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Jeffery 2022-04-22 07:01:33

The long foreshadowing and details in the front are all the shadow of Ang Lee. From the key party, it entered a climax, and it was even more depressing. In the end, Ben was in the car with the family, leaning on the steering wheel and crying, so sad and wanting to be scolded by others, and thinking about it again, who is not? The BGM composed of the whimpering Chinese wind flute is very suitable for the atmosphere of the movie, and it makes people feel even more heavy and breathless. It is more than a revelation of the modern family. Human nature, gender, adults and minors, parents and children, families... There are too many. There is a little more fear about "starting a family and starting a business", but I understand the truth of letting nature take its course. I don't know the background of this film, that is, the United States in the 1970s, and I only understand it after reading other people's film reviews. Then I remembered the sentence "Spicy Hands", just like this sentence, Ang Lee has always been spicy, but he always uses the restraint of a bystander to make movies, which is a bit like "Iceberg Theory", It's also a bit like the feeling I felt when I watched "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" yesterday, indescribable, I don't know what to say.

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  • Wendy Hood: [On the phone] No, come on. He's like a big infected white head. I would never...

    [hears door being shut]

    Wendy Hood: Shit, it's my parents.

    [turns off light and hides under the bed still on the phone]

    Wendy Hood: He's so gross.

  • Wendy Hood: Dad, stop it!

    Ben Hood: Get to sleep, young lady. I mean it.

    Wendy Hood: [opens bedroom door] Fascist.

    Ben Hood: If I were a fascist, I would have sent you to one of those southern military academies a long time ago. Now, get to bed.