What's my (and many others') goddess Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson look like as a couple?
The answer is one word: mourning.
A newly widowed man with two children, his teenage son was expelled from school for stealing and cruel and bloody art creation, and his seven-year-old daughter was left unattended and had to eat jam-smeared bread every day.
A 27-year-old woman works as a breeder in a suburban zoo. She has never experienced the flowers and willows in the city. She is dealing with ape excrement while her girlfriends are shopping.
So, throughout We Bought a Zoo (US, 2011), Matt and Scarlett, with tousled hair and shabby blue overalls, deal with the constant trouble. .
See, Agent Byrne and the Black Widow can't handle real-world problems either: small children's torn schoolbags and daily lunches, deteriorating father-son relationships, increasingly debilitating financial gaps, difficult supervisors, unmanageable not to mention a group of willful animals: brown bears who casually jump over the railings to walk on the road, Bengal tigers who don’t like taking medicine, Asian snakes scattered around the house and African lions that stare at their keepers .
So, with life stuck, what should a single father do?
Matt Damon's shattering choice: buy a zoo.
At the beginning of the story, Matt Damon's father, who can't handle the chaotic life after his wife's death, plus his son's expulsion from school, decides to move into a new community and start a new life.
The daughter rejected all other options and insisted on buying a house in an abandoned zoo. The original owner's only requirement was to take over all the zoo's staff and animals while buying the house.
So Matt Damon went from being an out-of-date columnist to being the director of a run-down zoo, with his life savings.
For a long time, I like to use American comedies to serve rice. One is that the atmosphere is relaxed, and the other is that the plot is not compact, which does not prevent me from going to the kitchen at any time to make soup and water. In addition, you don't have to worry about anything falling, the screenwriter has the ability to easily resolve it for you.
However, since becoming a mother, any movie involving parent-child relationship can trigger my anxiety about parenting in my heart, even comedy movies are no exception. For example, Matt Damon's conflict with his son is all too common. At the end of the day, the father thinks that everything he does is for the child, and the child thinks that everything the father does is disrespectful to him.
In the eyes of adolescent children, the father does everything wrong.
"Have you respected my idea in your decision to move to the country?"
"Did you respect my opinion when you bought the zoo?"
As a single father, you can't really go back and say: "Have you ever respected my feelings when you are provoking right and wrong?" Instead, you must find an appropriate opportunity to express: "I have always been your loyal fan."
How hard it is to be a parent.
Besides, of course, a comedy should have a happy ending, but how can a father-son tie in real life be so easily unraveled. This is why I was worried when I watched this film: the details of the conflict it portrayed were so real, the grievances of the father, the grievances of the children, the mutual incomprehension and estrangement that could not be explained or told. It has been staged in youth; but the solution it gives is such a castle in the air, what kind of parents can casually decide to buy a zoo?
In fact, the film is based on true events, based on the zoo in the dartmoor national park in southern England. In 2007, Benjamin Mee (the name of the actor in the film) bought the zoo for £1.1 million. Well, now the question becomes: what parents can buy a zoo with more than 10 million yuan casually?
Many film critics have said that this is a healing and warm film. As a mother, I just want to say: the only educational significance of this movie is: maintaining the parent-child relationship, which is very expensive.
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