The title itself is an irony

Don't imagine a movie like "Life Is Beautiful", in fact, the title of "The World's Greatest Father" is an irony in itself: the father doesn't understand the son, and the son doesn't understand the father. Even after the son's death, the father "ghostwriter" wrote a suicide note and wrote a diary, and the son's only friend said "he wouldn't say something like that." The TV host also said, "It doesn't look like it was written by a 15-year-old."
Both father and son live "in their own world". But this "own world" is not their inner pursuit, but a world shaped by "modern media" - newspapers, TV stations, the Internet, etc. My father expected to "write a book and publish it", which was a blockbuster. The son lives on the Internet, mobile phones and third-level pictorial, and hardly has a single friend.
In fact, not only the father and son, but everyone in the school, also live in a world shaped by "modern media": the contrast between the two scenes in the elective is very interesting: a teacher because he is on "The New Yorker" The work was published, sought after by other teachers and students, the classroom was overcrowded, and the father sourly "attacked" the teacher's separation issue. Later, after my father became famous as a ghostwriter, there were only two or three students in that teacher's classroom, and my father's classroom was overcrowded.
The ending of the film is meaningful, and the father tells the truth and gets rid of the shaping of "modern media", but it is opposed by almost everyone. He took off his tie and suit and jumped into the swimming pool naked.
Reflecting on the modern media and the public life under the influence of the "star system", you can actually read Zhang Zhi's youth novel "Substitute". "Confession" is very similar:
it's hard to say that a person is lying, but I'm finding more and more that in our generation, it's even harder to tell the truth! Today I stand here, and I have to tell the truth... Today I take two risks to tell the truth. After I tell the truth, some people will call me a liar, you will scold me, hit me with things, and even resort to resorting to Law, I have no complaints, because I did deceive everyone. There is also a risk that everyone will be hurt emotionally. Many people love Su Mian and are fans of Su Mian... When they know that it is another person standing here, how angry and sad they will be.
It is indeed "angry and sad", so Xiao Zihang finally "awakened" from the dream, and in real life, continued the life shaped by the "media".
It may also be a life choice for many of us.

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