda felt remorse after his parents died. Because of his estrangement from his father, he "failed to do anything for his mother", so making this film began with his inner regret.

There is a saying that you will never grow old as fast as your parents. Although we don't stop walking, there will always be a little too late between children and parents. No matter what we do, regret is inevitable, which is the reality that we can do nothing.

On the road of life, we have not stopped. For parents and relatives, there is always a little too late, and there are some regrets. Therefore, on the journey of love, we need to stop.

In Song Dynasty, Feng Quqi had a saying: "Robbery lasts forever. It is better to come in late autumn and spring. " The rest of my life is endless. Parents used to be children, and children will eventually become parents. We can only give them as much understanding and companionship as possible while their parents are still alive, and minimize some regrets.

If you have missed something, it will be too late, just as Chen Peng said to Li Xiang in "West East of Mo Wen": "The dead are gone, the living are like this, be good to the future people!"

On the journey of love, I have been walking.