"The Squid and the Whale" (The Squid and the Whale) is an addictive movie. It intercepts a fragment of the life of a middle-class intellectual family in New York, and uses ridicule, foul language and almost cruel tones to explain the contradictions of this family. Fully exposed to the eyes of the audience, the audience also faced themselves face-to-face in the process of facing the image. The anxiety of the protagonist’s growth and the disappearance of the family aura in the film have shifted the heels of a generation of Baby Boomers (the name for people born after 1946 in the United States). For the next generation, it is difficult to imagine what it feels like to be associated with "broken" and comedy. It may be an understatement such as "Broken Flower", or it may be as relieved as "Squid and Whale". The film places intellectuals in the fence of the family, presenting many intriguing scenes. At the beginning of the film, the relationship of a family of four has become clear, and the tennis net tore apart the family relationship: his father Bernard is a dying writer, and his mother Joan is a rising star in the literary world; his brother Walter acts from behavior. As far as the words are on his father’s side, both "hitting his mother's backhand" and strong shots made him psychologically act as his father's beater, while his younger brother Frank is a loyal supporter of his mother. Tennis is his physical appeal that he expects to be psychologically strong. . This seemingly divine situation is our first impression of the Bernard family, and the looming emotional break of the characters makes a comedy from the very beginning seem to be infected with stagnation. We see the deep-rooted "disease" in our parents. ", and this "disease" infects their children more or less in the subsequent narrative process of the film. In the film, a father and son went to watch "Blue Velvet." What the supporting actress said in the film, "He transmitted the disease to me" should be a code word from the father's habit of infecting his son in the film. Many people say that "disease" only belongs to the family of intellectuals. Bernard is a PhD in literature. He is psychologically extremely proud and invincible. The breakdown of the family is also caused by the declining social status of the two. Both parties are psychologically There is an imbalance. But narcissism and self-anxiety are not the whole baby The pain of the Boomers generation was only sharper and sharper on the two intellectuals. Father Bernard’s narcissism abounds in the film. When Walter asked Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, he said with a disdainful expression, “David Copperfield and Great Expectations It’s a masterpiece of a writer, and the school will only allow students to read the worst works of celebrities.” When he talked about his ideals with his youngest son, he dismissed Frank’s tennis coach as a “Mediocre” and a “Mediocre”. Vocabulary is often used by him to discredit others. Bernard’s anxiety about himself originally originated from his anxiety about his career, and his deteriorating career was his painful illness. We faintly saw the backlog of complacency in the characters’ hearts that could not be expressed, and then evolved into irritability, self-serving, and cynical cynicism.
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