A few minutes to understand the daughter's emotional attitude towards her father in "Too"

Jorge 2022-09-03 00:37:48

Daughter's Emotional Attitude to Father

1. Anger, grievance, confusion, denial

The father asked his daughter what the meaning of life was, and the daughter scoffed at the question.

The father did not wake up the napped daughter, so that the daughter missed the meeting. The daughter was angry because of this, and after sending her father away, grievance and confusion took over her emotions, so she burst into tears.

The essence of scoffing at the question, anger, grievance, and confusion at the practice of delaying one's career is a denial of the father's emphasis on the meaning of life.

2. Helplessness, anger, plausible approach and recognition

The father appears to his daughter in a bar in a fictitious capacity. Perhaps to avoid embarrassment, the daughter reluctantly cooperated with her father in acting. I watched my father take the LIMO home.

The father appeared in the company as a coach, and the daughter finally had the opportunity to express her dissatisfaction with her father's actions (denial). At the same time, the daughter found out that her father not only had a business card (sober), but also really hooked up with her boss.

After the handcuffs scandal, the daughter invited her father to a meeting and took the initiative to participate in her father's performance (fictitious fatherhood). Active participation shows the daughter's short-lived identification.

The reason may be that (1), after three appearances of the father's second identity, the daughter has been adapted.

(2) The daughter was slightly affected. (The daughter briefly approaches the father)

(3) The father's behavior crossed the class (LIMO, successfully hooked up with the boss), and paradoxically catered to the daughter's values. (Compare with the daughter's dialogue "This is why you are in this class.")

3. Anger (to the extreme), grievance (to the extreme)

Father invites daughter to Easter event. At the event, let the daughter learn to draw eggs, and let the daughter sing songs with the theme of educating children to love life.

Learning to draw eggs is intended to awaken my daughter's love for life.

On the one hand, the values ​​held by the daughter make her aggrieved, on the other hand, the daughter is maintaining her own values.

She guides her daughter to sing, awakens all her grievances (the form of singing expresses her feelings), and greatly impacts her values ​​(referring to the content of the lyrics). The daughter's emotional conflict reaches its extreme at this moment, which is reflected in hysterical singing.

4. From plausibility to true reconciliation and recognition

The father appeared as a long-haired monster in order to wake up his daughter's feelings for him. (Passers-by and children couldn't help touching the fur on the father's props, knowing that the father was guiding his daughter to hug him.) Just as the father planned, the daughter hugged the father.

The problem is, I don't know if the daughter is being led, or is there a reconciliation with the father? I think it's the former, so the daughter's reconciliation with her father seems like a vague impulse.

I think the father was actually quite disappointed with his daughter at this time. In fact, he may have lost hope for his daughter to re-establish a relationship with him and to re-approve the concept of loving life. Why do I say that?

To be honest, I think this storyline is too tricky. This hairy monster refers to the Himalayan Yeti.

This snowman is not a dummy made of snow.

Nor is it a civilization-producing people like the Eskimos living in the Himalayas.

It is a kind of tall, hairy, human-shaped creature that is still inconclusive in science and almost lives in legend.

People's impression of it is sometimes benevolent and gentle, sometimes fierce and brutal.

So it means that on the one hand, the father wants to love his daughter for the last time, and on the other hand, he thinks that we can't go back, so he rudely drives his daughter away. (Just joke).

The daughter recognizes her father, and the first manifestation is that her daughter quit her job.

The second is reflected in the end of the film, the daughter put on a wig and dentures.

At this moment, the daughter really reached a consensus and reconciliation with her father. Not surprised, not surprised. The real reconciliation isn't when the monster dad hugs his daughter. The monster before the last scene gave people a strong visual impact, which led everyone to think that that scene was the key. It is no wonder that some people said that the last scene was superfluous. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you know that in that scene, the father was crying while walking further and further.

Probably so.

Although it has 3 stars, the overall emotional impact is difficult to measure.

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Extended Reading

Toni Erdmann quotes

  • Winfried Conradi alias Toni Erdmann: No concept makes sense without the client.

  • Ines Conradi: I don't want to lose my bite.