The middle-aged man, played by the protagonist, Kevin, has a psychological lack of value for the passing of youth. Therefore, when he saw his daughter’s classmate cheerleader, he fancied that his youth had come back, looking for sustenance from the girl. Isn't this distorted and ordinary mentality a microcosm of many social phenomena nowadays? But the movie uses gentle and beautiful images to portray this absurd and distorted mentality. Kevin’s wife always complains about her husband, so she always thinks about making more money and repaying loans by her own efforts. In fact, there are full of credit card overdrafts, mortgages, installments to buy cars, sending children to aristocratic schools, etc. Under the economic pressure of the middle class, his wife is not wrong. Kevin is not wrong, he just wants to really enjoy life, but there are too many spiritual constraints in life. They haven't had sex for a long time, and they often have cold wars, ridicule and quarrel with each other. More often, Kevin chooses to shrink and pretend to obey his wife, because the traditional patriarchal image is missing in their family, and even his lonely only daughter complains about his father. Daughter Zhen is a typical girl with rich material life and empty spiritual life. She is introverted and sensitive and can't make a boyfriend. She complains about her parents and looks unhappy and cynical all day long. The new neighbor boy is also a quirk. She is obsessed with Jane, largely because he vaguely feels that there is something in common between the two families. The kid sells marijuana in private, but this is not the point. The point is that he has a mentally disturbed mother. And a stern and violent former admiral dad. So this young man who was once sent to a mental hospital is also very sad in nature.
After reading it, I couldn't help asking, what is it that makes their values fall apart and their spiritual homeland is like a dead bone?
Kevin, he wants to resist, resists desperately, even after discovering that his wife is having an affair with the real estate agent, he is excited that he can finally get a divorce justified. He also smokes young people's marijuana to find the joy of youth. Before he died, Kevin discovered that this home was not too bad. . . . . . . There are always many things that can be remedied, and their family is indeed, in fact, not too bad. Life is still good. Maybe it's not really a dead end. But it was too late.
Kevin's wife, she is actually an active woman, but the problem is that she is too independent and strong. She didn't realize that what her husband wanted was not more material, but spiritual comfort and communication in life. When feeling at odds with her husband, she admires successful real estate agents and finds sustenance on him. But when their cheating incident was exposed, Kevin’s wife herself was the least able to bear it. On the one hand, the intermediary was really just a lover for her, a temporary pastime, and did not want the cheating to be discovered by the separated wife, and was unwilling to pay a large amount of alimony. At this time, this guy revealed his despicable nature from his moral integrity. Money is supreme. There is no reason to ruin his reputation and cause trouble for the housewife of a half-old milf's problematic family. He immediately dumped Mrs. Kevin, and Mrs. Kevin finally realized that this is just a game of indulgence, and nothing can be changed at all. What makes her most unbearable is that the lover does not want her, the husband does not want her, and She always thinks about giving to the family, propping up a family, and trying to defend her image in front of her daughter and friends. She is the most hypocritical. She even had an affair earlier than her husband. How to face her daughter Xiaozhen like this? She wants to end this absurd life. . . . . She picked up the gun. . . . .
Xiaozhen is actually the kindest person. She doesn’t know anything about where the problem is. She only knows that her mother is busy all day long and is indifferent to her, but her father is muddled and unconscious, not like a manly father at all. . So she is lonely, lonely, can't find her boyfriend, and hangs out with Ahn'Qiraj all day, listening to her bragging about the erotic history.
Due to family reasons, the abnormal boy has a weird personality and a little mental disorder, and he sells marijuana privately. This character symbolizes the unconscious uneasy people in the current society. They look normal, but actually don't know when they will act boldly. From his perverted way of pursuing Xiaozhen, he got the other side's love, which makes us feel incredible and absurd. The film uses absurd and twisted black humor to satirize young people's indifference and lack of value due to their inner emptiness. Xiaozhen and the abnormal boy are like this, indifferent, indifferent to the family, but very concerned about their own feelings, always thinking that they are God.
Finally, let’s talk about the perverted boy’s father, a former colonel in the Marine Corps. He made it clear that he hates homosexuals and discriminates against homosexual neighbors in the community. Whenever he meets everyone, he emphasizes that he is a senior military veteran and has a respectable past. Be strict with yourself. He likes to collect firearms, and his collection library can't even be touched by his son. He has a tendency to violence. Why did he kiss Kevin in the garage and then go back and get a gun to kill him? I think this is the case. During the colonel's service, perhaps life in the barracks gave him a history of infringement, and he himself has distorted his values and his sexual consciousness. He is a homosexual. This heavy ideological burden was weighing down on his heart, and he tried his best to maintain his self-esteem, family reputation, and military dignity. Therefore, his secret cannot be known to anyone. But he didn’t know his son, who sold marijuana to Kevin, but he misunderstood that his son had followed in his footsteps in the past. The intense sexual repression hidden in his heart, his disappointment with his son, and
the hatred of bad neighbors are complicated. In one place. He really couldn't stand it anymore, he was about to collapse, but Kevin's refusal gave him another stab in his wounded heart. So in order to maintain his fragile spiritual home, he must kill this guy who destroyed his family and ruined his reputation.
The poor little man went inside without knowing it. He originally made the audience think that this home is not too bad, and there is still a lot to save. When there is room for salvation, he suddenly exploded like the dictation at the beginning of the film. .
Beauty comes in the cruelest way, as gorgeous as rose petals, and the bright red color is the most magnificent wound in this beautiful country. It is also a wound in each of us.
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