A talented friend once said, "No one's childhood is happy." When he was refuted, he replied: "That is the happiness you think." Although this view is a bit extreme, But after watching the film "Survival through Cracks" (also translated as "Edge of Scissors", "Running with Scissors") adapted from the novel "Running with scissors" of the same name by Augustine Burrow, the point of view began to shift towards that friend, And the feeling that came up when watching "Father and Son" was reinforced again-in the child's world, parents are the masters and everything, they can let him live in a warm paradise, or they can drive him into a dark hell.
If I had to use one word to describe all the characters in "Survival", it would be a bunch of perverts. Poor Augustine (Joseph Krause) lives in a dysfunctional family, and his mother Tilde (Annette Bening), who has only published one book at her own expense, calls herself a famous poet. Childishly critical of the poetry of others, and occasionally teetering on the verge of insanity and collapse; father Norman (Alec Baldwin) disregards his wife-like son (who likes famous and shiny things), alcohol More important to him than his wife and children. Selfish, narcissistic and masochistic parents often sparred, hysterically, and sometimes even aggressively in front of Augustine.
Facing a family that is about to break up, Tilde, in a trance, turns to psychiatrist Finch (played by Brian Cox). Under Dr. Fan Qi's "Hickey" treatment, the Burrows divorced soon after, and Tilde "for better treatment" let their son live in Fan Qi's house, and later made his son Fan Qi's adopted son. As a result, Augustine, who already had "gay" tendencies, was completely exiled by his parents. Although he loved his mother very much, he was forced from one perverted family to another, even more perverted family.
The Fanci family is a combination of a lunatic asylum and a garbage dump: horror-movie-loving, dog-food-snack, raunchy Mrs. Fancie (Jill Kreberg); Hope (played by Gwyneth Paltrow), the eldest daughter Hope (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) who starved her pet cat under the laundry basket because she knew cat language; gave Augustine electric shock therapy, danced and painted dark circles as soon as they met. Rebellious young daughter Natalie (played by Evan Rachel Wood) in cool clothes; 35-year-old psychotic adopted son, gay, and violent extreme Neil Bookman (played by Joseph Fiennes)… ...
In such a chaotic home, Augustine's state of mind entered a bizarre journey. When he was 13 years old, he was seduced by Neil, and when he occasionally returned to his mother's house, he also witnessed his mother's same-sex love... He was afraid of going to school. In this regard, his adoptive father and doctor told him that the only way to not go to school was to commit suicide. Make people think he's suicidal in the school environment. Augustine tried and got out of school.
As a psychiatrist, Fan Qi is actually more perverted than anyone else and needs medical treatment more. He is not only tyrannical and authoritarian, but also greedily defrauds patients of medical insurance. The adopted son Neil said angrily: You took my parents' money, but I was still ill; Dr. Fanch asked Norman Burrow to call him directly for the treatment fee of his ex-wife Tilde; he also induced Tilde's treatment fee. Sexual orientation, he found another female patient to be her close lover; in the morning, he excitedly called the whole family to the toilet to see his feces, as if he had acquired a treasure. ...
In this eccentric home, Augustine and Natalie can be described as "congenial", they are both deeply hurt by strange families, and they both have dreams, Natasha wants to go to a good college, Augustine wants to be a hairdresser or a writer . They were also rebellious, either dancing like clockwork together, or standing at the dining table together and smashing the ceiling—because they wanted a higher roof—because they felt oppressed and breathless. For their "rebel masterpiece," Dr. Fanch indifferently thought "a new vision for the kitchen."
In addition to Natalie, the only one who can care for Augustine is Mrs. Fanci's Aini. When Aini first appeared, she looked like a creepy mental patient, but, in fact, she was the only "sober" person in the family. After Augustine left school due to "suicidal tendencies", Aini gave him a hairdressing book (Augustine loved hairdressing since he was a child, sometimes skipping class to help his mother get her hair, and his mother would call the teacher to ask for leave for him); When he was depressed and needed consolation, Aini made him what he wanted to eat (there was a dialogue in the previous episode, "Only mothers make food for children"); when Augustine finally planned to leave Fanqi's house, When he also left his mother completely and went to New York, Aini came to see him off, handed him his own savings, encouraged him to "write the first book and send it to me", and laughed: "I have always been in my life. Make the right investment." The reason why I say this is because Aini once made a failed "investment" - working hard for a doctor to read, but in exchange for such a life... In the
end, Augustine wrote an autobiography The best-selling novel "Running with scissors" has entered the Top 10 in the "New York Times" book sales list for 74 consecutive weeks. Without Aini's care, Augustine could see a ray of light in the barren land, then, perhaps, he could only become another surly "senior adopted son" Neil.
In 2006, as if it was a year when the screen director turned brilliantly on the screen, HBO ace director Alan Coulter started shooting "Hollywood Manor", which reflected the famous old mystery. He directed the educational case "Survival through Cracks" with practical significance.
Annette Bening, who plays Tilde, the mother of a nervous breakdown, always wanted to rush forward to save the poor child Augustine when she was watching the film as an audience, just like I was watching the film. "Survival through Cracks" is like a tragic legend of childhood, and it is precisely because of its authenticity, extremeness and cruelty that people, especially parents, fall into thinking about family, environment, parents, children, character, education, A series of problems such as friends and precociousness are placed in the most basic and important position. What should I do? A responsible person might be able to sense something from it. Although "not everyone's childhood is happy", as long as they are willing, they can still make children's childhood a little more happy.
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