The fat woman's ex-husband ran away, leaving behind a blind girl, and because she was not born to a fat woman, the whole family didn't like her, and even her younger brother bullied her.
On this day, Lao Zhao, a retired worker, went to the fat woman's house on a blind date, and during the meal, the fat woman just clapped her hands and called the girl, and the younger brother naturally gave the cheap sister the dishes he didn't like.
When they met for the first time, the fat woman proposed 50,000 yuan as the cost of the wedding, and Lao Zhao gritted his teeth and agreed.
After the meal, the younger brother was lying on the sofa and eating ice cream, and the fat woman asked him to get one for Lao Zhao, who looked at the blind girl sitting on the side and asked her to get one.
The younger brother said righteously: "I don't give it, this ice cream is precious, my mother said it was bought for me, not for her!" ”
The fat woman was a little embarrassed after hearing this: "Who said to buy it for you, the two of you will eat it together." As he spoke, he shoved an ice cream into the girl's hand.
Who would have wanted to send Lao Zhao away, and the fat woman who was the stepmother immediately changed her face: "Is this what you eat?" Don't think you can eat this when you come to the guest, do you deserve it? Go, wash the dishes! ”
After washing the dishes, the girl returned to her room, only to find that her room had changed, and her brother quickly appeared and kicked her out.
It turned out that the stepmother had already given her room to her younger brother.
In order to succeed in the blind date, Lao Zhao lied and said that he had opened a hotel, so his stepmother asked Lao Zhao to take the girl to work in the hotel:
Now how can the hotel not have a sauna massage, let her go for a massage. Her skills are not bad, don't bring her back! ”
The girl just came home and heard it, turned around and ran downstairs.
Lao Zhao chased her out, saw the girl standing in the middle of the road, thought she was going to commit suicide, and quickly pulled her aside and counted her down.
But seeing the girl crying, Lao Zhao, who had no children and no daughters, softened his heart, he accused the fat woman of doing too much, and was afraid that the girl would find a short-sighted, so Lao Zhao had to take her back to his home, but he himself slept on the balcony for a night.
In order to stabilize the blind girl, Lao Zhao borrowed a workshop and built a massage room for her.
After arranging the workshop, Lao Zhao took the girl inside and let her get acquainted with the environment.
The blind girl touched around and sighed, "This massage room is so big, I can start working, I'll just sit here and wait!" ”
Seeing that she liked it very much, Lao Zhao had to pull in retired workers to pretend to be guests.
The first one to play was Professor Li of Normal University, who was pretended to be by the old buddies, and after the massage, he also gave the girl a tip of 5 yuan.
Of course, these were all given by Lao Zhao out of his own pocket.
At the end of the day's work, the blind girl said that she had earned money and wanted to invite Lao Zhao to eat ice cream.
How can I ask you to please? Saying that, Lao Zhao asked the girl to wait next to him, and ran to Häagen-Dazs on the opposite side to buy ice cream.
Who knows, the cheapest ice cream costs 25 yuan a piece, Lao Zhao was reluctant to buy it in the end, and bought an ordinary bean paste popsicle, and the blind girl took it and looked very happy.
The blind girl told Lao Zhao that when she made enough money, she would go to her father, and when she had money, her father would take her to treat her eyes, and when her eyes were cured, she wanted to see what Lao Zhao looked like.
But Lao Zhao's buddies are all retired workers, and they all advised Lao Zhao: "5 yuan a day, 500 yuan in 10 days, and more than 1,000 yuan a month." You can't afford to raise this child! ”
In the end, Lao Zhao sold the TV and bought a floral dress for the blind girl that girls like, hesitating to tell her the truth.
But the girl opened her mouth first: "I also have something I want to tell you, I don't want to do it here!" "In fact, the blind girl had already been hoisted from the rope in the massage parlor and discovered their white lies.
The girl's father wrote back, but there was no mention of the girl.
Lao Zhao saw that she was lost, so he pretended to be her father and wrote to her, wanting to comfort her, but there was a car accident on the way back.
The doctor asked, "Who of you is a family member of the patient?" ”
Everyone told the doctor that Lao Zhao had no family, and he was alone!
The doctor wondered, "Doesn't he have a daughter?" Look, this is his letter to his daughter! ”
When the workers found out, they decided to read the letter to the blind girl early the next morning.
But the girl had long since left, leaving only a radio and a note.
The girl left a message for Lao Zhao: "When you hear my voice from here, I have already left, because I won't trouble you anymore, I know you are all for my good!" ”
And the letter Lao Zhao wrote to her could only be read into the radio: "Actually, Dad has long wanted to write to you." You have to wait for me to come back and pick you up, good life! ”
The letter was full of care and love, but unfortunately I didn't have time to read it, but it was stained with blood in a car accident.
In the final ending, the lonely figure of the blind girl walked on the street, while Lao Zhao lay in the hospital and his life and death were uncertain.
This is the story told by the old film "Happy Times", which was released in 2000.
Happy Times is a Chinese New Year film directed by director Zhang Yimou in 2000, when movie theaters were not as popular as they are now, and there were not so many mobile phones and televisions, so I didn't watch this movie at that time.
It is said that this is Zhang Yimou's least concerned **, and Dong Jie, who plays the blind girl, is the Mou girl with the least lace news, Zhao Benshan back then, and his hair is still black.
This is a very unusual work by Zhang Yimou now, which is mixed with some surreal colors in realism.
For example, the Happy Time Cottage covered with red paint looks like a blood-red coffin of love after it is locked.
At the end, the workers read the letter to the tape recorder, the person who listened to the letter is gone, and the life and death of the person who wrote the letter are uncertain, only the voice is present, which is quite a kind of dialogue between people and ghosts, superimposed with a sense of pathos.
Lao Zhao, played by Zhao Benshan in the film, is ostensibly he is hiding from the world step by step, but in fact, the fat woman is the real master of cheating.
The reason why the fat woman chose to be with Lao Zhao was just to get rid of the blind girl left by her ex-husband.
For Lao Zhao, the real happy time is probably weaving a dream about the future with his co-workers, and his white lies give the blind girl hope and let her see a little bit of light in the dark.
The film is too real, if you don't have money, you have to endure hardships, and your life is uncomfortable, don't talk about good and bad, good and evil, and live a good life is also a kind of kindness.
There is a group of people we are most familiar with in the film:
They are poor, uneducated, and don't understand any big truths, and they are small people who are looked down upon by many people, but they are so simple and kind, and their chests are full of broad feelings.
Just like us when we are young, we always yearn for a better future.
But when the future really came, I found that the gift of growth was a grievance.
Happiness is not eternal like difficulties, year after year, we bear different grievances, sometimes we feel that we can't persevere, and sometimes we have a new turn.
Perhaps, the slender figure when we were young, the joyful expectation for the future, the days without harm and grievances, are the happy times that we can never go back!
Classics are classics