The film creates an image of a clumsy father who is restrained, humorous and naive. Because of his divorce from his wife, the father should have missed most of his daughter's growing up time. At a party after a long absence, he caught a glimpse of the life of his daughter, who is nearly middle-aged and has a successful career but is unsmiling. He felt that her daughter did not happiness. He wanted to follow the trajectory of his daughter's life and dig out the source of misfortune.
The father came to Romania, where his daughter worked for a long time, on his own initiative. At first, the father showed his original face and brought many small accidents to the daughter. The daughter suppressed her temper and planned to endure the weekend and wait for him to return. Therefore, although the two sides often fall into the embarrassment of mutual incomprehension, they still maintain the surface politeness and peace.
The weekend is over. The daughter thought that she had sent her father away and life returned to normal. Unexpectedly, her father showed up as "Tony Erdman" as an inexplicable identity and re-entered her life. He always appears in unexpected scenes, and his appearance and demeanor are clown and weird. But it was when everyone put down their guard that the real details of her daughter's life and work were revealed: an older single promising woman, a strong woman at work, merciless in order to achieve her career, and a terrible private life. , There is no love and no normal friendship. In order to integrate into the circle, it is XD to seek joy. Even his birthday party is used as an opportunity for work communication. When a father dressed in a grotesque long-haired costume planned to surprise his daughter's birthday party, he didn't expect to watch his daughter throw a nude party.
For my daughter, life is a fucking mess that I can't take off, wear a skirt that I can't wear. How successful she is at work in the eyes of others, she is a good subordinate of her boss, a good leader of her subordinates, and a good lover of her lover, but an embarrassing nude party ripped her "king's new clothes" and lived a dignified life. It turned out to be so vulnerable. So she rushed out to find the hairy monster, not so much that she was afraid that her image in her father's eyes would be shattered, but that she had turned into a wounded deer and wanted to find a really warm corner to lick her wounds. When she hugged the "monster", she knew that her father would forgive her everything, tolerate her, and love her unconditionally.
Compared with the success of his daughter's career, the father's image is clumsy and unable to speak, and he is the "aphasia" of the relationship between father and daughter. He won't say the right words in the right scene, either offending his daughter's big client or embarrassing the people present, it's always difficult to please her daughter. But in life, he can feel his daughter's feelings delicately. He constantly expresses himself with clumsy but sincere love. He secretly brings her breakfast, handcuffs her, hopes that his daughter will not fire the worker, and follows him in front of everyone. Completing the singing together, bit by bit, also let people inside and outside the play feel the good intentions of his father.
The film constantly uses a pair of dentures that are removed and inserted, and a discordant wig to express the fatherly love that is out of tune with the environment. It is novel and interesting; the skirt stuck in the middle breaks the so-called successful career of middle-aged people The "Imagination of Happiness" shows the midlife crisis of the elites. At the end of the film, when the father said that "life is always hampered by trivial daily life, but don't forget to live the life you really want", the daughter put on her father's dentures, put on a rustic grandmother's hat, and The father looked at each other and smiled, or there was still a gap between each other, but at this moment, we could understand and compromise with each other.
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