A simple life - the movie.

This movie won the Hong Kong Film festival award for the best film in the year 2011. i have just finished watching the movie and depicts the life of an average person, no matter where the are and who they are. Everyone have to go through the different stages of life ie brith, old age, sickness and death. No one can avoid the end.

Some people are luckier than the others and they can live and die in comfort but for the average people, they can hardly affort the hefty medical bills and housing and they have to spend their old age in old aged homes or Government hospitals. This movie tells the story of an old maid who have been working for 60 years of her life in a typical chinese family and she suffered a stroke and she was sent to an old folks home. From a healthy working person, she felt the cruelty of sickness and old age and have to suffer in a small and average old folks home. However, she still has her pride and ego to be independentduring her stay there.

The story line is very simple. She recovered from the stroke but her health turn for the worst and finally, she died. The whole movie is about the love, care and attachment of this old maid with her employer's son and how they take care of each other until the end.

In the movie, it talks about fate of two people and how they have been fixed into each other's life and taking turns to take care of each other. This is another typical scenario of many people who cross path in their life and for a certain period whether short or long, they move and live together when they path cross each other.

The scenes may not have any impact on the younger people but it would have different impact to the old people who have seen many things in their life time and it brings back memories and heart aches. When we see the younger people, we tell them that we were once like them and now, we are in the twilight years. The movie is very real and it is like looking at the end of everyone.

Awareness is okay but trying to avoid the facts of life, it is futile. So, we have to live everyday with happiness and each day like a fresh bout of air. When it will end, leave it to our creator.

Namaste.