director of the millennium

The story of "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" is actually very simple and can be summed up in one sentence.

"The story of a man who wanted to die but never did."

After all the guests and moviegoers were seated in the movie palace, there was no speech from the main creator. As soon as the lights dimmed, the big screen lit up, and the movie began to show.

Venice is so neat and tidy.

All viewers turned their attention and attention to the big screen.

Li Xuejian, who wore old age makeup and dyed his hair all white, appeared on the screen with a slightly hunched back.

His name is Li Wen.

The 60-year-old Li Wen has a bit of a weird temper, a stubborn mind, and is extremely stubborn. He seems to be an old man who is not easy to get along with.

The company where he had worked diligently for 43 years found a reason to fire him, and there was no longer anything that required him to fulfill his duties.

He lives alone and moves between the community and the cemetery according to a fixed schedule every day.

He lives alone in the community without a wife or children.

Every day he would patrol the community, check warehouse door locks, stop cars from entering the street, drive away cats and dogs running around, and scold anyone and anything that did not follow the rules.

Many of the old residents living in this community said behind his back that he was old-fashioned, had a weird temper, and was not a good neighbor.

To be honest, the image of the male protagonist sketched out at the beginning is indeed very unpleasant.

He is sarcastic, irritable, stubborn, old-fashioned, and very serious. As long as you violate the rules he adheres to, then you are ready to hear him curse.

Only when Li Wen went to the cemetery to visit his wife, there was a hint that this guy also had a tenderness.

Then, the plot begins to reach a turning point.

This eccentric old man planned to commit suicide by hanging his head from the beam on a sunny morning.

He wore a white shirt, a blue suit, a striped tie, suit pants and leather shoes. He trimmed his beard and tidied up his personal image, preparing to leave this world with dignity.

He tied the rope to the beam, stepped on the chair, and put his head into the noose. Just when the audience frowned, a trumpet sounded, interrupting his suicide.

A new neighbor moved in next door. The neighbor's ability to reverse the car into the garage was really poor. Faced with the new neighbor's request, he had no choice but to help, which finally affected his mood to commit suicide.

After helping his neighbor, Li Wen went home and collapsed on the sofa. Memories began to occupy his mind.

It turns out that Li Wen was also a talented person with a good personality when he was young. The loss of his mother when he was young did not break him. Living with his father made him interested in cars and trains.

After hard work, he successfully obtained the train qualification.

Everything seems fine, but why is he like this?
The perspective returned to reality. After Li Wen failed to commit suicide for the first time, he did not give up the idea of ​​​​suicide and was still preparing to commit suicide.

However, when he committed suicide for the second time, he was already neatly dressed in suits and ties. However, the new neighbor's daughter came over to bring food, so he was forced to stop. He had no tradition of wasting food.

The third time, the gravity of the earth was used to superimpose the resistance of the rope, and the rope broke.

The fourth time, I wanted to use car exhaust to absorb carbon emissions myself. As a result, my neighbor fell and was injured, so he had to help drive him to the hospital.

The fifth time, he fell on the track, but a man suddenly fell ill and fell on the track before him. When he rescued the man, the train also braked and stopped.

In every failed suicide attempt by Li Wen, many memories will be inserted.

It turns out that although he lost his mother when he was young, under his father's example and education, he learned to treat everyone honestly and kindly.

However, when he was sixteen, he lost his father.

Li Wen inherited a dilapidated bicycle, a dilapidated house, a deformed watch and his father's job.

He worked honestly and conscientiously, but was falsely accused of stealing his wallet and lost his job. However, a kind man arranged for him to work as a night bus cleaner.

Everyone wants to live with dignity, and dignity is different for different people.

For Li Wen, dignity means being a person who adheres to principles and can support himself.

Li Wen is very principled and doesn't know how to adapt. He strictly manages garbage classification earlier than the people of Shanghai. He cannot ignore anything that violates what he considers "common sense" and is black and white.

In the past two years, I was defrauded when buying insurance, my house was burned down because I was trying to save someone, everything went wrong, and I even had to drive in the wrong direction.

But what was lost is what he gained, and he met Xiaoya, his first love, his true love, and everything he had.

Xiaoya's world is colorful, and it is all the colors of Li Wen's world.

Before her, he had no life.

He is taciturn, rough and straightforward, black and white, and obsessed with technology.

She is lively, generous, beautiful and generous, full of joy for life and loves literature and art.

No one understands why Xiaoya, a junior high school teacher, would accept Li Wen, a railway worker.

But Xiaoya understands that if a person is willing to ride the train in the opposite direction for several hours every day just to accompany you, that is probably true love.

Loving her unconditionally is indeed his life principle.

Li Wen and Xiaoya's first date, they made an appointment to have dinner together, but Li Wen came a little late.

"Why did you come out after eating at home?" she asked.

He looked at her with sincere eyes: "Because this way you can order as much as you want."

