The story told by the film begins with an accident. A pair of twin brothers, Rudy brother is reckless and arrogant, brother Jacob is timid and meek, and the fight between two groups of children in groups turned into a tragedy. The brother was burned to death in a tree. In the room. The younger brother Jacob often plays the role of a small attendant in front of his brother. The birthmark that covers half of his face makes him feel inferior and develops his introverted and cautious character. In the eyes of parents, clever and dexterous children are always the one they love the most. The parents of the twins are naturally not exempt, and the departure of their brother Rudy makes them distraught.
But from Jacob's point of view, he faced a dilemma: he bothered the death of his brother, and was jealous that Rudy would take away more love from his parents even after his death. As a result, he began to doubt his parents' love for him, and for the first time measured his position in the hearts of his parents. His mother let him down with tears, and his father patiently enlightened him. Jacob is Jacob, and we are very fortunate to have you. But such a promise did not dispel the child's doubts. For such a child who was already very introverted and inferior, it was undoubtedly the saddest thing to find that he could never surpass his brother, so he secretly vented his resentment on the two children of the same age who accidentally killed Rudy, and went to lessen the abuse. They promised to kill them personally after all.
For such a twelve-year-old child, his parents are all he has. In exchange for the most love from his parents, he can do any extreme things, including murder. He is full of thoughts to kill the two that his mother curses all day The murderer can replace Rudy, let the parents forget the pain of losing Rudy, leaving him alone in the eyes of the parents. Unfortunately, he is only a child. I don’t know that the love of the parents does not require a price. The pain of losing a child is only because Lost, not preference, when the parents decided to adopt a child, Jacob fell completely into the bottom. He desperately believed that his parents insisted on finding a substitute for Rudy, and he was destined to be the neglected one, and he began to want to escape. Once a child's obsession appears, it is often the beginning of a tragedy. It doesn't matter which is right or wrong. Everyone needs to have a thorny mental journey to grow up. After experiencing some crazy actions, the best result is to look back and be glad that he was not so lethal. For Jacob, he has learned hatred too early, and the infinite growth of hatred has made his immature mind unable to get a balanced vent. The consequences can only be two kinds, one is hand-bladed hatred, one hundred; second It is with the psychological burden that drags down the whole life, it is difficult to get on the right track in life. As for which way Jacob will go, the movie gives a clear answer, and at the same time it makes me sigh that children are really not easy.
The other two main characters in the film are also very interesting, one is the precocious girl Malee, and the other is the obese teenager Leonard. Malee is still a little girl with slender hands and feet, and a flat figure, but she is already longing for love and sex, always reminding herself that she likes mature men, not teenagers who hang out with her. Her admiration for mature men is also accompanied by rebellion and aversion to her mother, which in fact also shows the growth crisis of single mother girls. The little girl’s unilateral youthful fantasy and pretentious mature posture are very attractive, a bit sweet, a bit bitter, and finally ended with helplessness. The mother is forcibly taken home with a fierce quarrel, and the mother and daughter officially fall apart. It also allows people to clearly experience the cruelty of growth. However, based on the United States’ extreme respect for personal wishes and liberalism, Malee’s story can be seen as a process of self-awakening, which is also needed in the growth of every child, and in this tradition, parents take care of their children. The role of is only to guide, not to control and restrain, which is what I like very much.
As for Leonard, it is a good adjustment in this heavy-key movie. Leonard is an obese child with an obese family. His mother led the family to eat a variety of high-calorie and high-fat foods and was proud of his weight. As a gluttonous kid, Leonard is very happy, but as a junior high school student who just entered school, he felt his own difference for the first time, the ridicule of his classmates, and his sense of alienation made him feel scared. Fortunately, someone was very concerned. His teacher collected a lot of information about weight loss for him and inspired him with the expectation that he would join the team. As a result, Leonard began to use his own efforts to change the concept of the whole family, and even figured out the method of imprisonment to force his mother to lose weight. It can be said that Leonard's story is the most positive one. It uses a more humorous way to show the existence of resistance to the family, and also raises the possibility of communication and understanding between loved ones when facing major differences. Obviously, resistance is also a major aspect of growth. Although parents are parents, they are not authoritative after all. Although children are children, they may also have comprehensive correct guidance. The key is communication, so as to avoid accidents like gas poisoning in the film. .
All in all, this movie is really a good movie with a full script and clear thinking. It clearly expresses what it wants to express, and then at least it can make people think, move, remember, and feel bitter, if there is any. It's easy to laugh and shake Huigen's words. This should be considered a film with perfect scores.
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