Just imagine, you grew up with a single mother who was struggling, and she committed suicide when you were an adult (also related to you), you didn’t know what your father looked like, but inherited his writing hobby and talent, you lacked a father’s role model, and you were a little cowardly, Feeling confused about maintaining a long-term relationship and career choice, taking it easy, being unemployed and cheating, being kicked out of her apartment by an ex-girlfriend, in desperation, you go to work in a shelter, and then come in an alcoholic, cranky, bragging, and making trouble everywhere sloppy bum, but he's your dad and yelling "you're me, I made you" in front of all your colleagues and all the homeless people - what do you do? Do you get drunk and dope like Nick Flynn?
Yes, don't blame Nick for giving up on himself, being a guy named Flynn is tough, whether it's father Jonathan, or son Nick, who are both assholes and dream of being novelists and poets. People's belief is the cross, which fills your life with hope, but also makes you bear an unbearable burden, and so does your dream. Jonathan has lied all his life, hypnotized himself into the writer he imagined to be on the side of Mark Twain and Salinger, and covered up his broken self-esteem, failed life and even the guilt of his wife and children in his boasting, but he did know how to be. A writer: experiencing life at any time, taking everything as material; the belief of being born to help others; practicing writing at any time; seeing the poisonous eye of human nature; enduring loneliness; self-confidence in talent; strong and brave; The difference is that geniuses go to work. Whether it's the letters that accompanied him growing up or the later contacts, Nick has learned these things objectively, and it's no accident that he became a poet, published poetry books and taught people - we can also see him from the night shift records Nick wrote in the shelter. Naturally sensitive to literature, the poems written by him that his girlfriend read by chance are pure and immature, but have a unique style and sense of music.
This film is basically an autobiographical two-line perspective of father and son, and their past events are slowly discovered by the audience through interludes and hints. This suspense setting is very attractive, and it also makes people caught by the inner pain of the characters: When the father and son met for the first time, Nick thought his father had a gun and expressed disgust. It turned out that Nick’s mother shot and committed suicide; Nick was entangled in writing, it turned out that she decided to commit suicide after discovering the draft of the novel he wrote; his mother did not make many appearances, but obviously He loves and hates his father, as well as does not accept or even contempt for his literary pursuit, perhaps because he understands his character, situation and talent; Jonathan said that his masterpiece "The Button Man" really exists all his life, Just scattered and incoherent, his only complete masterpiece is his son Nick.
Focus Films, the filmmaker, has produced many high-quality literary and independent films, the most famous of which is Ang Lee's film, discussing the relationship between two generations and finding one's self is also a common theme for Ang Lee, especially when Jonathan hugs Nick's daughter at the end, the father and son have rich meanings The eye contact is very similar to Ang Lee's handling of the endings of films such as "Diet Men and Women".
Highlights: The performances of the three leading actors, Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, and Julie Ann Moore, are delicate and vivid; the whole story involves the street life of the destitute in the United States, which is real and natural; various boyfriends of Nick's mother are introduced to play with Nick. The baseball clip; the soundtrack is fresh and warm.
You can also watch: The co-director's "About a Boy," Ang Lee's father trilogy,
also appeared in the October issue of Universal Screens. Immediately there are cuts. The name was taken by the editor, I forgot to take the name. . .
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