Cancer-related themed movies are, unsurprisingly, geared towards harvesting the audience's tears. The bald head in the last "Get Out, Tumor" made me laugh and cry. This "send you a small red flower" is not at all the route of the big open and close, one second the main man's cancer recurrence scene is still upset people, the next shot of the main man in the hospital checkups, sitting in the car to ask his mother to go to Qinghai 10,000 yuan, the whole movie to show that the cancer patient with the disease of the life of the camera is very restrained, do not let the tears of the people have a chance to fall out of the eye sockets.
The main storyline is simple: Wei Yihang, the hero, had a brain tumor a few years ago and is lonely and autistic because of his cancer. The female lead, Ma Xiaoyuan, had cancer at the age of five, but is optimistic and lively. The movie is about two people who meet and develop a mutual love, support and encouragement for each other through time and communication.
The movie is about people living with cancer, so it doesn't make the hero and heroine bald. On the surface, they look no different from normal people, but the movie uses a lot of footage to portray what makes their lives special.
The table at Wei Yihang's home where he eats has a short leg that is usually padded with paper, suggesting that the family has no money left over to buy new furniture for his treatment. At the dinner table, Wei Yihang's mother reminded the cooking father, the top ten list of anti-cancer vegetables have been updated, funny, but also set up the habit of cancer patients to eat light and avoid food. In the footage about the medicine, the capsules Wei Yihang is going to eat are placed in a rectangular pill box, and a dozen capsules in one compartment is the dosage for one day.
A teenager, sensitive and withdrawn because of cancer, Wei Yihang walks with his back hunched over, afraid that others will notice him.
"Hello, my name is Wei Yihang, would you like to see a slice of my brain tumor?"
The intention was to scare people away with this opening line, but it turned out that when she met Ma Xiaoyuan, who has a much longer history of cancer, she not only took it, but also disliked it.
For the first time, Wei Yihang's borders are chiseled out of an opening, and he's annoyed, but also curious about the girl.
After discovering Ma Xiaoyuan's live preview poster in a group of patients, Wei Yihang quietly groped for her microblogging account on his computer and clicked on her live video, he was hooked by the girl's strange concoction of drinks, how could he not expect his mom to suddenly barge into the room, and he buttoned up his computer in a state of panic. ......
Both mom and he froze, then mom reacted and exited the room with a knowing smile and said, "Weird mom, you should have knocked first when you came in ......"
Ah, it's not what you think ......
Wei Yihang felt his image collapsed, chased out, wanting to explain, but open mouth.
Mom still with a very understanding smile, hand on his son's shoulder: "Mom understands, our son has grown up."
More than just mom got it, we viewers got something amazing.
Wei Yihang returned to his room in shame and anger, and continued to watch the live video that he had not watched earlier, and watched the bright-eyed and white-toothed girl in the video drink the concoction of lost love water in one go, and flew a kiss to the camera, and the teenager's lowered eyes brightened for a minute, and his eyes involuntarily flickered away, exposing the beat of his heartbeat.
The night was as dark as ink, and a tree of peach blossoms suddenly bloomed in his heart.
He is also a little sullen, heartbeat is also just secretly concerned about the Ma Xiaoyuan microblogging, heard Ma Xiaoyuan boasted a few extreme sports red, his hand tossed and turned pulling the mineral water wrapper, the corner of the sinking mouth betrayed jealousy, not much movement of the skinny body pole, bravado asked to try to overload the weight lifting, lifting can not afford to do nothing, tendons have to pop up: you look at the Ma Xiaoyuan, I'm also a man!
Walking out of the gym, the sullen teenager began to find Ma Xiaoyuan's stumps: "Do you like to private message others blindly teasing on microblogging ah?"
Even for a boy or girl with a face full of collagen, the story will start to lose its color if the budding love starts to be a boring argument. But what makes this movie good is that the director always has a way of making the story next with a twist as a finishing touch when it has a tendency to be vulgar.
