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Chapter 64 Two Flowers! (Please follow up!)
The protagonist Lin Wu's solo under the snow mountain is the turning point of the whole movie.

After that, he completely strengthened his belief in taking up the job of an undertaker, and everything began to fall back from the bottom.

The wife who returned to her natal home found out that she was pregnant, and wanted to come back and have a serious talk with Lin Wu.

During this process, after seeing Lin Wu's work throughout, his wife also began to understand the meaning of his work, chose to accept it, and tried to become his assistant.

The father who abandoned Lin Wu when he was a child suddenly heard the news of his death.

Lin Wu, who was very reluctant to see him for the last time, tried to face this inner obstacle with the guidance of his company assistant, burying his father and sending him on his last journey.

It was also during this process that he discovered that his father had always cared about him, and finally reconciled with his deceased father.

The bathhouse mother-in-law who had always taken care of him, warmed him, and supported him also passed away quietly one day in early spring. As her son, Lin Wu dressed her up beautifully, kindly, and kindly, and held a decent funeral for her.

the end of the movie.

On a morning as usual.

Lin Wu took his wife to visit the master together, but only saw the face of the master who passed away peacefully, and a pair of eyebrow pencils tightly clutched in the master's hand.

When Lin Wu took out the eyebrow pencil from his master's already stiff hand, and held it solemnly with his wife, there was roaring applause in the auditorium.

When the movie ended and the lights in the theater came on, the applause didn't stop.

It is true that "The Embalmer" is full of all kinds of death, but after watching this movie, every viewer feels warm in their hearts, as if they have been healed.

"A very touching movie." Hayao Miyazaki, who was sitting in the back row, rubbed the corners of his eyes and said with emotion to his friend beside him.

As a RB, he is the person in the theater who can understand this movie best except for Chinese audiences.

There's something incredibly healing about a film about the normally daunting funeral industry.

"What moved me the most was the words that the first family member of the deceased said to his father with tears in his eyes when he saw him off. Thank you for your dedication to this family."

"In our East Asian culture, people are often polite to outsiders, but rarely express their gratitude to their relatives. They always think that everything their relatives do is taken for granted."

"It's so unfair to the loved ones."

Hayao Miyazaki stretched his neck to look at Wu Yuan who stood up and bowed in the first row, his eyes were full of appreciation.

In addition to the main plot of "The Embalmer", it also intersperses many issues that explore life, death and social phenomena.

For example, there was a female deceased who was young and beautiful, and was very fashionably dressed in a beautiful skirt. However, when the master and the master and the apprentice were enclosing him, they discovered that he was a boy.

And the father of the deceased was not willing to identify with him until after his death, and was willing to admit him, saying "whether you wear a skirt or pants, you are my son".

Or another deceased, who was also a young and beautiful woman with beautiful yellow hair, but when Lin Wu buried her, the mother of the deceased yelled at him, saying that her daughter's hair was black, Get him to do his makeup again.

But the relatives and friends who couldn't bear it stood up and scolded the mother, saying that she usually didn't care about her daughter at all, and she didn't even know what her daughter liked. Now after her daughter committed suicide and died, she took on the posture of a mother, which is ridiculous. .

Of course, one of the most important issues in the film is society's discrimination against the work of an embalmer.

It seems that it is so terrible to help the deceased to bury the deceased, and it may even carry a virus to infect others.

But if there is no one to do the job, is it possible that after death, people are left to rot in place?

When Wu Yuan deliberately portrayed the focused and gentle eyes of the mortician when he put on makeup on the deceased in the movie (especially this person is Zhang Guorong).

While the audience was moved, they had to re-examine whether their views and prejudices about this profession were correct.

The American director Lesser, who was also shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival with "True Express", also expressed emotion to his producer: "Love and death are two eternal topics for human beings."

"My movie chose love, Daniel chose death."

"And his interpretation of death is more profound and touching than my interpretation of love."

"Can't believe he's only 20 years old."

When the screening of the film ended, all the invited guests, film critics and media reporters who came after hearing the news were full of praise for the film.

Some anxious film critics and media reporters rushed to the side of Wu Yuan who was leading the crew members to bow and leave, and started asking questions.

"Director Wu, in the movie, when the dead are buried, they need to hold a peach branch in their left hand and a bread in their right hand. Is this a special funeral culture in China?"

"Yes, but this is only the funeral culture in a part of China. China is very big, and the funeral customs in different places are different. This is just one of them."

"Director Wu, does the eyebrow pencil at the end of the movie represent inheritance?"

"Yes, it is the inheritance of profession and the inheritance of belief."

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When the premiere of "The Undertaker" ended, it was already past six in the afternoon.

After dealing with reporters, media and film critics, the crew dragged their tired bodies back to the hotel for dinner and rest.

The Huaxia reporter group accompanying the group, especially the official CCTV reporters, immediately called back to the country, sending back the news that the premiere of "The Undertaker" was well received.

Immediately, relevant news reports appeared on the domestic Internet, which also made domestic film fans who have been following this year's Berlin Film Festival start to look forward to whether Wu Yuan can win an award at the closing ceremony!
Before they had finished absorbing the news, the Berlin Film Festival's program catalog announced the rating of "The Undertaker", with a score of 3.3, ranking No.4 among the films that have been screened in the main competition unit!
Most of the film critics who watched the premiere also gave "The Undertaker" a score of four stars or more, and strongly recommend local movie fans to watch this movie more in the next few days.

"Director Wu, the form is very good!"

Director Han, who collected comments and word-of-mouth on "The Undertaker", congratulated Wu Yuan with a happy face during the dinner.

Zhang Guorong, Li Xuejian and other cast members also had happy faces on their faces. The better the word-of-mouth and response of the film's premiere, the higher the possibility of winning the award. Can't you be happy!

Wu Yuan was naturally also cheerful, just when he was about to say a few words to advise everyone not to be happy so early, his cell phone rang suddenly.

"john?"

Seeing the name of the caller, Wu Yuan answered the phone with some doubts: "John, what's wrong?"

"Daniel! The nominations for the Academy Awards have been announced!"

""Juno" was nominated for four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay!"

"Hey, Daniel, you have to come to the United States to attend the Oscars ceremony in person this time!"

John's voice was very loud and excited, so loud that Dong Han and Zhang Guorong, who were sitting next to Wu Yuan, could clearly hear his words even if the speaker was not turned on.

"Ding-crack!"

The knives and forks held by the two men fell onto the exquisite porcelain plate with a clang.

"Don't you hang up?" Zhang Guorong was so startled that he subconsciously spoke Cantonese.

At this moment, no one cared about the smashed and cracked porcelain plate.

Everyone who heard John's words looked at Wu Yuan with fiery eyes.

"Director Wu, you are really awesome this time."

　I know everyone wants to watch the award ceremony, but some necessary foreshadowing and pitfalls need to be filled in. I will finish writing about the award ceremony tomorrow. Guess which award "The Embalmer" will win?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)