Not a single tear was shed, but it was the most touching movie I have ever seen.

Not a single tear was shed but it was the most touching movie I have ever seen

Title: "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai"

Director: Ann Hui

No score is too low for this movie!

The movie does not have any ups and downs in the plot, and there is no so-called dramatic conflict.

But it is like a cup of warm boiled water, warming the moviegoers.

Before I watched this movie or looked up news about Tin Shui Wai,

As a mainlander, I had zero understanding of this place.

I didn’t know that it was a community with negative news that had experienced ethical tragedies. I didn’t know that it was a gathering place for mainland brides, elderly people living alone, and the lower class of society in Hong Kong.

When I was still studying in Macau, I traveled to Hong Kong with my husband. In order to save money, I stayed in a hotel in Yuen Long.

One night we took a leisurely ride back to the hotel from the bustling Central District. After getting off the bus, we still needed to stretch our legs.

I didn’t know at that time that that stretch of road belonged to Tin Shui Wai.

My husband and I also said at that time: We walked into a somewhat remote residential area.

The leaves rustled in the night wind along the way, and I occasionally passed by a few people. There were boys holding basketballs and preparing to go home, and there were also people carrying plastic bags and backpacks as if they had just left. The old lady calling it a day.

The single mother Guijie and the lonely elderly grandmother in the film are both typical people in Tin Shui Wai. Guijie works in the fruit and vegetable stall of the supermarket, and her son Jia'an is taciturn and has nothing outstanding; he lost his daughter and his wife. Grandma lives alone and only buys 10 pieces of mosquito beef for cooking. The sound of her chewing echoes quietly in the room.

Single parent, poverty, bottom class, loneliness, rejection by the only relative... these keywords may be used to create ups and downs of the plot, but under Xu Anhua's creation, these keywords are so ordinary. The ground moves forward like a real day, scene by scene.

My sister has been regarded as a "good person" all her life. When she was young, she worked to support her two brothers in school. Later, she became a widow and worked in a supermarket. She was unknown. She didn't take away the winnings when helping others play cards, but she lost. Post it.

I will help my neighbor’s grandma, raise my son, care about my family, and never tire of it.

Jiaan is a bit dull and stays at home. But he is neither addicted to games, nor does he indulge in gambling with his classmates. He never talks back to his mother, comparing his mother to a big tree protecting him. Although he stays at home, he will run up and down to help just because his mother says something. He will also imitate his mother to care for his family and visit his grandmother. It's the real "natural sex" from grandma's mouth

What I saw in the video was not any special Tianshuiwei. What I saw were most of the positive and upbeat people who seemed to live a rigid and ordinary life. Born Chinese, it is you and us.

And these ordinary days that can no longer be ordinary reflect a touch of human touch, which is just something that seems to exist as a matter of course in the ordinary days and nights in Tianshuiwei.