"Pi Yu, welcome us back." After getting out of the car, his wife Esaiel excitedly pointed to his wife Norman to the surface of the lake and stopped to listen. Norman turned his head indifferently, "I didn't hear." There are some clues, this will be a very opinionated and eccentric old man.
On Golden Pond (Golden Pond) This is a 1982 American movie that discusses old age life and the generation gap in a very human way. Today it seems that the tactics are a little bit sentimental, but they are still very moving. The film tells the story of the retired old professor Norman and his wife Ethel leaving the noisy city life to their old home, a wooden house by the pond, and restarting their lives. There are two clues in the film. I originally looked at the father-daughter relationship, but I didn't expect to be abused by this "middle-aged couple".
At nearly 70 years of age, Esser is full of enthusiasm for life. He defines himself as "middle-aged". After being refuted by her husband, he is still "that is also the late middle-aged" and has a very young mentality. On the other hand, the seventy-nine-year-old Norman was on the contrary, depressed, with a weird temper, and his heart disease made him full of fear of death, and he had to "roar out" to show that he still has the value of existence. And their daughter has just divorced. Not only that, Chess and Norman have always had a long distance between their father and daughter. When talking face-to-face with their father, they must be mentally nervous, suffering from his father’s speech and behavior. Years later, he even admitted “I’m afraid he".
On Norman’s eightieth birthday, Chess brought her new boyfriend Bill and Jr. Billy. The relationship between the father and daughter has not been smoothed or eased for many years. Instead, it intensified because of being close together. My daughter had just entered the door after a long journey. She looked at him a little awkwardly and said "Hello Norman, happy birthday." Norman said, "Oh, what a fat girl", and then asked for the license plate of the rental car without greeting. daughter. When Norman was alone with his boyfriend, his speech was even more acrid, which made Bill very embarrassed. Even the grandson said he was a weird old man.
Norman likes to play chess very much. When the other four were playing chess that day, Chess was flipping the magazine back and forth, his fingers kept tracing the pages of the book, his expression tense. Finally couldn't help but say, "Do you like winning so much?" The contradiction was on the verge of breaking out again.
I was also very nervous to see it, and at the same time I felt uncomfortable. Emotionally, I was on my daughter's side, and the father's rude words would make people very uncomfortable. Norman's personality is very similar to my father, and I can hardly avoid some emotions.
The reconciliation of this father-daughter relationship is really thanks to the old lady. Along the way, Ethel saw all these conflicts in his eyes, observing and listening to everything patiently like a psychologist. She is very tolerant and loves her husband very much, so she understands him and knows that his every move is more derived from the fear of getting old, so she is his medicine, she will whisper in his ear "You are the world The best man, it's a pity that only I know", and he listened to her the most. Ethel was also very aware of her daughter's problem, and together with Chessy analyzed the real reason behind her dislike of fighting, and helped Chessy recognize her true psychological needs.
But the problem has not been solved yet. When Chessy and her new husband entrusted the old couple to take care of 13-year-old Billy because they were traveling to Europe, this was a new test for three generations. For the thirteen-year-old Billy, the fun is "sister-in-law", but Old Antique told him to watch "Treasure Island" and sit quietly on a boat to fish for an afternoon. However, Old Norman still "conquered" Little Billy, and a small proportion began to try to understand Old Norman. From the initial mistrust of the grandfather and grandson to understanding each other, they dive and play every day, keen to find and catch the salmon "Old Guy Walter". Billy found happiness, and the old man also experienced the happiness of family.
But after Chesi came back from vacation, seeing this harmonious picture, she felt resentful. Why did her father always call herself a "fat girl", but the young man who had been with him for a month could be called brothers and brothers, become irresistible, and never be friends with herself. She scolded and was slapped by her mother. After calming down, Ethel told her, "You never tried to understand him" and persuaded her to take the initiative to reconcile.
She plucked up the courage to go, still uneasy in her heart, wondering if her father would use another ridicule and harsh face to evaluate her new marriage. Of course, she was wrong. Because of an accidental fall into the water, Norman began to re-examine his life, and his temperament became more gentle. Although he still couldn't help saying something quick, but he was able to talk to his daughter in an appreciative tone, or that he was finally able to express the hidden words uncomfortably. And the daughter actively understood.
At the end of the film, Chess overcomes physical and psychological obstacles and completes a backflip diving that has never been successful. Everyone would cheer and applaud her, and Old Norman cheered even more vigorously. Before leaving, his parents and children put on her the medals they had won when they were young.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief. This painful father-daughter relationship can finally be reconciled. With some emotion, there are many more conflicting father-daughter relationships in reality, but there is no such tolerant wife and mother as Ethel, who is gentle, meticulous and enthusiastic. For example, myself, I often struggle with love and hatred for my father and cannot extricate myself from it. Although I have tried my best to understand, but the other party does not work hard, it is always disappointed.
I mentioned the "battered dog" earlier, and there was a plot that made me have to sniff my nose. Ethel asked Norman to pick strawberries. Norman walked to the woods and got lost. After turning around for several times, he was terrified, and finally staggered back home. Seeing someone at home, he proudly told Ethel that he also picked strawberries, but he had stolen them on the way. After the guests left, he suppressed his emotions, walked to the sofa on the porch, sadly said to Esser, "I forgot the way", and frankly confessed his fear just now. He said: "Until I saw your beautiful face, my heart calmed down", she hugged him, and said slowly and affectionately: "In my heart, you are still the one riding a white horse, running towards me. The prince of ." "You and I have walked the road thousands of times, and I will remember it with you, and you will remember it."
This bay pond is incomparably beautiful.
(Postscript: I don’t know why I suddenly thought of watching this movie this weekend. I probably wanted to know how father and daughter reconciled in the movie on an impulse. Probably I have always had a certain obsession with the concept of a native family. Anyway. It's very pleasant.)
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