"Kapoor and the Sons" tells a story of mistakes and forgiveness.
Show all your good qualities to outsiders.
But he left the worst side to his family.
sometimes.
The mistakes of our loved ones are more difficult for us to forgive than outsiders.
Grandpa Kapoor is an old urchin.
Coming soon to his 90th birthday.
His favorite thing to do is play dead.
The family also went from panic at first to subsequent numbness
this day.
Grandpa fainted again.
The family thought it was just a joke.
Unexpectedly, this time Grandpa really fainted.
Grandpa was hospitalized with a heart attack.
His son and daughter-in-law hurriedly called their two sons back to China.
The eldest son settled in London.
is a successful writer.
The younger son lives in the United States.
Working part-time in a bar, I've been working hard to become a writer.
The two have different achievements.
differences in parental attitudes.
back home.
My brother's room was spotless.
His favorite cigarette was still in the drawer.
My brother's room was full of clutter.
This difference made the younger brother feel dissatisfied.
in hospital.
Grandpa expressed his wish.
Hope to have a family portrait.
A seemingly simple wish.
It is difficult to implement.
A seemingly harmonious family.
In fact, undercurrents are surging.
Parents quarrel whenever they disagree.
Mom has always wanted to open a restaurant.
Dad was vehemently opposed.
Mom always thought Dad was having an affair.
The younger brother felt that his older brother's best-selling novel was plagiarizing his idea.
There has always been a gap in my heart.
Several characters in the family show different dilemmas: the younger son is facing adversity in his work and career. He has always wanted to become a writer, but he has never been able to. The novel he once conceived was first published by his older brother. He never said anything about it; and his brother is a best-selling author and the family's darling, but in the end, his mother broke the truth that he was gay; his father worked hard for half his life to maintain the family, but he never cut off an extramarital affair; his mother seemed to She devoted her life to her family, but she finally learned that it was her eldest son who revealed her younger son's novel idea to her eldest son, just because of partiality.
In addition to this, the role of grandpa seems to be more interesting, everything started because of him, but in the end, he has always been the most detached, he is more like an observer, a mirror. He was integrated into this group of people, but it was more like a detached top-down perspective, watching everything become chaotic while present, and then compromised and understood each other. If there is any predicament facing the old man, it is life and death. This naughty and cheerful old man rehearsed the appearance of his own death again and again, which was amusing and, to a certain extent, also made himself accept the coming end.
Everyone in the family is chaotic, only the old man is clear, everyone is groping forward in the confusion of life, but the old man is penetrating. This movie uses some ingenious details to secretly reflect the reality of life's imperfections. The family portrait that the old man was thinking about. The first time, everyone broke up because of a quarrel. The second time, it was finally made, but the male protagonist Can only be replaced with a poster back - he died in a car accident after an argument.
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