I came across this movie on the website by chance, and was surprised that it was produced in Russia. I originally saw the title "Return" and thought it was the latest action movie. In this way, I gradually finished watching this kind of slow movie with a more curious and steady state of mind.
I think in the first half of the movie, a lot of people, like me, were uncomfortable with the slow pace of the movie. The first half of the story is slow and methodical. Many confrontations between father and son are explained by bit by bit. There are not too many emotional ups and downs. They are all trivial things in life. For a father who has disappeared for 12 years, we have a faint premonition that this father may have other plans. Or it is to give his two sons a personal lecture between men. Fortunately, we guessed right, it belongs to the latter.
Well, when we follow the perspective of the movie to the second half of the story, the young son's willfulness and incomprehension intensify the conflict between father and son, which is also the contradiction of the story. On a lonely island, we can all expect big things to happen, but it’s hard to say what will happen and what the outcome will be. The younger son hides a knife in his trousers pocket and his father is too strict. fuse. Maybe some viewers are trying to imagine the scene where the two sons join forces to kill the father, or the father accidentally kills a certain son, or the son is too ignorant and fearless and gets into trouble, and then the family of three is caught in it. Overcome the difficulties together and move towards a happy ending.
This is precisely where the sublimation of the film is, which is unexpected! A strong and retired father accidentally dies while chasing a son who has no guts to hold a knife. But as a father, when he saw his younger son's irrational threat of jumping off the building, the love in his father's heart was no longer hidden, and the words "son" were indeed deafening. Father's love came to an abrupt end here, my father fell to his death, and everything went to destruction at this moment!
It has to be said that the understanding and size of men and men always come faster than those of the opposite sex. When the eldest son proposed to take his father's body back, the younger son's powerlessness, weakness, and cowardice were fully revealed. Losing his father's blessing, his willfulness, clamoring, and shouting under the halo of father's love were nothing but a carnival of self. Originally very small things, for young children, are like a mountain, and the thunder does not move!
When the story came to this point, I had imagined how when they brought the father's body to the mother, how the mother and the mother and son would explain the death of the father, and how to cherish the memory of the father. But the video gave me another slap in the face! When the two boys who reacted, realized that their father's previous expressions were all expressions of love, their father's body floated into the deep sea because of their weakness. There is no affectionate farewell here, no ignorant repentance from the youngest son, and no mother's interpretation of the father's love as an adult. All because of the negligence of the two sons, in just a few seconds, they were pushed into the abyss by the power of nature. Everything is irreversible!
If someone watches this film without jumping like me, they can feel that the film conveys the characteristics of a father's love that is unspoken and heavy, and actions speak louder than words. In the first half of the story, in the running account of father and son getting along, maybe we have not experienced the same scene, but we can feel the same. Yes, this is the father's love, it is different from the mother's exposure and unrestrained wanton, like the beginning of the movie, the mother hugged him desperately and told him that he would not jump this time, but you can tell others that you have already jumped. For your safety and health, mother love hopes that you will take care of yourself as the first priority, and reputation and integrity are secondary. And what is fatherly love? If you do the opposite, you just have to face the difficulties. If you encounter a robbery, you have to return it and give him two hits. You just have to go through the wind and rain, you don't see the wind and rain, you don't know the hardships of life, and you don't know where the choice of life comes from, so he let him leave his younger son's fishing gear and let him taste the taste of the wind and rain. You have to listen to your father's words. This is your father's authority. You have to do whatever you want. The world is so cruel. When the eldest son questioned why his father didn't do it himself when he pushed the cart out of the mud pit, he was ready to be beaten. What a mother's love and a father's love have in common is that when you encounter danger, they both forget their own danger and move forward bravely. In this film, the beginning and the end echo, the mother climbed a tall building for the sake of her little son, and at the end, the father also climbed a higher building for the safety of her little son. This is the essence of all love in the world.
Recently, the new coronavirus is raging around the world. I happen to be in Jianghan District, Wuhan City, the hardest-hit area. It has been more than two months since the city was closed. Although the epidemic has been properly stabilized, I cannot forget those family love songs of separation in the epidemic. Given that it is a contagious disease, once you enter the intensive care unit, there is a high probability that the two rooms will be permanently separated. Father-daughter, mother-daughter, mother-son, father-son, it is too late to say goodbye, how magnificent, how sad!
Back in the film, the death of my father was an accident. It is silent, silent, painful, reluctant, and unsatisfactory, but when he returns to our mortal world, his death is so natural. Maybe this world is really not like every life and death on TV, surrounded by relatives and friends, Children and grandchildren die, but more deaths are really like the explanation in the movie-death is a silent farewell! Whether you accept it or not, it will come.
The most embarrassing thing is that the actor of the eldest son in this film, one month after the filming was completed, because of the encouragement of his friends, let him reproduce the diving scene at the beginning of the film. As a result, the actor fell into the water and drowned! ! ! This news undoubtedly accentuates the film's theme of fatherly love and life and death. At least, at this moment, my heart can't be calm for a long time.
Happiness and misfortune in life, there are no rules. They all come quietly and then leave quietly. As a human being, I think there are always only two ways to go - either you work hard to accept everything, or you work hard to change everything, so that you can transform happiness and misfortune. So for the life and death of the recent epidemic and the disappearance of the father's love in the film, as a father of a four-year-old child, I should love what you love. It is a duty to live up to the love. Finally, I would like to share a sentence for everyone, so as to encourage each other:
Life is an instinct, death is a rule. May we all maximize our instincts!
In memory of all the dead souls who are not in this world but love the world, may the dead rest in peace and the living may be safe!
Long Xiaosheng stayed in Wuhan
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