The story of "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die" is actually very simple, and it can be summed up in one sentence.

"The story of a man who wanted to die but never did."

When all the guests and the audience were seated in the Movie Palace, there was no part of the main creator's speech, as soon as the lights dimmed and the big screen lit up, the movie began to be screened.

Venice is so neat and tidy.

All the viewers turned their attention and attention to the big screen.

Li Xuejian, who wore elderly makeup and had his hair dyed white, appeared on the screen with a slightly hunched back.

His name is Levin.

The 60-year-old Li Wen has a strange temper, a tendon in his brain, and is extremely stubborn, and he looks like an old man who is not easy to get along with.

The company that had worked diligently for 43 years found a reason to fire him, and there was nothing more that required him to do his duty.

He is a loner, moving between the community and the cemetery every day according to a fixed schedule.

In the community, he lives alone, without a wife and no children.

Every day, he would patrol the neighborhood regularly, check the locks of the warehouse doors, stop the cars that drove into the street, drive the cats and dogs running around, and go up to scold unruly people and things.

Many of the old residents who live in this neighborhood say behind their backs that he is old-fashioned, has an eccentric temper, and is not a good neighbor.

To be honest, the image of the male protagonist hooked at the beginning is indeed very unpleasant.

Vitriol, irritable, stubborn, old-fashioned, very serious, as long as you break the rules he adheres to, then you are ready to hear his swearing.

Only when Li Wen went to the cemetery to see his wife, there was a trace of it, and this guy also had a sense of tenderness.

Then, the plot begins to reach an inflection point.

This eccentric old man, on a sunny morning, was about to commit suicide by hanging his head from a beam.

He wore a white shirt and a blue suit, tied a striped tie, suit pants and leather shoes, repaired his beard and tidied up his personal appearance, and prepared to leave this world with dignity.

He tied the rope to the beams, stepped on the chair, and stuck his head into the ferrule, and just as the audience frowned, a trumpet interrupted his suicide.

A new neighbor moved in next door, and the neighbor's reversing level was too clumsy, and he was not allowed to help in the face of the new neighbor's request, which finally affected the mood of continuing to commit suicide.

After helping the neighbor, Li Wen came home and collapsed on the sofa, and memories began to occupy his mind.

It turned out that Li Wen was also a talent when he was young, with a good personality, and the loss of his mother at a young age did not defeat him, and living with his father made him have a strong interest in cars and trains.

After hard work, he successfully obtained the train qualification.

Everything seems to be fine, but why did he become the way he is?

The perspective returns to reality, Li Wen did not give up the idea of suicide after the first suicide failure, and is still preparing to commit suicide.

However, the second time he committed suicide, he was already dressed neatly in a suit and leather shoes, and as a result, the daughter of the new neighbor came to deliver food, and was forced to stop, and he did not have the tradition of wasting food.

The third time, the gravitational pull of the earth was used to superimpose the rope resistance, and as a result, the rope broke.

The fourth time, I wanted to use the exhaust fumes of the car to absorb carbon emissions by myself, but my neighbor fell and injured himself and had to help drive to the hospital.

The fifth time, lying on the tracks, but because a man suddenly fell ill on the tracks, he fell on the tracks before him, and when he rescued the person, the train also braked and stopped urgently.

In each of Levin's suicide failures, there will be many memories inserted.

It turned out that although he lost his mother at a young age, under the example and education of his father, he learned to treat everyone honestly and kindly.

However, at the age of sixteen, he lost his father.

Levine inherited a dilapidated bicycle, a dilapidated house, a deformed watch and his father's job.

He worked honestly and dutifully, but he was framed for stealing his wallet and lost his job, but the good Samaritan arranged for him to work as a night bus cleaner.

Everyone wants to live with dignity, and dignity is different for different people.

For Lee, dignity means being a person who adheres to principles and can support himself.

Li Wen is very principled and does not know how to be flexible at all, he strictly managed garbage classification earlier than the people of Modu, and he could not ignore any thing that violated what he considered to be "common sense", black and white.

In the past two years, I was deceived in buying insurance, my house was burned because I saved people, everything went wrong, and I even took the car in the opposite direction.

But after losing the harvest of Sangyu, he met Xiaoya, his first love, his beloved, and all his own.

Xiao Ya's world is colorful, and it is all the colors of Li Wen's world.

Before her, he had no life.

He is taciturn, reckless and straightforward, black and white, obsessed with technology.

She is lively and generous, beautiful and generous, full of joy in life, and loves literature and art.

No one understands why Xiaoya, as a junior high school teacher, would accept Li Wen as a railway worker.

But Xiaoya understands that a person who is willing to do a reverse train for a few hours a day is just to accompany you, and that is probably true love.

Loving her unconditionally is indeed his life principle.

Li Wen and Xiaoya's first date, they made an appointment to have dinner together, and Li Wen came a little late.

"Why do you have to come out after eating at home?" She asked.

