The Road Home
I just saw the movie "
The Road Home" by director Yimou Zhang, starring Ziyi Zhang in her film debut. It was made back in 2000 and is in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.
The movie starts out showing Luo Yusheng, a young man from the city, coming home to his village upon learning of his father's death. He finds out that his mother is insisting that his father be carried home in a coffin by foot on the long road from a neighboring town. This is the town's tradition and serves to help his father, in his afterlife, to remember his way home.
Luo Yusheng then tells the story of how his parents met when his mother was an illiterate village girl of 18 and his father was a school teacher sent to teach in the new school house that he and the villagers had built. Every day, his mother would walk by the school and listen to his father's voice coming from the school house. After school, she would wait for a chance to see him walking home with the children on the road. When he was sent away for political questioning, she stood by the road and waited for his return. It was his mother's wish to bring his father home again on that long road.
A simple story, beautifully told in this movie about love and longing and devotion.
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My silverware all seems so boring now. I kind of want to replace all of it immediately.
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omg that is funny as all heck! thanks for that! I can so relate! (to the closed-elevator part only!!!!) :D
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omigod I LOVE it! love it love it love it! :D
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They lost me in the Da Vinci Code when they started blabbing all their top secret info in a taxi cab (who have radios don't they?) when they knew that they were wanted by Interpol, FBI etc... really. duh?
And then when a cryptologist, an expert on languages and an expert on Da Vinci didn't, like myself, simply read the backwards English and were arguing for several pages what ancient language it could be? Hard to stomach after having simply read the text in question as easily as all the other text. I was surprised Dan Brown didn't have a Renaissance paintings lecturer, an art museum curator and an expert on Da Vinci arguing whether the Mona Lisa was perhaps an ancient cave painting or something found in an Egyptian pyramid. At least if he had made the taxi driver or the janitor not know what the writing was, and be enlightened by said experts, he would have kept the reader's credulity in his characters and their wisdom.
(Wikipedia in "Mirror-writing" entry says: "Leonardo da Vinci is famous for having written most of his personal notes in mirror..... He may also have wanted to protect his ideas from theft or hide them from the Roman Catholic Church (with whom his scientific findings sometimes collided). However, the latter idea, popular among conspiracy theorists, is highly unlikely: it is (and was even at the time) clear, even to a child, that the text in question could be easily read "backwards" (either directly or through its reflection, such as in a mirror)." Exactly, clear even to a child)
Sorry, as someone who used to write her diary backwards in grade 10, DID take art history (and saw the exhibit at Montreal Museum of Art with all Da Vinci's handwriting originals written backwards) and is interested in languages, Dan Brown's "mysteries" are like knocking my head against concrete while drinking roofing tar. But surely someone else will love it!
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ROFL! I saw that commercial once before, and it has me rolling all over again!!!
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I haven't seen this movie.
I haven't seen this movie. It sounds like a great story. I may have to check it out the next time my mom is here. She loves movies that take place in settings like these.
Good movie
I totally cried at parts. I liked the bit about the chipped bowl. Cute.
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