Everything has cracks, that's where the sunlight comes in.

"Everything has cracks, and that's how light comes in." This is a lyric from leonard cohen's ode.

Everything has cracks, that's where the sunlight comes in.

Dialectically speaking, sunshine of course refers to those beautiful things, while cracks are a metaphor for the dark side of human nature.

In reality, too many people blindly pursue sunshine and ignore the cracks in their lives, which eventually leads to tragedy.

This is the case with the film Sunshine in Taiwan Province Province.

In the 56th Golden Horse Awards last year, this film won many awards, such as best feature film, best director and best actor, and it was a well-deserved winner.

The story focuses on an ordinary family of four in Taiwan Province Province. His father is a driving school coach, his mother is a hotel makeup artist, and he has two sons. This family is also the epitome of countless families in China.

Father Gao Jiawen believes in one sentence, which is also the propaganda language of driving school.

Grasp the time and the direction.

The image of strict father caught the eye of the audience, which was enough to arouse the voice of most people, because our father was such a person. They are unsmiling, strict with their children and think that a successful life is meaningful.

It just backfired, because the youngest son, Ah He, was in big trouble.

The reason is that Aho was bullied, so he asked his brother Caitou to stand up and defend himself. I didn't expect my brother to be a tough character. The vegetable head rushed into the restaurant and cut off the other person's hand directly.

Impulse brought prison, and two teenagers faced trial for intentional injury. In court, something surprising happened. His father, Arvin, did not plead for Ah He, but said to the judge in a cold tone, "I hope to send him in for a good discipline and lock him up until he dies."

Ah He, who lived up to expectations, seems to have denied his existence reasonably. Gao Jiawen also said to outsiders, "I only have one son who will go to medical school next year."

His only son is his eldest son, A Hao, who is sensible, progressive, kind and sunny. He has been excellent in character and study since he was a child, which is completely opposite to his younger brother. Ah Hao is also played by the newly appointed "national husband" Greg Han Hsu Xu.

A Hao looks very special. In the big classroom, everyone is sleeping, but he is awake. There is quite a meaning of "everyone is drunk and I wake up alone".

My father gave A Hao tuition and a notebook whose cover also said "Seize the time, seize the direction".

After Agua entered the auxiliary education center, A Hao also carried the hope of the whole family.

Until one day, an ordinary night, A Hao jumped from a tall building and ended his life.

Why would a docile son choose to commit suicide? A Hao's parents still don't understand.

There is a girl who has a crush on A Hao. This is her description of A Hao.

It seems that he gave all the good things to others and forgot to keep some for himself.

There is a kind of depression called smile depression, and patients are like putting a veil of smile on the surface of depressed emotions. Many comedians, such as Chaplin, Jim Carrey and robin williams, suffer from depression. They bring joy to others and suffer alone.

A Hao also falls into this category. He once described the sun as "the most beautiful thing in the world is the sun." Regardless of latitude, in every place, the time of day and night is half. "

Even if the sun is so beautiful, long exposure is unbearable, and you need to find a shadow to rest.

But for Hao himself. "There is no darkness, only sunshine, 24 hours a day, bright and warm, sunny."

A Hao told a story about Sima Guang smashing a jar. After Sima Guang smashed the jar, no water came out. There is only one child hiding in a dark jar. That child is Sima Guang himself.

We can understand that A Hao wants to be the child hiding in the shadows. But there is another explanation. That child is his younger brother. Congratulations.

For his father Li Bei, he really only has one son now.

A Hao's departure has also brought great impact to Agua. After that, Ah He was like a different person, acting positively and getting out of prison early.

After he came out, he worked hard, although he worked two jobs at the same time.

The cracks that have appeared will not disappear easily with the passage of time, and the relationship between father and son is still tense. In order to avoid meeting Ahe, Awen even moved to work.

Three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Ah He is in more trouble. After Cai Tou was released from prison, he came to threaten Ahe many times and forced Ahe to do something shameful for him.

