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"Father must die" is when I was at the Guangzhou Yunshang Film Festival. During the post-screening discussion, I was asked about my father's attitude when he died, which was completely unexpected, but reasonable. As a superficial family story, I feel pity and sympathy for the loss of my father in this way for my two sons. Their tragedy is a Greek tragedy of fate. Two innocent people have to bear the sin of murdering their father. This is an emotional aspect.
On a rational level of political allegory, I am comforted by the death of my father for my two sons. This is how I interpret the fable in the film: the father represents tradition and authority, the two sons represent the modern attitude to tradition and authority, the older son is submissive, and the younger son is rebellious. The eldest son is close, the younger son is far away. Because tradition and authority hold the decision-making power and survival resources, the two sons have to follow and obey their father. Under the suppression and management of the father, the younger son's personality cannot be displayed, and the eldest son's independent self-consciousness cannot be germinated. Only when the father disappears completely (the modern era is free from the heavy burden of history on him) can the two sons usher in a new future.
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