"One, two, three" When Joe finished the countdown and pressed the shutter, the photo did not freeze. The family of three sitting in front of the camera looked like all families. If we look closely, we will find that in front of the camera It's a father with a blank face but tears in his eyes, a child trying to keep the corners of his mouth up, and a mother trying to smile but suddenly sad. The film "Wild Life" ended in such a silent situation.
"Marriage is like a besieged city. People outside the city want to come in, and people in the city want to go out." This is a phrase we are all familiar with. But in real life, "entering the city" is easy, but "getting out of the city" is difficult, because there is one more product that can be born in the siege of marriage, that is, children. The film "Wild Life" is from a child's point of view, to show a story of a besieged city collapsing silently.
At the beginning of the movie, what we see is a typical American family, the father works hard, the son studies seriously, and the mother is full-time at home with her husband and children, very happy. Then, the father lost his job, but even so, the mother did not feel the slightest irritation, but encouraged the father to find a job. However, the picture of happiness doesn't stop there. What we see next is how the family gradually broke down in peace, and finally fell apart in silence.
The film "Wild Life" is not "wild" at all. The whole film is extraordinarily calm against the beautiful scenery of Montana, but it is also a metaphor for the family in the film in a sense. , It seems calm and beautiful, but there is a crazy fire burning.
When I was in elementary school, I would sing Ren Xianqi's "The Heart Is Too Soft", but at that time it was just because the melody was simple and I didn't know the lyrics very well. However, with age, awareness of the lyrics in the song also increased. "Love is always easy, getting along is too difficult", this sentence is simply the truth of the universe. It is very simple for two people, a man and a woman, to fall in love. As long as there is a common language and the right opportunity, biological instinct will let two people live together. Together, but when the passion is over, especially after two people form a family, when they start to face each other every day, they will find more and more problems. Although these problems are basically not big things, but every time they appear, they are like Take a brick from under the besieged city, and when the bricks under the city wall have been pumped clean over time, the wall will collapse instantly.
The family in this movie is like this. Jerry, the husband, and Janet, the mother, seem to be loving and loving, but in fact, we can vaguely hear the potential of this family from the conversation between Janet and the school teacher. contradiction. The husband keeps moving from one state to another for his own comfort, while the wife can only choose to obey and follow her husband again and again. We all know that running a family is actually the same as running a business. It requires constant mutual tolerance and compromise between two people. The foundations of the family will be shaken, and in most cases, the family will eventually break down.
When this film shows the breakdown of Jerry's family, it is not shown through the perspective of water and fire between Jerry and Janet, but through the perspective of the third person in the family, the child Joe. In ordinary movies, children from such families are usually either hysterical or depressed, but Joe is a very normal child. As a 14-year-old boy, looking at things between parents from his perspective, It was always a confused attitude. He didn't understand why his father insisted on becoming a firefighter, why his mother was so close to the old man, why his father didn't call back, and why his mother cried alone, he only Will ask again and again: "Do you still love Dad?" In fact, the confusion in the eyes of the child reflects the confusion in the parents' hearts.
Does Jerry really want to be a firefighter and put out terrible wildfires? No, not at all, he just didn't know how to deal with this family, this family that became increasingly strapped because of his own willfulness, so he chose to escape, it seems that after escaping for a while and then coming back, the family will return to its original state. look. But when he got home, everything just got worse.
Did Janet really want to cheat and marry a rich man? No, not at all, she was just tired of the mask of a good wife who was always trying to please her husband, a family that she had been giving, always compromising, but received no response at all. It seems that cheating can help you find yourself young, attractive, and a free woman. But when she really cheated, she found that this kind of stimulation was not the life she wanted.
" One person can live in poverty, but two people will have resentment. " This sentence can be said to be very appropriate in this movie. If Jerry hadn't lost his job, the family might have gone down the same model route. But once the source of income is lost, the contradictions that are carefully hidden by everyone on weekdays are highlighted. This is like the wildfire in Montana in the film. Everyone knows it, but no one will actively touch it. When it burns around you, you will realize how much the explosion is burning. horrible.
And in this movie, there is also a detail, that is, the president's speech that often floats on the radio and TV, that distant voice has been repeating "This is a dangerous, difficult and serious time, but I believe we must will be strong again." In fact, these words, like the wildfires in Montana, sounded out of reach, but when Jerry couldn't find a job, he found himself in these difficult times.
In fact, unemployment, wildfires and the recession of the general environment in the film are almost the same thing, repeatedly but not intensely scorching this fragile family, and finally burnt out cracks in the calm. Together with Joe, we witnessed the breakdown of a family. In the end, although he knew everything was irreversible, Joe still pulled his parents together and took a family photo. From the expressions of the three people in the last family photo, we can see that the parents have long since abandoned the family in their hearts, and only the child is still trying to protect the "home" with an illusion, which makes people's eyes moist.
In the past two years, the general environment has been obviously not good. In fact, the situation in reality has many similarities with the United States in 1960 in the film, so I think this film also has a certain reference value for us. Under the difficult circumstances of the world, we should hold the last line of defense of the family. Now that we have come together, we must tolerate and understand each other, and jointly resist the "wild fire" outside, instead of being scorched by the "wild fire". First cut a slit in the wall.
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