"Forever Polar Bear" is a very warm family story. The male and female protagonists come from two very well-known characters in the Marvel Universe: "Hulk" Mark Ruflow as his father and "Kamora" Zoe as his mother. · Saldana.
The plot of the story is very simple. The father suffering from mania is moody and often hurts the family and the people around him, and even cannot work normally. The unbearable mother had to leave her father and raise two daughters alone in Boston. But the pressure of life made the mother and daughter feel more difficult, so the mother won a Columbia University MBA opportunity to study, in order to change her career and bring a better life for her daughters. As a last resort, the mother gave her two daughters to the father who was discharged from the mental rehabilitation hospital to take care of them for 18 months until she returned from graduation. During the time between father and daughter, the story uses the four seasons as the dividing line, telling the transition of the father-daughter relationship from mutual disgust to reluctance. The trust of the two daughters who love to win back shows the warmth of the family in laughter and curse.
The film comes from the real childhood experience of director Maya Forbes. But obviously the narrative casts a layer of comedy and warmth, filtering out a lot of colder and cruel reality, and choosing to interpret many family issues from a relaxed perspective. For example, in this family, there are many swear words all the year round, and the father’s manic character always pops out very inappropriate swear words from his mouth in front of the children, and the two little girls have been exposed to dirty words at a young age, and several quarrels are part of the scene. A daughter and a father have a comic effect on scolding and are the main source of laughter in the film. However, all quarrels are harmless. In the end of the scolding, either the father makes concessions or the daughters make compromises. The relationship between the two parties is This goes one step further.
This film is undoubtedly a success in creating the image of the father. Mark Ruffalo (Mark Ruffalo) is very suitable to interpret this decadent, neurotic, self-entertaining role in adversity. Similar roles are also dazzling performance in "Starting Again". He plays a frustrated music producer on the road to find himself and repair the father-daughter relationship on the road to chasing dreams in poverty. His partner in the film is also a freshman. And the personality of the female star-Keira Knightley.
Mark Ruffalo also comes with a silly horny but full of responsible masculine charm. In "Forever Polar Bear", he made a flamenco dance skirt for his daughter all night, and his craftsmanship was not good enough. Half of the manic episode threw the skirt out of the window, but thinking of the promise to her daughter, she had to go downstairs to retrieve the skirt and continue making it. The next day the little daughter walked out of the room wearing a weird dress and said that it was the best dress in the world she had ever seen. At that moment, the powerful fatherly power overflowed the screen, which made people feel extremely warm.
The father in the film is also very strong in hands-on skills. He can cook, tailor, repair cars, and repair locks. Frugal, reluctant to throw everything away, like to tinker with old things. It's like the parents of our generation, who have come from a hard time, have to rely on themselves for everything, and cherish everything.
In the last scene of the movie, the two girls rejected their father's plan to go boating and picnic, and wanted to go to a friend's house to play. When we were parting, the father stood there and watched the two children go far away intentionally or unintentionally. The eldest daughter turned around angrily and said, "Don't do this, don't make us feel guilty." But when she walked away for the second time, the eldest daughter still couldn't help but shed tears, and then slowly turned her head back. My father still stood firmly in the distance watching the girls walk away, and then made a gesture of cheering and cheering. The scorching sun was in the sky and the shadows of the trees were mottled. It was clearly just a trivial matter in life, but the photographs showed a sense of tragic and moving. .
The movie also interspersed with some issues of gender discrimination in the workplace. After graduating from Columbia University’s MBA program, my mother wanted to find a decent job in Boston with an excellent resume and impeccable letter of recommendation, but she was politely rejected as soon as she mentioned that she had two daughters in the family. Eat closed doors. In the end, the mother had to choose to find a job in New York, where the workplace atmosphere is more tolerant. She left her two daughters under the care of her husband and endured the pain of separation. Bear it all in tears. This kind of workplace discrimination in the late 1970s in the United States described in the movie is still repeated in many corners of the world today. I can only sigh the helplessness of reality.
The title of the film is "Infinitely Polar Bear (Infinitely Polar Bear)", which is derived from the little daughter’s comment to her father in front of her friends: Our dad is totallypolar bear, and this polar bear evolved from the father’s mental illness name, Bipolar Disorder One of the nicknames can be regarded as the little girl's fairy tale interpretation of the cruel reality. This is the same as what the whole film does. The director is using a gentle and dreamlike vision to recall his miserable and warm childhood. Maybe many people have an imperfect father, sometimes as warm as a big bear, sometimes as irritable as a beast, but their parents will eventually get old. I hope everyone can give their father a warm bear hug.
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