To be honest, I didn't really understand this movie. Of course, the content of the plot is very simple, without too complicated twists and turns. The scenes of the whole movie are frozen in the hostess's room, or smaller, condensed in front of a dining table. It's more like a drama. What I didn't quite understand was probably the impact of cultural differences. The highly intensive dialogue and jumping language made me feel like I was under a frantic bombardment.
The long shot at the beginning of the film took us through the streets and alleys of Paris, France, and printed out the protagonist couple in the play along with a wrong takeaway meal. This is a French comedy, a noisy family of children, using fast-spoken French to discuss family and social trivial matters and the problems of their own intimacy.
In the film, elder sister Elizabeth, brother-in-law Pierre and his wife appear as the protagonists to welcome the arrival of friend Claude, younger brother Vincent, and younger sister Anna.
Pierre is an intellectual, a professor in the school, and his wife Elizabeth is a teacher in the elementary school. The family is full of intellectual atmosphere. Crowder is the adopted son of Elizabeth's family. He grew up with his siblings. He is a viola player and has a romantic relationship with his sister Elizabeth.
After more than 20 minutes of the plot, his younger brother Vincent appeared. It is precisely because he introduced the source of the title-he was about to become a father when he was over forty years old, and everyone cared about his son's name. Vincent solemnly told everyone that he planned to name the child "Adolf", of course, the spelling is not the same spelling, which triggered the first fierce quarrel. The nerdy brother-in-law almost got angry.
Although Vincent later admitted that he was just joking, he planned to name the child after his father. But the resulting tension has caused a new round of disputes. It is this kind of quarrel that reveals the truth in everyone's heart: the wife is dissatisfied with the husband’s performance at home, the younger brothers and sisters have always looked down on the brother-in-law’s name for the children, and everyone misunderstands that Crowder is gay... all kinds of conflicts. , Constantly erupting in dispute after dispute. The climax of the conflict is when Claude breaks out the love between himself and Elizabeth's mother, who is also Claude's adoptive mother.
In just one night, the story of the life of five people is condensed. The seemingly close family, friendship, and love are in fact full of misunderstandings and conflicts. After such a intensive outbreak, everyone understood their own problems and the relationships around them. However, after the quarrel, it is a process of closer relationships and mutual understanding. In my opinion, it may also be a moderator of family intimacy.
The speed of speaking in English is already relatively fast, and French is even worse. Coupled with the rich body language of five people, when I review this movie, what comes to my mind is the messy scene in the movie.
But this kind of French humor is still my favorite, a relatively alternative and cold humorous comedy.
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