all kinds of possibilities

Rico 2022-04-20 09:02:04

So what exactly is right? This movie is a bit like "Manchester by the Sea", telling you that some people can't get out of it anyway, and your inability to understand may be their happiest choice. But when I watched this movie, I always had an uncomfortable feeling that the initial strength between father and daughter was unequal. The daughter needed to rely on her father to maintain her life. The daughter had not gone to school, and she seldom had relationships with other than her father. Contact with people, her cognition and values ​​were established by her father alone, you can hardly say that this is based on a mature consideration, the father directly used his own mental condition to deprive his daughter of other possibility. But this film is good in the perspective. Whether it is in the park, the farm, or the beehive, its shots are neutral, without any preference or judgment. It shows the possibility of different people choosing different lives. So if two adults with relatively balanced mental and physical strengths made this choice, I might have loved this movie even more. Of course, this kind of role setting of father and daughter will show another emotional layer. From a certain point of view, everyone grows up in the image of our parents, and finally chooses their own life and respects each other. The choice is a compulsory course for everyone, especially between parents and children.

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Leave No Trace quotes

  • Will: I'm so sorry.

    Tom: I know.

  • Tom: What's your favourite color?

    Will: What's *your* favourite color?

    Tom: Yellow.

    [They sit for a moment]

    Tom: What was my mother's favourite color?

    Will: Yellow.

    Tom: Maybe I learnt it from her. I wish I could remember her.

    Will: She'd wish for that, too.