There are many classics of this kind of family drama. For example, last year's "August: Osage County" starring Julia Roberts, Meryl Stirrip and other big-name movie stars is a pinnacle masterpiece. . From the story structure, this "Farewell Seven Days Love" is very similar to that movie. It is a classic story about a major event that reunited children who had been estranged in a big family. The long-ill father died, but the atheist old man suddenly left a last word to ask his children to keep his funeral for seven days. The children who had already left home rushed back from everywhere, complaining and reuniting in the old house helplessly. They each came here with their own thoughts, coping with the dilemmas in their lives, and also working hard to bridge the alienation between brothers and sisters. In these short seven days, there were beauty, conflicts, and mutual comfort.
This group of children were recalled by their mothers to their old homes, to some extent, they were once again children. They searched for old photos in the basement, and then the brothers became like playful boys, and the daughters who were already mothers also had an excuse to embrace their mothers and act coquettishly. They were given such an opportunity to remove the masks of adults in their daily lives with some excuse. The process of returning to children from embarrassment to casualness is a cure in itself.
The classic mode and the most difficult part of family drama is to present the complexity that cannot be said, nor is right or wrong. Everything in it is presented in trivial form, without the decent and villain of traditional drama, and no clear story line and drama conflict. In other words, it is in a subtle drama conflict anytime and anywhere, and it relies on the details of life to make the audience feel cordial to drive emotions. "Farewell to Seven Days" is supported by a group of TV drama actors. Jane Fonda who has played in "News Room", Rose Byrne who interprets the savvy female lawyer in "Crack" and in "House of Cards" Corey Stoll, who has a brilliant performance, and so on. Although they are not big movie stars, this group of excellent actors and actresses in a movie have their acting skills, and it definitely provides quality assurance for this family-themed movie.
Some of these brothers and sisters are in marital crisis, some are troubled by infertility, some are cynical and never grow up... The troubles and embarrassments that each of them face is a collection of people in real life, and this family as a whole shows It is the "truth" in the general sense of life, those helpless, moving, painful and sweet. Movies like "Farewell to Seven Days" test the director's skill in how to make it real, humorous, but not bloody. Like the eight-point family dramas in China, this movie about the family and the bereavement also involves the struggle for property and the disharmony between brothers, but they present these episodes from a very humorous and sensible perspective, and in the end they are all Resolved by family affection. The most interesting thing is that the mother finally told her children that it is not the father's last wish to keep the funeral for seven days, but her own idea. This usually rebellious old lady is actually soft in her heart, and she understands what kind of predicament the children are in. In this way, she conducted a psychology course for everyone. It just so happens that she herself is an outdated psychotherapist, and her children used to be a little disdainful of her identity, but this time it was changed steadily.
Guardian, the male protagonist who is in a marriage crisis, is to some extent the role of the father in this group of family members. He is prudent and duty-bound, and he is also responsible for the role of telling the "play core" of the whole play. As he said, "I have been playing safety cards and never crossed the boundary, but I still end up here." This is his reflection on the first half of his life. After this reunion and inner baptism, he finally understood his problem. He confessed to the girl next door, "Life is not perfect, nor should it be perfect. It should be wild, unexpected, and complicated. "After seven days, they will all return to reality and commonplace, but they may have a different perspective on this. Because they once stood on a high place to re-examine their lives.
(Published in "China News Weekly". Weekly editorial department WeChat official account: "Little Stars of Million Villages")
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