"Father Like Son" ("Who Changed My Father"), like other excellent movies, has a daily plot, smooth rhythm, and rich connotation. It conveys a lot of information and can arouse people's thinking from different perspectives.
The general plot is about a typical middle-class family in a city in Japan and an ordinary family in the suburbs. Due to a hospital accident, the wrong child was held. It was not until the age of six that the two families discussed a solution. Finally, through a series of comparisons and conflicts, the differences between the two educational concepts of the two families are reflected.
The most obvious level, of course, is about education, life choices, and monster parents. It turns out that there are monster parents in Japan who forcibly give their children various interest classes. In order to enter a good school, they specialize in interview classes. But when Nomiya suggested that both of his children wanted to adopt, Saimu was furious at Nomiya's assumptions, and then he murmured alone: People who have never failed, really have no empathy. From my perspective, this line of dialogue is the core of the movie.
The Nonomiya in the film is a typical top student. He studied well since childhood, was admitted to university and entered a large enterprise. He rushed forward and reached the middle level at a young age. He had an apartment in the CBD, opened a Lexus, had a beautiful wife and lovely children. In the past, In six years, he went out early and returned late, focused on his career (although he was also part-time), and even had no time to take care of his wife's childbirth. His superiority makes him feel that his son is so stupid and inferior to him. The son also lives in his huge shadow. He always wants to please his father and acts in front of his father. The child is really pitiful), and finally when he knew that his son who had been raised for six years was not his own, he reflexively said: It really is so. This sentence hurts his wife deeply, even more hurt than the sentence: How can mothers not recognize their children?
Such people have never failed. People who have not failed are terrible. They think that the world is their own master and never think about problems from the perspective of others. Only your own feelings are the most important. Therefore, it is definitely a terrible experience to fall in love with people who have never been broken in love (especially men who have never broken in love). It can be said with the courage that a life that has not really failed is incomplete. Such people are not enough to be friends, not enough to talk about life.
This role reminds me of "The Redemption of Shawshank." Maybe everyone is immersed in the passion that Andy Dufran finally escaped from prison, raising his hands to the sky in the heavy rain to welcome freedom, but I remember that he treated Morgan the day before he escaped from prison. Freeman said a paragraph, he said, although my wife was not killed by me, but I killed her indirectly, if I cared more about her, she would not cheat, and the following things would not happen. , Over the past ten years, I am making atonement. Now my debt has been paid off, and I have paid for my sins. I'm leaving.
It can be seen that he had a complete plan for the escape from prison early in the morning. The disaster of prison caused his life to be defeated overnight, and the torture of losing his freedom made him reflect on the first half of his complacent life-he was a successful financial man in the first half of his life. Living a luxurious life.
The same is true for Nonomiya in this film, he has received punishment-this kind of punishment is like a catastrophe, similar to Andy Dufran's disaster. Just because of his complacency, he has a slightly arrogant attitude towards the people around him (Imagine a Japanese, where can he be arrogant? Nodding and bowing, these understandings should be no less), and he is jealous of a nurse who is at a low ebb in his life. , Deliberately exchanged his children like a prank.
There are many potential plots in the film that are expressed through character dialogues, and the readers can add it by themselves, such as why Saimu got married late (at least to give birth late), and his dementia father. Nomiya said that he ran away from home when he was a child because he missed his mother so much. In addition to his old father, who is still addicted to gambling and alcohol, and full of pedigrees, his brother reminded him on the road that you should not forget to call his mother. It can be roughly speculated that his parents divorced at an early age, and the stepmother is now taking care of his father.
Although he had a lot of resistance to his father, the curse that "man will become more and more like a father, whether you like it or not," gradually became clear on him, and another father, Saimu, reminded him: You don't have to be the same as the previous generation.
I have read reports that one of the social problems in Japan is that in an environment where women are full-time housewives and men work alone to support the family, the relationship between children and mothers is very good and they are completely unfamiliar to their fathers. As Saigi told Nomiya in the film, this is only half a year, I The time with him has exceeded the time you have with him in the past six years.
The film is of course the importance of family affection, which is better than all careers, especially the time spent with children, parents should cherish. But from another angle, we can also see how indifferent and dangerous this kind of so-called elites who have never failed, who are conscious of "omnipotent and omnipotent."
The ending of the story is very tender, and the father finally experienced a complete failure (both sons didn't like him) and started to recognize his life again.
Everyone can think about this question. If one's own child "has the wrong hold", and it takes a long time to find out, will he change his pedigree. Which is more important, fertility and nurturing?
This work by Hirokazu Ee is very similar to Yamada Yoji's style. It talks about the ordinary things in life, but the flat ground is rising and dark, very Japanese. It reflects the problems in Japan and is also a problem faced by many people in modern times. HK monster parents have become mainstream. I often go shopping with my children on weekends and the mothers of the Filipino maids who take the children. There are also many parents who claim that making money is to provide a good environment and pay expensive tuition classes and interest classes for their children's future. Parents of these monsters should watch this movie, reflect on whether they have never failed, and reflect on why they want to bring a life to the world.
Another: The title is not Russell's paradox. You can develop a person who has never lost love before, let him completely lose love once, and then start over. This is a great cause for the benefit of all mankind. come on.
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