"Biography of Poems of Cangyang Jiacuo" wrote: "Nothing in the world is nosy except life and death."
What is a life event? Life and death, two eternal propositions, are important events in life.
The film, starring young actor Zhu Yilong and child star Yang En, has scored as high as 9.7 points at present, and the pre-sale box office has broken 20 million, with over 380,000 people "wanting to see it". It became a movie that was not broadcast in the first half of 2022.
Mo Sanmei (Zhu Yilong) helps his girlfriend stand up, fights with people in the street and is taken to prison. After being released from prison, Mo Sanmei could not find a decent job because of her criminal record, so she had to take over her father's mantle and become a martyr.
In fact, Mo Sanmei doesn't like being a martyr. Dealing with the dead in this industry is often looked down upon by others, because everyone thinks that people who do this job are "unlucky".
The plan in Mo Sanmei's mind is to change "going to heaven" into a wedding dress shop after her father gave him the shop.
After she was released from prison, she became a martyr in despair, taking Leng Qing, her father for ten years, and her once-in-love girlfriend with her. This is probably Mo Sanmei's "terrible" life. At first glance, she felt hopeless.
Until one day, he went to help an old man die. This old man is the grandmother of the little girl Wu Xiaowen.
Wu Xiaowen's parents died very early and have been living with her grandmother, who is the most important person in her life. Young Wu Xiaowen doesn't understand the meaning of "death" at all. She watched Mo Sanmei put her grandmother in a "big box (coffin)", and her heart was full of resentment. She vowed to find Mo Sanmei and ask him to return it to her grandmother.
So Wu Xiaowen found Mo Sanmei at someone else's funeral with "Nezha's head" and "Xiao Mu's dart gun", and made a hullabaloo about asking him to return his grandmother.
Mo Sanmei was upset by Wu Xiaowen. In desperation, she took her directly outside the funeral home and pointed to the chimney and said, "Your grandmother was burned to death and turned into smoke. She floated into the sky, disappeared, disappeared, and never saw her again. Do you understand? "
Wu Xiaowen is so young, how can he understand "death"? Grandma "left", what does it mean for Wu Xiaowen? Mo Sanmei's explanation made Wu Xiaowen, who slightly understood the meaning of "death", cry bitterly.
Grandma's death completely orphaned Wu Xiaowen. Who Wu Xiaowen will live with in the future has become a topic of dispute among many relatives. Relatives feel that Wu Xiaowen is a burden, unwilling to raise her, and even shirk and dislike her in front of Wu Xiaowen.
Originally, Mo Sanmei sent Wu Xiaowen back to leave, but seeing the hateful faces of these relatives outside, Mo Sanmei couldn't bear to take Wu Xiaowen home.
Since then, Mo Sanmei has become Wu Xiaowen's "third brother".
Third brother has never been a father himself, but now he has to assume the role of "father" Comb Wu Xiaowen's hair, dress and mend toys; Help her wash the wet sheets, send her to kindergarten, attend her parents' meeting ... Naughty Wu Xiaowen completely ruined the life of the third brother, which was like a stagnant pool.
Wu Xiaowen later asked the third brother, "Grandma has become a cigarette?"
The third brother thought for a moment and said, "fly to the sky and become a star."
Wu Xiaowen believed it, and looked up at the stars every time he missed his grandmother.
Later, the kindergarten assigned an assignment entitled "My Home". Wu Xiaowen drew a picture and told the teacher that her parents were stars.
Third brother used to hate the profession of mortician, but Wu Xiaowen's words made him start to face up to his profession again.
The undertaker's job is to deal with different "dead people" every day, help them tidy up their appearance, let them bid farewell to their loved ones with dignity, and let them walk through the world with dignity. This is the meaning of the existence of morticians.
Funerals are stars. This is the meaning of his existence that the third brother found from Wu Xiaowen's words.
Death is not bad luck.
In the movie, Wu Xiaowen met a little girl her age, and she died. Wu Xiaowen knew that the girl would be "burned to ashes" like grandma, so outside the little girl's urn, she filled the stars with colorful strokes, hoping that these stars would accompany her so that the girl would not feel lonely in heaven.
In Wu Xiaowen's childhood world, "death" is not a cold word, and burial is a ceremony to bid farewell to relatives, friends and lovers.
Wu Xiaowen's arrival, in addition to let the third brother's originally calm life "chicken fly a dog to jump", but also a little more fireworks. Third brother, who often wears flowered shirts, shorts and slippers and looks around, is building a "home" for Wu Xiaowen in his way.
Later, when the third brother sent Wu Xiaowen back to his uncle's house, Wu Xiaowen sneaked back alone. When the third brother found Wu Xiaowen in the alley like crazy, she said, "I won't get lost." My father's name is Mo Sanmei and I live in Heaven. "
A undertaker and an orphan, their fate can only be linked from now on.
Wu Xiaowen is lively and lovely, and has a warm and delicate childlike innocence. When she found that the relationship between her third brother and her father was stiff, and the two fathers and sons were in the same boat, Wu Xiaowen broke the ice in her way, and Wu Xiaowen also had a kind "grandfather" and officially became a member of this family.
Why is third brother called Mo Sanmei? Why is his relationship with his father so bad? Why do two fathers and sons always quarrel when they meet? In the final analysis, the third brother with strong personality lacks communication with his father, and the gap between them is getting bigger and bigger in the misunderstanding of words.
In fact, Lao Mo has always cherished this son. The name "Mo Sanmei" actually contains Lao Mo's love for his third brother, and "Third Sister" is Lao Mo's pride.
With the arrival of Wu Xiaowen, everyone in this "home" has re-established some kind of "contact", and the gap between the third brother and his father is getting smaller and smaller, and the two finally reconciled.
There are laughter and tears in the movie, heavy Where are you going, and all kinds of ridiculous trifles in the life of "father and daughter halfway" like Mo Sanmei and Wu Xiaowen.
A "father" who plays around, a "daughter" with strange ideas, they never call each other father or daughter, but all call themselves "Lao Zi". Sometimes they are more like friends than "father and daughter". They redeem each other and move towards a better future together.
"Life Events" was filmed in Wuhan. Wuhan is praised by netizens as "the city with the most fireworks". Director Liu, however, tells a story that is closely related to "death" and heavy, and related to the loss of a teacher in this city full of fireworks.
In life events, we talk about separation, parting from death, indifference between father and son, orphans, little-known undertakers, and the meeting of two lonely souls in the vast sea of people. In fact, in the final analysis, we are talking about hope, warmth and redemption.
"Life is just life and death." For the living, except death, everything else is a trivial matter. The story of Mo Sanmei and Wu Xiaowen in life events tells us that people should know how to live a good life and move towards a better life.
As director Liu said, "I hope that after watching our movie, we can fall in love, eat hot pot, reunite with our families and enjoy life."