"Father and Daughter Love" (2015) directed by Gabriel Muccino made the little child star Kelly Rogers a hit. The elves are cute and clever. Russell Crowe continues to show his profound performance skills, both solemn and humorous, but it is difficult to get over the water, which is amazing. The film uses a cross-narrative, using the perspective of Katie, who has studied psychology in college, to keep flashing back to the moments of her childhood with her father Jack. The novel "Father and Daughter Love" was written by his father.
In 1989, the family of three was still immersed in happiness. 5-year-old Katie, the "fries" in his father's mouth, and Jack's beautiful wife Patricia. The good times didn’t last long. During a family trip of three, his wife brought up old things again and asked him about a derailment 7 years ago. He was driving in the car and said that it was the only time in his life, but she was reluctant, which led to it. The occurrence of a car accident.
His wife died and Jack was seriously injured. Fortunately, the fries were fine. Man-made disasters are mostly caused by emotional out-of-control. Unfortunately, Jack suffered a severe brain injury, leading to bipolar disorder, accompanied by severe neurological spasms. The doctor advised him to go to San Francisco Mental Hospital for treatment. At first he refused, but for his beloved daughter, he must have a healthy mind and body. He had to put his daughter in the house of his wife's sister Elizabeth.
After 7 months of treatment, Jack returned home with confidence in New York. William and Elizabeth intend to raise the little Katie, saying that they are also warm with her two little sons and laugh every day, but Jack, who is eager for her daughter, refuses on the spot, and immediately takes the little girl back home. In fact, Jack's spasm has not been cured, and once it occurs, he cannot control himself.
To make matters worse, he was unable to support his daughter, and the Elizabeths asked them to raise him again, but Jack refused. In this case, he must have the ability to support his daughter, otherwise the daughter will drop out of school. He asked the school to let him return to school to teach senior writing courses, and presented his novel "Bitter Tulip" to the publishing house. He is teaching in the new semester as scheduled.
After growing up, Katie focused on psychology courses, but she couldn't let go of her childhood memories. She could only frequent the bar, seeking a sense of presence between the wine glass and the man, in order to relieve her inner anxiety. At this time, she took over a little black girl named Lucy who had suffered from family harm and gave her psychological counseling. But Lucy has severe autism and never speaks. After a period of clarification, Lucy was not allowed to speak, and the leader questioned, but Katie insisted on insisting.
Katie took Lucy to the Lake Center Park, where free ducks were swimming on the lake. Katie said jokingly, "If there is an afterlife, I want to be a duck, because ducks can fly, swim, and even croak." She noticed that Lucy's expression had changed significantly, but the school only gave her one last chance. Katie said emotionally to Lucy, "The months I have been with you have made me the most happy. Wait a minute, and you will be taken over by Carlo. You must be good." At this time, Lucy finally said "No, I want to be with you". This made Katie tearful of joy, and this somewhat reflected the shadow of her childhood.
After Jack's book was published, he received much attention, but at the book signing party, the spasm came as scheduled, which made him suffer deeply. On the one hand, he loves his daughter deeply, for fear that her daughter will slip away from her, on the other hand, he feels ashamed of his daughter, afraid that he will not be able to support her normally if this continues. This suffering has been torturing him.
After returning to reality, Katie ran into the lantern and met Cameron, the old Shen boy. Jack's "Father and Son Love" is regarded as an idol work by him. When he learned that the Katie in front of him was the Katie in the book, he couldn't help himself. After that, they started dating. At least this time, she didn't break up after a one-night stand like she did before, and it seemed to be a real relationship.
Cameron wrote a book "2 is the most perfect number". When waltzing with him, Katie remembered the scene when her father hugged her to waltz. When she taught Lucy to ride a bicycle, she also thought of how her childhood father was happy to teach her to ride a bicycle. Everything is lost, only a lingering aftertaste.
Katie gave Cameron the manuscript written by her father, which read "To Katie, my fries, I love her until the last moment of my life." In order to write a book, Jack sat on the steps of the school gate to write after sending Katie to school. This can be said to be correct, and the daughter is delighted. But Jack wrote so dimly for his daughter to have a better life, and he didn't care to accompany his daughter, which aroused her dissatisfaction.
At this time, Elizabeth and William and his wife sued Jack on the grounds that Jack could not support their daughter. Jack was so devastated that Jack had to hurry to complete the manuscript. The manuscript that would have taken a year to complete was completed in only three months. It can be said that it was his painstaking work.
Elizabeth's lawsuit against Jack was eventually dropped due to the discord between the couple. Jack, who took a sigh of relief, could have taken his daughter to greet the newborn, but at this time he had been tortured by the seizures of spasms. Unfortunately, he passed away late at night, and his daughter was still asleep.
With such a painful memory, 8-year-old Katie began to live a stable life with her aunt. But the anxiety factor deep into the skin did not change, but intensified, so that she needed to go to the bar to find a one-night stand in order to remove this anxiety and anxiety.
After her boyfriend Cameron found out, he left angrily. As Katie herself said, I hate my unhealthy life, I am ashamed, but he still resolutely left. At this time, Katie really felt that she loved him so much that pain could not change reality. She was more intimate with the comfort of the little black girl Lucy.
When Lucy was about to be adopted by well-wishers, Lucy, who didn't want to leave, slapped Katie. Astonished Katie, of course understands Lucy's rebellious behavior. Lucy is a mirror, much like Katie's childhood state. She patiently enlightened Lucy, finally letting Lucy relax and move forward easily. The ending was of course happy, Cameron forgave Katie, and a pair of people who really loved each other finally hugged each other tightly.
The film portrays the characters meticulously, continuing the director's consistent style. Extracting people and things that are not ordinary from the ordinary, refining and sublimating them, letting the plot fall into the trap of traditional drama in the irreconcilable, seemingly contradictory, in fact, this constitutes the main body of general movies, whether it is Hollywood or independent movies. The conflict of drama must be neutralized in order to achieve the effect of retracting and releasing freely, otherwise, it will be difficult to control and fall like a wild horse out of control.
Of course, it is simply another way out, cut to the end, no way out, no way out, as Haneke's "Glacier Trilogy" and "Love" did. This boils down to a creative purpose and form of expression, which is beyond reproach.
However, we do need such seemingly prosaic "consolation" works like "Happiness Terminal" and "Father and Son Love". People always have the possibility of multiple needs, just like the combination of meat and vegetables in a diet. Preference is only a supplement, and the main meal is still the staple food. In this way, the indifferent taste and sweet, spicy, sour and smelly, as long as it suits the appetite, there is nothing wrong with it.
2016, April, 1
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