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Wilbert 2022-09-29 15:18:27

Don't want to talk too much nonsense, a nearly crazy daughter who grew up in a near-perfect family ruined her father's life with her so-called nobility. What I feel is that in such a turbulent and stable era, an ordinary father has a sincere, selfless, unrequited love for his daughter. His wife's shameless betrayal and greed for pleasure made him resolutely leave the woman he once loved so much, and he was tormented between his daughter and her. The protagonist's detached anger at hearing about the inhuman treatment his daughter has been subjected to is in stark contrast to his wife's cold, noble and increasingly youthful image. His thoughts and worries about his daughter never made him feel happy for a moment, but because of his relatives and friends, he couldn't show it. Years of repression, and his soul suffering from pain, he no longer wanted to endure the slightest harm to his daughter. So she ignored his wife's obstruction and packed up the items he had always treasured that carried the warmest and most beautiful memories between him and his daughter to wait for her daughter to appear. However, his daughter still refused to go home with him. In the end, he angrily tore off the veil in front of her daughter's face. When he saw her daughter's missing teeth, he thought of the unspeakable hardships her daughter had endured, and he no longer wanted to do any coercion As his daughter wished, he could only leave quietly, waiting to visit her daughter again. However, his daughter never appeared again, and the endless deep and crazy thoughts eventually destroyed his body and passed away with the deep regret of not being able to see his daughter. The film uses flashbacks to tell the whole thing in the tone of a classmate of the protagonist's younger brother who once only had this relationship with the protagonist, and by listening to the story told by the protagonist's younger brother. I think I can understand his wife, she's fed up with her daughter's rebellion and her disrespectful rudeness and language. After suffering several toss and turns and even mental breakdown, she decided to let it go completely, find her youth through some means and start a new life, change to a new environment, and completely get rid of the past. And she found that her husband was completely opposite to her own thoughts and left, and the gentle and talented designer just soothed her lonely and empty heart. I believe that after she hesitated a few times, she could not resist the designer's offensive in the end. , In fact, there has been a foreshadowing before. The heroine's father-in-law's grumbling after the chief designer's critical comment seems to have reminded his son, but the hero's heart is burning and he does not take this matter to heart. After watching the movie, the inner shock can't be calmed down for a long time. The American pastoral shows the diverse ideas of American civil liberties, the extravagant life of the middle class, the extreme means used by idealism to pursue ideals, and so on.

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American Pastoral quotes

  • [first lines]

    Nathan Zuckerman: [narrating as WWII era dance music plays] Let's remember the energy. America had won the war. The depression was over. Sacrifice was over. The upsurge of life was contagious. We celebrated a moment of collective inebriation that we would never know again. Nothing like it in all the years that followed from our childhood until tonight, the 45th reunion of our high school class.

    Nathan Zuckerman: [now walking down a school hallway] At 30 or 40, a gathering of my old classmates would have been exactly the kind of thing I'd have kept my nose out of. But at 62, I found myself drawn to it as if in the crowd of half-remembered faces I'd be closer to the mystery at the heart of things, a magic trick that turned time past into time present.

  • Swede Levov: You were involved in something there, something political.

    Merry Levov: Everything is political. Brushing your teeth is political.