Matt is a lawyer and also inherits the family land. He is a man who is busy with business and is gradually estranged from his family. He seems to have left the family, but all this is broken by his wife's accident. Everything in the family fell on his shoulders, the two rebellious daughters, the derailment of his wife, the disappearance of the family estate. It was only then that he suddenly realized the importance of family. Money alone cannot give people happiness. It turned out that his wife and daughter lived in such an unhappy life. When he learned of his wife's cheating, he was so furious, but after struggling, he still respected his beloved wife, which is also a reflection of American family culture. Then the doctor announced that his wife was about to die. Matt had to bear it strong. The eldest daughter sank to the bottom of the pool to cover up the unbearable pain, and the younger daughter was overwhelmed. This is the real life. Most of the film is about Matt taking his daughter to find the object of his wife's affair, he's not trying to beat him or anything, he's just: "I just want to see him." He wants him to go to his wife's At the funeral, she wanted her to say goodbye to the last man in her life. Coincidentally, that man was the real estate developer who was about to buy their family's land. Such tolerance is based on love and respect for his wife, a man's letting go of past events.
The affectionate kiss when saying goodbye to his wife at the end: "Goodbye, Elizabeth. Goodbye, my love, my friend, my pain, my joy. Goodbye...", showing the complicated emotions of his love-hate entanglement towards his wife very well . Goodbye, Elizabeth. Goodbye, my love, my friend, you are the source of my pain and the source of my joy. Goodbye.. he let her go.
When he and his daughter looked at the land that was about to be lost from the top of the slope, he said that he had never given any effort to their land. He had always thought that it was their legacy that would not go away until it was really lost. As if he had woken up from a dream, what he thought was the meaning of life before—career, turned out not to be the meaning of life, but his family, the land of his ancestors, and his roots. He failed to keep his wife, but he was able to keep their land before it was too late. In the end, Matt made a decision contrary to the wishes of his cousin. Instead of selling the ancestral land to the developer, he would use his last efforts to treat the land as a descendant.
This is the true meaning of descendants, persistence and tolerance for family, family, and beliefs.
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