The protagonist of the Czech movie "Prague Practitioner" (Vratné lahve, 2007) is a middle school teacher with the name "Sea Fighting Dryer", which makes people unable to help but imagine its personality. He is 65 years old, although he can't say he is a pity, but nothing is wrong.
"Help me ask …… Can you work in heaven? I won't be afraid if you don't have it!"
Czech movie "Prague Practice" (Vratné lahve, 2007) The protagonist is a middle school teacher, with the name "Sea Floating Dryer", which makes people unable to help but imagine its personality. He is 65 years old, although he can't say he is a pity, but nothing is wrong.
He punished a student for a trivial matter, but he didn't expect that this student was a big shot and was the son of the school director. Next, the principal was asked to discuss it, and the audience was not surprised; what was unexpected was his answer
The principal: "Your only choice is to write a book to apologize to his parents."
Joseph: "No, I don't apologize. I want to use another way to solve it: I'm a vocation. I decided that if I don't teach, I'm not happy here."
So he was so distracted. You said he was willful, said he was too tempted, or said he didn't know how to bear it, but please don't ignore his bottom line: "I want to be happy where I work." It is better to retire early and the sky if you compromise and move.
left the teaching position, and he was not idle and could not come down, so he went to be a bicycle expressman. The first thing that is opposed is of course his wife.
Wife: "At 65, I am still riding a single car to Prague and shuttle through the car. That's what young people do."
Receiver: "Why do you do this? Most express workers are young people."
Joseph: "Madam, age is not a problem. As long as you can get familiar with Prague and immediately stop, it will be enough."
Passerby: "Are you still working?"
Joseph: "I am a express worker at No. 31."
Is it easy to retire? I think it differs from person to person. (Please refer to my other column article: "Advanced Students" Can Taiwan be understood and misunderstood by seniors)
Joseph explained to his family why he had to go out to work at this age: "I am a 'sent-gratitude', a man who likes to greet his wife. When I was working, I always returned home and greeted my family: 'Hi! I'm back.' But if there is 'I'm back', the premise is that I must say "out" first."
What the elderly want is very simple, a warm question; the elderly don't want much, just a simple life in their later years.
When he rode a single express express through the park, he saw a retired elderly person who was incompetent, and he did not feel more and more proud of finding a job after retirement, but a kind of inner freedom, which is a kind of freedom that does not have to be arrogant by the school director or threatened by the president, a kind of freedom that cannot be bought for money, and a kind of freedom that is unique to the elderly.
Joseph was injured and could not continue to be his bicycle express, but he found a job in the supermarket: a bottle recycler.
He said: "A great advantage of this job is that fresh bread is eaten every day." The fixed place is the work location, but different people come every day, which often makes the old man "upgraded" into the "old man under the moon": not only remarry the divorced daughter, but also allows the single air military officer to find a second spring, but also match his own old lover with the supermarket who suffered setbacks in the love field and lacks confidence.
The days are not single-toned, but people are single-toned; work will not be without fun, and you will always find fun by yourself. The part that the director of
is that he causes contemplation by daily trivial matters. The expression of the characters' emotions is not at all exaggerated. The audience will feel that such an old man seems familiar, and may want to be such an old man, and even expect to be as charming and colorful as him after retirement.
Joseph's Spring Dream is also one of the highlights of this film. (For the sex of the elderly, please refer to my other column: The sex of the elderly: The sex of the elderly: The storm is dark or calm) The dream situation is that the incense spray is hot on the train. The heroine in the dream ranges from the female colleague of Qu Lin's school to the beautiful young woman who was in the bicycle expressway; from the hot belly-exposed girl who often came to the supermarket bottle recycling station to the pretty nurse in the former son-in-law's clinic.
But Joseph still smiled and asked his wife: "I have reached the last journey of my life. How great it would be if I could have it again! Maybe with you, with you, if you do it."
Will the spring dream be the helpless and strong resistance of the heart that is strongly pressed under the appearance of the day? This part clearly leaves a lot of imagination space for the audience. But just like Joseph's answer to death:
"Will you die?"
"Yes, but I don't have this plan yet."
Joseph didn't have this plan because he thought it was still far from the last point:
Wife: "You're buying books all your children and are ready to read after retirement. So when do you want to read?"
Joseph: "Wait until I enter the aging period. ”
Wife: "Then what episode do you think you are now?"
Joseph: "The maturity period is, the aging period is still early!"
At the end of the movie, Joseph, who doesn't look like a romantic husband, did something that even the most romantic husband couldn't do: arrange a hot and exciting journey to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his wedding!
The ball is getting higher and higher. He pointed to the forest below and asked his wife, "Do you still remember? We have our first time there." The next one was the most sincere and affectionate silver-style confession: "I want to make you happy. I just want to tell you: the years with you have been wonderful!"
When on the lake, the hot ball turned off. If you wanted to reignite it quickly, you panic and look for a lighter, and he found that his wife was smoking with him on her back. The wife explained: "I want to die before you, I don't want to go to the cemetery to see you."
Westerners can always talk about the issue of death naturally. In the conservative oriental society, especially in traditional Taiwan, it has not been easy to open. How to talk? How to get in? How to be a little tactful? How can we let the other party know that we are out of good intentions?
Why is this issue important? Because the most beautiful separation in the world is the separation that both sides are prepared for. (Please see another article of mine: The Most Beautiful Separation in the World). More importantly, elderly people can’t be taken by just saying “Everyone will die”, and long-term grief will seriously affect health.
The wife knows her husband so well that she can say, "The years I have been with you are so wonderful!" Such affectionate words must not be high for my wife. Because of her deep affection, it is even more difficult to calm down her grief and leave.
May I beg you to Joseph's age and be as interesting as him: to keep warm with people, still have warm with life, and not disappoint with human nature. Finally, and most importantly, it is believed that the real end is still very far away.
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