In that not-rich era, eating out was a very luxurious thing. He just hoped that Xiaoya could eat well on their first date.

During the dinner, he nervously confessed to her that when they met on the train, he was mistaken as a soldier. In fact, he was wrong. He was not a soldier, but just a train worker working on the train. "So what?" Xiaoya held her chin in her hands and smiled brightly: "It doesn't make any difference to me whether you're a soldier or a train worker."

They fell in love.

He was eccentric and lonely, she was warm and sunny, and she healed his lonely heart.

They are diligent, respectful to each other, and work hard to make money to buy a new house. Xiaoya is pregnant, and everything is going smoothly and for the best.Then on their honeymoon, a drunk bus driver ruins their happiness.

Xiaoya could only spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair and was destined not to become a mother.

When life taunted him again and again, Li Wen never gave in.

He continued to love Xiaoya deeply, supported his wife's dream, and created every convenience for Xiaoya's beloved job. His wife wanted to continue to be a teacher, so he paved a wheelchair path for her, and they healed and supported each other.

However, fate is unpredictable. Six months ago, Xiaoya passed away from this world before Li Wen because of cancer.

Li Wen looked back on their lives and found them to be ordinary. However, the time-soaked mark left on his body by his loved ones, the warmth and healing color, could not be abandoned.

"It's a mess without you at home."

"If I hurry up, maybe we can meet today."

"I miss you."

In front of Xiaoya's grave, Li Wen said something sensational in a tone as plain as if he was asking what he was going to eat today.

When the person we love deeply and the work we are accustomed to leave us, we will probably be like the stubborn old man Li Wen, who wants to leave this cruel world and run towards the lost lover.

However, Li Wen, who is looking for a way to die every day, is interrupted by various trivial things every time.

He taught his neighbors to back up their cars, helped them repair their radiators, adopted stray kittens, and took in homeless young men. He also worked with his neighbors to repel real estate developers who wanted to demolish the community and saved his friends from being forced to be sent to prison. Nursing home misery…

The stray cat in the community that was bullied needs someone to take care of it. The friend in the community who once parted ways due to the same hatred cannot be sent to a nursing home. Her wife can't fix the heater.

The carefree girl next door, Li Yan, who has recently moved to the Northeast, has the consciousness to regard herself as Li Wen's daughter, regardless of whether he agrees or not.

Then, her children would naturally become Li Wen's granddaughters.

Being called grandpa and caring about your heart, you have lost the right to commit suicide and have to buy new mobile phones for others.

After his wife passed away, his world was completely dark, and suicide might be the best choice.

Until the neighbor who moved next door brought new worries to Li Wen.

"No one can bear everything alone, no one, including you!"

After Li Wen attempted suicide again and was discovered by the Northeastern woman next door, they had a very serious conversation.

"Never give up, that's what you said, right?" She told Li Wen what he had taught her children and returned it to him.

"But what about you? Because of the death of your wife, you just sit there and feel sorry for yourself."

"It's idiotic to blame someone else for something bad that happened to you."

"You are the one who loves to give up."

"Just because you think everyone can survive without help."

"But you know what?"

"No one can do it all alone, no one, but that's life."

Li Wen seems to have become a different person recently, and he has slowly begun to have various interactions with people around him. I have never seen him so enthusiastic.

The new neighbors and even other people and animals in the community are not perfect, timid, clumsy, stubborn, and do not listen well. Li Wenzhen is worried that without him, the community may be ruined.

Although Li Wen still had a bad face when others asked for help, and was even filled with complaints, he always offered a helping hand.

Everyone knows that he is actually just a kind-hearted old man with a hard mouth and a soft heart.

Unconsciously, the neighbors cannot live without Li Wen, and Li Wen cannot live without his neighbors.The most important thing is that Li Wen finally found the meaning of living. He felt that he was needed and loved by others.

Of course he always cursed these people for their incompetence, but when he was alone in the small cemetery, he would occasionally say vaguely something like "There are some things to do during the day that might not be bad."

Soon winter came again, a freezing November morning.

Li Yan, the Northeastern woman next door, woke up as usual, looked out her bedroom window, and then looked at the clock.

It's a quarter past eight, but the snow at the door of Li Wen's house opposite the window has not been shoveled yet. This is not in line with Li Wen's old-fashioned lifestyle.

When the camera turned, Li Wen was lying on the bed with his hands on his chest. He seemed to be sleeping deeply. He had never seen him look so peaceful. The cat was lying next to him, its head carefully placed on his palm.

Li Yan's eldest daughter pulled her sleeve in confusion: "Why hasn't grandpa woke up yet?"

Li Yan did not answer, but leaned down and whispered in Li Wen's ear: "Say hello to Xiaoya's mother for me, and thank her for lending you to me."

People will inevitably get hurt, but I hope there is always love that can heal you.

The video ends here.

At the end of the film, the black screen scrolling subtitles light up.

After a brief silence.

In the movie palace, applause roared. (End of chapter)