He looked at her with a sincere look in his eyes: "Because then you can order as much as you want." ”

In that era when he was not wealthy, eating out was a very luxurious thing, and he only hoped that on his first date, Xiaoya could eat well.

During the dinner, he nervously confessed to her that when they met on the train, he was treated as a soldier, but he was actually wrong, he was not a soldier, just a trainman working on the train.

"So what?" Xiaoya held her chin with her hands and smiled brightly: "It makes no difference to me whether a soldier or a trainman." ”

They fell in love.

He was eccentric and lonely, she was warm and sunny, and she healed his lonely heart.

They are diligent, respectful of each other, work hard to make money and buy a new house, Xiaoya is pregnant, and everything is stable and good. Then on the honeymoon, the drunken bus driver ruined their happiness.

Xiaoya can only spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair from then on, and she is not destined to become a mother.

When life mocked him again and again, Levine never gave in.

He continues to love Xiaoya deeply, has always supported his wife's dream, and created all the convenience for Xiaoya's beloved work, his wife wants to continue to be a teacher, he paved a wheelchair passage for his wife, and they heal each other and support each other.

However, fate is out of control, half a year ago, Xiaoya left the world one step ahead of Li Wen because of cancer.

Li Wen looks back on their lives, life is ordinary, but the people who have loved have been soaked in the imprint of time, the color that warms and heals him, but it cannot be abandoned.

"You're not at home, it's a mess."

"If I'm in a hurry, maybe we'll be able to meet today."

"I miss you so much."

In front of Xiaoya's grave, Li Wen said sensational things in a tone that was so flat that he seemed to be asking what he was eating today.

When the person you love deeply, the work you are used to abandoning us will probably be like Li Wen, a stubborn old man, who wants to leave this cruel world and run to his departed lover.

However, Li Wen, who is looking for a way to die every day, is interrupted by various trivial things every time.

He taught his neighbors to reverse their cars, helped them repair radiators, adopted stray kittens, took in homeless boys, and worked with his neighbors to repel real estate developers who wanted to demolish their neighborhoods, saving his friends from being forcibly sent to a nursing home......

The stray cats in the community who are bullied need to be cared for, the friends in the community who have parted ways after the same hatred cannot be sent to the nursing home, and her wife does not know how to fix the heating.

The big-hearted, newly moved Northeast woman next door, Li Yan, has the consciousness of treating herself as Li Wen's daughter, whether he agrees or not.

Then, her children naturally became Li Wen's granddaughters.

Being called grandpa, with the concern of your heart, you have lost the right to commit suicide, and you have to buy someone a new mobile phone.

After his wife's death, his world was completely dark, and suicide was perhaps the best option.

Until the neighbor who moved in next door brought new concerns to Li Wen.

"No one can take it all alone, no one, including you!"

After Li Wen's suicide attempt was discovered by the Northeast woman next door, they had a very serious conversation.

"Never give up, that's what you said, right?" She gave Li Wen the words she had taught her children and gave them back to him.

"But what about you? Because of the death of your wife, you sit there and feel sorry for yourself. ”

"Because you have misfortune, blame other people for being an idiot."

"You're the one who loves to give up the most."

"Just because you think everyone doesn't need help to survive."

"But you know what?"

"No one can do everything alone, no one, but that's life."

Li Wen seems to have changed recently, and he has slowly intersected with the people around him, and he has never seen him so energetic.

The new neighbor and even the other people and critters in the neighborhood are not perfect, timid, clumsy, stubborn, and unpleasant, and Li Wenzhen fears that without him, the community may be ruined.

Although in the face of other people's requests for help, Li Wen still did not have a good face, and even complained in his heart, but he always reached out to help.

Everyone knows that he is actually just a kind old man with a hard mouth and a soft heart.

Unconsciously, the neighbors can't live without Li Wen, and Li Wen can't do without his neighbors. The most important thing is that Li Wen finally found the meaning of life, he felt that he was needed, and someone liked and loved.

Of course, every time he scolded these people for their incompetence, but when he was alone in the small cemetery, he would occasionally say vaguely things like "it might be good to do something during the day".

Soon it was winter again, a cold November morning.

Li Yan, the Northeast woman next door, woke up as usual, looked out the bedroom window, and then looked at the clock.

It's a quarter past eight, but the snow in front of Li Wen's house across the window has not been shoveled, which is not in line with Li Wen's old-fashioned lifestyle.

As soon as the camera turned, Li Wen put his hands on his chest, lying on the bed, looking like he was just sleeping deeply, he had never seen him so peaceful, the cat was lying next to him, and his head was carefully resting on his palm.

Li Yan's eldest daughter pulled her sleeve with some confusion: "Why hasn't Grandpa woken up yet?" ”

Li Yan didn't answer, just leaned over and whispered in Li Wen's ear: "Say hello to Xiaoya's mother for me, thank you for lending you to me." ”

People will inevitably get hurt, but may there always be love that can heal you.

This is the end of the film.

The black screen scrolling subtitles at the end of the credits light up.

After a brief silence.

In the Cinema Palace, applause roared. (End of chapter)