on a heartless afternoon

Junior 2022-09-16 08:51:34

1. The eternal conflict between two generations, father and daughter live two completely different lives, father's income is not high, single and divorced, physically weak, and likes to make nonsensical jokes; daughter Tuotuoer's business elite, business and customers are her all. Although the two are father and daughter, their relationship is not close. The director uses blank space to make the audience's brain fill. Obviously, after the divorce, he and his daughter don't spend much time together. After studying, they went to Romania to work, and they didn't see each other for a year. A few times, the relationship that was not close in the first place has become more distant. The difficulty of getting along can be imagined.

2. The self-righteous elitism of modern people is actually vulnerable, and the father is a mirror, reflecting the absurdity of modern people's glossy appearance. We think it’s important to accompany clients all day long, maybe people just want to see you make a fool of yourself; we think we can’t win without accompany clients, and it’s very likely that Party A has no choice but your project; we think it’s cool to go clubbing Very powerful, in fact, how empty it is to be ridiculous.

3. And some symbols, dentures, wigs, and big hair monsters, can be understood as the manifestations of the father's inappropriate words and deeds. In fact, those jokes are not that bad. Once you accept the kind person behind these jokes, you will find that the big hair monster is actually quite cute.

4. Movies do not provide solutions, but at least they are worth stimulating our thinking about life. There is no so-called standard answer, but we should be able to do better than we are now.

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Toni Erdmann quotes

  • Winfried Conradi alias Toni Erdmann: No concept makes sense without the client.

  • Ines Conradi: I don't want to lose my bite.