The movie opens with nice country music
A teenager plays the guitar, sings softly, and writes songs.
The boy's father, Sam, just signed a big contract at the company, and wanted to ask his son to skip class to accompany him to celebrate, but his son let go of his pigeons. But Sam actually saw the news of the shooting of students at his son's school in the bar.
Then came the noisy media asking about the funeral. Seeing this, I cried a lot. The departure of the closest person is always the deepest pain in my heart.
So sad, Sam didn't cry, he was calm, but he was drinking when he was alone, and he wanted to keep himself busy.
However, two years later, he was decadent, living in a sailboat, cycling to work, no longer a senior white-collar worker but a painter.
At this time, he got the songs he wrote and the tapes that his son left behind during his lifetime. He started picking up his guitar again and singing songs his son had written.
When he went to a bar to sing freely, he was entangled by a teenager named Quentin. Slowly, in their relationship with Quentin, they formed a band and sang songs written by his son in bars and gained good reputation.
His son's songs are so well written, and with the cooperation and performance of the band, these songs are made even more charming,
He seemed to find some meaning in life in his son's songs, he cared about Quentin and gave him advice.
Halfway through the movie, when Sam went to his cemetery on his son's birthday, I fully understood why the father was so decadent and hated the media.
But Quentin disbanded the band when he learned about the creators of the songs and canceled plans to sing.
After these days of music and the band, Sam can finally get his own redemption. He returned to his son's school and wept at the tombstone of the shooting.
He bought Quentin's favorite guitar to encourage him not to give up his favorite music, and went to the bar alone to tell everyone that the songs were written by his son.
The movie ends with his singing, and he is indeed responsible as a father, but this film shows the parent's thinking through another angle, and this self-salvation way is painful. While the film implicitly downplays the reasons for the violence, it also warns parents to pay more attention to their children's real needs.
The most important thing, the movie ost moved me very much, guitar playing and singing, country folk style, played a very important role in the movie.
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