The translation of "detachment" is not suitable enough. Detachment in China covers the philosophical meaning of Taoism. Here, detachment is more like saying Henry's absence, outsider and detached attributes.
On the surface, it is about the loopholes in the education system, but it is not. Let’s analyze through some lenses:
1. Henry often wore a suit when he was a child. It was very strange for a child to wear a suit. When he grew up, he also wore a suit every day, and only took it off when walking and sleeping. My grandfather told us that he wore a suit because he was "going to work".
In the childhood memories, Henry remained silent most of the time, even without expression, just watched everything with his eyes, and when his possible love interest exposed himself and expected him to tell, the wall in the blackboard painting indicated that he was completely Self closed. Such Henry rarely reveals himself.
2. In the film, four people expressed concern for him: grandfather, Erica, female colleague, and fat girl, but he only told Erica about his own experience. Although Henry treats Erica in a role close to her father, these two people together may have an unusual comforting effect on each other: on the one hand, Henry's responsibility and warmth are what Erica, who lacks parents, needs; On the one hand, taking care of a growing child like Erica may heal Henry, who had been traumatized while growing up. Erica's straightforward and strong and unabashed expressions of love can inspire Henry and open his heart;
Henry is particularly attracted to young girls who lack family care and stupid people who have no temperament to resist. He is also like a central air conditioner. Almost every woman in life who has more contact with him has developed an admiration for him, and he is very fond of others. Good, but when the other party wants to have a closer relationship with him, he always retreats: he pushes the fat girl away; after the misunderstanding caused by hugging the fat girl in the early stage of the relationship with his female colleague, he has no will to explain after calm down. ; When the grandfather said, "If you don't come to see me, I may die.", he turned around and said a dirty word. When his life with Erica gradually stabilized, he sent Erica to the juvenile detention center. ; Attracting the adoration of others is not entirely due to his desire to be loved, but more of his unclear responsibility and extension. He feels that he is responsible for the lives of many people, but has no ability to make any one of them rely on and improve. He is always "detaching", breaking away from the relationship he has worked hard to create, and returning to one's own life. state.
3. Henry has always been very restrained, but after a date with a female colleague, why did such a restrained person break out? Because the old pervert he hates the most, and irresponsible.
The lack of a father's role in his life and his grandfather's irresponsibility to his mother made him eager to make up for the position of those irresponsible people, and his career choice was also based on this, to be responsible for more people.
Henry is contradictory because he does feel sexually attracted to these women, especially Erica, which is normal for an adult male, but to avoid becoming an "old pervert" like his grandfather, He sent Erica away with his own hands.
He's more of a father to Erica, but since the age difference isn't that big, and Erica's work is very provocative, they have a natural attraction between the sexes at times. Henry smelled Erica's gloves sadly after Erica left, which can be proved that the relationship between them is not just a relationship between father and daughter, smell is an action that happens between lovers, Or the mother misses the action of the child, the first possibility is more likely.
Judging from Erica's career choice and attire, as well as the situation of being raped, Erica may have experienced a strong Oedipus conflict, and she also behaved very much like a Russian wife, cooking, eating other The vinegar of Henry's female colleagues. So after Erica takes Henry as her father, Erica will like his "father",
After Henry brought Erica back from the juvenile detention center, the film gave an open-ended ending. I guess there are two possibilities: ① They are likely to develop an incest-like relationship. If so, Henry once again verified the "child's loyalty to the parents", although he longed to escape the irresponsibility and "perversion" of his father and grandfather, but did not escape from the family's influence. This characteristic finally formed "Hukou-based Development". However, this is a good choice, because Henry and Erica’s family relationship is not biologically established, and the psychological foundation is relatively weak, because their relationship is short-term rather than raised from childhood, so it will not affect both parties. Inflicting great damage, even due to Henry's responsibility and Erica's abandonment and self-abandonment, the two sides become the most suitable people for each other, and achieve mutual healing. I speculate that this incest-like relationship will not be broken unless Henry or Erica find their respective lovers, because both parties feel a strong attraction from the other, in the closed environment of the family, with The attracted people live together for a long time and there is no obvious factual reason why they can't be together, so that their continued single relationship requires long-term self-restraint, or Henry has a complete fatherly love for Erica without any eroticism .
But Henry brought his relatives home, and the two bereaved become relatives to each other, and it is very likely that Henry treats Erica with the role of a father and the ethics of a teacher, and they may really develop into a similar The kinship relationship between father and daughter.
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