In the absence of father's family education and life, Andre, Ivan and their mother and grandmother lived very peacefully, but the boy's lack of father's love had a great influence on their body, mind and character. Ivan's character is stubborn, indomitable but lacks courage, and is very dependent on his mother; Andre is easy-going, has no opinion and lacks masculinity. The appearance of a strange father, an unpleasant journey of indifference, noise, and crying, did not seem to change anything.
From the son's point of view, the father is a stranger, ruthless, arbitrary and selfish, without regard for his son's feelings, more hateful than a stranger. From the moment the car left home and embarked on the journey, the return of the father and son's affection went upstream against the unpleasantness along the way. Andrei and Ivan, who have not enjoyed their father's love for 12 years, have stronger expectations for travel than their father. They are full of joy and long for the care that is like a mother's love from their father. Especially Ivan, when he was on the high platform with other friends, he never dared to jump into the sea, nor did he want to climb down the ladder and be ridiculed as a coward by others. It was his mother who climbed on the high platform to rescue him. Ivan cried and said: Mom, if you don't come, I will die here. It can be seen from this that Ivan's emotional desire for his father is based on his mother, so along the way, Ivan is full of hatred for the unfamiliar man's ruthlessness and arbitrariness, and even has the idea of killing him.
From the perspective of a father, a son is the flesh that fell from his body. No matter how many years he has not seen him, he is always his own son. The father longed for his son to be as brave and independent as himself, with the adventurous spirit of a manly man. When the two sons were robbed by another child outside the restaurant, the son's timidity allowed him to succeed. His father was on the phone not far away, and he had a panoramic view of this scene. The father was very disappointed with his son. He said that you don't have a man's thing in your crotch and drove away peacefully. When he brought the purse back with the kid who robbed him for his son's disposal, the son only said to let him go. The son still relies on the so-called father like he depends on his mother, but the father wants to teach his son to face setbacks and take on problems independently.
Under the strong teaching of his father, the sons became stronger step by step, although their hearts were still full of hatred for their father. Ivan likes fishing and is reluctant to follow his father to the next island. He thinks that the next destination is to fish and why not continue where he is, so he has a conflict with his father. As a result, Ivan is abandoned in the wild. After several hours of lonely waiting and After the baptism of the heavy rain, Ivan's stubborn temper increased unabated. In the last few days on the uninhabited island, the contradictions still deepened and could not be resolved. But the father taught his son how to survive on a desert island in the wild: chopping firewood and building a tent, making a boat, paddling, looking for food...
After a week of travel, the father made up for his son's 12-year debt. A father's love is like a mountain, and his father's love is like an ocean. He longs for his son to be strong and brave like a surging wave. At the end of the film, the conflict between the father and the son intensified because of the son's untimely behavior. The father sat on the bank and waited for his son to return from fishing, but the son came back three hours later than the agreed time. In the father's heart, the son still did not regard himself as a father, or did not listen to his words; however, the son released all the grievances that had been suppressed for 7 days. The eldest son Andrei was slapped twice by his father, and fell on the beach crying and begging his father to kill him; the younger son Ivan turned and ran into the woods, stubbornly climbed the high platform, threatening his father to jump off if he chased again. . At this critical moment, the climax of the film came, and all the contradictions were concentrated on Ivan. The extremely stubborn Ivan will really jump off, he can do anything. At this moment, my father could no longer use his stern weapons. He quietly tried to climb up the high platform from one side, but just as he was about to climb up, the wooden board that had been exposed to the rain and the sun for years left the high platform. The planks fell off together. Father didn't say a word before he died, just called Ivan's name.
The intriguing part of the film is that the brave and fearless tall father fell away in a blink of an eye. The death of the father solved all the contradictions, and the two sons were instantly free. They were thin and they tried their best to drag their father away from the island. Just as they loaded everything into the car and sat on the ground panting to rest for a while, the boat carrying his father's body was swept away by the waves. The boat began to seep due to its poor production, and Ivan and Andre watched helplessly as the boat slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, and finally shouted "Dad...Dad..." from the bottom of their hearts. The father who broke in as a stranger eventually disappeared, and the two sons returned to a life of only mother's love, but this week's father's love immersed in the hearts of Ivan and Andre like the vast sea. With their father's brave and fearless shadow, they returned to the life world of normal boys and men.
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