"Short Term 12" takes the comparison between the native family and the asylum as the starting point, expounds the different educational views between them, and explores the impact of two different educational methods on the growth of young people, and gives a glimpse of the director Destin Daniel Cretton's humanitarian sentiments as an insider and outsider. In addition, what is even more moving is that when dealing with the relationship between Jaden and his father, Grace and his father, the director did not simply put one at the opposite ends of the binary opposition, but infiltrated the complex human nature, such as Grace has been in Regrets that he personally sent his father to prison for ten years, Jaden stopped Grace's violence against his father, and so on. Every shining point is filled with the director’s delicate thoughts, observation of life and self-experience, making the characters in it more real and moving, and making the movie more moving.
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Although the theme of "Short Term 12" is heavy, there is no shortage of warmth. Its storyline is relatively simple, and the relationship between the characters is not complicated. The audience can get the general idea of the story in a few words. However, to a certain extent, it is a complicated movie, because it reaches the depths of the character's consciousness.
