In turbulent times, is eternity the expectation of a beautiful friendship or an eventful life?
How can you forget your old friends?
Can you not laugh in your heart?
Can old friends forget each other?
[Folk Song] Long live friendship
We used to hang around all day.
On the green hills of my hometown.
We have experienced many difficulties and hardships.
Wander around
In the 1980s, there was a long song "Auld Lang Syne". In some sadness, a large number of educated youths returned to the city and turned a new page in history.
Liu (,) and Shen Yingming (,) and (Ai) are educated youths who returned to the city together.
After a hard time, I now live in a tube-shaped apartment and work in a state-owned enterprise. I am a neighbor and a good friend.
Each family has a son, Liu Xing and Shen Hao, who were born on the same day in the same year. So every year, children's birthdays, the two families celebrate together and have fun together.
Be brothers for life!
Both Liu and Shen Yingming said this to their children, as if the friendship between the two families would continue to the next generation, witnessing the everlasting friendship.
Friendship can last forever?
In that era when the family planning policy was strictly implemented, Wang Liyun was pregnant with two children. Just as Liu was thinking hard about how to have a baby by cheating, the director immediately arranged for everyone to be forcibly taken to the hospital for abortion.
Although Liu is unwilling, he can't fight against an era. He can only slam the wall angrily with his fist, then compromise with Wang Liyun and face the fate together.
During the operation, there was an accident of massive bleeding, and Wang Liyun, who recovered her life, lost her reproductive function.
They knew the current situation, so they didn't cut off contact with Shenyang. Li Haiyan doesn't blame himself at all, as many friends around him have said: It's your job, and you can't help it.
Soon, a wave of layoffs from state-owned enterprises hit, and Liu He and his wife were forced to be laid off because of their second child's previous record.
It never rains but it pours, and fate cruelly befalls them again-Shen Hao took Liu Xing to swim in the reservoir, because Liu Xing's caution and timidity were laughed at by his playmates, and Shen Hao angrily pushed Liu Xing, which led to Liu Xing's drowning.
Liu died because of Shen Yingming's family. Did he tear the friendship between the two families? No, Li Haiyan is the family planning director of the factory. That's her duty. Shen Hao is just a child. It was just an accident.
When Shen Yingming asked Liu to kill his son with a kitchen knife, he warned Shen Yingming to protect him: As long as you are alive, don't say a word.
Although there is no blame, we can't find anything to say to each other anymore.
When the Spring Festival comes, Shen Yingming's sister, Shen Julie (Qi), will take jiaozi to her house and invite them to have dinner at home. In the face of the former factory owner, Julie not only feels guilty, but also hides an unspeakable feeling.
Liu and his wife, who suffered a series of blows, refused. Their hearts are very heavy. How to face a former friend who lost two children?
Not strange, but I can't let it go.
Mr. and Mrs. Liu left. They chose to escape and live in exile. Finally arrived in Fujian, tired, not to go.
People here can't understand what they say, and they can't understand each other's words, so they can live undisturbed.
? Long live friendship, long live friendship.
? Cheers, long live the drink
? Sing in unison, long live friendship
? [Folk Song] Long live friendship
? Let's hold hands tightly.
? Friendship will never forget each other.
? Let's drink a toast.
In an unknown seaside town, Liu forgot the outside world, but he couldn't forget the pain of losing his son.
He started drinking, ignoring the hardships of life. Wang Liyun suppressed his inner sadness, earned a meager income by sewing fishing nets, and lived a meaningless life.
Desperate, she finally chose to end her life. At this time, Liu has woken up. Like his drowning son, he rushed to the hospital with his wife in his arms.
Saved, Liu stopped muddling along and opened a repair shop called Star with his skill.
The couple also adopted an orphan. In their minds, time has gone back to death, everything has been restored, and Liu Xing is back.
A few years later, Liu Xing (Roy) became a teenager. Consciousness is just a substitute teacher, rebellious and impulsive, unable to get along with classmates and integrate into the life of Mr. and Mrs. Liu.
I left home after being exposed for stealing my classmate's walkman, leaving only one sentence: I hate this place, I hate them, I hate you!
Liu and his wife looked for Liu Xing everywhere, but they couldn't find him. Their home was flooded again. In the chaos, he picked up the "family portrait" and Liu realized that Liu Xing, no matter how much like Liu Xing, would not be the dead son.
When another real family photo floated in front of us from under the cupboard, the two couples were silent, and they embraced each other in despair and loneliness.
Some days passed and Julie Shen came to Fujian alone. From marriage to divorce, she just wants to see the master who touched her again before going to the United States for further study.
In Shen Julie's heart, she felt that Shen owed Liu's family. When she met Liu in the hotel, she crossed the line with nature.
Maybe as Julie Shen said: I can't bear to see you in such pain. I just want to make a mistake this time.
Can one mistake be wrong again? The news of Shen Julie's pregnancy made Liu have mixed feelings. She also expressed her willingness to give birth to a child for Liu to offset her sister-in-law's guilt about infertility.
Liu finally didn't accept it. He can't hurt his wife and Julie and the future of the child, because he wants a child.
Perhaps, it is also the psychology of evading responsibility, and Shen Julie has embarked on the road of further studies with confidence.
After Liu restored calm, he issued a notice to look for Liu Xing. Waiting day after day, the air is dull, and their lives have become a pool of stagnant water.
Liu Xing finally went home, but he just wanted to get his ID card back. This home is only a temporary habitat in his heart.
