watched the high-scoring movie "The King of California" yesterday, which tells the story of a pair of poor father and daughter Charlie (Michael Douglas) and Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood) in California. The story is a kind of warm comedy.
#### Story
The family's life has long been in the middle and lower classes of society, relying on his wife's hand modeling work as the main source of life, and her husband, Charlie, loves music. Or is it because of life pressure? An argument broke out and Miranda divorced when she was very young. Afterwards, the father and daughter depended on each other. Miranda was also very sensible in helping with housework and taking care of his father’s life. However, it can be seen that the family situation has not improved afterwards. For example, due to the pressure of life, the father had to pawn and symbolize his musical dreams. Cello.
Later, for some reason, his father was imprisoned for two years and was accompanied by mental illness? .
In two years, Miranda was 15-16 years old. Because of some inexplicable misunderstandings (mother thought she followed her father, father thought she followed her mother, the community and school also had the same misunderstanding), the young Miranda could not get what she deserved. Assistance, as a last resort, relies on working at McDonald’s to earn money and accumulate tuition.
Two years later, his father was released from prison. After he was released, he was obsessed with finding the legendary Spanish treasure (the clue comes from the notes of a missionary in the prison hospital library).
The 16-year-old Miranda only needs to pay for family expenses. At the same time, after trying to persuade her father to fail, she joined her father's treasure hunt (how can the thinking of crooked nuts be so different^_^). It should be noted that the treasure hunting expenses are also Milan Up to a burden! ! ! = = Father did not work.
All kinds of joy, all kinds of little contradictions, little warmth.
Finally, it was determined that the location of the treasure was under the Crotco shopping mall. After breaking in in the middle of the night, the police found that his father tied Miranda to create an illusion of intimidation in order to protect Miranda. A single person dived into the dug underground waterway and continued to search for treasures.
No one found Charlie's body.
The supermarket receipt that Charlie left for Miranda before entering the water points to a washing machine with gold in it? (It doesn’t seem reasonable)
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The emotions between father and daughter can be felt everywhere in the film critics
* Daughter Miranda is right Father Charlie's tolerance and care. "I can stop you, can I?" "No" joined her father's unbelievable treasure hunt, and she was tolerant. At this time, she had to pay for the family expenses. Miranda has never complained, and several complaints were made after her father made extremely outrageous things (PS: sold the scooter she used to commute to get off work every day---a dilapidated classic car that only cost tens of dollars), Although at this time, the complaints and the words that attacked my father's "dream" were extremely reluctant, "Don't force me to say that TT, there is no treasure TT". . . The father and daughter together surveyed, hunted treasures, sneaked into the Crotco supermarket to detect the terrain, singles went to parties to steal keys, and sneaked into the store at night to start digging. . . What a crazy move ORZ
* Charlie’s purpose for doing this is to give her daughter something different.
Treasure can be regarded as a special gift. The important thing is to help the family (daughter) get rid of the lower-middle class. Of course, I have to say his The approach is improper. Don’t look for a job, use your own work to reduce Miranda’s burden and support expedition expenses, and even behave as a car. The cello was no longer appropriate to change the car), the bank loan was paid for the excavator (no repayment plan), and the house was reclaimed by the bank. In the end, he used his life to bring back the gift of treasure to his daughter.
### Warmth in
foreign movies, this is a genre I like very much: full of warmth, tolerance, do whatever you want, optimism and other beautiful emotions. Perhaps it is culturally different. It is difficult to see such topics in Chinese movies. Under normal circumstances, "middle and lower class = poverty and poverty", "unrealistic dreams after being released from prison = family conflicts, gloomy gray life" and "Seven Majors" Aunt Auntie's persuasion" "Finally everything must return to reality-there is no treasure". The mainstream TV series and movies that are generally played are all in this routine. (sad)
The routines of Chinese movies lack tolerance and imagination, but reality is the mainstream value of survival in Chinese society.
The routines of American movies are tolerant, positive, believe in dreams**, a typical American dream.
* The reason why I like this series of movies is probably more because I don't like all kinds of lack of tolerance and contempt for dreams in my life, so I yearn for that concept.
* Miranda's love and tolerance for his father is timely in the Chinese society that emphasizes filial piety, and no one can do it. It has to be said that the basic requirement of filial piety in Chinese society is "the degree of food and clothing", while ignoring the spiritual world of the parents. Miranda not only provided for the living, but also enabled his father to pursue his dreams happily without too much mental burden, which is really commendable!
* I don't dare to agree with Charlie's approach, but his perseverance is indeed a necessary trait to realize his dream. Dreams require courage and perseverance!
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