Perhaps it's a little difficult for me to understand profound meaning of living as the first time I saw the movie " To Live", at that time I was about 9 years old, the only thing of that movie had attracted my eyes was noodles with boiling oil that all the commune members had in the canteen, pouring the noodles with chili oil, hot oil, peanuts, soy sauce and vinegar, and mixing, which made me get the itch to swallow the whole screen by the temptation of delicious food. For a kid, what she likes to see is perhaps more interesting than what she needs to think. In the movie, the son of the lead poured the delicious noodles on some little boy in order to take revenge on him for what those villains had done to his mute sister, this move had caused a big trouble to his parents, although this little boy refused to apologize for what he'd done, obviously, the apology is really hard to make to whom they don't deserve, and as a kid, to distinguish what should be right and what should be wrong is not an easy task.

the life has taught us a lot as we grow up, just like the movie tells, Fugui (the leading actor) was originally a playboy who had been infatuated with gambling that finally led him to lose his family, following this he had been caught as a soldier, and had no choice but to experience the cruelty of war, the truth of death. After all these Fugui started to realize what is the most precious to life, like what he said to his wife, "It's good to be simple person".

To be a simple person, that's so easy to talk rather than to act. In the movie, the "simpleness" of human nature has been expressed as the word "forgiveness" that is likely to ask, and unlikely to give. To the people you hate, you should forgive what they’ve done; to yourself, you should also learn to forgive what you’ve encountered in the life, like Fugui, his daughter had been mute because lack of money to cure her fever, and lost his son in a car accident, the perpetrator was the comrade-in-arms who had been in the battlefield with him. Although life had set up many barriers to stop him, Fugui didn't stick in the place where he had been hurt. Instead, he tried to forgive and gave the comrade-in-arms strong backing when his life was about to fall into ruin. In past Fugui lost too much, his fortune and family, and now he finally gained what he had wished for, love and peace.

Life should be simple, but our infinite desires make it complex, sometimes the more material pursuits we have, the more spiritual loss we get. That's what I could learn from a good movie, simple but meaningful.