This constitutes the main line of the plot development of the film. This is a comedy, but it makes people feel sad from the heart.
At the beginning of the film, Lance was dreaming of the scene after becoming a great writer: flowers, applause, money, beauty... The reality is that this father, an ordinary middle school teacher, has repeatedly submitted manuscripts but has been repeatedly rejected. He swears by frustration. The last submission, if you can't publish it, don't write anything again.
His adolescent son was withdrawn and was kept in grades because of his poor grades, and he showed no signs of making progress. He was repeatedly reprimanded by the principal for breaking school rules. At the same time, Lance, the teacher of the school, was warned by the principal to cancel the class because of the decreasing number of students in the poetry class.
Fortunately, Lance is not without admirers. The beautiful female colleague Teacher Reed seems to be the only sustenance and comfort for Lance's spirit. She is the only reader of Lance so far and likes him. So, Lance's life isn't too bad.
Life could have gone on like this plainly, but I didn't want to have an accident suddenly.
Lance, who came home from a date with Reed, found that his son had suffocated to death by accidentally overplaying the way he pursued overly stimulating masturbation. An overly grieving Lance faked the scene as a suicide by hanging and forged a suicide note for the purpose of protecting his son's privacy and self-esteem.
So far, the story has been flat, albeit a little sad.
After dealing with his son's funeral, Lance, who returned to school, silently accepted the comfort of teachers and students, and lived and worked firmly. Unexpectedly, the forged suicide note was accidentally leaked and widely circulated on the campus, because everyone felt that the suicide note of this 15-year-old boy, Kyle, who was usually withdrawn and even stupid, was not popular with everyone was written so profoundly! It was once regarded as a classic by the teachers and students of the whole school.
At this time, there is only one person who is skeptical of all of this, and that is Andrew, Kyle's only friend during his lifetime.
Lance, who has been depressed all the time, seems to have obtained great psychological satisfaction from this incident and ignored Andrew's doubts, especially when he noticed that Lid, who had always admired him, was hot and cold to him, and he decided to continue. camouflage. Then, Lance began to forge Kyle's diary again, and the book titled "You Don't Know Me" was printed into a book by a psychotherapist, and even affected the whole country, causing a sensation.
As a result, everything Lance dreamed of gradually became a reality: the constant invitations from TV stations and publishers made Lance overwhelmed. Especially when Reed finally gave up, how could Lance resist all this temptation? This reminds me of that slightly sarcastic saying: I can resist anything but temptation. Ha ha!
Andrew questioned step by step, and Lance couldn't really be indifferent. Especially when the principal decided to donate a library to the school in Kyle's name, Lance's inner struggle finally came to an end. Standing on the stage, Lance finally told the truth that no one wanted to hear. . Yes, most of the time people are reluctant to know the truth, especially when this kind of falsehood has become the spiritual sustenance of people, it takes more courage to reveal the truth than to cover up the truth. Lance said: You don't like Kyle, it's okay, neither do I, but I love him because he's my son, even though he's a nuisance.
Life has returned to its original state: Reed left him, students began to despise him again, colleagues continued to alienate him... But it doesn't matter, at least from this incident, Lance realized that all the false enthusiasm could not resist the real indifference . As Lance said: I always thought I was afraid of dying alone, and now I know what I am really afraid of is dying with people who make me lonely.
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