Liu He is an ordinary couple living in a vast world. In the 1980s, they lived an ordinary and warm life: they worked in factories on weekdays, worked diligently, made modest contributions to collective labor, and maintained a stable life for their families; Have a drink at home after work, talk about things at home, and occasionally get together with good friends, eat, drink, listen to music and dance. Although life is ordinary, my heart is stable and content. A family of three is full of dull happiness. Like Qian Qian's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Liu are pure in nature and don't have much desire for life. They just want to live in peace and harmony. The story spans 30 years and integrates family planning, reorganization of state-owned enterprises, layoffs and loss of independent families into a displaced family drama. In the heyday of state-owned enterprises, young Liu He was a model worker in this workshop, and their childhood was also in its heyday. They have a good relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Li Shen, and even regard each other's son as their own. The times are always advancing, and there are always victims and abandoned people.
This film first shows us a fragmented family that has lost its independence, and then the retrospective timetable desperately restores all the qualities of the happy life of ordinary working families in that era. Life at that time was so happy and full of hope. If tragedy is to destroy the beautiful things in front of you. Then, this retrospective treatment is a tragedy in tragedy, because we know that the protagonist can never be divorced from the tragic fate of the times.
3. The film has a long time span, which makes age-appropriate props, scenes and music become the main attractions of the film. But all these will be secretly sad in front of Wang Liyun's performance. Nothing is more like a middle-aged man in China than this Chinese character face full of endless sadness, helplessness and tenacity. We haven't seen this man smile since the dance hall scene. At the controversial end of the film, we finally saw the old man laughing again. All this is because Hao Hao, who has been silent for decades, finally dares to speak. He finally faced up to his responsibility for the death of the star. At the same time, his adopted son, who had been away from home for many years, also called Yao and asked for a reunion. At the end of a family gathering, the director announced to us that the family pain that lasted for many years had finally healed.
At the end of the movie, Haiyan and Li Yun, who haven't seen each other for decades, meet again. Haiyan had been thinking about it before she died. Finally, on her deathbed, she still held Liu Yun's hand and told her that she had a child. Hao Hao finally confessed the experience of pushing Liu Xing. Liu Yun forgave him. Raised Liu Xing took the initiative to recognize her parents and had a happy ending.
This drama is not sensational, but it can arouse people's inner sadness. Many people cried after watching the play. Every character in the film is not symbolic, but vivid, with many defects, and can't help doing nothing. This kind of character setting makes us seem to see the people around us, which adds a kind of reflection and examination of human nature: this is a microcosm of the fate of countless families in China at that time.