Robert Benton's "The Cramers" (1979) has been nominated for nine Oscars. Like its original name, "Kramer vs. Kramer" (kramer vs kramer), the seemingly narrative style is soft and rigid, and contains multiple confrontational relationships between characters, making it a family ethics movie. It can be ups and downs in the display of life, reflecting the barriers of communication between people in social reality and the deep desire, loss, escape and guilt of people. But the film also hints at the increasing popularity of neo-conservatism in family ethics movies and the inevitable return of New Hollywood after rebellion.
The movie "The Kramers" is a social ethics drama that reflects traditional themes such as single-parent families, ethics and morality, and at the same time a work that reflects the subversion of stereotypes and self-returning of women represented by Joanna. From the perspective of feminism, the film uses the construction of the stereotyped image of women under the patriarchal thinking mode as the starting point to explore the root of the stereotyped image of Joanna in the movie "The Cramers", showing Joanna's process of subverting the stereotype and returning to herself , And pointed out the enlightenment and significance of Joanna phenomenon for modern women. The film involves emotional communication between husband and wife, mother and son, father and son, and the changes in the relationship between father and son moved the audience. The dialogue between father and son in the movie "The Kramers" can better understand the change of father-son relationship from negligence to closeness, and understand the important role of movie dialogue in shaping the relationship and characterization of the characters.
