2024/1/16 Watching "Lighting Store" has a feeling
Maybe it's not just me, but more people haven't been to the theater in years, right?
It was a complete sudden thought, a last-minute plan, and finally a chartered feeling.
It's a story of love, longing, death, goodbye, and relief.
It is said to be an adaptation of a Korean manga. If there was a place where you could meet your deceased loved ones, would you go?
If the accident comes unexpectedly, a farewell is a farewell, do you have regrets, regrets and entanglements?
Perhaps we ordinary people have been trivial, prosaic, and simple repetition day after day in our daily lives to wear out the heartbeat of the past, and we will also be commonplace and even numb to some feelings, more for each other's incomprehension and disagreement in daily life, from disputes and quarrels to silence and no longer communicate, forgetting that they came together just to be able to embrace each other.
There is less empathy for loved ones and more occasional impatience. There is less restraint and more demand for lovers.
When it comes to death, how many people think of "death is like a lamp going out". "The Lighting Store" interprets this sentence well, using the light bulb to represent the light of life of every dying person, and the right to light up and not to light is placed in the hands of the person concerned. A car accident puts everyone in the car into a near-death world. Those who are still being rescued linger because of some obsessions, while others who are dead want to be kept alive. If the first half is weird and bizarre, then the second half of the movie is the rescue of these people in the real world, as well as their lives, trivial and subtle but very warm. Behind everyone there is a family, all ordinary and extraordinary beings in the world.
Judging from the intuitive performance of the movie, it is that after an accident, the dying person tries to persuade the person who still has hope to return to the normal world. The young mother seemed to be "ruthless" to her daughter Zhuzhu, and asked her to go to her father's side and ask a female nurse to take care of Zhuzhu; The boyfriend deliberately brushed off the heroine Xu Nian and the two handprints he pressed on the wall.
This is the hope that the living can continue to live, and the temporary rejection and cover-up is to bring them back to the world they rightfully have. But in fact, what the movie wants to express may be the more important things that every ordinary person really cares about in life, right?
A young mother who is a single mother. The hands that turned their nails in the first half of the year were actually the hands that supported her and her daughter, and the hands that took the burden of life by digging her out of the car. Mother's love is not only deep, but also heavy and powerful, and single mothers have to bear some burdens of life.
Mr. Jiang, a dementia patient who always sings children's songs repeatedly, has always been concerned about his son who is busy with life. Dementia, the only thing he remembers is the street he walked through with his son on his back, coaxing his son's nursery rhymes. And the son finally brought the whole family to pick up his father from the hospital, expressing a kind of inheritance of love.
The busyness of life cannot hide the original intention of family affection, and no matter how busy the life is, there will be more joy and happiness because of the existence of family members.
However, the last moment of the Yushan sisters' embrace, the compromise made due to the incomprehension of the world, this is the only one who has a chance to survive but gives up, as long as there is a place for you, even if you leave the world, there is no regret.
The driver felt a lot of guilt, but he was also forced by the difficulties of life, and he could only try his best to save when he was dying, hoping that those who were hit by the accident could have more chances of survival.
The female protagonist Xu Nian couldn't face up to the departure of the male protagonist Zheng Man, and relied on hypnotherapy to recall this period of the past, and let go of herself and her boyfriend, life still has to go on after all.
Maybe different professions, different identities, the obsession in everyone's heart is a unique family, friendship, love, right? Literary and artistic works are works after all, how can there be so many methodical farewells in life, and so many ways to make up for regrets? More often than not, those pains and injuries come so suddenly; And those regrets are regrets after all, and those reliefs can't be done after many late nights.
Life is short for decades, for ordinary little people, even if everything is instantaneous, there are always people in the world who are worthy of our nostalgia and efforts.
If there is another dimension, the person we love is in another world, and they also have their own space and life.
The sentence at the end of the movie, "You didn't actually leave, but just went from being around us to our hearts." Suddenly, let yourself burst into tears. The softness of the world is all blended by the works.