This movie is based on the novel American Trilogy American Pastoral. From the title, it tells the story of the United States, and the content is also about the relationship between a father and his family, especially his daughter. This seems to be telling the story of a family, but it reflects the development of American society and the prospect of the future in a small way.
Is the paranoia of the Swedish brother's daughter in the film due to stuttering? Haven't her parents given her enough security? The love his parents gave her didn't seem to be enough to sustain her through rebellious adolescence, which led to the ongoing tension and fragmentation of the family.
Their daughter, who hated war since she was a child, was deeply stimulated to see the monk self-immolation in the news. When she grew up, this good girl became rebellious. Coupled with the Vietnam War, the anti-government actions and excessive violence in her own society made this girl become rebellious. The nervously fragile child became crazy, she made a terrorist act of explosion and ran away from home, causing serious injury to many families and leaving her parents almost in a desperate situation. Why is this the case? Their middle-class family is perfect, but their children hate them, hate this middle-class family, it's hard to understand. Maybe the movie gives the answer later. Brother Sweden's wife, after her daughter ran away, couldn't stand the pressure and finally broke down and showed her other side. She began to hate brother Sweden, hate him for pursuing her, hate him for letting herself participate in beauty pageants, and marrying him. In short, she hates her husband, hates him for bringing misfortune to herself, she falls into paranoia, and finally through plastic surgery finally It was stable, but not over, she soon had an extramarital affair, abandoned her husband, and no longer thought about her daughter. It all mirrored the paranoia and viciousness of her daughter's adolescence. Perhaps this is the so-called mother and daughter.
During this period, relative to the mother, the greatness of the father's love is revealed! Brother Sweden did not give up. He seized every opportunity to find his daughter and expressed his love for her. He believed in his daughter and believed that even if she made mistakes, she would return to the right path. Year after year, he gave his daughter spiritual support, and finally, his death pulled his daughter from the mental ruins back to normal society.
This is a masterpiece of great fatherly love. Without this father, who waited day after year to call her at her tattered doorway, she would have been dead long ago. Finally, at her father's funeral, she, the daughter, came back and went straight to her father's coffin, ignoring anyone else, including her own mother, who all stayed there, watching her.
She used to be a sinner, and now she's back.
There is a scene in the movie, but his daughter blew up the gas station employee. The father's first action was to hide her criminal behavior for his daughter. This reminds me of a story of Confucius. Confucius once said that if If a father sins against his son and protects his son, and if a son sins against his father, he approves of it, and vice versa. This is probably the so-called tiger poison does not eat offspring, and the so-called relatives hide each other. The principles of human nature are the same, love is selfish!
Further, the changes in the Swedish brother's family correspond to the changes in American society. Swede and his beloved wife gave birth to a beloved baby daughter, and Americans came together to build their country, inspired by a common purpose. This daughter is kind and hates all violence, but she is paranoid and willing to use all violence to destroy the injustice she sees. This is the national character of the Americans, something in their bones, just like the Swedish brother's daughter Merle, kind, sensitive, and full of violence. This is typical of a young nation.
Compared with those countries with a long history, this country is still very young and full of vitality. They are growing and developing, and they have encountered many things that they have never met but are commonplace in other countries with a long history. She wants to establish her own order, She is young, full of power, and destroys all obstacles, just like Merle, and other anti-war extremists, who use bombs to destroy everything and everything that stands in their way, mercilessly, but behind this violence, the hearts of Americans The little bit of kindness in human nature is also playing an uninterrupted role, just like Brother Sweden, his father's love, in the face of young and powerful violence, seems so weak, as if vulnerable, will collapse at any time, but He persevered, he firmly believed that his daughter was just and kind, just like Americans believe that God is just and kind and will not abandon them. He did not abandon his daughter in the end, and American society did not abandon these young people in the end. Likewise, they, the beliefs of these young people, did not destroy America, on the contrary, they injected new ideas into America, new impetus to keep this country young. Brother Sweden did not abandon his daughter. Even though he was misunderstood and betrayed by his wife and the family fell apart, he maintained it strong. In the end, just like American society, he ushered in a new life - Merle came back. American society has also returned with more emotion, with a more enterprising spirit, more powerful, and more human (of course, this is the author's ideal).
The end of the film does not deliberately describe the death of the Swedish brother, just like the death of the old America, when the new life begins to face itself and the world, the mission of the previous generation is gloriously completed, the world is young people Yes, always theirs.
Going back to the education of children, what parents need to do is not to teach, but to be confident, silently loving, and waiting for the next generation to return to a path full of humanity under the influence of persistent love. superior. This love is not material, but a kind of trust and persistence.
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