This highly modern movie is starring Timothy Chalamet. After watching the film, the audience was surprised. The so-called "beautiful" is an expectation. This metaphorical title is a sign of many successful works.
The film uses a large number of life-realistic shots and uses a montage recording method to depict the difficult process of Nick's rehab several times. Here, family support is a great help. This has a strong warning effect on the drug problem in modern society. But prying into the deep-seated reasons behind the problem, there are deeper social issues that need to be discussed urgently.
"Pretty Boy" is a feature film directed by Felix Van Guningen and starring Steve Carell and Timothy Chalamet. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2018. reflect. The film is adapted from the memoir "Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey of a Drug Addicted Child" published by David Schiff. It tells the story of the son Nick in David's eyes from falling into the temptation of drugs to successfully rehabilitating drugs, to relapse of drug addiction, and finally recovering again. s story.
Observing carefully, the audience can see that it is clear that Nick is deeply in the displeasure in the family that his father has set up again. What remained in his impression was the quarrel and incomprehension brought by his parents. This kind of intergenerational communication caused by divorce issues makes Nick urgently need something else to replace his emotional needs. This kind of original sin of the family is actually ignored as a parent. For example, in the scene at the airport, Nick was sent on the plane by his father, and his mother was waiting for him at the destination of the plane. During this period, the figures of him and the flight attendant were just interpreting that as a child who needed the love of his father and mother, he was dragged by the love between two places, which also paved the way for Nick to become a later "addict". Therefore, in the movie, the feature of calling on families to maintain relationships and not to bring more emotional disasters to children is very thought-provoking.
In addition to personal issues, the film also reveals some social issues that require attention. During Nick's detoxification process, as a father, he tried several times to understand the child, and even went to the place where Nick often bought drugs to understand the child's aspirations. When Nick failed to rehabilitate his drugs several times, he again came to the street where he bought drugs, and those who took the initiative to sell drugs were all children who swaggered through the streets. Here, it is a mockery of the proliferation of drugs in the United States in the 1980s. Drugs have actually infected children and minors. Just as the data at the end of the movie shows, most unnatural deaths under the age of 50 in the United States are caused by drug-related causes. Therefore, in the process of detoxification, in addition to family factors, this film also uses a large number of plots to reveal the importance and urgency of the society in managing and prohibiting the drug trade.
In today's fast-paced life, how to get along with children and parents has become a difficult problem faced by many people. Even the original family, there are many tricky things. While these intergenerational problems occur, people can't help but attribute the responsibility to each other. At the end of the movie, Nick called his father again and needed help. Faced with Nick's phone call and meeting, his father was more familiar with him for the purpose of borrowing money, and simply rejected Nick's request on the spot. What a heartbreaking and regrettable plot, Nick's father also wept in heartache after he hung up the phone. When the phone called from the hospital, Nick was already in deep overwhelm and collapsed, but his tenacious vitality amazed the doctor. Surrounded by the father, the affection between the father and the son may be able to finally defeat the poisonous demon. The metaphor here may be expressing an expectation of the author, hoping that Nick, and even more Nick, can overcome the desire for drugs, get out of the shadows, and live out the true self . (Film critic Mei Zhenjie)
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