The most interesting scene in the movie occurs when son David happens to meet his father Woody's girlfriend before he met his mother. That part of the past is old enough, old enough to be older than David, who is almost middle-aged, but right All this was unfamiliar to David, and the father's emotional past was blank for his son, so David stared at the "ex-girlfriend" old lady in front of him with a surprised expression. In another scene after that, when David learns that his father cheated on his mother, he looks surprised again, but the feeling behind the surprise is not so good.
The reason this scene is interesting is that many people have this experience. We know so little about the past of our parents that we feel fresh and curious when we hear them accidentally talk about it. We may not take the initiative to inquire, perhaps because another era itself will no longer involve our attention, and more importantly, since childhood, the mature and stable image of our parents has been established in our hearts, when we think of them When there were once ignorant, green and even unruly sides, we would instinctively resist.
David in the film chooses to get to know his father again, although this choice was initially forced. Father Woody received a letter from a magazine telling him that he had won a $1 million prize. The family saw through the magazine's trick, but Woody was so convinced of winning the prize that he decided to walk to Nebraska alone to receive the prize. In desperation, the younger son David decided to drive with his father to fulfill this unfulfilled dream. Before we set off, we know from the argument between David and his brother that Woody has a serious drinking problem, and he doesn't take care of a few children. Good quality.
The father and son stopped by their father’s hometown during their trip, but those relatives and old friends who had not been in touch for a long time heard about winning the lottery, and they all wanted to take a piece of the pie and made things difficult for them everywhere. But it was also during this process that David re-acquainted with his father. He knew that his father, a retired veteran, was taciturn but loyal, never rejecting requests from others, and was thus taken advantage of. From his father's ex-girlfriend, he saw the reports in the newspapers in Fangzhen about his father's joining the army. After a long time, he could still see that he was high-spirited at that time, in stark contrast to now. On the last night in town, my father confided to David that he wanted the bonus not only to buy himself a truck and an air compressor, but more importantly to leave something for the children. In one scene, we can see that the father feels apologetic to his children, but this feeling is deeply buried.
The two scenes in the film left a deep impression on me, one is the parents in the cemetery of their hometown, watching old acquaintances lying in it; the other is the father Woody returning to his childhood old house, where he lived in his childhood. The door of the room, staring blankly inside. We don't know what Woody is thinking in these two scenes, but as long as we live to that age, there's a chance to figure out the answer to that question.
"Nebraska" directed by Alexander Payne belongs to the category of road films. After watching the film, I naturally think of another famous road film "Paris, Texas". The focus of both films is on the relationship between father and son. But the latter is a middle-aged father traveling with his young son. Another thing in common between the two films is that the son doesn't know his father very well. In "Paris, Texas", the father once left his son to wander alone. In "Nebraska", the father Woody closed his heart for a long time to make it difficult for his son. Close, they are the most familiar strangers to their sons. As mentioned earlier, the fathers may be the most familiar strangers to us.
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