literature and art to madness are more or less different from ordinary people. The road is difficult to move forward, the sensitive nerves are constantly being hit by the ruthless reality, and the dreams are like the morning dew on the spider silk. They live in the crowd and disappear from the crowd, so they build their own cages, imprison themselves, and become gods and worship by themselves.
The father of the film "Being Flynn", Jonathan Flynn, was a man who lived for literature. It has to do with the way he spent his life pursuing literature. The idea for the film comes from a true story, adapted from author Nick Flynn's autobiographical novel "Another bullshit night in suck city". Such films are often cruel and realistic because of their authenticity.
Xu is because the screenwriter and director Paul Weitz has a thorough understanding of the original work. The structure of the film is simple and the context is clear. The only shortcoming is that it lacks power. The main line of the film is the story of how a boy finds his own way in a broken family where his parents have heart and sexual defects, and grows into a real writer, a man who can start a family and start a business. How to present this sentimental story highlights the creators' understanding and feeling of the real situation. In some scenes, the audience can almost smell the poetic desolation, and in some scenes, they can see the documentary-like Straightforward, like some of the episodes about homeless shelters.
The lives of the two generations of Flynn in the film and their journey of writing are full of decisiveness and grief. The father ran away from home when his son was young, and only wandered in the world according to the way he experienced life as a writer. In the absence of father's love, son Nick lives with his mother, but DNA determines his literary talent, so when his words have an unexpected "killing" effect, he can't bear it...
Obviously, the relationship between the father and son is full of resentment and entanglement, and the estrangement has become difficult to bridge over the years. The meeting after 18 years of separation occurred in an extreme situation, and both parties were unhappy. The reunion happened again in the shelter, the son is a volunteer, and the father is a homeless person. There is nothing worse than this situation. However, this is the second chance for a father-son relationship given by fate. .
This intersection of life has made it possible for father and son to understand each other. Nick needs to accept his father's various "virtues", overcome the pain caused by his father's abandonment, and the shadows and injuries caused by his own talent. The father's alcoholism, the son's drug addiction, the ill-fated and desolate father is like a mirror, and the sentimental Nick finally understands how to go on his own way, just in time, just like Tagore said: "Your burden will be Become a gift, and your suffering will light your way.” When you digest bad experiences well, they can become ladders.
The performances in the film are excellent, especially the rivalry between the old guy Robert De Niro and the new generation Paul Dano. In recent years, De Niro has acted in some films that focus on family relations and parent-child conflicts, such as "Journey to the Family". In this film, he portrays the old Flynn to the core with his superb acting skills, especially the poems published by his son. The look on the cover when it was put into the frame, as well as the slightly embarrassed look when he finally saw the third generation and held it in an extremely amateurish way, reproduced the turbulent mood of the vicissitudes of the old Flynn at that time.
Paul Dano, a young man who has attracted attention for his outstanding performances in "Little Sunshine", "There Will Be Blood" and other films, has a good acting ability. He plays Little Flynn, a literary youth. Sensitivity, confusion about finding the way to the future, and spirituality to appreciate life. Compared with Flynn, Julian Moore plays a lesser role as a mother, but it is very important. The role of mother is the key to inheriting the emotional bond between father and son, and also the source of son's guilt because of his talent. Moore's outstanding point is that he is always inadvertent. It is a wise choice to invite Moore to play this role.
The film not only shows different kinds of family love, growth process, mental reconstruction and other life issues, but also exposes the dark side of some society. The real reproduction of the shelter makes the film more humane care. Of course, it is undeniable that most of the people who have entered a refuge because of their life's slump are likely to have their next stop at the grave.
In the film, the picture of old Flynn being beaten by hooligans when he sleeps on the street makes people stunned. A man who has always had a sincere heart for literature is living a burdened life like this, although he seems to be happy with this kind of writer's road. In it, and persevere, but many people who have been hurt by literature may not be able to end this movie peacefully.
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