After watching the film American Pastoral, I generally remember the story of how a happy family was gradually disintegrated by a troubled child. How a daughter with extreme thinking goes step by step to the extreme road of no return. How a great father would try his best to save his daughter until she died.
It used to be a joy to have a girl in my family growing up, but she looks like the one in the movie - she forced her mother into a mad bitch, and tortured her father to half death... Then it's really auspicious~
Tsk tsk, such a daughter, I don't know how the audience as parents feel, and I am relatively weak, I can only think of eight words: If you have a daughter like this, it is better to strangle to death!
But the splendor of fatherly love throughout the whole movie makes me ashamed to open my eyes as an aging mother - I am your father, you are my daughter, you are made by me, so no matter how bad or bad No matter how evil it is, I will always love you, I will never give up on you, I will definitely bring you home, and I will not hesitate to go through fire and water.
Sure enough, this great father spent his whole life looking for his daughter. His long life seems to have only one goal, which is to bring his daughter home.
However, such a good father could not save the child after all.
So, here comes the problem. why? Why does this daughter still refuse to look back? Why did she leave her parents? And abandoned so completely? Where is the problem? Why did she become like this? He was so innocent and kind when he was a child, but became so twisted and extreme when he grew up? Is it the deviation of parental love? Did you make a bunch of bad friends and stray into evil ways? Or is this woman born with a destructive factor? I'm even thinking, if this woman hadn't been so right on the cusp of the anti-war wave, would it have been a different situation?
have no idea. There are too many questions in life that cannot be answered.
Well, it’s okay to not know where the problem is, but at least let us know more or less, how can we prevent this tragedy from happening to us?
Oh Sorry, a good movie is only responsible for telling a story. As for the answer, let’s figure it out for yourself~
Some people have criticized this film, but I think it is suitable for simple-minded people like me, because it simply presents the complex human nature in a turbulent situation. Hate come and go, in the end I don't know who hates who is better~
After all, maybe many problems in life stem from a gap in our hearts?
I always feel that there is a gap in everyone's heart, waiting for an exit all the time.
That exit may be like the mother in the movie, after the embankment collapsed, it disappeared forever and never looked back.
Or maybe just like the great father, he tried his best to repair the blockage and still couldn't get his daughter back.
Because of the gap in the heart, everyone unconsciously seeks an exit.
Because of trying to find an exit, many personnel affairs have become unconscious excuses.
The father in the movie is a gap in the daughter's heart, so the mother becomes the daughter's outlet.
The relationship between husband and wife in the movie is a gap hidden in married life, so the child becomes the outlet of the husband and wife.
The teenage issues and racial conflicts in the film are the gaps buried deep in society, so anti-war and various social movements have become their outlets.
Being eccentric and rebellious and having nowhere to express is a gap for teenagers, so the trend has become their outlet.
And our life is probably formed by these big and small gaps, right? Otherwise, why are you always seeking perfection? By analogy, is it that the more eager to seek export in life, the greater the gap will be?
How do you define such a complex, cyclical and interlocking relationship? How to break it?
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