"Lunch Box" is a story about fate. There is no encounter, and there is no end to it. "Lunch Box" is an Indian film with no high school musical, only serious life, no noise and jubilation. Thanks to the recommendation of my good friend Milu, I saw such a masterpiece with a leisurely but particularly touching style. 20 13 movies, the style is calm and unpleasant, quietly passing by, but good movies are not afraid of being late, and warm up with friends.
In India, a country where nothing is taken seriously, there are many primitive but wonderful things, and the food delivery system is one of them. A married wife who lives at home prepares lunch every day and delivers it to her husband who works in the city by take-away service (similar to our express delivery, except that it is not a casual order). The food delivery system has a clear division of labor. Without our sophisticated and scientific logistics system, we only rely on responsibility decomposition and responsibility. It is said that this system can hardly make mistakes. But it is precisely the occasional mistakes of this system, almost no mistakes, that have made this wonderful fate in the lunch box story.
Fernandez is a retired professional expert (from the details, his work unit may be an accounting firm). Because I lost my wife and children in my early years, it is two points and one line from home to the company every day. His lunch was not prepared by his wife, but ordered in a nearby restaurant.
Ira is a housewife who has a daughter with her husband and is one of the customers of Indian food delivery system. Besides taking care of her daughter, her most important job every day is to prepare lunch for her husband, constantly improve the dishes under the guidance of her grandmother upstairs, and regard serving her husband's stomach as her greatest duty. However, everything she did was not respected and recognized by her husband.
Because the lunch box that Ella gave her husband was almost the same as that of Fernandez Catering Company, a small difference in details changed their fate by mistake. Taking the first mistake as an opportunity, two strangers started frequent correspondence, a letter at lunch, repeated communication, from temptation to familiarity, from familiarity to kindness, until expectation.
Fernandez has been alone for many years, just working and living numbly every day, ignoring everything around him. Intertwined with Ella's fate, like a ray of sunshine shining into life. So he began to quit smoking, trim his beard, learn to smile, find himself again, and shape himself into what Ella might like. While trying to please her absent-minded husband, Ella cooked carefully, prepared a sumptuous lunch for Fernandez, and confided her complaints, resentments and sudden thoughts to this untouchable confidant through letters. They clearly understand each other's identity in the communication, and also clearly know the brevity and uncertainty of this joy, but they are still addicted to mutual understanding, interruption and companionship.
At the turning point of the film, Fernandez didn't keep the appointment at the appointed time, and chose to retire early when Ella went to the company to find him. Since then, the fate of the lunch box has ended, and the possibility of two people meeting again no longer exists. Fernandez gave Ella confidence, respect and courage in life through letters, but he didn't finally make a decision that was really close to her life. But it was this seemingly regrettable ending that hit my heart impartially.
Ella is an unattended housewife. She has almost nothing to say, except that she exchanges cooking and talks about the market with her grandmother who lives upstairs every day. Her husband ate the wrong lunch and didn't talk to her every day. It was not until she proposed to have another child that she remembered to use "why is cauliflower every day?" Did you buy a basket? " As a reason for prevarication and perfunctory.
Fernandez was lonely for many years, pulling a long face on everyone. He doesn't like flattering and respectful apprentices, and all kinds of reasons and excuses are perfunctory; He doesn't give a good look to the children who play football at home, and he loves to blame and brag. Even when facing Ella's first free lunch, he left a critical message that the food was too salty.
One is a marriage without love, and the other is a family without mood. In this way, two people, one is constantly improving his cooking, hoping that the other will have a good time; One person persuades another person to get rid of his old experience. People who cook feel the recognition and understanding they originally wanted from their husbands; People who taste vegetables slowly taste the long-lost fireworks in the process of communication and listening. One-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street, one-way street.
People with love in their hearts don't have to pretend. You can't hide a smile, and neither can you care. Because of the appearance of Ella in life, Fernandez gradually became optimistic from indifference, rigidity and doubt at the beginning. When he treated his haunted apprentice, he went from "rolling around without talking" to "doing something" and then "sitting down to eat together", and even finally he was willing to act as a witness for his orphan apprentice. That big wedding photo of a bunch of relatives in the woman's family and only two lonely people in the man's family is probably a rare humor in the whole film.
But in addition to becoming optimistic, he also began to be anxious. He put himself in Ella's shoes and put forward various suggestions to improve the family situation. He daydreams with Ella, and even if he has some childish ideas, he cares. Ella mentioned in her letter that when grandma's electric fan stopped running upstairs, he also looked up and saw the stopped electric fan in a trance. He overheard the driver say that a woman committed suicide by jumping off a building in front of him with her child. He was very anxious until he waited for the familiar lunch box and smelled the familiar smell. The deeper he goes into each other's lives, the less he can release them.
Although the two have never met, Fernandez has been doing his best to care about Ella, and Ella has been expressing her thoughts with the best lunch. Gentle words, natural meals, nothing vigorous, the best love is accompanied by a little bit.
They met. Ella stopped wearing loose clothes. Fernandez trimmed her untidy beard and gave up smoking because Ella didn't like the smell of cigarettes. In order to meet, Fernandez became a neurotic young man. But at the last minute, Fernandez chickened out. He looked at her from a distance, but didn't go to her. He received an empty lunch box as punishment. In his reply, he said, "I smelled my grandfather in the bathroom, but it was actually my own smell." He also said, "I suddenly feel old. Maybe I will be old one day in the past, but you are still so young, with a future and all kinds of possibilities."
Love someone and give her a hug when you need it; Go crazy with her if you want to. If you love someone, there will be your favorite songs, books you read, entertainment games you like, and difficulties and obstacles you challenge. If you love someone, you will take care of vulnerability, share sadness, bear each other's pain, be happy with each other's happiness and live in each other's hearts. But if you love someone, you will be unable to accompany them because of the passage of time, you will try not to love them because you love them too much, and you will give them freedom when you can't give happiness.
Pure love does not aim at possession, although it also wants to be together, but it also knows self-esteem and self-discipline, and knows that rational withdrawal is inevitable and does not ask for anything in return. As long as the other person is happy, he is willing to be inseparable; But aware of each other's embarrassment, I am willing to go far without looking back.
Fernandez and Ella should never see each other again. The first time you say you can't see, you will be sad, and the second time you will secretly cry. But once you convince yourself in the name of love, lovers should break up. We didn't understand love then, but now we don't understand it until we are old.