"Fences" - Can't stop those who want to stop, can't keep those who want to keep

Elda 2022-04-22 07:01:32

As a person who loves to watch talkative films, this year's Oscar films have some "too little words", especially after watching Moonlight Boy. Suddenly there is a talkative movie, which makes me very happy. But after reading it, it made me very unhappy. What are the three views?
The male protagonist Troy is a typical straight male cancer, extremely self-centered. Troy left home at the age of 14 after a conflict with his father after a miserable family, the untimely death of his mother and his father's disregard for them. When he came to the city and had nowhere to live, he started a business of theft, which slowly turned into a robbery, until he was thrown into prison. After coming out, I met my current wife, Rose, and the two have been together for 18 years. Troy played rugby very well when he was young, but he considered himself a black man and was discriminated against and excluded from the rugby team by whites. His career was not going well, and then he started working as a sanitation worker. After hearing that his youngest son Cory participated in the school football team, he was very opposed, regardless of his son's inner thoughts, he blocked his son playing football. Well, so far I thought it was a family drama.
Later, when building the fence, Troy's friend Bono thought that Tory was too close to a woman named Alberta, and reminded Troy to pay attention, you have a wife, Rose is a good woman, you have to solve this problem yourself. Then Troy suddenly confessed to Rose that he had a woman outside, and that the woman was pregnant. And I feel that there is nothing wrong with my cheating behavior, because I work hard to earn money to support my family, so tired, so hard, what's wrong with finding a woman who can make me happy, I'm not going to divorce you, you are a good wife , but I tell you I can't live without that woman. Every word of his is centered on himself and how he is. It seems that he is the only one in the world who pays. He forgot Rose's contribution. In this poor family, Rose is diligent and thrifty, taking care of her husband and son, giving up her dreams, giving up everything she has, not being herself, but only being a wife and mother. As she said, Troy is not only giving, but also taking. But Troy always focused on how much he gave and how much others owed him, but never what he got from others. He is a sanitation worker, and his previous job has always been to carry garbage. He feels it is unfair. He can drive a garbage truck and do leisure work, but because he is black, he can only carry garbage. When he became a driver, he felt that the driver was boring, and there was no one to talk to. That's how he never knows satisfaction, it seems that everyone owes him.
After his lover, Alberta, gave birth to her daughter and died, he brought her daughter home. As soon as he walked in the door, he started to pressure Rose. Tell Rose that the child is innocent, she is already miserable, she has no mother, she is just a child. Rose can be said to be soft-hearted and cowardly, so she accepted the child and became the child's mother.
In the end, because of the conflict, Troy kicked his youngest son Cory out of the house. Six years later, when Troy died and his son came back from the Marine Corps, he told his mother that he did not want to attend his father's funeral. He told his mother that he had lived under his father's shadow since he was a child. He wanted to get rid of this shadow. At this time, the mother rose up. Said that father is for your good, no matter what he does, it is for your good, how can you not go to his funeral. Coupled with the fact that he finally sang the song that his father loved to sing with his sister, the son was completely soft-hearted. At the end of the film, it is also expressed that Troy ascended to heaven after his death.
The three views of this movie are indeed unacceptable, but on second thought, there are many such views in society today. From the derailment of the article, to the derailment of Chen He, to the recent derailment of Lin Dan. In the past two years, batches of celebrity derailment news have poured in, and in a few months, there will be new derailment news. But on the other hand, these families, their wives, all came out to support their husbands, expressing forgiveness for their husbands, and family life must continue, Barabara and the like. Gradually, the public forgot about cheating, or the public didn't care about cheating.
When falling in love and breaking up, the first question everyone always asks is: "Why did you break up, did he cheat?" If the breakup has nothing to do with cheating, many people will also say why they broke up without cheating. When you get married and you really cheat, everyone should persuade: "They are all married and have children. Men, how can you not make mistakes. For the sake of children, this marriage can't be divorced. Just bear with it." Make do with this life is over. Many people do not divorce because they think that divorce is not good for children, and they always use children as an excuse. In fact, is not divorce really good for children? At the end of the movie, the mother says to her son, You are exactly like your father. But how can the child be like him if he hates his father so much. This is the cruelty of reality. No matter how much you hate your parents and some of their shortcomings, you will eventually find that you are actually the same as them, you are their child, and you have their blood in your body. You are covered in their genes. Growing up, their influence on you is beyond your measure. When we live, we live like our parents.

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Fences quotes

  • Troy: Now you tell me who you ever heard of gonna pull their own teeth with a pair of rusty pliers?

    Bono: They're old folks. My granddaddy used to pull his teeth with pliers. They ain't had no dentists for colored folk back then.

    Troy: Well, get clean pliers. You understand? Clean pliers.

  • Rose: I took all my feelings, my wants and needs and dreams, and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom! And it didn't take me no 18 years to realize the soil was hard and rocky, and it wasn't never gonna bloom!