The literal translation of the title should be "Cider House Rules". It seems that most of the content of the film is explaining the rules, the rules of life for different classes and people. The main line should be about an abandoned baby Homer living in an orphanage in Maine, USA. self growth. The plot of the film is relatively smooth, there is no ups and downs, but it also gave me a lot of touches. The picture is very fresh and beautiful, and the actors' performances are also in place. In general, I feel more comfortable and make me think.
Closer to home, talk about my understanding of this film. Homer, who was abandoned at birth, has never been cared for by his parents, but Dr. Wilbur, the director and doctor of the orphanage, gave him a wholehearted fatherly love, and the two nurses at the orphanage also took care of him like a mother. In this way, Homer grew up with no flaws, and he was given the role of a caring, alternative parent. He studied obstetrics and pediatrics under the careful guidance of Dr. Wilbur for many years, and Homer can also handle births and abortions. In the orphanage, he took care of other children like a big brother. But with the adoption of the orphanage's other growing outcasts and the shock of a pair of young lovers who come for an abortion, Homer wants to leave the orphanage and see the outside world.
Homer has never seen the sea, never seen a lobster, never met a woman, life is full of blanks, an orphanage is a safe place for him, but his heart calls him to experience what may be dangerous outside. Unexperienced laws of the jungle. He is real and simple, his heart is full of the naive and novel fantasy of a little boy, and subconsciously, he wants to complete the journey of identifying with his father and becoming a man.
He does the manual work of picking apples, eats, lives, and works with a group of vulgar migrant workers. He does not experience the hardships of life and the fatigue of work. Instead, everything is new and full of surprises to him. He has no destination, no goal, all he needs to do, all he wants to do is to experience the different feelings brought to him by the outside world, the absurdity of the existence of different classes, the funny and fragility of social rules, Seeing incest and other distortions of human nature. He will be lost, bewildered, and have no goals. In the process, he loses the father role he had in his heart but didn't realize before. Along with the external loss, life in the outside world gradually awakens his inner identity. .
I've seen the sea, I've seen lobsters, Homer is still Homer, it's a simple boy who hasn't grown up. When the soldier went to war, Candy let Homer experience a wonderful love, he really touched a woman; when the soldier came back from paralysis, he realized the absurdity of love and the helplessness of marriage. He can't change anything, he is only a supporting role in other people's lives, the life outside is not his life, and the world outside is not his world.
He was reluctant to have an abortion when he was in the orphanage, he didn't understand why people wanted abortions. But at Apple Orchard, he performed an abortion for the first time, an abortion that had to be done to help people. The reasons for abortion can be very complex and perhaps full of hopelessness. Perhaps after this operation, he really began to identify with the fatherly Dr. Wilbur.
And Dr. Wilbur has been helping Homer to realize his recognition. He provided Homer with false inspection reports to avoid military service. He taught Homer all the medical knowledge he knew. He fabricated academic qualifications for Homer so that Homer could Returning to the orphanage to replace himself, he sent an operation box to Homer who was away - to arouse Homer's identification with him, and accidentally took drugs to death - subconsciously, he exchanged his own death for Homer's more sober identification.
The death of Dr. Wilbur, indirectly caused by Homer, is essentially consistent with the story of Oedipus' patricide. Men can't have children, death often makes men grow faster, and the death of a father can arouse his role identification with his father to the greatest extent.
In this way, the boy became a man, identified with his father, and returned home. The orphanage where he lived from childhood to adulthood is the best destination for him, in truth and simplicity.
Boys can only complete the transition to men in the social life outside the family, while girls can only achieve the transition to women in the family of origin, which also highlights that women have evolved more completely than men.
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