Watched The Family Man again today. This should be the 6th time I've watched it. The first time I watched it was just an accident, when I was a freshman, I wanted to learn English by watching English movies. I was looking for resources online and just found this. As for language learning, you have to repeat it over and over again, and you have to read it two or three times after reading it once. After being moved by the plot, I will watch it again from time to time. Before I knew it, I watched it five times. When I read it before, I also wrote a short review, in which I wrote that I would watch it with my future lover if I had the chance. After watching it today, I read the comments and laughed a little bit. The quality of this film is considered acceptable, but it is not particularly worthwhile to watch it repeatedly.
Generally speaking, college students are relatively simple, without financial pressure, work pressure, and life pressure. It can be said that they know very little about reality. Of course I can't be an exception. Therefore, it is very touching to see the hero who is worth over 100 million in the film suddenly lose everything, live another life that he did not choose at the beginning, and find his true love. Plus, with the amazing performances of Nicolas Cage (Oscar winner) and Tiarioni, I'm a little bit in tears. But now after graduating from work, I have experienced the pressure of an independent life, or "suffered the social beating" in popular terms. I feel that this story is unrealistic and nothing special. It is just an "alternative life of a monopoly" . I'm thinking, as a professional of a securities company, the hero travels back, and even if he finds that he can't wear it back, shouldn't his first thought be to buy stocks in the stock market? How is it possible to be content with the arrangement of fate? However, what the film mainly wants to express is "a rich man travels through time and space and finds what he loved at the beginning". There is more romanticism, which is beyond reproach.
However, from a creative point of view, I still feel that the causal relationship of the story is not very reliable. Concentrate on the first act - the reason why the protagonist crosses. The emotional driving force of this part is not strong enough, and it is a little bit unresonable for me today. The first act of the story is as follows: The hero has a successful career, but because he inadvertently annoyed the alien with a boastful remark, he was arranged to another life, and he lived step by step without much resistance. It may be better to deal with it this way: the male protagonist has a successful career and has been in a few relationships, but his love life is not smooth, he regrets his original choice, and then accidentally boasted about it because of a drunkenness, which annoyed the aliens. Instead, he was moved to another life. In this way, the hero has a desire himself, rather than a desire imposed on him by external forces.
But what makes up for the weaker logic of the story is the acting skills of the two protagonists. I was repeatedly "deceived" by this film because the two leading actors acted so well, and the feeling of conjugal love conveyed in the film is very beautiful - the woman is kind and caring for her family, and the man is down-to-earth; The old love will continue. At the end, the scene of Jack chasing Kate at the airport was really touching. Jack described the scene of the two getting married in the future, begging each other not to leave, it was easy to make people cry. Nicolas Cage's acting skills can only be described in two English words: New Bee.
Thinking of this, I think the short review I wrote before is correct. In fact, it is very suitable for couples to watch. If the couple were a little more emotional and romantic, they might burst into tears.
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