Like the overwhelmed "Swedish Boy," Linda's parents were never sure why their daughter was doing this. She was shy since she was a child and liked to ride horses in clubs. That year, 15,000 teens in San Francisco alone ran away from home and joined the hippie ranks. Of course, it is a life experience that is impossible under the regular life trajectory. But what those parents get are nightmares. They sent tens of thousands of photos and missing person notices to the police department, but some of the children were never found.
Philip Roth's book has a more profound and nuanced account of the upheaval caused by this generational change, but the film has to cut out most of the rambling. In the United States in the 1960s, half of the population was under the age of 25. The post-war economic boom made them a generation that could "go anywhere and do whatever you want." Contrary to what Lian Yue said, "the middle class is easy to make a sissy", the middle-class children of that generation are more powerful than steel guns. They really made Molotov cocktails and really blew up the school. The University of Florida campus was set on fire 120 times in 15 months, and it turned out that a group of girls were racing to see which side of the building would attract more fire engines.
Simon and Donne had no idea. They send Mei Li to learn ballet, straighten her teeth and stutter, and take her to see a psychiatrist regularly. The latter thinks that they are too beautiful and successful, causing pressure on the children, what should I do? The kiss that the daughter asked for her father was indeed full of ambiguous Electra, but her father's approach was not as bad as the inner drama. The real out-of-control still happens in adolescence. The psychological depression caused by stuttering broke out through the anti-war topic. From a young age, the children who were dressed in fine clothes and food began to accuse their parents of being exploiters. And parents can no longer slap their daughters who are rude, like the previous generation. All they could do was watch the rebellion go down the drain until it abandoned and mocked all moral and social norms, marked by Rita's outstretched legs: she took pleasure in playing with her daughter-seeking father, using him His worries are burning, forcing him to cross the bottom line of human relations to prove the hypocrisy of middle-class morality and the subconscious original sin of "Lolita". In the original book, she succeeded.
Anyway, Ivan himself is the director, so I can't sleep, so I'll just change it. Only in this way, the degree of damage to the character's mentality is unavoidable. The other half of the stress was made up by the collapse of his wife Donne. As a middle-class housewife, she has even poorer resources to deal with this kind of disaster, which is nothing more than hysteria, hospitalization, plastic surgery and derailment. That's a common path of self-deception: hiding your head under the sand of various pastimes is what is called rebirth.
And "Swedish Boy" did something to be sprayed to death by today's tuba - to compete with that changing era for his daughter. This is a man's instinctive protective mechanism: defending his family, his family, and doomed views. His father started a glove factory by hiring Neapolitan craftsmen to sew them by hand and then selling them on the street. The owner of the supermarket has been working diligently all his life until disaster strikes. The dream of that generation of the middle class was built over time and carefully, only to have a radical 1960s ahead that turned their children, who grew up in happiness and care, into bombers and no-bath Hindus. This is the ruthless joke of history. It is enough to destroy a family and throw the former golden boy and girl directly into the fragmented middle age. Not to mention, there are still various analyses and charges about the "family of origin" waiting for them.
From this point of view, the idea that a house can be bought out for several lifetimes of insurance is almost feudal superstition. After all, no one can know now, who's Han Shao will not want to go to college by then, just want to be a racing driver and a wandering painter; or whose Ruth is going to marry Jack, who he met on the cruise, not William who is the right match . Impermanence and contingency always have their own way of making those tight-fitting self-conceptions a joke. Time is changing, and one cannot step into the same river twice. Whether desire and ambition, or chicken soup of voluntarism, will eventually be relegated to dust by this law.
In 1967, Bob Dylan, who wrote "The times they are changing", retired due to a car accident. In Nashville, far from the fame and hustle and bustle, he began to try to be a "unchanged" ballad singer. Years later, those children of the carnival era will also reach middle age and return to their once-ordinary lives, returning to the coffins of their fathers who were abandoned by them. Only time is still changing.
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