Watched one of the movies that was up during the 10th anniversary of China's takeover of Hong Kong, "Mr. Cinema" (老港正傳). This is a movie about a left-winger's life in Hong Kong from the 60's to 2007. Most of the major history happened during that period in Hong Kong were mentioned in the film... well... except for the demostration by 500 hundred thousand people on 1 July 2005.. haha..
Anyway, I'm not talking about the political side of the movie today. What I wanna talk about is the love between the left-winger, 老左 (黃秋生 Anthony Wong) and his wife (毛舜筠 Teresa Mo). 老左 is such a believer in communism that he always helps others as much as possible. He cooks for his colleagues but he never cook for his wife. He gave all their savings to his friend's son so that he can go overseas to study but he got no money to help his own son later on. Since he always helps others, he never had a chance to fulfil his own dream - to go to Beijing Tian An Mun to take a picture there.
His wife and his son were the only two people who suffered. The family has to live in a broken house and his son was discriminiated against by others of being a left-winger's son. His wife has to work so hard for the family that later on she got heart attack and passed away.
Just before she passed away, she wrote him a letter, which I think is very touching. She said she understands why 老左 always treats others better than his own family. It doesn't mean that he loves other people more, it simply means that he trusts his family. He trusts that his wife will understand what he did and understand that he loves her the most.
I think this is very true to many of us. We always ignore the one we love/care most because we "think" they know we love them. We always forget to tell them how much we love them. We are too busy showing others how kind we are, but always assume that the most important ones will "understand".
I'm not sure if it always work like this. Is everyone so understanding like 老左's wife? I guess most of the cases, people will feel ignored and confused.
Me? Of course I always try to be understanding, but I guess the first issue is, I've to find someone to say he loves me first...then I'll think of being understanding hahaa..
Anyway, I'm not talking about the political side of the movie today. What I wanna talk about is the love between the left-winger, 老左 (黃秋生 Anthony Wong) and his wife (毛舜筠 Teresa Mo). 老左 is such a believer in communism that he always helps others as much as possible. He cooks for his colleagues but he never cook for his wife. He gave all their savings to his friend's son so that he can go overseas to study but he got no money to help his own son later on. Since he always helps others, he never had a chance to fulfil his own dream - to go to Beijing Tian An Mun to take a picture there.
His wife and his son were the only two people who suffered. The family has to live in a broken house and his son was discriminiated against by others of being a left-winger's son. His wife has to work so hard for the family that later on she got heart attack and passed away.
Just before she passed away, she wrote him a letter, which I think is very touching. She said she understands why 老左 always treats others better than his own family. It doesn't mean that he loves other people more, it simply means that he trusts his family. He trusts that his wife will understand what he did and understand that he loves her the most.
I think this is very true to many of us. We always ignore the one we love/care most because we "think" they know we love them. We always forget to tell them how much we love them. We are too busy showing others how kind we are, but always assume that the most important ones will "understand".
I'm not sure if it always work like this. Is everyone so understanding like 老左's wife? I guess most of the cases, people will feel ignored and confused.
Me? Of course I always try to be understanding, but I guess the first issue is, I've to find someone to say he loves me first...then I'll think of being understanding hahaa..
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