The story is not as easy as I thought. The title begins with JAKE's fiancee's funeral, and he has been quietly and obediently accompanying her parents, like a family sharing the grief. In fact, 3 days before the fiancee died unexpectedly, they had already broken up, and there would be no wedding. The director gave a lot of space to describe the couple who experienced the pain of losing their daughter, sadness, loss, loss of the meaning of life, but also mutual dependence. On top of this, she also has to face the self-blame that her daughter had lost her love before her death but no one told her. The feelings of JAKE and a girl in the town's post office are also inserted in the middle. But the most important thing I think, what this nearly two-hour film wants to say, is that only by facing the real situation can the heart find the feeling of coming home. JAKE knew that the relationship was over 6 months before the breakup, and he had no interest in the real estate business at his fiancee's house. After falling in love with the post office girl, he was too late to let others know. In court, in order to get the judge's sympathy, the lawyer made him pretend to be a man who lost his love and was heartbroken, just like he finally couldn't help saying "I think her spiritual power has appeared again, I don't want to continue to cover up this. Everything, while that would be comforting to most people and what they expected, I think the best way to honor her is to let the truth come out."
Like the guests at a funeral, repeating the same comforting words, it all sounds like shit. But what should they say? Nothing can undo the loss of this family. For example, a father who has always been strong and dedicated to his work, he couldn't talk to his daughter directly when he was alive, but he was really gone, and he couldn't hide his love. A man who does not love his daughter. Everyone struggles and struggles between what's really inside and what they have to disguise as the performance that is actually expected by others. .
This may be another version of the "LET IT GO" story, just like Susan Sarandon's other "Lovely Bones" and "Lost", in the face of "life is chocolate shit, or chocolate tastes like shit" When it comes to a question like this, you'd better not try to figure out what the correct answer is, and it's futile to try to figure out what motivates the question. You can't easily judge right or wrong about any one life choice, let alone let others judge. The only correct thing is to follow your own heart and accept it calmly for what has happened, good or bad.
Not to mention is the phone ring that is always carried through to the film. The director seems to have deliberately made this a dark line, and it seems to have no intentions. As a sudden situation in quiet time, the ringing of the phone seems to represent the interference and violation of each self by the objective world. You have to answer the phone, and you have to consider what other people are looking at you. But the last time, the father played by Dustin Hoffman was uncharacteristically, instead of answering the call, he replaced it with a calm smile, as if he also understood a more real self.
Even if it makes a lot of sense, the director (my screenwriter) doesn't need to talk about it for such a long time, it's as long-winded as the article I wrote. . .
Speaking of JAKE, it's still sweet Fan Erla. The first few films are a bit restrained. I don't think his free and uninhibited side has been fully released. Immediately after this film, in 2004 he made "The Day After Tomorrow", maybe I just left a vague impression of "a handsome guy". The "The Day After Tomorrow" film itself is very good. In terms of subject matter and special effects, it was considered a front-end. If you have time, I will turn it over and pay attention to JAKE.
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