1. The undercurrent surging in the
opening The opening vision lens gave the undulating road surface. The protagonist Christian who answered the phone said that what he was going to do "will cause shock." At the same time, he said "I hope I can still live here, but this is impossible." Then came the meeting of the extremely chaotic brothers. The younger brother impulsively asked his wife and children to walk to the banquet site. He carried his long-unmasked brother Christian, which contrasted sharply with the phrase "Damn it, that's my brother" when he first met. When he arrived, his brother Michael was accidentally blocked by his father outside his hotel. Christian came forward to leave him behind. The brothers saw his sister Helene, and the three of them quarreled over an "embarrassed funeral" when they met. Then the brother again He was called away mysteriously by his father Helge. The plot shows that the three brothers and sisters, along with other guests who are coming one after another, are here to attend Helge's 60th birthday party. After joking and asking about the situation, the father finally looked at his son nervously and asked him timidly, "Can you tell me about your sister, because I dare not say it". In the ten-minute plot, everyone appeared in suspense. What was the "shock" of Christian, why was Michael blocked, and whose funeral was the "that funeral" in Helene's mouth? The daughter mentioned by Helge was Who, what happened to her?
2. A note
The plot immediately gave the answer. "The funeral" belonged to Helge's other daughter Linda, because Helene was going to live in a hotel room, and this room covered with white furnishings was her sister's "ghost-infested place"— —Linda committed suicide in the bathtub in this room. Helene accidentally saw the arrow left by her sister on the wall. She and the hotel butler Lars finally found a note in the chandelier on the ceiling. In the process of reading the note, a series of lens switching was extremely exciting. In Helene’s tears, the wine in Christian’s glass and the water in the bathtub of the maid Pia in his room flashed back to each other. The latter was obviously insinuating sister Linda. Die, that is, the content of the note. However, after reading the letter, Helene yelled unexpectedly, and said to Lars who couldn't find the north, "This note is empty, I'm scaring you by acting." The note is obviously not empty, the note What is written on it, and what is she hiding?
3. In
the 30th minute of the climax of the eldest son’s speech , the eldest son Christian gave a congratulatory message on his father’s birthday. This eldest son, who has been depressed, walked away from Paris, refused to take over the father’s hotel business, and has no girlfriend, seems to belong to the father. Love is also the pain of father. He prepared two speeches, which is very interesting. He used Hitchcock’s favorite MacGuffin, which is a prop that never has a text. Father chose to let him read the green one, so we have no idea what is in the yellow. I know that, unlike the "Chekhov's gun" that Haruki Murakami worshipped, the gun here was never fired from beginning to end.
In Christian's shocking speech, we solved all the above mysteries. The protagonist of the funeral, Christian's twin sister Linda, committed suicide because he could not stand the sexual assault of his father Helge. What is even more confusing is the atmosphere of the entire banquet. After the awkward silence, people still chose to maintain the atmosphere decently, laughing and applauding the stupid joke of Helge's father. [Family Banquet] Another highlight is the wonderful group show. Helene, who sneered embarrassingly at his grandfather's jokes, told the audience that the note mentioned above was "Chekhov's Gun".
Because of people's indifference, Christian ran away angrily and went back with the encouragement of his childhood friends. At this time, his forgetful grandfather told the joke a second time, which was exactly what he said when the eldest son ran away. The story of the two loops compressed time, as if nothing happened after Christian left. Then the mother Else began to say that her son always lived in hallucinations when he was young, which meant to imply that the previous accusation was nonsense, but Christian still made the second accusation, this time directly saying that his father was the murderer. The whole play reached its climax at exactly half of the time.
4. The fire of Chekhov’s gun. The
guests were in a panic, but due to the hands and feet of a Christian friend, the car keys were not taken back home, so they all returned to the banquet venue. The magical thing is that everyone had their cups and cups staggered. Talking and laughing, it seems that nothing happened. Christian and his brother Michael, who refused to believe the facts, were fighting outside. At this time, the house was in a different situation. Helge's mother sang to her son over and over again. Finally, my brother was subdued and tied to a tree in the woods. In the mutual hunting of truth and lies, truth fell into a trap.
The black boyfriend Helene brought back was discriminated against by everyone. She asked Pia to take the medicine. The latter found the note hidden in the medicine bottle, which was the "Chekhov's gun". At this time, Christian broke free from the bondage and returned. At the hotel where the banquet was held, he handed the note Pia gave him to his sister Helene, who read the truth in public. It was the same complaint made by the dead sister Linda against his father.
Pull the trigger and the truth is revealed.
5. To save face or to pursue the truth
The story told by [Family Banquet] is very simple, but the people who face the truth portrayed are very complicated. When his father Helge heard his son's complaints several times, he sat in a distress and didn't sweat. As a successful person, he was confident that he could resolve the crisis. He talked to his son alone and even threatened to tell everyone that Christian and Linda were ambiguous. Relationship, and why he has no feelings for other women. Mother Else also stood on the side of face. She even witnessed her husband's brutality against her children, and then chose to silence and lie. In the end, both parents lost face completely because of face-saving. One was beaten up by the impulsive second son, and could only choose to leave during the breakfast of his banquet; the other was beaten and kneeled in front of his children for help when the husband was beaten. There is no dignity before. Helene also wanted to protect everyone. She wanted to conceal the letter from the very beginning, saying "Don't believe what my brother said" to the guests. However, her parents' actions and her boyfriend's humiliation completely defeated her, and the decent palace in real life gradually gradually It collapsed, and she reluctantly went to hold the pillar called the truth tightly. In the end, in the virgin forest of human nature, where everything is hunting each other, the truth wins.
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