Looking through the stone

Quinn 2022-03-21 09:01:53

This story of saving my father begins with the plight of the protagonist. For the protagonist, his father is the emotional sustenance of the protagonist when he faces real problems that cannot be solved. He is unwilling to tell anyone around him. Crossing the list is talking to himself, and then he talks to his father in the tape recorder in his imagination. These very delicate emotions are indeed touching, but to support the story of adventure and dragon slaying, it seems reasonable but not powerful enough.

So the screenwriter supported the atmosphere with his swollen middle-aged brother. The effect of creating laughs and making people around you dislike it has been achieved, but the setting of the second disease will always make people feel that something is wrong. At the end, after the younger brother re-examined the list, he replaced the older brother in the role of the father, and the auxiliary actions such as pulling the rope along the way have new meanings, and the discordant parts such as disgust for "trash" are also in line with the brothers. A true father's rant. Emotionally understandable, but less persuasive.

In fact, the whole story only takes into account the shaping of the protagonist, and when the fourth memory is spoken, it is also the progress of the relationship between the two. The brother's character has no three-dimensional sense, and lacks enough symmetry with the second disease. . The same is true of my mother's line, which is somewhat of a reflection on the current situation of distress, but it is not enough. The detours, the aunts finding their "self", and the laughing points of bumping into each other along the way, these points are filled with the whole film, but they are all too routine and the relationship with the main line is very far-fetched. The whole film presents a kind of The feeling of a business job that is well-established and limited in creativity.

At the same time, I also felt that the film deliberately ignored some uncomfortable parts in order to create some lively scenes. For example, the dissatisfaction and irritability of the younger brother with the elder brother, and the incongruity between the protagonist's family and the protagonist's family make people feel that those comedy scenes are not happy at all. But I'm also finding more and more that there's a difference in my receptiveness to happiness and sadness in movies. Originally, I was not a person with a particularly low laugh, and I didn’t even bother to pull the corners of my mouth when I felt a little familiar. But the unhappy parts are always noticed all at once, often awakening emotions related to my personal experience rather than the storyline. I don't know if it's an emotional problem or Gu Ying's self-pity disease. In short, it's always difficult for me to judge whether the non-positive emotions I received in the story are objectively present in the story.

But at the end, I was still moved, and there was a memorable passage: the younger brother gave the opportunity to see his father to the older brother.

Although the end of the journey is at the starting point, the journey is not meaningless. Except for the stones that open the organs and the spells that activate the magic, each character understands the most important things around him, and only when his younger brother is on the verge of success Giving up and accepting calmly after hesitating with my brother, at that moment the two brothers truly understood each other. But the fact that the younger brother was blocked behind the stone was out of reach, which still made people feel the same, so in the end, the hug of the elder brother was a complete complement of the theme and emotion.

Personal evaluation 7.0, for teenagers who don't have much movie watching experience, you can watch it towards the end.

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  • Barley Lightfoot: [Shrunk, in Ian's shirt pocket] I have to use the restroom.

    Ian Lightfoot: Can't it wait?

    Barley Lightfoot: All right, your pocket.

  • Ian Lightfoot: I didn't call you a screw up.

    Barley Lightfoot: You didn't have to. The magic said it for you.