The film tells the story of a girl who came to Beijing to study, rented to an old lady’s courtyard house, at first the two often quarrel over trivial things, and then the two have feelings and hard to leave, the film’s characters are very distinctive, a crazy schoolgirl, a knife mouth tofu heart of the old lady, the film is very close to life, and also tells a simple truth, for the elderly, the most afraid of loneliness, the most need is love. For the elderly, what they fear most is loneliness and what they need most is love.
2005 / China / Drama / Ma Liwen / Gong Zhe Jin Yaqin
In winter, an old woman (Jin Yaqin) living alone in a courtyard house welcomes a foreign girl (Gong Zhe) who has come to Beijing to study.
The girl wants to rent the old woman’s house close to the school, but she thinks the old woman’s price is too high, and the old woman is determined not to lower the price with a look of love, so the girl has no choice but to rent the house, and the two of them begin to stumble and bicker as a host and a guest.
Whether it is the installation of the telephone, pay the telephone bill, or point electric stove, borrow refrigerator, the girl felt that the old lady in every way to count her, the heart is very aggrieved, the old lady look at her, is also a hundred eyes.
But day by day, the two gradually become each other’s dependence.
Days slipped through the spring, summer, the old lady saw the girl’s life, especially in love with the joys and sorrows, the loneliness of her old age because of the girl’s companionship washed away a lot.
Autumn came, the girl found a better place to live, to leave the old lady, the old lady’s spirit immediately collapsed.
