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marital predicament
Connie 2022-04-24 07:01:14
The shooting style is delicate and the subject is revealed profoundly. It depicts two middle-class American families with a pair of children in the Nixon era who have been married for more than ten years. They are neighbors to each other and have many contacts on weekdays, but they both face the same marriage. Crisis and educational dilemmas with children of youthful rebellion. The wife of family 1 is reticent, the husband, the husband of family 2 is busy with work all day and neglects his wife. The two middle-aged couples love their families, but the lifeless married life makes them depressed, and they also try to accept marriage by Counseling to improve and save, but with little success, in order to escape and seek stimulation, the husband and the neighbor's wife secretly have a secret affair, and the sensitive and silent wife finds out and is greatly hurt. relation. Adolescent boys and girls in two families are also trying to find a vent for hormones, full of curiosity and impulse towards the opposite sex, at the same time full of contempt and irony for the chaotic society and politics, full of impatience with parental discipline, husband and wife. Between the children, between the two families, the invisible undercurrent of contradiction roams in it, and the energy is constantly accumulating, and finally broke out on a night of ice storm. Li, maybe after this ice storm, the two families will find the true meaning of married life again, and the children will understand the cost of growing up.
Extended Reading
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Paul Hood: When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world.
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Paul Hood: Your family is the void you emerge from, and the place you return to when you die. And that's the paradox: The closer you're drawn back in, the deeper into the void you go.