Chapter 64: Double Blossom! (Please Read On!)

Chapter 64 Two Flowers!

The protagonist Lin Wu's solo under the snowy mountain is the turning point of the whole movie.

After that, he completely determined to do the job of a mortician, and everything began to fall from the bottom.

The wife who returned to her parents' home found that she was pregnant and wanted to come back to talk to Lin Wu seriously.

In this process, after watching Lin Wu's work throughout, his wife also began to understand the meaning of his job, chose to accept it, and tried to become his assistant.

The father who abandoned Lin Wu when he was a child suddenly passed away.

Lin Wu, who was very reluctant to see him for the last time, tried to face this inner obstacle under the guidance of the company assistant, and buried his father and sent him off for the last time.

It was also in this process that he found that his father actually cared about him all the time, and finally reconciled with his deceased father.

The bathhouse grandmother who had always taken care of him, warmed him, and supported him also passed away quietly one day in early spring. Lin Wu dressed her up as her son, made her beautiful, kind, and gentle, and held a decent funeral for her.

The end of the movie.

On a morning as ordinary as any other day.

Lin Wu brought his wife to visit the master, but only saw the master's face of peaceful death and a handful of eyebrow pencils tightly held in the master's hand.

When Lin Wu took the eyebrow pencil out of the master's stiff palm and held it in his hand with his wife solemnly, thunderous applause rang out in the theater.

When the film ended and the lights in the theater came on, the applause had not stopped.

Indeed, this "Departures" is full of various deaths, but every viewer feels warm in their hearts after watching this movie, as if they were healed.

"A very touching movie." Miyazaki Hayao, who was sitting in the back row, rubbed his eyes and said with emotion to his friend next to him.

As a Japanese, he is the person who can best understand this movie in the theater besides the Chinese audience.

This movie, which is based on the usually daunting funeral industry, exudes an incredible healing atmosphere.

"What moved me most was the words that the first deceased family member said to his father with tears in his eyes when he bid farewell to his father, thank you for your contribution to this family."

"In our East Asian culture, people are often polite to outsiders, but rarely express their gratitude to their relatives. They always think that everything their relatives do is taken for granted."

"This is too unfair to their relatives."

Miyazaki stretched his neck and looked at Wu Yuan, who stood up and bowed in the first row, with admiration in his eyes.

In addition to the main line, "Departures" also interspersed many topics that explore life and death and social phenomena.

For example, there is a young and beautiful female deceased, dressed very fashionably, wearing a beautiful skirt, but when the protagonists and apprentices buried him, they found that he was a boy.

The father of the deceased was willing to identify with him and acknowledge him only after he died, saying, "Whether you wear a skirt or pants, you are my son."

Or another deceased, who was also a young and beautiful woman with beautiful yellow hair, but when Lin Wu was burying her, the mother of the deceased yelled at him, saying that her daughter's hair was black and asked him to remake up.

But relatives and friends who couldn't stand it stood up and scolded the mother, saying that she didn't care about her daughter at all, and didn't even know what her daughter liked. Now that her daughter committed suicide, she took on the posture of a mother, which was ridiculous.

Of course, one of the most important issues in the film is the discrimination of society against the work of undertakers.

It seems that helping the deceased to bury the dead is so terrible that it may even carry viruses and infect others.

But if no one does this job, will people just be left there to rot after they die?

When Wu Yuan deliberately portrayed the attentive and gentle look of the undertaker when applying makeup to the deceased in the film (especially when this person was Zhang Guorong).

The audience was moved and had to re-examine whether their views and prejudices about this profession were correct.

American director Lasse, who was also shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival with "The Express", also said to his producer: "Love and death are two eternal topics for mankind."

"My movie chose love, and Daniel chose death."

"And his interpretation of death is more profound and touching than my interpretation of love."

"I can't believe he is only 20 years old."

When the film was over, whether it was the invited guests or the film critics and media reporters who came after hearing the news, they all praised the film.

Some anxious film critics and media reporters had rushed to Wu Yuan, who was leading the crew members to bow and thank the audience, and asked questions in a flurry.

"Director Wu, in the movie, when the deceased is buried, they need to hold a peach branch in their left hand and a flatbread in their right hand. Is this a special funeral culture in China?"

"Yes, but this is only the funeral culture in some parts of China. China is very large, and funeral customs in different places are not the same. This is just one of them."

"Director Wu, does the eyebrow pencil at the end of the movie represent inheritance?"

"Yes, it is the inheritance of profession and the inheritance of belief."

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When the premiere of "Departures" ended, it was already past six in the afternoon.

After dealing with reporters, media and film critics, the crew dragged their exhausted bodies back to the hotel to eat and rest.

The Chinese journalists who accompanied the group, especially the official reporters from CCTV, immediately called back to China to spread the news that the premiere of "The Executioner" was well received.

Immediately, relevant news reports appeared on the domestic Internet, which also made domestic movie fans who have been paying attention to this Berlin Film Festival begin to look forward to whether Wu Yuan will win the award at the closing ceremony!

Before they could finish absorbing the news, the Berlin Film Festival's program program announced the program score of "The Embalmer". The score was as high as 3.3, ranking fourth among the films in the main competition that had been screened!

Most of the film critics who watched the premiere also gave "The Embalmer" a rating of four stars or above, and strongly recommended that local movie fans watch this movie more in the next few days.

"Director Wu, the performance is great!"

Director Han, who had collected various comments and reputations about "The Embalmer", congratulated Wu Yuan with a happy face during dinner.

The faces of the cast members such as Zhang Guorong and Li Xuejian were also full of joy. The better the reputation and response of the film's premiere, the higher the possibility of winning awards. How can you not be happy!

Wu Yuan was naturally cheerful. Just when he was about to say a few words to advise everyone not to be happy so early, his cell phone suddenly rang.

"John?"

Seeing the name of the caller, Wu Yuan answered the phone with some confusion: "John, what's wrong?"

"Daniel! The Academy Awards have announced the nominations!"

"'Juno' was nominated for four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay!"

"Hey, Daniel, you have to come to the United States to attend the Oscars ceremony in person this time!"

John's voice was very loud and exciting, so loud that even without turning on the amplification, Director Han and Zhang Guorong, who were sitting next to Wu Yuan, could clearly hear his words.

"Ding-cha!"

The knives and forks held by the two men fell onto the exquisite porcelain plate with a clang.

"Don't you want to hang up?" Zhang Guorong was so shocked that he subconsciously spoke in Cantonese.

At this moment, no one cared about the cracked porcelain plate.

Everyone who heard John's words looked at Wu Yuan with blazing eyes.

"Director Wu, you are really awesome this time."

I know everyone wants to watch the award ceremony, but some necessary foreshadowing and pitfalls need to be filled in. I will finish writing about the award ceremony tomorrow. Guess which award "The Embalmer" will win?