"Story" excerpt.
There is a seemingly simple but complicated scene in "The Cramers"—【French toast scene】.
Among them, a turning point is made on the complex level of three values:
a. Confidence (inner conflict)
b. The child's trust in the father (personal conflict)
c. And the sense of worship and family survival (extra-personal conflict)
Inner conflict
At the beginning of the film, Kramer discovered that his wife had left him and his son. He endured the torment of a kind of inner conflict. On the one hand, it was the suspicion and fear of being helpless, and on the other hand, the male arrogance, thinking that anything a woman could do was easy. At the beginning of the scene, he was full of confidence.
Personal conflict
The son was hysterical, afraid that he would starve to death without his mother cooking. Kramer tried his best to calm his son and told him not to worry, his mother would come back, but we had a good time before mother came back, just like camping outside. The child wiped away his tears and believed his father's promise.
Extra-personal conflict
The kitchen is like an alien world to him, but he enters the kitchen as a French chef.
Kramer reported his son to the bench. When his son said French toast, the breakfast hell opened. The excess cooking oil on the frying pan, the unregulated fire, the cupboard that was turned over, and his son verbally argued. In the process, I stubbornly beat the eggs with a coffee cup, but many of them reached outside, and there was a sticky egg everywhere, and my son cried.
The result afterwards is conceivable. There were graffiti-style oil stars, milk, egg liquid, and bread scattered everywhere, and the father and son were scalded until Kramer grabbed his son’s arm and pushed the door out, “Let’s go Restaurant bar".
Kramer's male arrogance was overwhelmed by his fear, and his self-confidence turned from positive to negative. He made a fool of himself in front of the frightened child, and his son's trust and admiration turned from positive to negative.
He was defeated by a kitchen that seemed to have life, and received a heavy blow. There is almost no dialogue in this scene, just a simple act of a man trying to make breakfast for his son, but it has become one of the most memorable scenes.
A three-minute scene in which a man clashes with all levels of complexity in his life at the same time.
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