Deep Impression from Movie, The Spring in a Small Town

The spring in a small town is a movie that really left a deep impression to me. Neither because it was produced in a special period of times in china nor the significance of movie that director want to express to audience. I was surprised by a few scenes that could represent the struggling issue of morality in the movie, which really lead me to consider lots of other things may beyond this movie itself into tradition ethics and human nature.

Taking place in a ruined family compound after the anti-Japanese War, the film tells the story of the once prosperous Dai family. The husband and patriarch, Dai Liyan is an invalid, and spends his days in the courtyard nostalgic for the past. His marriage to Zhou Yuwen has long been rendered loveless, though both still feel concern for the other. Liyan's young teenage sister Dai Xiu , meanwhile, is too young to remember the past, and stays cheerful and playful in the ruins of her home. Then there comes Zhang Zhichen who is the Liyan’s childhood friend and also is the former flame of Zhou Yuwen before she ever met her husband. So the relationship between Liyan Yuwen and Zhichen becomes awkward and subtle when they all discovered that the feeling between Yuwen and Zhichen still existed and that’s all the conflict and struggle begin with. From the start of the movie we can know that Liyan feel really sorry about his wife because he is invalid and depressed all the day. He even tries to push Yuwen away because he cannot bring her any happiness. Yuwen never say so even though she knows that she is not happy, she doesn't know what else she could do except continue take care of her husband. However, she becomes vacillating once she see Zhichen has come. The conversation between Yuwen and Zhichen in ...

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...tinue is just for children because they thought it is their responsibility to give children a complete family. I won’t say no to that but once the children realize that their parents are not happy be together, will their still be happy or appreciated about what their parents sacrificed for them. So I think people follow the rules and ethics and take responsibility, at meanwhile, they give up the right to looking for what they really want or even they give up the happiness of their own children. And that could be considered as irresponsible.

Follow the morality or to follow the heart is always a tough choice when it comes to love. What I believe is they are both right choice because sometimes the true love overcome anything else in the world and sometimes when we put such things like responsibility and morality together, they are greater than a simple word love.