Today is the Tomb Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese festival celebrated in memory of the departed souls.
The Cider House Rules
This festival functions as a reminder to urge the living to memorize the dead, to memorize the past. Most important of all, the living should shoulder the responsibility and practice their beloved’s wills. It seems the festival is exclusively available in China. But the highlights of this festival are universally acknowledged.
The American film<The Cider House Rules> carries the similar message. It was originally a 1985 novel by John Irving and later adapted into a film of the same name by Peter Parnell. When you are sick of typical Hollywood blockbuster-heroes, fighting, sex etc., this film will pacifies your irritable mood.
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage under the care of Dr. Wilbur Larch, who secretly was an abortionist. They have established a special relationship, between the relationship of father and son and that of teacher and student. Dr. Larch conferred Homer lot of medical knowledge, but little worldly wisdom. With Homer growing up, his self-awareness urged him to seek the outside world and design his own future. Then he left, far away from the orphanage, from Dr. Larch. Exciting and colorful, the world outside the orphanage is new to him. Especially when he fallen in love with a girl, he realized how dull his life before was.
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