The president asked the man to finish the ceremony. During the ceremony, the man found that the dead woman who committed suicide by burning charcoal actually had male physiological characteristics. The president asked his family politely whether the cosmetics were for the deceased men or women. From the brief conversation of family members, we can know that the name of the deceased was Talia Liu, and the cause of his death was related to his gender identity. The family finally decided to give him a feminine makeup.
The next scene is that the man is playing in a cello orchestra (the position is relatively backward, and he secretly guesses that the technology should be average). After the passionate performance, he was lamenting with his colleagues that the audience was not satisfied with the seats, and he received the notice that the orchestra was dissolved. Returned home in frustration, explained to his wife that he was unemployed, and confessed that he had spent a huge sum of money on the cello and had to repay the loan (6.5438+0.8 million yen). The man thought of his vow when he got married to take the woman to play in towns all over the world, and then found that he had to admit that he didn't have the talent. After releasing the octopus with the female host, the male host decided to give up the cello and return to his hometown in Yamagata to make a living. I thought it was a difficult choice to give up cello, but I didn't expect it to make the man breathe a sigh of relief. He thought he was a dream, but in fact he was just a bondage.
The house in my hometown is where my parents used to run a cafe together, and later my mother turned it into a pub. Men began to look for a job again, noticed a company represented by NK, and said that they didn't need work experience and the benefits were good (the recruitment routines around the world were the same), so they went happily. The company only has an elderly female employee and a president, and the interview went smoothly (probably no one came for the interview, so the president didn't read his resume and didn't want it, so he was paid on the first day). Make it clear that the job content is that after collecting the coffin, the man wears a mask of pain and has no choice but to pay too much. (500,000 yen a day, who can refuse this! )
When he officially started working, the man learned from the female workers. The women workers comforted the man, introduced the prices of different coffins to him, and came to life while chatting. First time at work, modeling, and explaining funeral ceremony and matters needing attention with the president. Looking at the president who is not familiar with himself and seems to be not very familiar with the process, holding the lines as a whole, and the man whose nose is full of soap bubbles, can't help but make small moves and even scratch his face, it's really unbearable ... He had to lie to his wife to escape punishment after returning home.
The first formal job came, and the man went nervously. It's an old lady who lived alone for two weeks. The scene tastes bad and the situation is tragic. Men's faces are always distorted and even vomit, which is the extent to which people outside the screen have to hold their breath ... I admire the president's calm face.
Things are finished, and the man is not cute. The president paid him a salary and told him to go back to rest early. When he was in the car, someone said that there was a strange smell, which was emitted by that person. At this point in the film, this is the first time that a man is worried about this job. From the time he got off the bus to take a bath in the bathhouse and repeatedly confirmed that the smell was eliminated, he could see that he cared about this. In the bathhouse, the second line of the story began to unfold. The kind grandmother in the bathhouse is an acquaintance, exaggerating the cello, and suggesting that her son should not persuade himself to sell the bathhouse. I'm relieved to hear that playing the cello is promising. It can also be seen that he didn't agree with his work at this time, and even had an uncomfortable physiological reaction when he went home to eat hot pot and saw the killed duck. Probably because he was afraid of his body, he hugged his wife tightly. The man who can't sleep at night thinks of his mother, finds out the cello he used as a child and plays it quietly. Rhyming recalls the memories of getting along with my parents when I was a child. When he opened the violin bag, a stone wrapped in a newspaper appeared, which was given to him by his father. (The music is super nice, and the name should be Memories, which is gentle and melodious and touching. )
The second time I came to live, a lady died. The man carefully watched the busy process of the president. The president was gentle, professional and devout, and devoted himself to his work, changing clothes and makeup for the dead. After putting on makeup, the family shed tears when they saw the beautiful appearance of the young lady, and the male host of this family was also moved to emotional collapse. After the ceremony, the host apologized to the president for his rude remarks. "Let the dead come back to life and give them eternal beauty. This process is quiet, peaceful, meticulous and gentle, and it is necessary to send away the old friends at different times with gentle feelings. At such a moment, people feel that every movement is so beautiful. " This is the activity of the male host in this scene, and it is also one of the most impressive lines in the whole film. On the way back, the scene of the man and the president munching on strings (a bit like persimmons) in the car also reflected the psychological changes of the man and began to understand and really accept the job.
The first climax of the film should be grandma's death in the bathhouse. The man's wife didn't understand the man's work at first, so she went back to her mother's house in a rage. Men began to seriously think about whether they would take becoming a mortician as their lifelong career. The film goes back to the beginning from here, and the car leaves the fog. The father of Talia Liu (the person who died at the beginning of the film) admitted and understood his child after seeing the child's body. Dawu gradually really understood and fell in love with his work-eating fried chicken, playing the cello, spending Christmas with the president and female employees, and finishing the work calmly and sincerely. This is a scene of a man playing the violin in the field. I like it selfishly. Here, men's expressions are no longer confused and twisted, and they are no longer entangled with scruples. It is natural, open-minded and integrated with heaven and earth. In the sound of the piano, he watched the geese swimming in shallow water and the flowers sprouting, as if he were swimming in it.
When his wife came back after learning that she was pregnant, she asked Dawu if she could proudly tell her children about his career. Dawu did not answer. After learning the news of grandma's death in the bathhouse, his wife witnessed Dawu's farewell with grandma, was deeply moved and understood her husband's work. In this scene, grandma's son also understands Dawu's work. And like Dawu, he knows the meaning of life and death, and his grandfather who often goes to the bathhouse to play chess-he is engaged in cremation work in the funeral home.
The last climax was the death of his father, whom he had not seen for 30 years. After receiving the news, he was filled with anger and incomprehension, but he decided to send his father one last trip. Finally, he saw his father holding the stone he gave him when he was a child, and he burst into tears. So far, he has really reconciled with his father. The man put the stone in his wife's palm, then held her hand and approached the fetus in her belly. This scene is the coexistence of three generations and the connection of two generations of father and son. Not telling is worth a thousand words.
This movie moved me very much. Apart from the beauty and dignity given to the deceased as a mortician, I am very moved and respected. There are also entanglements and warmth between father and son/mother, as well as the ruthless reality and gentle sustenance of life and death. All this makes people feel that death is not the end, but the beginning of another life. The family we lost will leave the people we love for a while, and one day they will be in another. Memories of this life and the past are the keys to know each other when we meet again. At that time, you looked into my eyes and knew that I missed your heart, but you didn't speak, just smiled and waited for me to walk over and hug you.