What was a Viking funeral like?
Who would have thought that old Gotti's three younger grandchildren actually helped him fulfill his last wish. Guy Jenkin's What We Do During the Holidays (2014) takes Rosamund Pike from David Fincher's Gone Girl into the Scottish Highlands.
The young couple, Doug, played by David Tennant, and Abby, played by Rosamund Pike, have separated and are fighting over their divorce. Doug's father Gotti will be 75 years old. They drove from England with three elf ghosts and traveled thousands of miles to celebrate the birthday of an old man living in the Scottish Highlands. They repeatedly told the children to keep their secrets and not let Grandpa know that they were separated.
Such couples are destined to have no leisure, and neither will their three children. Noisy all the way. When he arrived at his grandfather's residence, Doug's older brother Donic, who was wearing a skirt, was even hotter. These two brothers were born from the same mother, and they fought each other as soon as they spoke. It made old Gotti only willing to play with his three younger grandchildren.
On the day of the old man's 75th birthday celebration, the old man took his three grandchildren and drove to the seaside in the highlands. The eldest granddaughter, Rorty, loves to record everything and can talk to her grandpa very well. The second grandson Mickey and the youngest granddaughter Jess are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they will come to an idea for a while. For adults to keep children a secret is the same as keeping the sun from the east. The grandfather, who knew the secret, enlightened them philosophically.
When Grandpa and them played hide-and-seek on the beach and couldn't wake up, they knew that Grandpa was really dead. Grandpa doesn't like the hustle and bustle and says he's 85% Viking. So, they went to great lengths and, according to their understanding, carried out a drift cremation of Gotti with the traditional funeral of the Vikings.
Donick was busy with his father's birthday, and more than 200 people alone gave him a headache. When the children came back, saying that their grandfather was dead, it was like a punch, which made them see gold stars in their eyes. In addition to being in a trance, he has to face cross-examination by the good news media and the police. At this time, little Rorty's notepad helped a lot, and also exposed her parents' near-collapse marriage to the public eye.
A lot of trouble.
Bad things quickly turn into good things. When the doubts dissipated, the family finally came to the beach calmly and danced Scottish dance to the fullest. Donic's son, Gavin, played the violin. He was always shy by nature, and he also had a crush, a beautiful girl who played the violin. And his mother Margaret, who was hysterical in the mall, also showed a rare smile.
What did we do on vacation?
The three ghost elves did what the adults should do. Full of positive energy. The main melody can be so funny and crazy. The cold and quiet Scottish Highlands, together with the constant currents of the Atlantic Ocean, are extraordinarily quiet and serene in the afterglow of the setting sun. In such a quiet and beautiful world, there is nothing to bridge the rift between husband and wife, and the troubles of life are not worth mentioning.
2015, March, 17
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