The most meaningful thing about this film is the title "trust", which corresponds to the father's last monologue, which is thought-provoking. When you try to find the theme of the film from your father's last monologue, it seems to be nothing. If you don't catch it, this is growth, and you never know what the result will be.
After Annie was rescued by suicide, her father stayed up all night, wrapped in a blanket and sat in the yard all night. In the morning mist, Annie woke up and saw her father in the yard. Father told Annie about his childhood. Annie’s brother was scared when he learned to swim, but Annie was different. Annie laughed the first time she went to the swimming pool. She had an innate trust in the world. She always It was fearless. Next, my father said a long paragraph, as if he was telling Annie, more like he was telling himself.
"You just had this confidence. You just had this trust-in things, people, the world, it was who you were no fear. God, I love that. I'm so proud of it. I envied it. And I was so afraid that you'd lost it as you grew up, that confidence, that faith. But you didn't. And then I failed you. It was my job to make sure you didn't lose it, to keep you safe. What am I if I can't protect you? And to see you lose that confidence, to see you question yourself. That the idea would even occur to you, to want to hurt yourself. Or for you to think for one minute, that you weren't as beautiful."
From this passage, my father began to reflect on herself. Anne has not lost her trust and self-confidence as she grew up. This is also reflected in the trust she realized in Charlie after she met Charlie. , Trust in friends and everyone knows that she is confident and optimistic about the environment after she was raped. But my father actually failed Annie’s trust to three levels (the father said I failed you). The first was that she failed to protect Annie and caused her to be hurt by Charlie; the second was that she lost her trust and confidence. Third, it is to make Annie doubt herself, and finally hurt herself. This passage from my father can even be understood as a review and summary of the plot of the entire movie.
People’s trust is established between birth and one and a half years old. Obviously Anne was well taken care of during this period, so as his father said, Anne was born with trust in others and the world. At the beginning of the film, we saw He is a cheerful, lively and healthy Annie. As movie viewers, we, like our father Will, want to protect Annie from growing up like this. But Anne is 14 years old, and her parents seem to have not noticed the various problems of adolescence.
Father didn't protect Annie. In puberty, the secondary sexual characteristics are developed in physiology. In the development of personality, identity begins to be established. Adolescent children especially hope to have a group of peers who identify with her. They can build their own understanding and explore themselves in comparison with their peers. What kind of person is it. But Annie’s parents still hope that Annie is a simple little girl. Annie bought a bra. She thought it was a very exciting thing and was willing to tell her mother, but her mother asked her to go to the mall to retire, and her mother didn’t realize her Daughter's growth. Obviously in school, Catherine represents a large group of girls. In our opinion, it is more like a bad girl. Annie's desire to be recognized by a group is a characteristic of personality development during this period, and it does not mean that Annie agrees with Catherine's behavior and values. , But mother did not give Annie a chance to judge for herself, but told her that Catherine is superficial and that you are different from them. Similarly, my father also missed the opportunity to walk into Annie's performance. After knowing that Charlie was not a 16-year-old boy, Annie went to Catherine’s party and saw a group of girls exaggerated dress and open sex. Obviously Annie didn’t approve of these. She didn’t like Catherine. She started to find herself and those The girl has different characteristics, but she still needs someone to agree with her. After returning home from the party, her father routinely asked her how she was, but Catherine said nothing, but she said: "Dad, do you know? Did they accept it? I am very important to me." Father was busy with work and did not communicate with Annie anymore. After Anne went back to the room, she chatted with Charlie online, thinking that only Charlie knew her best. To a certain extent, it was the father who pushed Anne to Charlie.
Why does Annie like Charlie. Charlie lied to Annie again and again, why Annie still believed and liked him. Because Charlie is indeed the person who "understands" her most. Adolescence develops self-centeredness, hoping to be the focus of others' attention. Charlie tells Annie that she is the most special, she is unique, she is beautiful, he is worried that Annie will not like him, so he compiled the age, how can you not impress Annie, Annie believes that her unique beauty makes Charlie like it At Charlie, she was recognized and confident in her appearance and character.
Annie lost her trust. Annie has always believed in Charlie, she thinks she and Charlie like each other. In this way, for her, the so-called rape incident is not particularly harmful. I even think that Annie is a very safe, self-healing, and very strong girl. After this incident, she bravely accepted the police's inquiry. All the information in the computer was copied to the police, and she continued to return to school to attend normal classes, but rejected her mother's proposal to change the school. All this stems from her trust, but her trust was broken a little bit. First, her father peeked at her mobile phone; then his father stole the police file and knew that there was a lot of trouble between his daughter and a 35-year-old man. Provocative dialogue, even thinking about pornographic scenes about her daughter; Annie's only request to her father was not to tell her brother, but the father still said it. In the father’s consciousness, he should know everything about his daughter. He thinks that his daughter will like a 35-year-old man is absurd. He cannot accept the view that his daughter does not think that she is raped. He thinks that her daughter’s sexual performance is shame. Annie’s final collapse of trust was when the police asked him to identify other victims. She finally realized that Charlie said she was only trying to lie to her. At this moment, his father did not comfort her. He was more venting his anger and satisfying himself. Protecting the child’s desires and completely ignoring the daughter’s feelings, so when Annie participated in the volleyball game, the family came to watch the game. It was originally a warm scene. The pain is in the past and the soul is repairing, but the father suddenly feels nervous. Going across the court to play a person who looks like Charlie, his father never considered that Annie was a grown-up, autonomous and self-respectful person.
Annie lost her self-confidence and doubted herself. Coming back from a disappointment from the volleyball game, Annie cried and yelled at her father. Annie told her father not to remind her of it all the time. She was the one who was raped, and she was the one who became the laughing stock at school. She knew she would never go back. After the premise that Charlie liked herself was denied, Annie began to think that she was stupid, doubted her beauty, doubted her attractiveness, and felt that her sex with Charlie was shameful. Finally, when her story spread on the Internet, she chose to take sleeping pills.
Regarding this film, I have to talk about the screenwriter and editing. Charlie only appeared twice in the play. One was to meet Annie, and the other was the last part of the happy life of the three Charlie family. The FBI did not catch him. The father was not able to beat him up, and it was only Annie that his father had done so many things. In addition, the film does not describe the ridicule, incomprehension, and harm of Annie from outsiders (such as schoolmates) from the beginning to the end. Therefore, when the injury has occurred, what should really be done is to recover and heal the injury, instead of obsessing with revenge, and not to inflict secondary injury on the child.
Assuming that Annie's father can come back, it may not be able to handle the incident well, but parents with adolescent children are still worth watching this movie. Different people will have different understandings.
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