A drama that does not resolve contradictions

Kenton 2022-04-22 07:01:48

I just watched the film and read some short reviews. Everyone felt that the social conflicts in Romania are still very close to China. Official corruption, cheating in exams, doctors accepting red envelopes, puppy love hidden from parents, construction site rape, middle-aged men cheating, etc.

The story time is set a few days before and after her daughter's graduation exam. The male protagonist, who is disappointed with the society, started planning his life for his daughter when she was nine years old. Before graduating from high school, she had won a London college psychology scholarship. As long as the exam score reaches 9 points, everything will be fine. The goal can be successfully completed.

At the beginning of the film, with the windows of the male protagonist's house smashed and the daughter's right hand twisted due to attempted rape, my attention was once focused on the question of who is the culprit. The story introduces a new drama conflict, the male protagonist's lover is entangled, the daughter cannot perform normally in the graduation examination, and the male protagonist finds a back door for her, and the relationship between the daughter and her boyfriend is questioned by the male protagonist.

When many conflicts are mixed together, the audience will think that there is some connection, or that it is caused by one person. I once suspected that it was the revenge of my lover, and I also suspected that my daughter's boyfriend was making trouble in order to prevent her daughter from going abroad.

The primary conflict in the film is that the male protagonist, as an honest doctor, educates his daughter to be honest on the one hand, and on the other hand teaches her daughter to cheat for her daughter's future. At the same time, her own affair was discovered by her daughter, which also caused her daughter to have self-doubt and value deviation.

To be continued

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  • Romeo: Eliza, you have to do your best. It'd be a pity to miss this chance. Some important steps in life depend on small things. And some chances shouldn't be wasted. You know, in '91, your Mum and I decided to move back. It was a bad decision. We thought things would change, we thought we'd move mountains. We didn't move anything. I have no regrets, though. At least we tried...