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The Old Wave Season 2

1.020260h 59mHDSUB81,056 views

Director: 范士广

Storyline

The old wave, neither wind nor rain nor sunshine. The second season captures six such journeys. Someone waited eighteen years for a promise that never came, and finally decided to walk her own path. Someone never married, had no children, and lost contact with relatives. She signed a living will and moved into a nursing home, thinking she had her ending. But she died suddenly forty days later, leaving five million in unclaimed inheritance. Someone lost his beloved wife in deep grief, but a mop and a radio silently caught his life. Old age is too grand, yet we are still young. So we often talk about things we don't understand—what aging is, what death is, what love really is. These ultimate questions have no clear answers in 'The Old Wave'. Every protagonist is in confusion. As Rilke said, in old age, 'suffering has not been recognized, love has not been learned, and the things far in the land of death have not revealed their faces.' This is the starting point of the documentary. Starting from confusion, ending with confusion, neither wind nor rain nor sunshine. This is the process of struggle, and also the place of transcendence. Songs rise from the earth, in praise, in celebration.