"I get it." In the face of Wei Yihang's perverse words and actions, Ma Xiaoyuan suddenly realized something, smiled wryly and asserted, "You're jealous," and then rode away, if Wei Yihang had the audience's perspective, he would have been able to see the girl's blushing and happy face. But he didn't have God's perspective, so he returned home in a state of nervousness and began to Baidu "girls find out what happens to boys who are jealous ......".
The story is simple, but if you want to make it great, you have to work on the details. Therefore, the first half of the movie will be the hero and heroine get along with a variety of small details pinch dead, give enough YiYeQianXi color out of the youth of the big boy's opportunity.
It's hard for cancer patients to travel far, but Wei Yihang dreams of seeing the whole world. So the two children make full use of the place where they live, put penguin dolls in the ice storage pretending to be Antarctica, aquatic market blindfolded pretending that the smell of fish comes from the fishy salty sea breeze on the beach, in the swimming pool bath pretending to be in the sunbathing, on the surface it looks as if it is Ma Xiaoyuan in the way of children to meet the Wei Yihang's dream, but in fact, it is also the Wei Yihang willing to cooperate with her to play this rough game.
All kinds of clumsy intention did not impress Wei Yihang, Wei Yihang clearly know that these over the family-like trick more into it is not real. But Ma Xiaoyuan doesn't care that much, she comes barreling into Wei Yihang's world, taking him to listen to wolves and eat barbecue, all in order to let Wei Yihang live his life to the fullest.
"Have you ever thought about what you will be like when you are old?"
Seeing the grandparents in the square dancing in a vigorous fellowship, Ma Xiaoyuan asked Wei Yihang.
"I don't even know if I have the day when I am old."
Wei Yihang straightened back and bent again, began to habitually bereavement.
Ma Xiaoyuan did not let Wei Yihang mourn, pulling him up and rushing to the dance floor, the lights dazzle, they have modeled a ballroom dance. The young boy and girl imitated the ballroom dance clumsily, but as they turned round and round, the smile on the boy's face spread like ripples in a lake, and for the first time in his life, he felt happy, as happy as a normal person, and for a moment, he felt that he could grow old as a normal person.
She was more than just a teenager's first heartbeat, she was a light in a lonely world, giving him the courage to look forward to the future in a life condemned to cancer.
The development of the love line to this point, has encompassed most of the highlights of the moment, the subsequent development of the no longer jump out of the imagination, nothing more than a boy and girl between each other to explore, determine the heart, romantic confession, the process of Wei Yihang and Ma Xiaoyuan successive morbidity and Ma Xiaoyuan hospitalized in the hospital is completely without the vitality of the previous day, Wei Yihang at this time acted as a lighting lamp for her, fear of death of the heroes found himself now actually more than fear of death. The hero who was afraid of death realized that he was now actually more afraid of losing the heroine than he was of dying. In a sense, he went from being a person who needed others to being needed as well, and felt a richer level of life.
The main love story is simple but rich in details, contributing surprises within the framework, but the real highlight of this movie, in my opinion, is the discussion of what has been overlooked in similar themes in the past in the line of intimacy: the guilt of those who suffer from cancer, and how to face death.
We are so used to parents taking their contributions for granted that when a serious illness strikes, not only do they have to pay more, but they also have to cover up the extra hard work, break their teeth and swallow their blood, turn around and wipe away the tears, and then turn around and put on a smile to guide their own sick children to reduce the psychological pressure.
Before he met Ma Xiaoyuan, Wei Yihang was deep in his own fear of the possibility of recurrence of cancer at any time, which still has the mood to see his parents in the dark hardship. It was only when he saw the suffering of those around him step by step that he finally turned his attention away from his own misfortunes, seeing his father who helped people work a second job on Saturdays, and his mother who helped people break vegetable leaves piece by piece as soon as she got off work, and seeing how the two backers were doing everything they could behind his back just to create a superficial cloud of lightness for him.
And Ma Xiaoyuan go to the dream appeared in the Qinghai Lake, need money, how to do?
He managed to ask for the channel to be a pharmaceutical volunteer, experimenting with the side effects of medicine on himself as a way to make money.
A cancer patient to take himself as a pharmaceutical test subject, which is the difference between sending death?
