Today is my third day of quarantine and everything is fine, however i got some allergy reaction, i am from the southern part of China but now i am in the very north of China, my body is not doing well, i got rashes on my face and all over my legs, and i am suffering from stomachache for three days straight because i just can’t cope with the different diet habit. But everything is fine, my test result is negative.
The movie that i am introducing today is actually i found very relatable to some extent. The name of the movie Einstein and Einstein refers to the leading character’s two dogs, both dogs named Einstein. But actually the Chinese name of the movie is Dog and Thirteen, a thirteen years old teenage girls( Li Wan) and her dogs. The movie starts with Li Wan’s father changed her extra-curricular classes into english tutoring, and Li Wan is very upset about it, but her father scolded her and said that it’s for her benefit. Li lives with her grandparents, her parents had divorced long ago and her father later remarried and soon had a little boy. The story is set years ago, and her father and grandpa was very patriarchal, her grandpa obviously value her little brother more than her, that they spent a lot of times on naming, but Li Wan’s name is by contrast very random. Due to the unpleasant talk that they have between father and daughter, Li Wan’s father surprised her with a puppy and she named it Einstein. As a kid who is not valued enough and constantly ignored by her parents, she soon consider Einstein as her best buddy and formed strong bond with Einstein. However, incidents happened when her grandfather took Einstein with him to grocery market, he didn’t leash the dog, Einstein went missing. Instead of trying to find the dog, her step mother bought her a pair of skating shoes to distract her attention, but still she soon noticed the missing of Einstein. She is very upset, instead of trying to comfort Li, her father said that she needs to grow up and stop being childish and whining about this. Li went out and trying to look for Einstein but she didn’t find him. After this, her parents tricked her that they had found the dog but what they did is they found new dog to replace Einstein and ironically gave the dog the same name. I won’t go into details and people who are interested in the film can figure out themselves.
In the movie, there are two specific plot that draw my attention. At the beginning of the film when Li was about to be out the door to school, her grandma forced her to drink milk, but Li can’t obviously do not like milk and immediately spit it out, this shows that her grandma clearly does not really pay attention to Li’s living habits. And towards the end of the film, Li’s brother also shows disgust towards milk, which appear to be very interest to me, it felt to me like a cycle. Later in the film, Li’s father took her to a dinner with a bunch of his peer colleagues, her dad ask her to toast to his colleague with a glass of milk, which again she does not like milk at all. The second plot is when her father belittle and teased her interest in front of colleague as a joke to please them.
I find the movie quite relatable, my life is pretty much arranged by my families. Especially before 18 years old, the way that i look and the clothes that i wear basically need to follow their ideas, i never dyed my hair, i never cut short of my hair, because they don’t like it, i have never go out at night, i am always at home after 5:00 pm. When i graduated from middle school, i supposed to have two months of summer vacation. But no, i went to four supplementary tutoring (Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology), 8 hours a day. Because the competition is going to huge in high school. I do understand that they love me and want the best of me, but sometime i just want to choose for myself but i never said anything, i just nod to everything that they want me to do. When i finally graduated from high school and turned 18, i dyed my hair orange, i have to say it feels impressive, i remember that my mom frowned when she saw my hair for the first time. Each of us has gone through a time when no one understood, but we were forced to accept all the rules of the adult world. And on the poster of the film, it says ‘ every growth is a murder’.
Anyway I hope everyone can peacefully embrace the world, love, recognition, respect and reconciliation.
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