The plot of "The Cramers" where the divorce of parents affects the children reminds me of "Mom Love Me Again" that was organized to watch when I was a child. Almost 90% of the audience, including those of us who watched collectively, cried. There are all howling and crying. I still feel heartbroken when I think of those pictures. (But I did not cry at the time, the classmates next to me were crying). This kind of unrestrained sensation can indeed make people cry, and it will be better if it is supplemented by sad music. Cui Jian once starred in "My Brothers and Sisters" and a group of children suddenly experienced the death of their parents and had to be separated. It was also quite teary. The endings of these two films are very bright-obviously, we can't let our tears flow in vain.
In comparison, "The Kramers" and "Iranian Separation" are obviously more impactful. They are not eager to jerky people, but leave a lot of blank space for reflection. In "Iranian Separation", the judge asked the teenage daughter to decide whether she should be with her father or mother. Tears rolled in her eyes, and she did not speak after all. The movie ends here. Of course, this is not a movie about the relationship between marriage and ethics. Its theme is more far-reaching. I wrote it before, so I won’t repeat it .
"The Kramers" fully expresses what it is like to get divorced and fight for custody in a normal society. Of course, there are still many pathologies in this society. For example, a person has to let his work occupy all of his own to survive. For example, a lawyer has to play with the cold logic to win the lawsuit. But overall, in a failed marriage, all parties are doing their best to protect the children.
Usually some scenes in this kind of movie are indispensable: at first the father is in a hurry and behaves as a father and a mother, the child cries and asks if the father left because he is too naughty and the mother (the father answers of course not), the child finally sees To mother, ran over and threw herself in her arms. The director only directly showed these indispensable scenes, and other more scenes (the child fell ill and had a fever, the father temporarily asked for leave to go back to be with him, etc.) passed through the confrontation in the court. I admire this kind of light, restrained sentimentality. Throughout the play, Dustin Hoffman did not shed a single tear, although tears rolled in his eyes several times. Compared with tears, this kind of restraint is better than silent at this time.
At first I even thought the plot was a bit blunt, why suddenly Joanna had to run away from home, why Teddy suddenly turned from a workaholic to a loving father. But after adapting to the director's blanking style, I feel that this kind of deletion is very simple and clever. In the film, Teddy found a job within half a day in order to win the lawsuit, which is very shocking.
The film also complements the life of the neighbor downstairs-a divorced single mother feminist-to complement these two similarly different marriage failure stories.
In the end, Teddy finally decided to face the reality and stopped the lawsuit and took the child to Central Park to explain it to him. He said, Dad loves you and Mom loves you, but I don’t know which one loves you more. Finally, we find It was judged by a very experienced person. The children are also very sensible in facing the fact that their parents cannot be together. They did not ask the children to ask: can you be together like a general sensational movie. The ending took a turn for the worse, Joanna decided to let the child stay with her father (but custody and custody belonged to her), Teddy asked her to go up to the child alone and said that the movie ends here and ends at the end, which is memorable.
In a failed marriage, the child is injured the most. In a normal society, the situation is a little better, but the trauma of the soul is inevitable. I remember that "60 Minutes" interviewed Wolverine Hugh Jackman. He said that when he was a child, his mother suddenly packed up things and ran away from home. I never saw her again. It was the year he played "Les Miserables" when he was interviewed. He was almost fifty years old. He cried in front of the camera when he talked about it. He said that he had always had a good relationship with his wife and would take her with him when filming. Spielberg's mother did the same thing. Their age is the age of the awakening of feminism, and the age of the story in "The Cramers". This film is not a simple sensational work, but a serious and solid story about everyone facing the breakdown of their marriage. Troubles and how to solve them.
However, for me, another huge gain is that I learned how to make Lansie toast. The next morning after watching this movie, I just cooked the French toast, which was really delicious.
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