As fate would have it, things were discovered by his parents, and his dad, who has always been as kind as a Maitreya Buddha, was so angry that he dropped his bowl.
Dad yelled at him, your life is not your own, it's ours too!
Wei Xiaohang face no remorse, sharp eyes staring at his father said, since I was sick, the family did not add a new thing, this table legs are folded, no money to change, Dad, you can not sleep with stomach pains, do not dare to go to do a gastroscope, Mom buckle search, and can not save money.
We are not sure what to do about the situation, but we're not sure what to do about the situation.
This scene is one of the strongest in the movie, and one of my favorites. Cancer patients have always been pitied, sympathized with, and loved, and finally a movie that draws attention, in an intense way, to the guilt and remorse they carry under this love.
Wei Yihang continued to yell, "I have caused this family to become like this, I might as well die.
"Pah" - Dad threw in a loud sounding slap.
Talking about death is already taboo in Chinese families, let alone a cancer-fighting family on thin ice, where death is a direct linguistic red herring.
This slap not only knocked away the stubborn Wei Yihang, but also broke the family's taboo on the word death.
That night, Dad found Wei Yihang with a big bag of medicine, apologized and then returned to the peaceful Maitreya Buddha.
This family does have some what changed, Dad secretly gave Wei Yihang open special car earned ten thousand dollars, so that he and Ma Xiaoyuan together to travel, Wei Yihang said, this money you take to do a gastroscopy, Dad hehehe smiled and said that his unit physical examination, specifically arranged for gastroscopy.
Home is like this, we are always in conflict with the parents, in order to know each other in the outbreak of the idea, our hearts always have to be ruthlessly broken once, in order to bond with each other more tightly.
On the way to Qinghai, Ma Xiaoyuan had an attack and was sent to the nearest hospital.
Wei Yihang, who was beaten up in the hospital, returned home and asked his mom, "If I die, what will happen to you and my dad?
Mom's amiable smile frozen in the face, do not know what to say, through the dripping sound of the washing machine in time to fork over the topic.
Some time later, Wei Yihang received a video from his parents.
"Son, your father and I seriously discussed many times, if you are no longer there, I mean if, ah, assuming that what, I and your father ah, will be so over. In person really embarrassed to tell you, so I recorded a video to show you ......"
The video goes backward, mom and dad made a fuss to record a one-day vlog, 10:00 a.m., introducing the books that mom reads on weekdays - the book of anti-cancer, the secret of cancer recovery, 12:00 p.m. to eat hot pot, slightly spicy, 2:00 p.m. to participate in the mental health support meeting for cancer family members, after finishing the crossing the road hand in hand together ...
The video of the dad naive humor, laughing at the introduction of the anti-cancer family support meeting, poked fun at his mother of the child is not pulling him to say what to embrace the warmth of the group. -- "But I'm not cold!"
Wei Yihang looked and laughed, laughed and cried.
If Wei Yihang was a fragile glass bottle before, his parents held him in their hands for fear of falling, and he himself was worried that he would zap his parents with blood after breaking; now, Wei Yihang can be a reassuring glass bottle, and in case it really breaks, his parents, even if they will be hurt, at least a pair of gloves are prepared in advance.
The part of Wei Yihang's family line in this movie gives an unexpected surprise, which shows the writers' intention.
Looking closely at the character of Wei Yihang, he is full of questions about the mutual warmth of the patients' association from the beginning to the end, and even when the association is about to be disbanded and he shouts "I can beat the disease" together with the people, his voice in the narration is still confused and bewildered.
In this movie, Wei Yihang encounters love, re-examines family ties, and looks beyond his own illness to see the suffering of others, but the fantasy of parallel universes at the end of the movie still suggests that his greatest hope is that the cancer will never come back, and that all of us will have a normal life.
It is a pity that it is only a fantasized parallel universe, where things don't happen in real life, and no one sends him a little red flower.
The lack of a clear theme is probably the biggest regret of the movie, but the regret of the movie is precisely the answer to the unanswered questions of the cancer life, and the only way to try to live like the lyrics of the song, even if only for a moment I'm not afraid of it, it's the moment that makes up the eternity.