The film was named the top ten film in the world last year by the British "Sight and Sound" and the French "Cinebook"
. If it wasn't for Hollywood's response to Trump's ban on Muslims, which boosted Iranian director Farhadi's second gold win, it would be reasonable for the film to win the best foreign language film at this year's Oscars.
The story of an idealistic father trying to get infinitely close to a pragmatic daughter. A story of saving workplace anxiety and disorientation. Because of the two unusually vivid and interesting protagonists, the amount of information and enjoyment of the film can be interpreted as two stories. One is about a humorous old father, and the other is about a young, competitive daughter.
The daughter works for a German management consulting company and is busy with a corporate outsourcing project. The father, who retired at home, flew from the mainland in Western Europe to Bucharest in Eastern Europe in the name of vacation, from the sidelines to entering the daughter's expatriate life.
It's the spectacle of one way of life and values against another.
From the relaxed father-daughter relationship, the differences between the two generations of living and living are caused, and the Germans do not forget the serious philosophical questioning when they are funny. The proposition of life and value, debated by father and daughter, makes this film unique.
There are a lot of social occasions in the film about business culture and national culture, the dialogue on the way of transformation of developed countries represented by Germany and developing countries represented by Romania, the different interests of business owners and laborers, and the father asking his daughter: You Are you doing well, do you have a life of your own?
The superposition of information and the externalization of ideas make this film the most international in the family film and the most touching in the workplace.
Despite the conflicting values between father and daughter, the climax of the debate is so wonderful that a father and daughter sing and sing, the old Whitney Houston song "Greatest love of all" in the 1980s. It's what a father wants his daughter to weigh.
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
The greatest love of all Love
is easy to achieveLearning
to love yourselfIt
is the greatest love of allAnd
if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of A special place
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love
This piece of magic is wonderful when the daughter sings a song and the expression changes after expressing her heart. She would not understand why her father was sending a message with a song, but why the thank you at the end of the song changed back to the signature smile of the plan report in seconds. The stylization of routine has invaded her life and self. The father who loved her didn't want his daughter to pay such a high price.
The gap between the father and daughter straddles the old school, which retains the soil of romanticism after World War II, and the economy that has acquired capital and expanded overseas in the new millennium.
The way a father loves his daughter will be an eye-opener for Chinese parents who are implicitly determined to be a boss. This daughter's desperate employee spirit will make Du Lala who want to be promoted feel ashamed. However, the focus of this film does not stop there. From the disagreement about happiness and even the meaning of life, to the gradual convergence is the biggest point of the film. And all of this is done through preaching, suffering, life and death, but a father constantly changing roles, getting closer to his daughter's clients, bosses and colleagues, at the reception at the consulate, on the construction site of Party A's company, at the girlfriend's During the weekend dinner, the father made an embarrassing incident while spying to help his daughter's plight.
Yes, we have seen educational films in which parents put their hearts and souls to work, but we have not seen the father who disguised himself as a coach, a partner, and a diplomatic ambassador for his daughter, nor did we see the father who was there when his daughter was scrambling to sign a big deal. He told his daughter's clients about his daughter's dedication to work without any decoration. He never saw the father who followed his daughter to relax in the bar, and saw his daughter cry alone after three rounds of drinking. The daughter, who was waiting for the client's wife to go shopping, faced her father's disdain when she mentioned happiness or not.
This film is a chemical experiment of family affection × values × workplace thick black science. These unique forms brought about by mutual penetration and collision are exactly the fun and interest of this film.
This is a film that wins with plot creativity, trivial rivalry scenes and professional business planning cases. It was made lively and naughty by the under-40-year-old German female director Maren Ader. Every time my father appears, he is full of burdens, which brings a comedy effect of a tired life. The perspective of handheld photography and the texture of the documentary can even nickname the film "Father Saves a Lost Girl in the Workplace" or "Workplace Anxiety Disorder Self-help Manual".
If you are driven away by the project schedule like the heroine, and you are tired of thinking about the meaning of busyness in the gaps in the schedule, then this film is like a mirror, in which you are proud of the thoughtful PPT and Meticulous reporting, habitual late-night overtime, veneer and lifeless look, absence from your parents' life that you ignore, and old age and frailty that you turn a blind eye to.
And your parents are more and more dependent on and caring about you.
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