Frank is the youngest wanted criminal in the history of the FBI. His criminal methods are vast and his ability to disguise his identity is beyond ordinary people, leaving his criminal footprints almost everywhere in the United States. Disguised as a doctor, a lawyer, and a pilot, he was all his identities. Of course, Frank defrauded several million dollars with this "power". In the end, he was arrested by FBI agent Carl, and used his keen sense of economic crime to become the FBI's technical adviser to solve difficult fraud cases and served his sentence.
Frank, only 19 years old, has an enviable family. His father is a business elite and enjoys a good reputation, and his mother is a French woman with romantic feelings, glamorous. The loving parents made Frank feel very happy, but before long, Frank's father's store was investigated by the government for tax evasion. His reputation was discredited and his superior material life plummeted. The family moved out of the exquisite villa and could only succumb to the cramped and dark apartment. Frank also transferred from the original aristocratic high school to a regular school.
Frank always regards his father as his role model and admires his father very much. The father obviously loves his son very much. The strong father-son relationship is a clue throughout the film. My father wanted to make a comeback, but was restricted by the government and hit walls everywhere. Nevertheless, Frank always encouraged his father and never complained. But contrary to Frank's attitude, Frank's mother became anxious, and her romantic nature could not stand the rough life in a cramped apartment. Not only did she become addicted to cigarettes, she even cheated on Frank's father's lawyer and friends. After being ran into by Frank and seeing him cheating, the appearance of calmness that he deliberately maintained was finally broken, and a divorce agreement was placed in front of Frank, asking him to write on it whether he would follow his father or mother. The divorce of his parents was a huge blow to Frank. The happy family he had always been proud of was shattered. His father is about to become an unemployed single man. This is far from the people he once believed in. His beliefs It was crushed like this. He went to New York alone when he collapsed and embarked on his amazing liar journey.
In fact, the father is very proud of Frank. From one detail, it can be seen that the father dotes on his children very much. On the day Frank just transferred to a regular high school, in order to retaliate against a classmate who laughed at him, he pretended to be the French substitute teacher for that class. It was not until a week later that the school was discovered by the school and informed Frank's parents. After listening, the mother's face was obviously full of disappointment and anger, while the father and Frank looked at each other and smiled. Their relationship can be said to be like friends. This is also the first appearance of Frank's exquisite fraud technique. In order to regain the wealth of the family and make his parents as loving as before, Frank began to use his talent for fraud to carry out his extraordinary life.
After leaving home, he was in desperate need of money and aimed at the pilot’s high reputation and rich benefits, so he pretended to be a campus reporter and interviewed the president of Fanmei Airlines to learn about the details of the pilot. After that, he pretended to be a deputy. Division, began to imitate the pilot's salary checks. Later, he used his handsome appearance from a young lady teller who worked in a bank to apply a series of skills about bank making and distinguishing checks. His imitation technology is increasing day by day. During this period, he kept in touch with his father by writing letters. He told his father that he had become a pilot, and his father was obviously proud of him. After a period of time away from home, he finally came back to visit his father. At this time, he already had a considerable amount of savings because of counterfeiting checks. Although he always showed a mature and arrogant image to the outside world, when he saw his father, he was just a child who wanted to be praised by his father. He gave a Cadillac to his father and indicated that he already had a lot of money to rebuild their family, hoping to let his mother come back to them and return to the warm and happy days before them. But his father rejected the car he gave him and told Frank that his mother had never returned since moving out, and that his father had become more and more like an ordinary citizen, no longer as high-spirited as before.
Frank felt very painful, and his efforts seemed to be meaningless. My wealth and status did not bring joy to my father as I expected, nor did it bring the broken family back to good.
At the same time, Agent Carl began to take over Frank's case, and they even faced each other head-on again, but Carl was fooled by Frank and let him slip away from him. Feeling insulted, Carl started to investigate the case with all his strength, and even struggled alone in the office on Christmas Eve. Frank started to feel lonely. He didn't have anyone to talk about when he was alone on Christmas Eve. His life was all weaved with his own lies. He had no real friends. So he called Karl and told him where he was, hoping he could stop him. At this time Frank exposed his fragility and helplessness as a child. He has gradually tired of this false life. He even hoped that someone could stop himself, so he called Carl. He is more inclined to the role of a father, he has done something wrong, hoping to be stopped by his father. It's a pity that Karl thought Frank wanted to tease him again, so he let Frank slip away again.
He gradually got tired of the life of pretending to be a pilot. When he went to the hospital by chance, he suddenly wanted to be a doctor, so he forged a diploma and entered the hospital to become a doctor. And met the nurse Brenda in the hospital, he decided to marry Brenda. After defrauding Brenda's father, he switched careers to become a lawyer. I am very envious of the strong affection of the Brenda family. He wants to end his liar career and settle down. He met his father again, told his father that he was getting married, and wanted to invite his father and mother to attend his engagement ceremony. At this time Frank was still naively dreaming of reuniting his family, hoping to take this opportunity to ease the relationship between his father and mother. But his father told Frank that his mother had decided to remarry, and at this time his father had known his fraud, and his father still loved Frank as before. Frank hoped that his father could stop his deception, but his love for his son made his father speechless in the end, and Frank left disappointed. Then he called Carl and said he wanted Carl to stop the arrest. Carl was the only person Frank could talk to after his father, but at this time Frank had already lost more than $400 million in banking institutions due to forged checks. Carl said he must Will catch him. At Frank's engagement ceremony, Carl really appeared, and Frank had to start fleeing.
From the details of Frank's crime, Agent Carl gradually learned that Frank was just a child who longed for the warmth of the family. Carl, who had experienced a failed marriage, gradually developed pity for Frank. He no longer pursued Frank with the mentality of arresting criminals, but more like his father wanted to take his disobedient son home. That's why when he finally found Frank's hiding place, Karl just went there alone, and softly persuaded him. In the end, it was in Frank's mother's hometown where Carl captured Frank, and poor Frank just wanted to take a look at his mother for the last time. After seeing the warm family newly formed by his mother, Carl finally collapsed and was arrested obediently.
The whole film has been narrated around family and affection. The young Frank was unbearable that his originally happy and wealthy family was instantly torn apart, so he used his talent for fraud to swindle a fortune, naively thinking that he had brought the wealth to the family. You can make your home return to the original warm and happy home. Finally met a beloved girl who wanted to start a family of her own, but was eventually forced to separate from her because of her deeds. He fled to his mother's hometown, where Frank's parents met. From all the signs, we can see how much Frank is a child who longs for the warmth of the family. The broken family has led to his wrong life. Fortunately, Agent Carl's timely hunting has led to Frank's repeated mistakes. At this time, Carl also had pity for Frank, and admired Frank's intelligence very much, so he asked Frank to work as an FBI consultant agent, and he released Frank on bail and continued to serve his sentence at the FBI. Their relationship has surpassed the criminals and the police, and gradually replaced them with warm affection-like emotions. After the game is over, the cat and the mouse become real relatives.
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