The battle of honor between parents and children
Before talking about the film, the current Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, Mr. Chen Maobo and his wife, were involved in a scandal at their children's school. "Graduation Storm" is about the attack on her daughter Eliza before her graduation exam, and her father, Romeo, who was single-minded. To send his daughter abroad, the key is this exam. He is very worried and concerned about his daughter's grades, fearing that he will not do well in the exam, so he hopes to take care of his daughter from the relevant authorities and encourage her to cheat in the exam. In a prosperous and institutionalized society in Hong Kong, cheating is also common, and there have been quite a few cases in public examinations in the past, and various methods have been used to commit crimes. As for international exams such as the SAT, there are also substitute exams. Chen Maobo and his wife sent an email from the home church alleging that the children of Lu Guanghan, the school manager who attended the school, cheated in exams and were covered up. The case lasted for more than three years. The trial and appeal lasted more than three years. In the original trial, Chen Maobo was convicted of malicious defamation. It got straight, and Lu's side applied for an appeal to the Court of Final Appeal, which was rejected, and finally the plaintiff became the defendant. Whether Lu's children cheated on one side of the incident is not the point, the point is that the world of adults is actually very ignorant. They are involved in this lawsuit that should not have happened for the sake of their children, which has become a place for the rich to compete for fame. With such parents, how will children grow up in the future? Sometimes we can't blame the children, but the parents' bad example. We have been learning the principles of being human when we were young, but when we really want to practice, we will find a dilemma. Society is ugly, and the institutions established are destroyed by human hands. Don't make it a habit.
The father in the movie is also eager to love his daughter, but he uses the wrong method. Once an idea arises, more problems will arise. With the help of police friends, I entrusted some powerful people to diagnose and treat friends' family members through their own relationships, and from the relationship with patients, they connected with officials in charge of education. , resulting in a group-band relationship of a small group. He didn't know who he had sinned against and why he wanted revenge on his daughter. He only knew that he had gone the wrong way, but there was nothing he could do for the benefit of his daughter. From the end of the movie, we can see the collapse of the system. Whether or not the daughter cheated is another story. The problem is that she has better means than others, which makes her starting line different from other candidates. The father knew that he was wrong and felt ashamed in the end, and hoped that the relevant parties would not make things difficult for his daughter. Maybe this was the dilemma that the movie was trying to bring out, and he couldn't get away from it. Between survival and life, he has only choices that can satisfy his conditions. Human nature is full of weaknesses. Rationality and sensibility are only a matter of thought, and my father himself knows that he has grown into a person who even hates himself. Young people may have lofty ideals, but life is full of compromise and hypocrisy. Ideals are wiped out. The father's reputation was damaged, and the daughter was a different person from him. The father thought that he could control his daughter's fate. In the end, this line of defense was still held, and the daughter's fate was always in his hands. The movie seems to be a "coming of age ceremony" between the two fathers and daughters. The father disappoints his past self, while the daughter retains her original intention. Although I don't know how long it will last, I always feel sorry for myself. Whether it is the case of Hong Kong or the movie, the anxiety of the middle class is also brought out. The superficial beauty is actually feudal and paternalistic governance, and it is rare to see how civilized it is.
Shooting in a small way
The structure of the film is very delicate. As the so-called self-cultivation to govern the country and the world, the family is the absolute core, but this family is scattered and lacks unity. The relationship between the parents is only superficial greetings. Pretending to be a happy family for the sake of the daughter is actually waiting for the daughter to go abroad and stop whitewashing peace. They used to be educated youths, but now one seeks benefits and benefits in a dangerous society, and the other is numb to the current situation. The two couples have no common ideals, and their values have gone farther and farther. From a family to a social problem, the father who engages in extramarital affairs does not want to be responsible for the target's children. At the same time, he paved the way for the daughter's incident, and even more so, he accepted the interests and worked for others. In some details, I can see the director's accusation. In addition to the daughter having too much exam time, the object of the father's extramarital affair has a child. When Romeo took him to the park to meet the child who did not obey the law, the child was still innocent and thought about the truth. , however, it backfired. The father's way of doing things reflects the chaos in it. In order to find the attacker who attacked his daughter, he can intimidate people and accept bribes, but it does not mean that he is a bad person. It's just that there is no fairness in society. If you don't do it, others will do it, and as a result, everyone will do it. Justice is a philosophical issue. Corruption in society fuels evil, wrong things can be twisted into right things, police can abuse their power, and doctors can break through the moral bottom line. The root of all sin is the father who betrayed his marriage and his faith. From the collapse of individuals to the upward extension of all social strata, cheating itself is only a matter of one person, but the result is a matter of a group of people, and the incident is both simple and complex.
The stroke of genius is that the father always thought he knew his daughter very well, and did his best to take care of the family's needs and play the role of a father. But the superficial things were still seen through, especially when the daughter knew early on that he had an extramarital affair. Later, even Yuan Pei thought that the father did not need to pretend to be any more, and even wanted to go away with his daughter. He didn't understand his daughter's rebelliousness. The family's relationship was extremely indifferent. Whoever had a conversation with someone didn't ask them directly, but only through a third party. The family relationship was estranged.
Who is the suspect?
As for the attack, there are also several directions of speculation. However, the director did not explain the truth by himself, and adopted the method of leaving blank. The first one may have offended the person who let the dog nearby. In the play, the father's car had hit the dog's object, and there was also a dog barking. The second is a mischievous child, and there is a chance that it is the son of a lover, who hits people with stones at a young age. It is also possible that it is the daughter's boyfriend. The father used suspected evidence to question why the boyfriend did not stop the violation of the daughter. Perhaps the daughter's boyfriend may have witnessed the process. The beauty of the movie is that there is any possibility, the father tries to find out but fails.
What's more, in addition to seeing the big from the small, the use of the camera lens peeks into the inner monologue of the dilemma between the father and the daughter and has ingenious dialogues. The film is small but has a broad vision. It reveals the hypocrisy of this family, the shattering of happiness, and the fact that society and personality are so-called for three years to learn well and three days to learn badly. People are unpredictable. In real life, even if there is a son and daughter who is a hundred years old and has ninety-nine years of worry, such a father cannot be called a monster parent, he just loves his daughter. If something like this happens in their personal life, and they have the ability to fight for their children, there will indeed be many people who choose to give up the principle. It's not just Romania, it's not just China, it's even the same in Hong Kong. This kind of film with critical society and education hopes to appear not only in Eastern Europe, but also in Chinese society. It should be used to change the existing problems that have existed for a long time. It is worthwhile to put criticism and suspense together. A valuable lesson for parents.
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