Than the Sea "Deeper Than the Sea" is like a sequel to "Never Stop Walking". After the death of his father, the sons (many) who failed to do well got divorced. The novel was not sold well. I lost all the money I made, so I couldn't pay child support... It was so miserable, I had to play my mother's idea. In the first ten minutes after watching it, I can feel that the director's knife sharpened a little bit, and blood began to appear.
"Deeper than the sea" comes from Teresa Teng's "Premonition of Parting". Death, as a pre-typhoon atmosphere, haunts the story from beginning to end, transcending morality and directly entangled with emotions. What impressed me most was the community where my mother lived, and it was played through a loudspeaker: "170 tall, thin, with silver-rimmed glasses..." At first I didn't realize it, but later I found out that it should be a notice of missing persons, looking for people due to old age. Elderly people separated from their families by diseases such as dementia. A somber background sound.
Of course, it's about the father-son relationship. Interestingly, this father-son relationship appears at its most profound, precisely in the absence of the father. On the night of the typhoon, the room looks extra small and warm, like a flickering neuron in the brain. It was a revelation moment for me that he was still trying to steal my mother's belongings on a night when fate seemed to be pushing so many to reunite with his wife and children: ah, so he is such a man who can never A man who gets the happiness he wants. When he saw that what he took out of his stockings was not property, but two pieces of cardboard, the director was so sympathetic to such a person that he could not laugh or cry.
Such a complex father-son relationship constitutes the strange tension of the whole film. We often say that "love and hate are intertwined", but in fact, when it comes to real people, it is often "love can't, hate can't."
All works are answering "how". I unilaterally believe that this is the director trying to answer the question he has encountered in his life: how to deal with the father-son relationship? In the face of such a person who is not bad at heart, but always out of touch with life, in the face of the pain, funny and sporadic love he brings, what kind of feelings should you have towards him?
Raise your hands in surrender? Avoid it? Perhaps there is another way, which is to thoroughly ponder every element in this relationship, and be so familiar with it that you can restore it perfectly and truly, so as to complete the complete conquest of it, and thus completely eliminate the effects it brings in your life. pain. What happened after the father disappeared? For the mother, the husband becomes a butterfly; for the son, the father becomes the ashes. In a close-up shot, the quietly burning incense in the furnace suddenly slumps and falls into the powder of ash. In my heart, this is the most painful and profound moment of the film.
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