I thought I would never forgive my father in my life, when I came out of the detention center in October, he came to see me. We met at Liuliqiao. His hair was white and his eyes became cloudy. The man who was full of strength was gone. Now standing in front of me is just an old man with nothing. At that moment, I forgave him.
My Father My Son is a Turkish movie, I have seen more than many movies, My Father My Son is the only Turkish movie I have seen.
I don't know anything about Turkey as a country, except Istanbul and Turkish baths.
The story of the film is very simple. It tells the story of a man reconciling with his past self. That past self is called hometown. And the person who carries that hometown is called father. The potion that made this man reconcile with his hometown is called a son.
Moreover, in this hometown, there is a girl who is as light as green bamboo.
It's a wonderful movie, halfway through it, it reminds me of two other wonderful movies. One of them is "Butterfly" called Isabella in 2002. The other is "Just the End of the World" by Xavier Dolan.
It's just that "Butterfly" is witty and easy, with a happy and satisfying ending. "It's Just the End of the World" is a little more dignified, and Dolan used flying birds to express it. How interesting. Like this movie, My Father My Son, shows parting with hugs. The father took all the faults into his arms, and the knot that could not be untied, in the dust and sunlight, was untied, and he accepted the child who left him.
Like this life you're tired of, in the end, you have to accept it no matter what.
Some people say that this is a movie that is a metaphor for politics. In my opinion, this is just a movie with politics as the background and telling the essence of life.
What is the essence of life, the essence of life is to be together. Being together is the most important thing, nothing else matters. All life is reincarnation, reuniting after parting. The reunion is the next parting. Life is a process of constant loss. Until that moment, you accepted everything.
Love is silent, just like at the end, my father took out a video that he had treasured for a long time, and the family sat together to watch it. The son saw his father and shouted, look, it's my father. In the video, the father plays in the vineyard with Sadik and the donkey. Doesn't love happen in silence?
However, there is a law in this world that relatives and relatives are unwilling to compromise. Whether it is Sadik, who is pursuing freedom, or an old father, who is pursuing life, they are not willing to compromise with each other.
In fact, a father is a dream of a son, a heroic dream. Just like those dreams that little Deniz has always had, in the dreams, there are monsters and ghosts everywhere, but his father has been protecting him. Such a beautiful dream, but no matter who it is, there will always be a day when he wakes up.
Sadik, who is a father, is also dreaming, but what he dreams of is all the hardships he has suffered in prison. His dream is called reality.
Sons long for their fathers to be heroes, but in fact, all fathers are mortals. This is the most fundamental contradiction between fathers and sons. Therefore, the relationship between father and son is the most wonderful and the most difficult to reconcile.
Just like when I was away from my hometown for so many years, my son liked to sit on the high threshold of his hometown and wait for me to come back. I never come back.
The old father has always loved his son, and has not changed, so he loves his grandson.
The old father's love is very practical, and he hopes that Sadik will go to Istanbul to study agriculture, and finally return to his hometown to inherit his father's business. But what boy doesn't have a dream? The boy's dream is big, but the result is very sad.
His dream died on the grass with blood, and there was no one to help. When the boy's dream died, the first person who came to him was a soldier with a gun. What an irony this is.
Men's dreams will eventually die, and no one can save them.
Fortunately, the boy's dream gave the boy a son, and the boy became a man. And the moment he grew up as a man, Sadik hoped that his son could have a home.
Someone asked me a question about what makes a man mature. I thought about it for a long time before I told him the answer. When this man gave up on himself and devoted himself to this family, he became a man. Therefore, Sadik was willing to go back to the hometown he never wanted to go back to when he was dying, just to give his son a room, so that his son could have a home and come and go freely.
As a result, he made it happen.
This is a lighthearted film, filled with the Turkish lute from beginning to end, like a slowly opened book, elegant and demure, with a touch of sadness. Although the actors' performances carry traces, the traces hang on everyone, but they won't jump out, making you think that's how it should be.
Movies use a lot of backlighting, polarized light. In my memory, those who like to use backlight and polarized light are Chen Kaige and Wong Kar Wai. It's just that Chen Kaige in "Farewell My Concubine" seems to have used light to the point of perfection at once, and it's over. Wang Blind is so amazing in every movie, from "In the Mood for Love" to "In the Mood for Love", from "Chongqing Forest" to "Evil in the East", and finally became a fairy in "The Grandmaster".
Although the light is all backlit and polarized, in this film, the light source is mostly bright natural light and high-key lighting. So the tone of the film is very vivid. Even if there are not many night scenes, the light used is bright and direct, and a lot of auxiliary lights are added. It makes the characters look bright and cheerful. Therefore, in such a film that should have a strong tragic color, the bright colors and the slightly exaggerated acting skills of the actors do not make you feel depressed at all, but rather like a light comedy.
But the most interesting thing is not the color, but the use of the lens. The director's use of the lens is very capricious, but the more capricious it is, the more it makes people feel clumsy and clumsy and cute. Among all the scenes of the director, there is no such scene, and the use of the lens is unified. But if you want to use it in that place, then come at once. The most obvious, and the most talked about, is naturally the scene where Sadik falls to the ground.
Sadik suddenly fell to the ground and his father rushed over and hugged him. In this way, the audience watched the camera fall down ninety degrees, stood up again, and then fell down in a different direction. At this moment, you understand that all the knots between father and son are untied with this one-hundred-eighty-degree lens.
The second interesting scene is that after the father told his family about his son's condition in the cafe, he came out silently and sat on the steps of the cafe. The camera zoomed out, zoomed out, zoomed out again. The helpless sadness spilled out of the camera at once. As the camera zooms out, the father's image gets smaller and smaller again and again, and that sense of powerlessness fills every moment of your body.
The third interesting shot, in the hospital, Salim's wife helped Salim to go for a walk in the garden, the director even used a look-up shot. The silly big man was very tall and weeping when looking up at the camera, but on the contrary, this silly big man looked even cuter.
After watching this movie, I immediately searched for Turkish movies, only to find that Turkey is really an interesting country. Movies from this country are also very interesting. Only then did I know that "The Mountain" and "The Mountain 2" were both produced in Turkey. Couldn't help but be amazed.
Looking at this film fourteen years ago now, it is not very good, but it must be a film that makes you smile knowingly, and then burst into tears at a certain moment. And, I'm sure, you'll remember this movie long after you've watched it.
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