Last week I went to see the spot screen with my cousin. She cried before she saw the end (I didn't cry). The story is very warm on the whole. On the surface, it talks about the relationship between father and son, but it actually implies the wisdom of life. The phrase "I won't let your son beat my son" appeared twice, each time it was hammered in my heart.
This is a story about three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, extracting a universal social problem in the lives of ordinary people-what is love, anyway? What is filial piety? How should we treat the empty-nest elderly and how they should live.
The "I" in the movie is Dadley, a 102-year-old rebellious old man who loves life and is full of energy. He travels the world with his bare hands and has the unrestrained energy of young people. "My son" is 75-year-old Babu. He is a bit boring, because he is afraid of getting sick, he checks his body every day, and because he is afraid of forgetting things, he even needs a sticker on the door to remind himself to turn off the water heater. He entered a dead end where he was afraid of death but was waiting for death.
The first half of the story has a bold and interesting setting. At the beginning, a bomb was dropped on the audience-Dad is going to send his son to a nursing home! This is a bit too new. It can be posted on the social news page in China. Therefore, in order to continue to live at home, Bab had to sign an unequal treaty with Dartley and cooperate with his father to complete the task.
In fact, it is not strange to look at Babu's life alone. Because many empty-nest old people are like him, they have no children to accompany them and can only take care of themselves; they have no curiosity about the world, but are willing to go to familiar places; they are not willing to let go of the old things, as if they can live in the good memories of the past. . And this kind of numb, lifeless life, what is the difference between living a day and living ten years?
People say that you have to struggle, work hard, and cherish your life when you are young.
Therefore, the 102-year-old dad wants to pry open the sealed shell of Babu little by little, hoping that his son will see the beauty of life, see the sunshine, smell the fragrance, and let him know that as long as he finds out more, there will be something. New harvest.
But Babu didn’t understand at first. He was forced to accept “reform”. The first two times he was angry and aggrieved. Whether it was writing a love letter to his deceased wife Chandrika, or cutting off his favorite old blanket, he did everything. A little reluctant. Not reluctant to write a love letter, but not knowing how to write it. What's more amusing is to complain about his father's "authoritarian" and "arrogant" in the love letter.
Of course, what shocked Babu the most was that the last task his father left him was "When your ungrateful son comes back and knocks at the door, you will let him get out." But for Babu, this is The most difficult thing.
This also opened the second half of the demystification link. Why does the father have to make the son change? Why would he say such rude words to his grandson? And what is the final choice for Babu?
Through the narrative, we know that Amo is the only son of Babu. He went to the United States 30 years ago and has not returned since. According to Dartley’s description, he is a selfish bastard who only asks for money from his family when he is in trouble, but always uses different excuses to make his life better, and he hopes that Babu understands, the sentence "I hope you understand "It's the best portrayal.
The most chilling thing is that Chandrika slowly forgets everyone because of his illness, but only remembers his only son far overseas. She took the photo and stroked it over and over again, just wanting to see her own Amo before she died.
At first I thought that Babu was really kidnapped by this family. He loves his son deeply, begging for alms like a beggar. Even if you know that the other party is a bastard, but blood is thicker than water, you can't give it up anyway.
Therefore, he used his own way to fight against Dartley and would never agree to complete the last task. But when he learned why his father wanted to "reform", he was ashamed, shocked, and unable to hold on to himself. He and Amo are fathers and sons. How could they be different from Dartley. Comparing their hearts, suddenly realized that children are the weakness of parents, and past complaints, anger, and quarrels are also another kind of "jerk" performance!
At this point, we understand that the director is using a perhaps a little old-fashioned reason to stimulate the life of his 75-year-old son, which is like illuminating his life dimmed by the loss of his wife and son.
The final climax, of course, was that Babu rekindled his enthusiasm for life. He no longer lived around his son's family and began to create his own happy life. And Dartley did fulfill his wish of "I won't let your son beat my son".
The uniqueness of Indian movies lies here. There is always a crying and laughing story to bring out the social topics that everyone pays attention to, whether it is "Wrestle, Dad!" The status of women in "" is still the educational resources and the gap between the rich and the poor in "Starting Line". It seems that every movie is firmly touching a problem. Maybe I didn't get a certain answer because of this, but it is also the value of the film that more people start to pay attention and think. And in "Dad 102 Years Old", there is no shortage of empty nest elderly and only-child family problems that will arise around us. It is also an opportunity to guide the public to discuss and face up.
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