High school student Ben's summer vacation was a little boring. Except for riding a bicycle in the morning to help the elderly in the community deliver some groceries, he went to church with his mother to listen to the pastor preach the Bible. The pastor was none other than Ben's father, so it was boring. Worship naturally becomes more boring. Luckily, my mother was very doting on Ben, always planning things for him to do during the summer vacation, and taking driving lessons was one of them. Of course, she was also going to find another job for her son to help a single celebrity with his dead wife's chores. When she walked into Ben's room and told him about it, Ben was writing love poems in a small notebook. When I had time to hide the small book, I kept a stiff posture and listened to my mother's arrangements, but I did not dare to say anything. In the first few minutes, Ben's situation has been roughly explained. The generation gap, yes, is the generation gap. There is a deep generation gap between Ben and his father and mother. Of course, the two or three little details of delivering groceries to the elderly at the beginning of the film also hinted at the development of the story-the elderly are willing to talk to this seemingly taciturn big boy, and are willing to care about all the details of this child's life .
Apparently, aside from driving lessons, Ben wasn't interested in another errand arranged by his mother, and he chose to help a once-famous and now-fame screen celebrity, Mrs. Amy. However, Mrs. Amy is not as easy to deal with as he imagined. Hearing her voice in the old lady's garden without seeing her first made Ben take a breath, and the next haggling is entirely the old lady alone. Having the final say, this is considered a dumb loss, but since it was chosen by myself, I have to accept it, which is far better than having no freedom under my mother's arrangement. Next, Amy, who was always chattering at the bus station, on the bus, and in the outdoor goods store, made Ben so embarrassed that he wanted to find a hole to burrow into. It was thanks to his tepid personality that he could bite the bullet and follow the old lady to finish the job. All this, and then go home to endure the nagging and tears of my mother. Between him and his mother, there may be no real effective communication - even if the mother's tears are of no avail, he still has to escape driving lessons again to help Mrs Amy fulfill her camping wish.
The really effective communication between Ben and Mrs. Amy actually started from camping. As the prelude and the prelude to the camping, the old lady was drunk, pretending to be pitiful, and addicted to the show... Still just to tell how Ben was caught by the old lady Just torture. When Ben got into a dispute with Amy on the way back and couldn't accept Amy's crazy idea of having fun on a whim, the relationship between the two changed from opposition to the same position because of a quarrel and later understanding. Maybe Amy was just a cunning excuse to rush out of the car, out of breath with anger, and use it to say that she was going to die soon, but what did it matter? At this time, the innocence and kindness in Ben's heart was completely revived, which was in stark contrast to his usual autistic attitude. He never accepted others' teachings easily, and he began to try to empathize, and for the first time, he comforted others bluntly. At this time, we Seeing that the other color of youth that has been hidden all along is so bright and bright, the worries about growth and the rebellion of youth are all dispelled at this time by a kind of sincerity from the bottom of my heart. Just like a car driving softly through the sunny Edinburgh countryside, no matter what was once thought to be unthinkable, it can instantly become a reality.
The next episode of Amy's rage in the hotel shows the real psychological world of the elderly. They are always full of memories of the good times when they were young, and they are always afraid of dying alone. They're not really asking for much, they're even just looking for someone to listen to about their past, or to relish the feeling of being young again in a once-familiar environment. The expression of this social perspective can be regarded as the finishing touch of the film, and the climax of Amy and Ben's tacit understanding in the church and the accidental car accident of Ben's mother make the character of Ben three-dimensional and full. Ben's change in understanding and personality of parents is to take care of the non-themed topic of "driving lessons" - if the parents let go properly, the children will drive the car more stably.
Although this film wants to show another way to solve the communication problem between children and parents, the details of the screenplay make every effort to be humorous and humorous, so that the film does not have the slightest didactic color, plus the accurate grasp of the photography style. The editing and soundtrack are in place, making a work with a mediocre subject also shine. In comparison, the speech of the blind lieutenant colonel at the end of the climax of the sample film "Smell the Fragrance to Know a Woman" with the same theme is not lacking in power to criticize American middle school education, but the preaching still seems too heavy, but it has become a part of the classic film. It's a flaw, but the success of conflict elements and acting skills is enough to cover up this flaw, so Al Pacino, who won the Oscar for best actor in the film, did give the most wonderful performance.
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