Looking at "Road to Destruction" from a Psychological Perspective: Moisturizing the silent father-son relationship

Al 2022-03-21 09:01:28

In fact, before I didn't understand psychology, I really didn't understand where is the father-son relationship in this film?
Isn't love just a lot of tears? Lots of expressions? Even a lot of regrets and misses? Much irreparable?

Until I know how men get along, a large part of men socialize, don't use words to get to know each other, they watch football together, watch TV with some junk food, learn by doing, build links in doing is a large part of men Ways to build social. This way is almost impossible for women, and it is not possible to express feelings in this way in many romance dramas.

And part of the father-son relationship is built together in outings. They watch sports games together, visit museums together, play poker, play chess, watch TV, go fishing, and don’t talk much for hours. The common theme of these activities is, Boys do something with their buddies instead of talking about it or sharing how it feels about it.

So, this father and son did one thing together: revenge.
A big man took it to the little man, took him as a man, ran away, taught him to save his life, and taught him to assist his father in killing. Sallivan doesn't have time to comfort his son in a mother's way, and he doesn't have time to take care of his child's feelings. These are things that women are more likely to do. He wants to survive, he wants to fight back. These are all in line with a man's instinct.

From a psychological point of view, the baby will think that he and the mother are one, and the father more often needs the child to gradually accept it. And a father who is not good at expressing love will slow down the process. So a mother hitting a child feels completely different from a dad hitting a child. The former children will think that they are beaten by their own people, while the latter will make the children feel that they have been beaten by outside authorities. Little Sallivan is alienated from his father at the beginning of the film (in his father's occupation and personality), and is closer to his mother on a psychological level. After the death of his mother, the bond between him and his father quickly became inseparable, and he was quickly forced to become a man.

The hearts of the two men were tied together in the bloody storm.
A silent father who does not accept his profession, when his son comes to him with nightmares, he asks like an adult: Do you want to talk to me? The son said that he did not like mathematics, and the father asked: What subject do you like? (with an unnatural expression, not used to warmth).

A skilled killer, a father unskilled in expressing love.

I was wondering how Sallivan didn't have revenge, so what would they do? How will the son miss his father? Whether it will be with hatred: because it was the father and himself who killed the mother and brother, and the father could not choose revenge. Do you still know what kind of person your father is?

After all, Sallivan chose revenge, and his fate was pushed in the predetermined direction. When little Sallivan recalled his father again, he would think of the rain, the gunshots, and finally his father became icy cold with relief in the sound of the turbulent sea.

So he was heartbroken every time he thought about it. All viewers can see this picture, but I can't imagine how many times it will ache in the child's heart.

The road to destruction may have gone to destruction when Sallivan chose to be a killer.

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Road to Perdition quotes

  • Maguire: Smile.

  • [last lines]

    Michael Sullivan, Jr.: I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.