After watching this movie, I felt something was wrong.
The film gives me the feeling of exporting "the enormous amount of pressure on men's shoulders - whether it's family, emotional, financial."
And the fate of women in the movie is also closely linked to men. A man's success or failure determines a woman's success or failure. The heroine's trip to London is also based on the ex-boyfriend's availability of resources. Once the ex-boyfriend's incompetence is discovered, the planned bright future immediately turns into a confused one. The hero's mother also turned to "Tony" in the face of her husband's incompetence and embraced a bright future.
The woman as an accessory is shown vividly in the movie. The function of the heroine to the hero is also here. The relationship between the two people is very obvious. The heroine inspired the hero to save her. Therefore, women still appear as a functional tool, becoming a yardstick for calibrating whether a man is successful or not, and exists for the self-realization of men.
All the male characters here seem to be tragic. Even though the hero and heroine seem to have escaped from the island of Ireland in the end, but they are heading for a storm, it is difficult to judge that they have indeed succeeded.
In contrast to other male characters, the hero's father lost his wife and house in the end, and is still unemployed, his failure is an ongoing fact of being accomplished. Even though the elder brother quit smoking briefly in the middle and wanted to do something, he continued to waste his life. Because he lacked the inspiration of women, he could only watch his younger brother ride the wind and waves and turn around and return to the original wasteful life.
In the film, music has become a curtain to cover all negative emotions. The actual problem has not been solved. The contradictions and failures are still there, but they are just blocked. As mentioned above, the hero and heroine finally drove into the storm through the wind and waves. Everyone, both the audience and the characters in the film, was numbed by the music and felt only short-lived happiness.
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