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As a senior Mai Ba, I once went to KTV to sing with my friends. The song I must sing every time is "Long time no see" by Eason Chan. First of all, this song is affectionate enough. Secondly, it is easy to sing. The third and most important reason. This song is very vivid:
Will you suddenly appear,
At the coffee shop on the corner,
I will smile,
Wave your hand,
Sit down and talk to you,
By the way,
Haven't seen you for a long time.
In tonight's article, I want to talk about a movie related to cafes, The Thirty-sixth Story starring Kwai Lun Mei.
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This film tells the story of Zhuo Endor and Zhuo Enqiang running a small cafe together. The whole feeling of the whole movie can be summed up in one word: exchange, in the words of two sisters and mothers, is trade.
Zhuo Endor's family left a sum of money after his father died. How to use the money is decided by drawing lots. Zhuo Endor got the option of studying from her mother's lottery, while her sister Zhuo Enqiang was extremely lucky to get the option of traveling around the world.
This seems to be providence, or life is like this. Duole is very talented in reading and studies hard, but her sister Qiang likes to run around like a wild child. After graduating from junior high school, she was sent to Australia by her mother, lived in an uncle's house as a reporter, and followed her uncle's footsteps to many places in the world. I have been studying in Taiwan Province Province until I am young and still have the buds of acne in the past, which is extremely envious and extremely painful and frustrating.
After a difficult student life, Dora quit her former work unit. With her little savings and her sister's money to travel around the world in the future, she opened a small cafe and had her own small world and time.
Opening a coffee shop used to be my dream. For the dream of young artists, there are three customs in the world: opening a coffee shop in the city, opening an inn in Lijiang and riding 3 18. I once occupied two of the three customs in the eyes of the world. Open a cafe and ride 3 18, but it didn't happen.
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The most touching or interesting thing about the whole movie is one of the characteristics of the coffee shop-except for coffee desserts, everything in the shop is traded according to the principle of barter. On the opening day of the cafe, all the friends who came to pay tribute gave many strange things as gifts, such as a guitar, a plastic sculpture of Marilyn Monroe, a scale, a carousel, an old record player, Thai cookbooks, Japanese songbooks and so on. In order to carve up a car full of taro and coffee desserts that Dor once received as compensation for the car accident.
Speaking of the characteristics of cafes, Sister Miao Gejiao and I once had a barbecue in a cafe called many people on Jiefang Road in Changsha. The cafe operated independently and didn't order. So there was a strange scene of eating grilled fish while drinking coffee in the atmosphere symbolizing literary petty bourgeoisie.
For those things, Dora and Qianger looked puzzled. It's a pity to throw them away. I don't know if anyone wants it or how to deal with it. Until the local person in charge took a fancy to the Thai recipes, the ditch behind the shop was blocked and needed to be dredged, so the idea of bartering was born. Chang Li's son helped clear the ditch, and Chang Li took the formula he wanted with satisfaction.
Since then, cafes have attracted countless guests because of this barter feature. The trading principle of barter is not the value of goods, but the psychological value of both parties. Maybe a guitar is valuable in your eyes, but it is useless in others' eyes.
The business of the small shop is naturally getting better and better. During this period, Qianger got a mobile phone pendant bought in France from the stewardess by telling the story of Duoer's life.
Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Sending a Pepper to a Taoist": I wish I could pour him a glass of wine and let him get through the storm at dusk. In familiar terms, I have a bowl of wine to comfort the dust. After watching the movie The Thirty-sixth Story, I just want to say this: I have coffee, but do you have any stories to share?
The most touching place is here. A middle-aged man, Zhou Qunqing, drank coffee for a long time in the shop, but he was actually a co-pilot in the aviation industry. He brought 35 bars of soap and wanted to exchange things, so he used each bar of soap to tell a story to Dolce's children. The 35 stories of 35 bars of soap also involve 35 different cities in the world. Dora was fascinated, and Dora drew 35 warm and moving cartoons for 35 stories.
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The first officer's 35 stories have been finished, and those 35 stories bear the stories he once remembered. In bud's view, this is someone else's story after all. No matter how good the story is, he is not the protagonist himself. Moreover, Zhou Qunqing quickly quit his high-paying job because he fell in love with the quiet and stubborn blossoming and wanted to make coffee with blossoming in the future. He hopes to tell their thirty-sixth story with him more often.
Doll exchanged her small share in the store for a round-trip ticket from a travel company to 35 cities around the world, while Qiangge, a tomboy who wanted to travel around the world, changed his face and opened a coffee shop. Of course, Chang Li's honest and kind son was fooled by her and became a partner in the store. So it seems that many strong lives have been completely changed.
Life is so weird. In fact, the choice that appears in the movie, whether a sum of money is used for studying or traveling around the world, will be entangled in everyone's heart.
The difficult choice between fish and bear's paw is often before us. We have chosen a way of life, but at the same time we are full of regrets. We fantasize in our hearts that if we had chosen something else, we would have been freer and better than our present life. For this reason, I once ran a restaurant with my family and regretted it very much. I wish I hadn't left my job. Maybe life is just another scenery.
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We always fantasize about whether there is a parallel world, in which we are doing what we dare not do in real life but want to do, and living the life we want.
Any life choice or lifestyle, we have to pay the price to exchange, as to whether to exchange with our time, with our money, or with our feelings, that is specific.
Plastic surgery hospital, you give it your body, it gives you back your confidence.
Playground, you give it depression, it gives you happiness.
Library, you give it time, it gives you wisdom.
Cafe, you give it anxiety, it also gives you laziness.
Gym, you give it sweat, it gives you health.
Nature, you give it eyes, and it gives you memories.
Shopping malls, you give it money, and it gives you satisfaction.
Temple, you pray for it, it gives you the future.
Home, you give it drift, and it gives you dependence.
In short, people are not so easy to satisfy. Eating in the bowl and watching in the pot is inevitable after all. This may be the real life, and his life is full of discontent. We have been making big and small choices and transactions all our lives, and we regret and suffer for it. Everything has a price. As for entanglements and regrets, try to put them aside.