Two children fight, A knocks out B's teeth, the story begins from A's parents to B's house to discuss reconciliation. However, the contradiction escalated step by step. It's interesting to see how both parents gradually strip away the surface of middle-class hypocrisy in the conversation.
A father, the management of the pharmaceutical factory, extreme right, contempt for others
Mother A, housewife, has stomach problems, easy to be emotional
Father B, bathroom brand sales, optimistic, afraid of small animals
Mother B, writer, extreme left, fighting for all kinds of power
At the beginning, the two sides also tried to maintain the face of the peace negotiations, but gradually escalated to a full-scale war. There are always similar values in the four-person room, but there are contradictions in the two. Summarized as follows:
A father-A mother, interests: one's own child beats another's child, but try to admit mistakes as little as possible. Conflict: Father A always has endless company calls, Mother A has to endure it all year round
Father B - Mother B, interests: My child was knocked out of two teeth, but at the beginning I wanted to be as generous as possible, and I had to strive for interests and an apology from the other party. Contradiction: Differences in values, one cares nothing, the other cares about everything.
A father-B father, interests: machismo, heroism, alcohol, tobacco, hope to let the child solve the problem by himself. Contradictions: Father B's old mother had a health problem after taking the medicine from Father A's company, and Father A has been calling for crisis public relations.
Mother A-Mother B, interests: Can't stand the machismo of their respective husbands and the life bound by electronic products, and actively promote problem solving. Contradiction: Mother A threw up a coffee table in family B due to a stomach problem, and broke the out-of-print picture album that mother B loved on the coffee table.
A father-B mother, interests: Kochi crowd, advocate facing the reality, hope to end this negotiation as soon as possible, don't talk about things other than children's fights, don't talk nonsense. Contradiction: The paradox between the extreme right and the extreme left, the head-to-head confrontation between social Darwin and human rights leaders.
A mother-B father, interests: Compromise the crowd, advocate excavating the reasons behind the problem, each take a step back, and share the results of the incident. Contradiction: Father B threw the child's hamster in the morning, which mother A thought was unreasonable and brooded.
At the end of the four people's quarrel, the hamster outside the window foraged on the grass, and the two children were already playing happily.
In such a film of less than 80 minutes, the dialogue is extremely dense, the four people constantly change their positions, and grasp the other side's point of view that is beneficial to them, which is true and ingenious. The four big-name actors performed wonderfully, almost thinking it was Andy Warhol's "humanoid self-propelled BB machine" big party, but I didn't expect it to be a Polanski movie.
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