17.12.30 The whole movie is gray and white, composed and calm, with very little dialogue, very depressing. After watching more than half of it, I finally understand that this should be a film about my father returning home after leaving home for 12 years, with his own unique style. way to educate children. So I think it would be more appropriate to call the film the return of my father, but after watching it, I realized that the deep meaning of the film is not limited to the return of my father.
There is no background, no information about the father has been introduced, but Иван said: Mom said he was a pilot, but he felt nothing like it, that's all about the father. The next day when my father came back, he took the children on a vacation. It was like he chose the most difficult road. He was ups and downs along the way. to a deserted island. Just like a father in the traditional sense, he is taciturn, without encouragement or praise. There are only rules and orders along the way, but the lack of fatherly love of the children for 12 years can be made up for in such a tough way, the eldest son Андрей may be due to The worship of his father can be submissive, but Иван, who is in the rebellious period, can't understand it anyway. He doesn't understand why he disappeared for 12 years. When he came back, he didn't even have an explanation. He didn't understand why he came to suffer all this, so He didn't want to call him Dad. Their dissatisfaction was accumulating little by little, waiting to explode.
Finally, the two children did not obey their father's orders and came back three hours late in order to catch the fish. The father was very angry and called Андрей, and Иван finally couldn't stand it and climbed the lighthouse and threatened suicide. Иван is afraid of heights, just like Иван is afraid of lighthouses at the beginning and twice in the film, so when Dad saw Иван climbed the lighthouse this time, he realized the seriousness of the matter, and chased up the ladder to stop him, but Иван did not. The door of the stairs was closed above, rejecting a father who was eager to save his son, and a father who wanted to explain and even had some regrets. Иван stands at the top, this is a challenge to himself and a challenge to break the patriarchal control, a kind of growth, it seems that in such a conflict and no way out, can the motivation be stimulated and the fear can be overcome, but At the same time, Иван was faced with dire facts. Our good expectations for the father and son to understand each other in the future also come to an abrupt end here. Father tried to climb up from the side, but fell to his death because of a loose plank. Father stared at him and lay down on the ground quietly. No screaming, no pain. The film still goes on so deeply and calmly. Андрей was as calm as his father after these days of exercise, he just said calmly: He is dead, we have to get him back. When Иван asked how to do it, he answered the sentence his father yelled at him at the time: "руками", and then started the journey home with his younger brother using the skills and courage that his father taught them. At this time, I also realized that this is not just the return of the father, the return of the father is the beginning, and the return of the son's return home and the son's role is what really matters.
There was a scene that I thought was strange at the time. After arriving on the island, the sons went to make a fire, while the father was laboriously driving a wooden stake to fix the boat so that the boat would not float away. In the past, this kind of physical work was always directed by the father and the sons did it, but he did it with great effort, and the sons did not see it. At that time, I felt that after all, my father still felt sorry for the children, so I let them rest. A small detail wanted to show the deep love of my father. But the last scene made me realize that it was much more than that. When the children carried their father's body back to where they had boarded the boat, they did not tie the boat to the stakes. Exhausted, they wanted to rest for a while and then take their father's body off the boat and put it on the car, but when they came back to their senses, they saw that the boat carrying their father's body had drifted away and eventually sank into the sea. This is Иван finally shouting from the bottom of his heart, Dad, Dad, maybe then he understands what Dad's return has brought him this time.
After my father came back for just seven days, he left again. This time it was not twelve years. After this time, my father would never return. 7 days to create the world, and 7 days for Noah to gather the creatures of the new world. During the 7 days in this film, the two children learned from their father the courage and responsibility that a man should have, and felt the return of their father and again. Lost, they are completely different after 7 days. Although my father's love is great, the estrangement caused by the long-term separation cannot be easily made up. From the very beginning of my father's reticence, we had expected this to be a tragedy, but we didn't expect it to be so profound. I believe that in the days to come, what the father's return brings to them will be used for a lifetime.
This is a 2003 movie, and 12 years before my father left was 1991. Twelve years of separation and estrangement, destined to end in tragedy
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