Text | Li Zijin
A family of five, in "Everything is Good", tells about the problems of Chinese-style families:
Preference for sons over daughters, gnawing at the old, supporting parents, distribution of property...
What will happen to the same family of five in France?
"The First Day of the Rest of Your Life"
It is a family comedy film by the famous French director Remy Bezanson in 2008, which tells the life of a French family of five.
The family has father Robert, who lights his daughter's cigarettes, and mother Mary, who dances with the jazz;
The elder brother Albert who protects the younger sister from bullying, and the beautiful and procrastinating second brother Raphael;
There is also a rebellious little sister Flor who is pampered and arrogant.
This seemingly harmonious family actually hides various contradictions.
As the camera cuts in, the complex and entangled emotions in the family are nuanced.
" I'm leaving before Flor wakes up,
I don't want her to see this scene, it's my dog, it's up to me. "
Albert said.
At the beginning of the chapter, we saw the big brother's concern for the little sister, which was warm.
The pet dog Julis, who accompanied them throughout their childhood, came to the end of his life.
The departure of Julius made Flor feel that their family would never return to the past.
They are also about to usher in the first day of the rest of their lives.
Albert was the first to leave.
Entering his junior year and going out for an internship, Albert also left home and began to live independently.
Regarding Albert's independence, Mary felt:
" I lost a child today and you'll all leave one by one and I'll be left alone.
Standing alone in the house is boring to death. So I decided to go back to the classroom and go to college. "
Seeing this, we have to sigh with emotion, the enlightenment and independence of French parents.
This day is the first day of the rest of Albert's life and the first day of the rest of Mary's life.
Raphael, a sloppy young man who doesn't care about everything, is actually the last to realize, the first day of the rest of his life.
Years later, before Albert got married, he suddenly remembered the girl he had met when he was participating in "Free Guitar".
Unfortunately, many years later, the girl on the other end of the phone is no longer the same.
Rafael is actually lucky, he has a dad who can talk to him about freehand guitar, and a grandpa who teaches him wine tasting.
However, his naturally rambunctious character made Rafael immersed in his own life all the time, and the problems between his family members seemed to have nothing to do with him.
It also resembles most of us in our lives.
Although the last one to leave home, Flor realized the first day of the rest of his life on his 16th birthday.
On that day, she slept with her boyfriend.
This set of shots is very French romantic - at the moment of closing the door, Flor saw yesterday's innocent self standing timidly at the door, and she closed the room with a cruel sigh The door, and then blood spilled out from under the crack of the door, little Flor backed away in fear at first, and finally raised the corner of his eyes, turned his head and walked away.
However, Flor forgot the scarf at her boyfriend's house afterwards. It was knitted for her by her mother herself, so she called to ask for it, but was ridiculed by her boyfriend.
The aggrieved Flor heard the argument between his father and his grandfather at dinner, and finally broke out. He went back to the room crying. Albert, who found that his sister was wrong, asked the reason, and took Flor to the boy's house to teach him a lesson. for a while.
When she returned, she wrote "This is the first day of the rest of my life" in her diary.
For Robert, the last day of the rest of his life began a long time ago.
"The best gift is watching a child grow up," he said .
Human life is limited, the day we are born is the first day of the rest of our lives. It just depends on when you realize it.
But realizing the first day of the rest of his life, the contradiction still exists.
As the youngest in the family, Flor went farther and farther on the road of rebellion. From lovelorn to abortion, he never said a word to his family.
All this seems to be because the family cares too little for her, and the contradiction between her and her mother is also accumulating deeper and deeper in the trivial life.
On the day of Albert's wedding, which was also the day of Albert's grandfather's death, the years of conflict between Albert and Robert broke out in an instant.
Of course, in the end, at a certain point in time, the family reconciled, because of the bond of love, this is life.
someone said:
From birth, they love each other, hate each other, curse each other, rebel, quarrel, run away, and never see each other.
Then, still out of love, they looked at each other again and smiled.
The film is a nuanced account of the complex, entangled emotions in the family that make you miserable and lift you up.
My father said that the best gift is watching you grow up.
Everyone knows how much love and pain there is behind this, but this is life.
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