Abandoning the above doubts, frankly speaking, the actor's performance is still good, and the whole story is still touching.
What struck me was Jodie Foster's quote:
"People only remember what they want to remember."
Remembering that quote:
"People only face what they want to face."
From the beginning I believed in this good man Has a tragic complex. He loves her, loves the children, loves the home, and even loves everything in the village where he lives as "Mr. Saxby"!
The film does not introduce his life and past in more detail, but it can be guessed that in his life experience, he must have lacked the warmth of his family and the kindness of his hometown, so he has been longing for and looking for such an opportunity. When the opportunity comes, he will firmly grasp the good "performance". Destroying the "happiness" (harmonious family, harmonious interpersonal relationship, wise and loving father, considerate husband) that he had finally built up one by one, this is the worst nightmare for him! So he is willing to pay with his life; to stop them at the cost of separation from those who love him!
It is a Freudian process of self-realization.
It's just that the ending is too cruel for the hostess and the children.
At the last minute, I was still fantasizing about the kid popping out of the crowd and yelling, "Dad—"
and everything changed...
Apparently, I was dreaming this time...
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