This is an old man's story about his various emotional entanglements with his son, wife and friends. The old man thought he had won the million-dollar jackpot because of dementia, so he tried to go to a place called Lincoln from his hometown thousands of miles away to collect the prize. His wife and son repeatedly discouraged the old man and told him that he had not won the lottery at all, but the old man ran away again and again under suspicion, making the lives of all his family in a mess. In the end, the younger son was forced to be helpless. In order to make his father realize the reality and despair, he personally drove his father to accept the award.
It can be said that the road is tortuous, because people with Alzheimer's will always live in their own world and will not care what others think. The old man was a complete drunk in his son's memory. The son said he knew when he was eight years old that the old man was not a good father. The estrangement between father and son has been formed for a long time, and the father's repeated disobedience to persuasion has further stimulated the contradiction between father and son. The old man was injured in the middle of the road, and his son wanted to take him back to his hometown. It can be seen that the old man who did not receive the bonus would never give up, so the old man and his son embarked on a journey after coming out of the hospital.
The first place they stopped was the old man's brother's house. Obviously, the brother's son did not welcome these two uninvited guests. The two idle cousins ridiculed their cousin endlessly, but the cousin could only swallow it. This is my father's hometown. Decades later, my elderly father is still familiar with his hometown. The repair shop that used to belong to him, the bar that used to get drunk all day, and the friends that used to be as old and frail as he is now. The friends of my father sitting in the bar are naturally intertwined with the kindness and grievances of the past. Some people owe money, some people owe love, and some people's affairs are still unclear.
In his boast, his father said that he had won the million-dollar jackpot, and the people in the town looked at him with admiration. Although the younger son tried his best to explain that this was a misunderstanding, everyone else thought their excuse was just a cover-up, and the more they covered up, the more convinced they had indeed won the jackpot. As a result, the attitude of the two ill-intentioned cousins made a 180-degree turn, and they took the initiative to ask to protect the old man from going to Lincoln. And the old people in the town who had long forgotten about the old man greeted the old man walking on the street one by one, and suggested what to do with the million dollar. Things got bigger and bigger, and they made headlines in the town's newspapers. The younger son felt that he could not finish, so he went to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper in person. Unexpectedly, the editor-in-chief who still had the charm turned out to be his father's former girlfriend, so the editor-in-chief told the younger son a lot of stories about his father that he did not know.
Everyone thought that the father was an alcoholic, and everyone despised him, saying that he had been confused from young to old. Even his own son hates him, something like that really has a big problem. But after listening to the editor-in-chief, we realized that my father, who came back from the Korean War, has gone through too many ups and downs. Since then, his words have become less, and instead he has been drinking more and more wine. The father was a hero after all, and his heroic deeds were never told to his son. At this time, the mother came, the eldest son also came, the family of four all lived in their cousin's house, and the contradictions arose.
The townspeople who knew their father's wealth wanted a piece of the pie, whether it was their cousins or relatives who couldn't be beaten. All the old accounts have been turned out. In the quarrels again and again, the people on the father's side tried their best to justify, while the people on the opposite side were unbelieving. In a scene in the cemetery, the mother counted the various faults of the father's family, and talked about the various pasts of his cousin and cousin. The aftertaste of each past event is thought-provoking. At that time they were young and beautiful, boys chased girls, had love, and good wine, but now they have gray hair, although they are full of children and grandchildren, they are all at the age of being buried in the earth. The money bit the head with blood.
A friend who was close to his father many years ago even said at this time that his father owed him $10,000, so that he could quickly repay the money when he had money. Not only that, but also threatened the father's family who were fighting alone. The real truth is that he borrowed one of his father's compressors many years ago and has never returned it. The two cousins went even further and even robbed the younger son and father with masks. When they found the father's useless lottery tickets, they threw the lottery tickets on the street, and happened to be snatched by the villain who owed the compressor. The younger son wanted to end the matter, but the stubborn father still had to find the lottery ticket. When they walked into the bar, the villain happened to be exposing their deception. This incident really made the father lose face, and the townspeople were all over the place. Treat them as a joke. The enraged young son defeated the wicked and took his father straight to Lincoln.
Lincoln's lottery exchange told Dad that the lottery ticket didn't win, but that he could give him a hat. Until then, my father was really giving up. The customer service lady at the lottery exchange told the younger son that such people are always encountered, and most of them are elderly people with dementia. They have no normal thinking and little love from their children, but they stubbornly insist on their own ideas and always think that they are right.
The father who left was very lonely, but the son understood his father after a series of company. The drunkard all along is now a real father, and his father is old and no longer in glory. The heroic deeds of his youth are now a dream, and his last dream ended in a deception. So the son decided to buy his father a truck, which he had promised to buy while boasting at the bar. The son truly understood his father, and he also understood the true fatherly love after being with him all the way.
The townspeople came out as the father drove the truck and the son ducked his head in the side seat. They all showed incredible expressions when they saw the old man driving the brand new truck. The two cousins saw it, the former father's lover saw it, and even the wicked stopped to see it. The son earns enough face for his father. I think this is the best thing a son can do for his father.
We will resent their old age, we will feel that they are not who they once were. Whether or not they have Alzheimer's, young people will never be on the pulse of old people. So we reduced our company and let them live alone in their own world until the end of their lives. We forgot the love they once gave us, we forgot to return it, and just wanted to evade responsibility. The vast majority of people will encounter this situation and will have headaches because of their parents' old age. Cuteness is constant, and we should try to understand what they think instead of letting them do what we want them to do.
There is a very touching scene in the middle of the film. The eldest son, the younger son, and their parents pass by the door of the villain's house as they leave the cousin's house, so the two sons steal the compressor from the villain's barn. But when the father said that the family was not a villain, but the best reputation in town, the two sons hurried back to return the compressor. The family quarreled happily in the car. Although it was a misunderstanding, only this moment in the whole film was the most reunited. After all, leaving is inevitable, but we can make it not so far away.
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