Family Portrait 全家福

Found a quite nice meaningful Chinese New Year short film on Youtube, titled "Family Portrait 全家福" by James Lee, I thought of sharing it here:

This short film begins with a boy holding an old photo album, wondering who are those people in those old photographs. He then turn to his older brother, sister and parents to ask who are those people. However, none of them really care what he actually asks,  they only concentrate on what they are doing that time, being busy. When he finally ask his grandmother, she properly answered him cheerfully as though she is living those  past life. 

At this point, I was tearing down my cheeks as I was reminded of my grandmother when she was still here. She used to tell me lots of stories about her past when she was raising my uncles and aunts when they are small, how she use to carry them to a village market to sell vegetables, how they live in the rural place, planting vegetables and raising pigs and chickens. I listened to her those stories numerous times and I don't get bored, as long as she was happy to tell it. 

Then, I also remember that my mum and I use to flip through old photo albums, showing me photo of my mother side of the family and other relatives when they are young. It was a good time with her. She also showed me her wedding photos, my childhood photo together with other photos while we go for holidays. It really brings back my memories from childhood.

Well, back to the short film, when it reached to the final quarter of the video, surprisingly for me, it turned into a comedic part, the grandmother scolded everyone of the table not to play with their smartphones while having their dinner. However, it turn out that it was her own phone received a notification on her game. !?!WHAT?!??!! and she asked everyone to help in her game. It's hilarious when the mother ask: "Shouldn't we only play it after dinner?" and the grandmother shouted literally: "Of course not!!!". Haha...

The final message which this short film wish to deliver is pretty meaningful. I would certainly support it. 

I believe the most precious moments in life can't be captured by photographs.  

We must remember to live the moments as they happen.