Break out of the inner cage

Luisa 2022-01-08 08:03:25

After watching this movie, I have a lot of feelings.
Summary: A child who was abandoned and then abused, entered the navy service after wandering, was unsafe, depressed, and easily irritated. After the counseling and help of the psychologist, and the favor and company of the beloved girl, he was finally willing to face the pain and to find the cause of his pain and the home in his dream. Finally got what I wished, the dreams once became a reality, relieved. In fact, his growth also caused problems for the psychiatrist himself.
Feeling 1: Childhood pain is very destructive to children. Even if they cover up well in adulthood, they will continue the anxiety of being abandoned. I am actually very surprised, in such a time and such a society, how can Anthony maintain his truth and goodness, and even feel a little unreal. Those fights, although they were hateful at first, were nothing compared to the violence, death, and indecency he had endured. At the beginning of the film, people saw the woman he cared about, and then gradually approached his doctor.
Feeling 2: I like his metaphor about rainy days. That feeling is really appropriate. The psychologist also noticed his confusion. I like his conversation with his girlfriend on the lighthouse, honest and warm. But the best is probably this poem that came out of his heart-who would cry for the little boy?
I seem to hear: I want to be a good boy, why don't you all want me.
It seems to hear: I have been hit again and again, so afraid, why no one cares about me?
Yes, find your true roots, even if you just sit next to your mother and tell her your efforts and your current situation.
Feeling three. Thanks to the director, there is no scene where the mother and child recognize each other and cry while hugging each other, and the mother has never faced his gaze.
This kind of plainness makes me feel real. He is not begging or demonstrating, but the ideal that he has always wanted in his heart and has been working hard has finally been able to speak out.
At that moment, he could also forgive his parents, let himself be truly independent, stand in the sun, and face his new life heartily and calmly.
Although it feels incredible, it is really important for him to be welcomed by his family. He has always been dreaming about it. Isn't it just being accepted, embraced, and satisfied?
The doctor and him, who is curing whom? Everyone has their own problems to face, but they also avoid them unconsciously.
Feeling four. I don’t know why other people study psychological counseling. When I entered this course, I was also avoiding or being troubled by many problems.
I hope that with the deepening of my experience, I can see the power of love, the truth, the beauty, the firmness in the eyes of the doctor, and the lovely sunny smile of Anthony.

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Antwone Fisher quotes

  • [last lines]

    Jerome Davenport: Are you hungry, sailor?

    Antwone Fisher: I could eat, sir.

  • Jerome Davenport: Where'd you spend your childhood?

    Antwone Fisher: Cleveland.

    Jerome Davenport: Parents still live there?

    Antwone Fisher: I never had any parents.

    Jerome Davenport: They deceased?

    Antwone Fisher: I never - I never had parents.

    Jerome Davenport: That would make you a medical miracle, Seaman Fisher. Where you from?

    Antwone Fisher: I'm from under a rock.

    [pause]

    Jerome Davenport: Okay!