The director of this work is Boca Goldthwaite, a comedian born, but in recent years, as a screenwriter and director, he began to produce some non-commercial low-budget films. Be aware that movie titles often need to take care of superficial beauty. An example in literature is when Pearl Buck was writing and playing the "Earth" trilogy. When she was about to publish it, she named the protagonist "Wang Long", but finally changed it to "The Earth" in order to attract readers. So if we take the father as the center of this article, then you will feel that the basis of this film's story is dubious.
Of course I really enjoyed this film. First of all, the shooting technique is very stylistic, starting with an upside-down portrait of a character, and then shooting the car in circles from an overlooked angle. Then there's the fact that the director and I both love the slow-motion processing at the climax of the plot. It expresses a kind of emotional release very freely. Of course, we know that poetry, film and music are also involved in this work, which is often seen in recent directors, and this is an additional benefit, an expression of the author's self-concept, and an element that the film itself needs. Music plays an indispensable role as a bridge to express emotion or spirit in film. For example, Hayao Miyazaki always asks Hisaishi to score his films. By the way, Paul Haggis' film music is also very delicate.
What I have said above is very obvious. Let's look at the content of the story. In terms of characters, the father who sticks to poetry and the son who only loves pornography and rudeness, as well as the worldly shrewd school administrator and publisher. here. Father and son are complete opposites. The protagonist hopes that young people will learn something wonderful, elegant and genuine. After a person's emotional development is sound, the person must be closely linked with the society, so the author here uses the name of father and son to concentrate on expressing a person's ambivalence when he sees the social perversion he cares about. The son is very important, but when he sees other people getting help from what he writes, he feels that since it is helpful to everyone, he does not tell everyone the truth at first. At this time, he paid more attention to the feelings of the public. But the climax of the TV interview focused on expressing the complex emotions of his father facing the public and himself at the same time. Every time he said a lie, he couldn't help feeling emotional, and he felt that this incident made him smile bitterly. The amazing thing is that when I followed him to see this place, I also had similar emotions to him, and the father and I made the same expressions face to face through the screen. Here we have to praise the director's grasp of emotions. In the end, when he went to face the students at school, he followed his heart. Tell everyone the facts concisely and completely. Although his girlfriend walked up to another man at this time, the school teachers and students all looked at him with anger and scorn. But he felt refreshed and liberated, and he stripped naked to the gym to dive. The director uses slow motion to describe the release process of this emotion, which easily makes us viewers feel released at the same time. At the end, we consoled us by saying that the old woman next door and her son's bad words were all supported by kind friends. After reading this, I can't help but smile knowingly and fall asleep happily.
But I was a little anxious after reading some of the reviews online. So I rushed to write my own opinion. The director's latest film, "God Bless America," is also about personal expectations and disappointments in society. The reason is very simple. But the director was born as a comedian and has a set of comforting skills. This ability is also evident in these two somewhat dark but extremely pure works.
ps: my mom is a movie idiot. We watched "My Brothers and Sisters" together last night, and we couldn't tell from the interlude, so we could only stare at each other. So I decided to watch only ghost movies and mythical feature films with her in the future.
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