This film really touched me. I'm still so moved, I can't stop the tears.
The interaction between the old couple at the beginning is cute and lovely, and you can feel that they have really lived in that room for a long time. All the items in the house, their daily activities, and the house that has not been tidy for a long time are so natural, warm and harmonious. The scenery shots and the music at the beginning of the film really touched me, and every shot was as beautiful as an oil painting. Lively, loving life, enthusiastic and generous Ethel, stubborn, stubborn, childish Norman, the characters are full and three-dimensional. The simple and daily way of getting along with each other has already made people deeply feel the deep love between the couple. At the beginning, Norman lost his way and his posture implied that his physical health was not very good, and his memory was not very good, which paved the way for the subsequent incident of hitting the rocks and having a heart attack. With the addition of Billy, the childish Norman found a "playmate", and a lonely heart was warmed by a new light. Norman and Billy have a mutually redeeming relationship. In the past, Billy, whether his father or others around him, was a bad child, a bad student, and everyone was teaching him dogmatically. But Norman treated his friends who wanted to be equal, and he didn't care whether he swears or even swears with him, which made Billy gradually change his initial impression of Norman as a strange old man, and slowly opened his heart and accepted this Friends, but also found their own value. In the interlude, when Norman and Billy quarreled, the general reason was that Norman yelled at Billy. The first time was teaching him how to fish, and Norman's irritable temper came up again, but after Billy said "don't yell at me, you can talk well", he also realized his mistake and said "sorry", and Billy whispered "it's okay" next to him, this picture has already moved me, for two people who usually stab at people to protect themselves, being able to be soft and showing weakness is already a cute and beautiful thing. Touching thing too.
With regard to Norman and Chelsea's relationship, the hostility between the father and daughter can be felt in the reaction of everyone who brought the dentist home in Chelsea at the beginning. In the middle of the film, the director told us her hatred for her father directly through Chelsea's mouth. I especially understand her because her relationship with my dad is so similar to me and my dad, so I even kind of empathize with her when she says those vile things. But from the confusion when Norman and Billy were fishing and calling Billy Chelsea, he could feel that he cared about his daughter, but his boyish unwillingness to admit defeat made him always reluctant to bow his head to show weakness, and his self-esteem made him unable to say "love" this word. As a result, Chelsea thought her father didn't love her, and all the words he said to her were yin and yang, either ridiculing or scolding. The saddest part I cried was when she reconciled with Norman, when she came out of the golden lake and Billy and Ethel and Norman, especially Norman, stood up and applauded, my Tears kept falling, maybe this was what I expected, but the way I communicated with my dad was really as awkward and jerky as Chelsea and Norman, even full of hostility at all times. Maybe one day we can understand each other completely because of one thing just like in the movie. But I don't know what the future holds.
In the end, the scene in which Norman had a heart attack almost broke my heart. My grandfather also had a heart attack, and because of the actor's real performance, a kind of fear suddenly covered my heart like a tide. Ethel's reaction also made people cry, all the senses were awakened at once through the actor's performance, tears, sore nose, shaking hands and so on. Until Norman said he was alright, I didn't dare to let go.
In the end, the golden pond returned to silence, leaving a touching and aftertaste in the hearts of every audience.
There are also a lot of small points that touch me very much, such as Norman and Ethel's discussion of death, which echoes Norman's loss when he sees Billy fishing a dead bird, and it is also thought-provoking, but now at his age We may not be qualified to discuss the issue of "death", but I sometimes think about these so-called "there is no" philosophical questions.
It's really a very good film, I like the rhythm very much, and I will revisit it again in the summer vacation
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