Caitou is a tragic figure. There is no sunshine in his world, and he has been living in the shadow. The film tells us that Cai Tou lost his parents when he was very young, and the feeling of living alone with his grandmother and standing up for his brother became a sustenance in his life.

Cai Tou's anger is not because he was locked up for several years to stand up for his friends, but because he found that his former friends had already abandoned him.

In fact, they are not the same person. In the car, Caitou questioned Ahe.

"Why did it completely add fuel to the fire during the trial?"

Well, he just said, "We don't agree, just to scare him."

The vegetable head thinks it's natural to stand up for his brother, but he thinks more about how to protect himself. Obviously, is he more realistic or selfish?

The vegetable head wants to find that kind of intimate and pleasant feeling. Unfortunately, my friends when I was young are strangers now, and everything can't go back. Ah, he just wants to live honestly, and his wife and children are hot. Caitou was still immersed in the past, and his paranoia eventually led to his death.

When Ah He heard the news of Cai Tou's death, a smile appeared on his face and he ran wildly on the overpass. The sun shines on him, and it seems that the future is bright.

Where there is sunshine, there must be shadows. On the mountain, Gao Jiawen told his wife the truth: he found the vegetable head that harassed Ahe very early, followed it all the time, and killed it on a rainy night.

A father loves his children after all, but Gao Jiawen may not know or be willing to admit that he is the source of all tragedies.

From his mother's description, we know that Ah He was very cute when he was a child, and his favorite thing was to let his mother ride a bike with him all the time. Until he entered middle school, he became violent and liked to fight. Although it is not explicitly stated, Ah He's "deterioration" is probably related to the lack of family care.

My parents left Ahe alone, and as a result, Ahe went astray. I had high hopes for Ahao, and Ahao finally couldn't bear it.

China has been deeply influenced by traditional Confucian culture since ancient times, and its influence is also reflected in many families. The traditional family in China requires children to be obedient. For rebellious children, parents will tell them the truth if they disagree.

Eason Chan's Bicycle is about the relationship between father and son, and there is a lyric in it.

You and I both miss riding a bike. It's our only hug.

When I was young, I did well in the exam. Dad bought me my favorite ice cream, rode me on a bike and went home happily in the sun. It was one of the few happy moments with my father in my childhood memory, but why can't there be more such moments?

I would rather give everything silently behind my back than give a simple hug.

It is also a kind of putting the cart before the horse that children are not properly guided when they are young and continue to interfere in their lives when they grow up.

Lying on the ice, begging for carp, worrying about eating shit, burying one's son and serving one's mother are the allusions of China's twenty-four filial piety in ancient times. It is indeed earth-shattering, but it implies an unforgettable hatred! Why is it so bitter? As if caught in an infinite loop, parents sacrifice everything for their children first, and when their parents are old, their children sacrifice for their parents again, and then pass them on from generation to generation.

Our culture places too much emphasis on obedience and ignores respect.

It is gratifying that a new generation of young people have discovered this problem. Facing the rift of family, they no longer ignore it and choose to face it. They try their best to repair the relationship with their parents and try to establish a more moderate parent-child relationship. They no longer regard their children as their private property, but as an independent individual.

At the end of the film, Ahe rode along the tree-lined path with her mother, just like when she was a child. Mother looked at the horizon, which was the looming sunshine in the shade of branches, and unconsciously lost in thought. Is everything going to be okay? There is no answer to this question.

In this era, as Li Bei thinks, we "seize the time and grasp the direction". We are eager for success, and we pursue efficiency. We become stronger and more conceited. In the process of growing up, we experienced setbacks and pains. It was an unbearable time for us, a memory we never want to mention. We pretend to forget, but we can never forget, because we can't erase those traces. They are not engraved on us, but buried in our hearts. They always break our power disguised in the daytime in the dead of night. Finally, I can only summon up courage to face them and examine myself!

Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living.

This is true for both individuals and the whole nation.

The wheel of history moves forward relentlessly and will not give you any chance to breathe. We can only keep moving forward and pick up and lose at the same time.