The music rhythm at the beginning of the film is very pleasant. It starts with the mother coaxing the child to sleep, which is warm and tender, and then the parallel editing of the wife arranging things and her husband busy talking about work, implicitly laying the foreshadowing. When the camera falls on the wife sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette again, all the relationships are actually clear. The wife said goodbye to her husband. Meryl's appropriate facial expressions, natural detailed movements, the complex psychology of the process, the simple process, The performance is very good, so that the film only takes 5 to 6 minutes to raise a contradiction. The reason why the motivational event can be built so quickly is also related to the good rhythm of this film. The husband who has no ability to live has to take care of the children. Typical mission impossible, but this is a great life movie, so the plot unfolds with emotion.
In the morning, the child wakes the father up, not the father wakes the child up. This is the first morning of full contact between father and son. From every detail of the movie, we can see the shadow of the previous life of the father and son, and the new life that the reality faces, the father does not really realize more, but Hoffman's body language can be seen revealing, to this kind of life. The incompatibility, all kinds of details, natural and clean, the father doesn't even know what grade his child is in, he is still immersed in his work, and thinks that his wife will go home soon, without thinking too much. Therefore, the plot of the film here is simply stuck in the fact that the wife has not come back, and he has to take care of the children within a few days, and when all this is gone in the past. The husband understands that the wife is not coming back, and the child realizes the simple concept that the mother will not come back, so the next act in the film is to sort out the wife's things. The father dealt with the problems he encountered in the simplest way. At this time, it can be understood that the situation is a step further, and the father has to take care of his children for the rest of his life.
From here, the film begins to formally develop the relationship between father and child. The performance of the child's true colors makes the film extremely good and makes this film outstanding. The back of the child, the sloppy clothes, and the slow sadness of the music, the transition is the scene of life. There is a detail in the film, the photo of the mother, the audience can see that the mother in the photo is a little strange but raised her head and has a distinct character. But from the habits of children's life, we can see that the mother takes good care of the children, educates them well, and is a good mother.
There are many mornings in the film. The father and the child make breakfast together. The child helps the father to put the dishes. Compared with the first morning, it can be seen that the child and the father are close to each other. Of course, the relationship does not matter, the work is a little bit. Trouble, the father here is all because of work, and how to choose between work and love has become the key.
As the story continues, I have to think about how the director will further set the situation. Quarrel between little child and father. Of course, another reveal of the details is in the quarrel with the child, which completes the closeness of the father and son's feelings, and also completes the emotional exchange. He apologized to the child, who told his father that his mother's departure was due to his disobedience. Only at this moment did the father truly tell the child that the reason why the mother left was his own mistake. This was the best emotional catharsis. But without the precipitation of various emotions at the beginning, there will be no such emotional outlet, so I have to feel that the transition and precipitation of emotions is the biggest highlight of this film. The father and son have been unfamiliar at the beginning to the fusion now, and the emotional predicament between father and son has been gradually solved.
Another scene where the details confirm the relationship. The father appeared in the Christmas children's school performance. The father sat down with the surrounding mothers to watch the children's performances, played the role of the mother, and they had a tacit understanding of dialogue and connection.
In order to improve the rhythm of the whole film, the director arranged for a beautiful woman with big glasses in a vase to appear in a one-night stand with Hoffman playing the role of his father. From the original atmosphere to joy, it is also the representative of the relief of the predicament, and then the music of the film is much more cheerful and natural.
Of course, the film's solution to one dilemma is the beginning of another dilemma, or, in other words, the coming of the next bigger dilemma.
The mother appeared again.
In order to make the film more complete the emotional bond, the film shows that the child is injured, and the father hurriedly takes the child to the hospital. The warmth of emotion reflects the infinite love and the highest peak of emotion. It is the father who naturally considers that if he dies one day, he will entrust the child to someone he can trust. At this moment, we can understand the responsibility of the father. mission.
Finally, the wife appeared to take the child away. This is the character's inevitability at the beginning. The father didn't blame the husband and wife too much for the wife who appeared in front of him. , the relationship between husband and wife is only expressed implicitly in the relationship between children, of course, it is still the details, the details of the film are still details, the wife's dress is from the former housewife to the beautiful woman with outstanding career. It is the opposite who has become the master of the house. The dilemma at this time is to solve the issue of custody. Facing the dilemma, the father lost his job and was fired because of the child. The father actively dealt with problems, looked for a job, and arranged for pictures. It was when he was looking for a job as an art clerk. Unlike his own leader, this was just a small clerk, but for the sake of the child, he needed to meet him in front of him. To the carnival crowd, he sits while others stand, the liveliness outside contrasts sharply with his inner anxiety, and when he gets a job, he blends in with the crowd and even kisses a strange woman.
All his actions are to protect children, and his work has been completely to protect children. This is a person who used to work for everything. But now, he only wants the child, and it is the child's protection. In order to protect the child's emotions, he did not let the child appear during the lawsuit with his wife. Protecting the child is everything to him, and he has to talk about the details. The details here are when the lawsuit was filed. , the wife and husband appear, the wife is on the first floor, the husband is on the second floor, the camera is pulled up, which implies advantages and disadvantages.
As a result, his failure seems to be a matter of course, so we see the father almost kneeling in front of the child, at the same height as the child, talking with the child, such a scene makes the father's love more pure.
It was another morning, and another French bread. The father made the bread skillfully and cooperated perfectly with the child. This breakfast, the parting breakfast, echoed the beginning and the end. The wife came to pick up the child, and the audience thought this was the end. In fact, the real climax was that the wife finally understood the husband, and the feelings between the husband and the wife really communicated at this moment, so we understood that the child is always by the father's side, affirming a kind of integrity. The emotional ending of consciousness. The wife goes upstairs, but the husband does not go up, because the family relationship is complete, but it is impossible for the husband and wife to return to the past. The concept of emotion draws a perfect picture for the story at the end.
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