Before the release of "囧Mom", Xu Zheng participated in a talk show and talked about "Chinese family".
He asked the host: How many movies about family in China? There are
, but as Xu Zheng said, jumping from a chicken flying dog to an iceberg disintegrating is really rare, because the iceberg is difficult to disintegrate, and it is more difficult to depict in film and television works.
recommends a family movie to everyone today-"The Flavor of Peppercorns"
. This movie is directed by Mai Xiyin and produced by Xu Anhua. Douban score 7.2
11 nominations for this year's Academy Awards.
This movie is divided into three lines, telling the life trajectory of the three sisters. Sister
is like a tree, working as a travel planner in Hong Kong, and her work is busy and boring. She received a critically ill call from her father that day. When he rushed to the hospital, his father had passed away. When checking the information with the nurse, she took out her certificate to check the father's birth year, showing that the father-daughter relationship was very indifferent.
Rushu returned to his father's hot pot restaurant and found that he had two other daughters when he sorted out the relics. One is called if, and the other is called Ruzhi. Rushu used his father's cell phone to send obituaries to the two younger sisters.
is a pool player from Taiwan. After her parents divorced, her mother married a rich man and gave birth to a boy and a girl. mother-daughter relationship is not good . If
is a young girl from Chongqing, she is a clothing anchor, and her mother is in Canada. She and her elderly grandmother are dependent on each other. The grandmother's wish is to hope her granddaughter will get married. The three sisters
met for the first time at the funeral. When their father was cremated, Ruzhi and if he couldn't cry, only his face was expressionless as a tree. After the funeral of
, they went to their father’s hot pot restaurant to have a meal. The three discussed in the back kitchen who was the third party and who his father loved the most.
"The point is, what did he choose in the end, he still hurt us"
If after leaving Hong Kong. Rushu found out that her ex-boyfriend had known his father's secret for a long time, and she was very angry.
"The man is very direct, you didn't ask directly, he won't tell you specifically,"
"Sometimes don't be so persistent, you try to think about it, your dad didn't tell you, why didn't you tell you"
hot pot restaurant Another year is due, Rushu resolutely decided to continue to run the hot pot restaurant left by his father, and to get to know his father again.
As Rushu has no experience, problems ensue one after another, and employees have to ask Ruzhi and Ruozhi for help. The
three sisters reunited, looking for the secret recipe of their father.
Ruzhi's mother flew to Hong Kong to visit her, and the two had a dispute outside the hot pot restaurant.
"Don't forget, he doesn't want you."
"He didn't want me, he didn't want you."
mother slapped like a branch, and left like a branch angrily.
Ruzhi's mother saw her favorite Porto wine on the counter of a hot pot restaurant, Rushu suddenly realized that her father's favorite was her.
Like a tree, pour the wine into the base, it's father's taste. The hot pot restaurant business has returned to its former glory.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone reunited at the hot pot restaurant. Everyone went out to watch the lion dance outside. Rushu saw his father's back in the crowd.
She stopped trying her best and cried to her father:
"Dad, I'm not angry with you anymore, I just want to tell you, I miss you so much."
In fact, the three sisters are all abandoned, serious Insecure, wrap yourself up in different ways.
summer tree's wayIt is suppressing her own emotions and having extremely low trust in the outside world. She is either black or white, and she is stubborn. She can jump from "want to eat Japanese food and can eat Japanese food" to "do you want to marry but you can marry someone alone"
When she knew the answer, her heart broke.
She didn't want to understand, Cantonese is broad and profound, and love is love if you don't love.
"Why do you only hear "Want" and "Yes" but not "Together"
The most important thing for men is that
"together"
. Feelings are uncontrollable. It is not an inquiry, but a feeling. . The second sister of
has been in the pool industry for more than ten years, and has repeatedly lost battles along the way. She is not recognized by her mother. When everyone tells her to give up, only her father tells her not to give up.
Regarding "frustration education", Jiang Wen once mentioned in an interview that the relationship between himself and his mother would never be handled well.
Ruzhi's mother actually cares about her daughter. She doesn't understand why she always speaks the opposite way. She thinks her daughter will understand.
said as the tree, just because you didn't say it, she didn't understand.
Rushu comforts Ruzhi's mother:
"Speak well, while there is still a chance."
One day, the mother and daughter were walking on the river bank. Ruzhi tripped her mother on purpose and took the opportunity to apologize.
was in the car, and her mother finally recognized that she "you worked very hard"
"Mom also worked hard, learn how to speak well"
and then to the little girl, if she uses exaggerated dressing to cover up her inner self-esteem, she will not live with her parents since she was a child , She is eager to be loved and paid attention to. If
is the poorest among the three sisters, because she was not chosen. After the death of her father, she returned to her grandmother and accepted life and death calmly.
At the end of the movie, the three sisters and their father happily eat hot pot in the store. The three sisters
, due to the love-hate entanglement of the previous generations, met and knew each other, and depended on each other. They regained the courage to repair the relationship, and their growth wounds were healed.