The soul of this film lies in Raymond, but its main line is the change of Charlie.
At the beginning of the film, the spirited Charlie bought four Lamborghini shots. Then Charlie's Lamborghini business encountered difficulties. He irritably called to deal with the problem. After the phone call, he returned to the spring breeze, and went out for a drive with enigmatic confidence in this business. On the drive, the quarrel between him and his girlfriend can also be seen in his mentality: a little frustrated, and a little nonchalant.
He was a little stunned when he heard the news of his father's death, but he still used his nonchalant to cover up the past.
After all, his relationship with his father broke down when he was in high school, and he has not returned a call from his father since he ran away from home, and he has not returned home to see him once. They lost each other.
But when he heard that the lawyer said that his father's 3 million assets were left to a trust fund kept secret by the beneficiaries, he was finally frustrated again.
He tried his best to find the beneficiaries of the trust, and accidentally discovered that he also had a brother, Raymond, a brother with autism.
At first, he repeats anxiously and non-stop: "Why didn't anyone tell me I have a brother?" Then he looked at Raymond and his things with a funny mood, he planned to take Raymond away to get half of his father's inheritance. , He yelled at him loudly and impatiently when Raymond was causing him trouble.
At this time, he was still a irritable and irritable young man who was full of money and profit, did not respect Raymond, did not feel family affection.
Then Charlie took Raymond all the way from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. I think this section is a beautiful road movie.
There were various interactions between the two people on the road: Raymond was loyal to his own set of living habits. Once these routines were broken, he would feel intensely uneasy, and would fiercely resist-either nagging or screaming; while Charlie Is constantly coping with all kinds of emergencies brought by my brother, or coaxing my brother, or yelling at him violently, or cursing and compromising with my brother's stubbornness, and constantly answering and calling, and on the phone Hearing that he was bankrupt, the sound of exhaustion and frustration alternated.
During this journey, the first obvious turning point in the relationship between the two people was to chat about the past in a small hotel. When Charlie overheard Raymond talking about rain man, he realized that his imaginary playmate who grew up with him and sang to himself, is his brother Raymond. Raymond still remembers many things from the past: Charlie’s birthday, the day his mother left, the day he was sent away, and even when he saw the hot water, he broke down and shouted: "The hot water scalds the baby!"-he is more than just that. Remembering the past, these past events are deeply imprinted on his heart, and the impact on him has not diminished even after so many years.
I can even imagine the situation in this family at the time: The Sanfords gave birth to their autistic son Raymond. Until Raymond reached adulthood, his autism did not alleviate. The couple have been eager to have a healthy child, Sanford has been looking forward to the birth of Charlie until his forties. Charlie rekindled hope for the family. It is conceivable that this family should have such a baby, including Raymond. However, his father felt that the insufficient Raymond would hurt Charlie, so he had to send Raymond away.
Although he has been away from the family for many years, Raymond remembers and treasures everything about the family. Although he lives in his own world, he is still full of longing for family affection. I guess his degree of autism may have increased after he left home, because Vern, the guard who has accompanied Raymond for many years, said that even if I leave him, he will not be aware of it. He doesn’t pay much attention to people—I guess After he was sent away, he closed himself tighter and reduced his attention to the people around him. After all, in this way, the pain of abandonment can be alleviated.
I think their father Sanford is also a helpless person. In order to protect his younger son, Sanford reluctantly sent his eldest son away, but the younger son had a conflict with himself during adolescence, and there was no news of running away from home for so many years, which made him tantamount to losing this son. And the eldest son he sent away personally made him suffer from guilt. During the years when the younger son abandoned him, he slowly transferred his love and hope to the older son. He goes to see the elder son every weekend, asks the eldest son to drive the car that he will not let the younger son touch, and sends books to the eldest son, and writes on the title page of the book: My favorite hope.
Raymond entrusted his father Sanford's love, hope, and guilt, so it is not difficult to understand that Sanford left all his 3 million inheritance to Raymond.
When Charlie knew that Raymond was the rain man, his heart was shaken. This may be the first time he clearly perceives that they are two brothers connected by blood. They have a certain connection in their hearts, which has never been cut off, it is just him. Never noticed.
But Charlie didn't have time to react more, and the news of his bankruptcy almost crushed him.
At this time, the elder brother saved the younger brother again. Raymond's amazing memory and arithmetic ability made them both invincible in the casino, winning back enough money to pay their debts in one night.
Debt-free and lighthearted, Charlie began to get closer to and understand his brother more, taught him to dance, encouraged him to go on dates, and even gave him a hug when his brother learned to dance—even though Raymond reacted fiercely to this hug. Rejected. Charlie, who was rejected, felt deeply lost.
At this point, he is no longer a young man who only thinks about money and benefits. He is Raymond's relative and his younger brother. Raymond not only helped him with the debt issue, but also helped him experience the feeling of family again, awakening a certain emotion that had been sleeping in him for a long time, and let him fade away from the careless frivolous air.
This is Raymond using his pure heart to pull back Charlie's heart that has been numb in the chaos and trivial matters for a long time. It is a kind of rescue from family love.
So after returning to Los Angeles, the doctor in charge of the estate trust gave Charlie a check for 250,000, asking him to give up fighting for Raymond's care rights. Charlie refused without hesitation. I can feel the look of Tom's contempt at the other party when he turned around, and the interpretation was delicate enough.
In this paragraph, Charlie asked the sentence over and over again, why no one told me that I have an older brother.
A week ago, when Charlie first knew about Raymond's existence, he asked these words over and over again because he was so annoyed that he killed an unheard brother halfway and competed with him for his father's inheritance.
But now, he repeats this sentence over and over again, it is heartache that he has not met his brother earlier and has not been able to spend more time with him.
As Charlie himself said, this matter has nothing to do with money so far. He understands how unfilial he has done to his father in the past few years, and he has to fight to the end in order to accompany his brother in his future life.
On the morning of meeting with the psychological assessor, Raymond, in panic, spelled out the name of his original caregiver in Cincinnati: Vern. But when Charlie took Raymond to eat muffins later, it was obvious that the two people had established a tacit understanding. This tacit understanding was also reflected in the conversation with the psychological assessor-Raymond only heard Charlie's instructions, only Charlie Can accurately perceive Raymond's mood, and can't bear to see the psychological assessor embarrass his brother.
But the psychological assessor couldn't see this. He finally decided that Raymond should return to the original place instead of living with Charlie.
Charlie accepted this reality, and when he walked to Raymond to say goodbye, Raymond took the initiative to put his head on Charlie's head and asked Charlie to kiss his forehead—knowing how much Raymond resisted physical contact. At this moment, Raymond suddenly spelled out Charlie's name, just as he used to spell the name of the former caregiver Vern when he was upset-it can be seen in Raymond's heart that Charlie has been identified as the new caregiver, and he is for the upcoming Respectively feel vaguely disturbed.
But the seemingly authoritative psychological assessment could not hear the changes in Raymond's heart.
Raymond still couldn't stay by Charlie's side, but he had already given his brother a precious gift-a saved heart.
The fragile and innocent Raymond, the star left on the earth, I think that with the love of my younger brother, he will not be so lonely in the rest of his life.
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