Looking at the determined Liu Xing, Liu calmly took out his own identification. Regarding Wang Liyun's disappointment, he said: That's the truth. What else can't we face?
He is like a father who is going to have a long trip to his son. He gave Liu Xing his identification and some money, and told him to keep the flowers.
After all, Liu Xing is gone. I believe that kneeling before leaving also contains the deepest regret.
Life seems to have lost hope since then, and the eyes of the two couples have no focus anymore. Time has stopped, and all that remains is waiting and getting old.
[Folk Song] Long live friendship
Long live friendship, long live friendship.
Cheers, long live the drink
Sing in unison, long live friendship
[Folk Song] Long live friendship
After Liu left Fujian, Shen Yingming and his wife never stopped, although they lived in the shadow of guilt.
In the era of reform and opening up, Shen Yingming successfully entered the sea and gained a firm foothold in the real estate industry.
Shen Hao (Du Jiang) grew up and became a doctor. His childhood guilt is always suppressed.
Li Haiyan is a tragedy. She learned that Liu Xing's death was due to her son, and she indirectly caused Wang Liyun's infertility. The death of the Liu family turned into a heavy stone, and there was no way to get rid of it.
Twenty years have passed, and my former friends have long been white-haired, but they can never go back to that happy reunion.
Now, Li Haiyan has a brain tumor, and his only wish before he dies is to see Wang Liyun again.
Liu doesn't hate harmony. The biggest reason why they left was that they didn't know how to face it. After a long time, what else can't let go?
When Li Haiyan died in Wang Liyun, all the accumulated regrets pulled her back like a rope: We have money, and you can have children.
How she wishes she could turn back the clock. As long as Wang Liyun can give birth to a second child, the shadow of Liu Xing's accidental drowning seems to be dispelled.
After Li Haiyan's funeral, Shen Hao also got up the courage to confess the truth of Liu Xing's drowning to the Liu couple. Although Wang Liyun had understood, tears fell instantly, and she finally put down her heart completely.
The windy cemetery ushered in the courage of the Liu couple to worship their son for the first time. Liu Xing was lonely for so long that she finally waited for her relieved parents.
The two old people cleared the weeds on the grave, offered sacrifices, said some psychological words, drank a little wine and peeled an orange. When the family sat around the table, everything was as usual.
Time seems to slow down, looking at the continuous tombstones, their eyes are only half-life calm; Maybe life and death are not important anymore.
On the day of Shen Hao's son's full moon, the two families got together again. Julie, who is far away in the United States, also expressed her blessings to her children through video and asked them to say hello to everyone.
Liu looked at the video screen with complicated expectations, and the child who caught his eye was obviously a mixed-race child. He let go of years of entanglement, but at the same time he was involuntarily disappointed.
Perhaps, this is what my parents used to say: this is life.
In the midst of laughter, Liu's cell phone rang. Thousands of miles away in a remote town in Fujian, Liu Xing went home with his girlfriend.
Dad, I'm home.
From Liu's consternation to the expression of relief, and then to the exhortation, we all know that Liu Xing really went home.
Time may not erase the sadness of the past, but the birth of a new life can dilute those unforgettable memories.
Will the rest of my life be a reunion forever? No one can give a clear answer, but there is always hope.
At this moment, at least it is happy.
Wang Xiaoshuai's Auld Lang Syne was released on 20 19. Release version 175 minutes, unabridged version 180 minutes (unabridged version is recommended).
This is not a commercial film. Although it has won many international awards, the box office is not ideal.
For marketing, Wang Xiaoshuai was once criticized for a short message screenshot of "Picking up Girls Skills"; Of course, we are just watching movies, so don't confuse the problems outside the movies.
The reason why I spent so long writing the story in detail is that the movie is like a messy puzzle. Three hours and 30 years of story fragments are pieced together bit by bit to restore the face of an era.
Because it is not expanded in sequence, the timeline keeps interspersed backwards. If you are not careful, many plots will make you unable to connect.
We may not be able to fully understand a movie, but at least we should know the cause and effect and the sequence of events, otherwise there will be many unreasonable questions.
Does the friendship between the Liu family and the Shenyang family really have an everlasting expectation?
I don't think this is the theme of the story. Take Liu Xing's drowning as an accident. Li Haiyan knew his children, but after slapping them, the first question he asked was: Did the stars let you go?
How can a mother's nature of protecting her children be changed by friendship? Shen Yingming's first reaction was to stop his wife from shouting because he just didn't want his neighbors to know the truth.
It is even more hypocritical for him to let Liu cut it with a kitchen knife. Didn't he just say: don't mention this in front of the children in the future.
In the unedited version, Liu and his wife won the factory commendation award after the abortion of their second child. Li Haiyan told Wang Liyun not to pull a long face on the stage. She said that there is a bonus here. Give me a smile.
Family planning was the helplessness of that era. We can't draw a conclusion about right or wrong, but as a friend, Li Haiyan's attitude is obviously selfish.
In addition, in the scene where the factory announced layoffs, the publicly released picture was silent, and the workers were all a group of people who resigned. But the international edition was furious and even rushed to the podium to grab the laid-off list.
This is a helpless choice, but some small pieces that have been deleted make it impossible for a puzzle to restore a complete world.
Speaking of which, when can we speak freely? When can I jump out of the fence of concern?
As for the true meaning of eternity, perhaps it is meaningless for us to delve into it.
And for three hours, immerse yourself in the depressed past, and you will find how happy your time is.
Perhaps, this is a kind of gain from watching movies.