I like the Taiwanese translation of this film "Bianfa's Life" (the Hong Kong translation of "Dad Can't Make You Happy" is also very interesting). But this film is by no means a simple film about "father-daughter love", it is about an attitude towards life. There is such a type of person in the world, who has no great ambition to change the world. He is unwilling to fight chicken blood every day, and he does not like to live on chicken soup. He likes to be surrounded by the little things in life every day and use his humor Sense of cynicism, and innocuous little pranks to treat everyone and things around you, and use your own way to deconstruct (or neutralize) the small hypocrisy, greetings, pretending, prudence, and people that people have become accustomed to in life. Dog-like, sanctimonious... He will be lonely but optimistic, sensitive but open-hearted, sad when the dog that has accompanied him for many years dies, but he will soon find a way to entertain himself... This is Tony Erdman. I think such a person is very suitable for Lu You's poem: Don't laugh when you play in front of Zun, when I die, you think I'm crazy.
The film is quite calm and restrained, with many long shots and almost no soundtrack, but it is very catchy (as long as you stop and watch it, you will be able to immerse yourself in it). The actor's acting style is very realistic, and there is almost no sense of acting, and the two leading actors are very good (such as the scene of sending the father away: the two waited for the elevator, they were silent and embarrassed, and they watched the daughter who was taking a taxi from the father downstairs waving on the balcony, tears. Silly down...that paragraph was handled well). In short, I like this movie very much. It is a great blessing in life to see such a good movie under high expectations.
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