在这个日新月异的时代，当人们都能用手机查询生僻字的笔划时，练习书法的意义究竟何在？而那些孤独的人聚在一起，一边锻炼身体、练习书法，一边探讨各自的人生，又是怎样的感受呢？《水书》以一位美国人的视角，记录了同为书法教师的王童性和刘兰波。他们每日在北京团结湖公园的广场上练习书法，这位美国人也跟随他们学习，还得以接触到他们的学生群体，这些学生多是在中国社会快速致富进程中下岗或退休的工人。他们虽相聚一处，却又各自孤独。老师和学生们谈古论今，亦师亦友，形成了一个独特的团体。他们希望在书写的水渍蒸发消散之前，让字迹显影得慢一些，留存得久一些。

A mother and son have a strong, almost sexual, bond through moments present and past. The father of the past (who has died of Tuberculosis, revealed shockingly), the mother's current liaison, and the son's wife all re-enforce roles of sexual inadequacy with the two main characters (Mother, Shizuko, and son, Shizuo). Time is blended together, and the film ends up being an incredibly interesting melodrama with much of the (Japanese new wave staple) political put on backburner. A subplot involving the son's lack of sexual interest in his wife, and his mother's lack of sexual fulfillment in her lover (husband to be, I'm not sure) adds to the development of the incest tone.

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