In this materialistic society (in this materialistic society)

"When I was a child, I was a left-behind child at home and finally grew up. I came to a big city to work hard and sell my house to others, but I became an empty nester. In a few years, I don't know if I will become anxious middle-aged. In the end, I will die alone ... "

The above sentence was sent to me by WeChat, a friend of mine who is engaged in real estate sales in Beijing. It is reported as words here, and the negative energy contained in it still makes people feel desperate.

In a city like Beijing, it seems easy to sell a house, and a house with thousands of commissions looks good. But in fact, the pressure is enormous for those project sales without brand endorsement.

With few customers and great competition, it is becoming more and more difficult to clinch a deal, which has become a big stone in the hearts of ordinary sales. It is common for a month not to clinch a deal, and the basic salary is meager when renting a house in a big city.

Unfortunately, my friend is the most humble member of this ordinary sales team.

Tell customers how good the project is every day. Do they really feel good?

Yes, in a city like Beijing and Shanghai, no one knows better how precious it is to own a house.

His experience reminds me of watching an old movie, but I can't remember the specific plot clearly, except that the heroine is also a real estate salesman in a big city.

I only remember that the last five minutes of the film were full of pictures of her crying on a park bench.

I revisited the film at the weekend. The name is long live love. Judging from its name, it is a very literary film. The director is Cai Mingliang, a famous literary giant.

The stories described by Cai Mingliang are unique in style, seemingly simple and tasteless, sometimes absurd, confusing and even sleepy, but they will always give you a heavy blow at the end.

The story Long Live Love is no exception.

In the film, Cai Mingliang vividly expresses the desire, confusion, fatigue, loneliness and despair of young people in modern cities through the depiction of three little people with an empty room and a bed.

Among the three young people, Miss Lin is a real estate salesman.

Start a business at a roadside food stall every day.

Well-off selling tombs.

Every day when you go to work in a convenience store, you should carefully arrange your hair.

Although the next shot was messy in the wind of the battery car.

Ah Rong makes a living by setting up stalls.

Although handsome, he is just a street vendor.

Because it contains many long shots, this 105-minute movie actually has a short story.

Xiaokang stole the key that others left on the door and found that the apartment was actually an empty house, so he sneaked in.

And this apartment happens to be represented by Miss Lin.

Miss Lin is busy selling the house she represents. Although there is no deal, at least she has a house to live in because of her work. When you are tired, you hide in an apartment that can't be sold.

Ah Rong and Miss Lin met in a fast food restaurant, hooked up soon, and then they often came to this apartment to do shady things. Ah Rong took the opportunity to steal Miss Lin's key and secretly moved in.

Well-off and autistic. Feeling lonely, he originally planned to commit suicide by cutting his wrist in the apartment, but he heard the voices of Arong and Miss Lin next door.

So, three people gathered in the same stolen space, one committed suicide, and finally had sex with the other two, but the result was the same loneliness.

In a house of only more than 80 square meters, three people hid together and were careful not to bump into each other.

Ah Rong is hiding in a dark room and tasting watermelon. They hide under the bed when they have sex.

But after a long time, it is inevitable to bump into it. Ah Rong and Xiaokang still collided and could not continue to escape. They finally understand that no one is in charge.

However, the violent conflict that should have erupted has no warning at all. They acquiesced in each other's existence and naively maintained this fragile balance.

Because they all know how precious this space is to each other.

Because they all know that only when the family is not empty-nesters, the empty-nesters' hearts can get the minimum comfort.

Ah Rong and Xiaokang began to get to know each other and became bosom friends. They can eat hot pot and drink beer together in the house.

They are also thieves together, secretly avoiding Miss Lin.

Finally, Ah Rong and Miss Lin spent the night in the apartment, and Xiaokang also hid under the bed for the night. Teacher Lin left without looking at Ah Rong in the morning, but Xiaokang got up from under the bed, hugged Ah Rong who was abandoned on the bed and kissed him.

It turns out that Xiaokang, who has the same-sex plot, had a secret crush on Ah Rong as early as Peeping.

At the end of the film, Mr. Lin burst into tears on the park bench alone and kept crying. ......

The wind in the park is very strong. She has long hair, like a wild ghost who has lost her soul.

I expected the ending to be reversed, but it wasn't. She is still crying. Finally, the film came to an abrupt end in her crying.

The film is called Long Live Love, but there is no sweet shadow of love at all-just as Mr. Qian Zhongshu said in Fortress Besieged by Fang Hung-chien: Where there is love in the world, it is simply a reproductive impulse.

After the impulse, loneliness follows.

If we define the status of these three people, it is the "empty nest youth" that we have been discussing recently.

Although an apartment is full of three people, they all avoid each other's sight, and even love is confined to physical desires and isolated from each other. Isn't this an empty nest?

Why did the movie end with Teacher Lin's crying?

Because she is the closest person to the concept of home, after all, she sells houses.

Because she is also the farthest from home, she flatters customers, but there is no suite of her own.

She is a woman who wears short skirts and high heels, uses Lancome facial cleanser, drives a car and holds a mobile phone to tie an advertisement to a tree. She can sleep with a man and leave without looking at him, but she still wants to find a deserted park and cry for five minutes. ......

Life is just like this. Too many young people have their own sadness. They long for love, but only for physical pleasure. They long for luxury houses, but after living in them, they are more and more lonely under the gap between spirit and material.

Young people may be able to buy their beloved house in the sales office, and have a few hearty sex with their beloved people in this house, but after that? Hiding on a park bench and crying for the unhappiness of life?

Lock young people's bodies in a square box, whether the box belongs to them or not, and whether they are completely dependent on others; Tie young people's thoughts to the established track, let them block their own vision and laugh, suffer, worry and grow up in the same way.

Can this really make young people grow up? Or can it only produce "empty nesters"?

So this movie brings us not only how miserable young people are, but also whether the house we have been longing for is really worth pursuing by young people.

Whether it is worth it or not, I don't know, but from ancient times to the present, people who long for "long live the body" have all died; Those who are too narrow-minded and materialistic are nailed to the shame column.

Finally, although Cai Mingliang named the film Long Live Love, it was actually a satire. He told us:

In this materialistic society,

Don't talk about love, I only see my eyes full of desire.

Some poor people,

This desire can destroy all living things. ......