After her mother, Hui, fled with the robber who kidnapped her, she said this to the robber: "There is only such a person in this world, isn't that all we can trust?" This sentence clearly shows Hui's experience. Psychological changes after a series of incidents, such as son's military service and husband's unemployment. In the first half of the film, we can see that Hui regards her husband Long Ping as the pillar of the family, is frightened about whether Long Ping lost his job, and is obedient in family life, trying to maintain Long Ping's father's authority as much as possible, although sometimes I am not satisfied with the way Long Ping gets along with the children, but he will never directly object. But Longping's incompetent performance did not give Hui's expectations positive feedback. He lost his job and failed to find a job again. He was reduced to the level of receiving relief, but he still had to show his strength in front of his family and maintain the authority and dignity of the male host. In the film, after Longping pretended to be with his boss and went home, Hui lay tiredly on the sofa, closed his eyes and said to Longping, "Pull me", but when he opened his eyes, Longping had already walked away, and Hui muttered in disappointment. "Who can give me a hand". This plot condenses Hui's lack of confidence in her future life, and her disappointment at her husband Long Ping's failure to give her confidence. Finally, when she saw that Long Ping was working as a cleaner without telling himself, Hui made up his mind to "run away". At the beach, Hui discovers that the kidnapper who looks fierce and desperate is also a weak and incompetent guy, which further contributes to her disappointment with men. Hui thought it was the light of the stars on the seaside, but finally disappeared for no reason. She cried bitterly at the seaside. After one night, she also determined that she can only rely on her own ideas in her future life. Instead of pinning her hopes on others, Megumi went home peacefully and faced life.
The second son, Kenji, "runs away" from home and school. He had a big conflict with his father because of the piano lessons. Taking food expenses to learn the piano is the beginning and omen of Kenji's "split" in this family. Before having the biggest dispute with his father Yong Ping, Long Ping said that he hated Kenji's despicable attitude of "keep it a secret from his family and think he won't be found out". During the dispute, Kenji said, "Dad loves to lie." In fact, Long Ping scolded the children for "hiding the family" on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also hid the family, in order to maintain the "dignity" of men at home. Here Kenji directly expresses his distrust of his parents, and he is gradually reluctant to entrust his destiny to such a father. The same is true at school. Indiscriminate teachers teach students at will, and establish their dignity as adults, but they lose face when Kenji finds out reading pornographic cartoons. After experiencing hypocrisy at home and school, Kenji leaves home. When he was caught at the police station for evading fares, the police saw him as a child and asked him to say "school" or "address", and then he could leave, but Kenji still refused to say it, which showed that he no longer wanted to give himself to others. Disappointed school or family. In the end, the police decided to use the "adult" method to solve the problem. Therefore, Kenji, who made a mistake, did not let other adults protect him this time, and took the responsibility himself, which instead changed his outlook on life.
Father Long Ping is actually the same. Although he is the backbone of the family, he places too much importance on his so-called "dignity", so he places the value of life on the views of his family, so he does not face life calmly, and has a series of series with his family. contradiction. In the end, his "fleeing" action originated from "chasing" his wife Hui, but ended in "fall". At this point he asked himself painfully "how to start over". In the end, he chose to hand over the money he picked up in the toilet, and for the first time, he returned home calmly in a cleaner's uniform instead of a suit and tie, and faced his wife and children with a real image. This shows that he also put down his vain "dignity", chose a down-to-earth and decent lifestyle, chose to face himself, and relied on his own efforts to win his self-esteem as a husband and a father.
The eldest son, Gui, said in his letter to stay in "this country" (a Middle Eastern country). But I think the same, he extended the sustenance of value from the relationship of "self-family" to the relationship of the state. At first, you thought that Japan was relying on the United States for development, and the Japanese depended on Americans to live. Therefore, joining the American army was the way to protect their family in Japan, and there was a blind worship of the United States. But in the end, Gui Zai, who experienced the war, admitted in the letter, "It's not just the United States that is right, I want to stay here." It seems that he has also woken up from his confidence in the United States, has his own judgments and opinions, and is sure of himself. s Choice.
In the end, the family of three, except Taka, walked out of the hall together after Kenji played the sonata. Their steps make me feel that the family has become stronger and more connected, but precisely because they are no longer dependent on each other, more distant and independent in spirit. This made them choose "return" from "fleeing".
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