The protagonists of the film are a father and daughter who are very "competitive". Between the "challenge" and "counterattack", they discuss the themes of love and the pursuit of value.
Daughter Ines rarely comes home to see her parents, sometimes making a rare trip back, but she would rather pretend to be on the phone in the garden than spend more time with her parents. She is polite, restrained, alienated, and isolated from the warm world. On the surface everything is fine between daughter, father, mother and stepfather.
Retired and living alone, Winfried is a sensitive, warm and funny old man. Even in trivial matters such as receiving couriers, he has to play two roles by himself, creating a small panic and keeping him silent.
In fact, both father and daughter were increasingly overwhelmed.
Finally, the only consolation by his father's side, Willie, an old dog who was so old that he could barely move, died, and his only student suddenly bid him farewell. So, without saying hello, he flew directly from Germany to Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and parachuted into the downstairs of his daughter's company.
He said he wanted to come and see if his daughter was doing well, but in fact, why didn't he escape from the suffocating loneliness in a hurry.
Ines has a high-pressure and "inhuman" life in a senior position at a consulting firm, where he's trying to become a partner in the firm. From morning to night, in addition to work and entertainment, there is no personal time to accompany my father, so I have to bring my father, who is carrying a canvas bag, to various business occasions together. The witty and humorous Winfried is very contented wherever he goes. He can pick up all kinds of jokes, but he can't make his daughter happy. Winfried's eyes are fixed on his daughter for a long time. He is distressed and puzzled, and asks her, "Are you still human?"
The father couldn't bear to wake his sleeping daughter, causing Ines to miss the call of an important client and miss her important event, and the father and daughter parted unhappily.
Watching her father get into a taxi from the balcony, Ines burst into tears, then quickly picked up her mood, because she had to rush to save the negotiation that was about to fall apart. Ines was accidentally pressed onto his toes by the sofa bed, his thumb nails almost turned up, and he still got on his boots with a heel height of 8cm.
This metaphor is very good. I don't know how many people's pain points have been hit.
The wonderful thing is that Winfried did not really return to China. He is good at role-playing, and he goes by the pseudonym "Tony Erdman" and appears in various occasions where Ines lives and works from time to time, in order to get close to and understand his daughter, and of course also make One embarrassing and funny farce after another, and nearly ruining Ines' work several times. As a result, the father and daughter staged a "battle" of provocation and counter-provocation, no one would give in, and the level gradually escalated. The daughter took drugs in front of her father, and the father did not show weakness, and then sprinkled shredded cheese on his head; perhaps; Ines had a hunch that her father would not miss her birthday party. She improvised and changed the birthday party that the work team and important clients would attend to naked crawling, waiting for her father's visit.
Climbing naked became the hilarious paragraph of the whole film, and finally, the father and daughter announced a "truce" with a hug.
I especially like the scene where my daughter cried a few times, and when Ines sang "Greatest Love Of All" under the coercion of her father, thousands of thoughts came together. The father and daughter know each other's love through a song, but their understanding of love is completely different. I think that was a turning point for Ines as well.
The actor Peter Simonishek, who played the father, was full of expectations as soon as he appeared. He never said love to his daughter once, but his every action was full of love. He would remember that he accidentally soiled his daughter's coat, so when he wrapped a birthday present, he rolled a dozen cash for her, and he could first Immediately aware of his daughter's forbearance of emotional fluctuations, he used his unique naughty style to "revenge" her daughter. Several times he sat beside him and looked at her daughter for a long time with concern in his eyes.
Daughter Ines is ambitious and powerful, and her boss even described her as a "beast". Whether she treats customers, superiors, underground lover colleagues or her father, she is full of fighting spirit and fights with battle. This suspected feminist fighter pursues victory and control. As she said when she got mad at Dad, "Don't you have any plans for your life other than that ass pad?"
The contrast is the father who is full of little fun, he almost contracted all the jokes and warm scenes. He pulls out dentures, wigs, butt pads and even handcuffs (remember that canvas bag) at all times, and jokes and jokes are his weapons to break all boredom and prudence, saying, "Don't forget your humor."
At grandma's funeral, the father and daughter had a conversation in the small garden. Winfried said that he has been thinking about the value of life since he came back: how can we grasp the beautiful moments in life, unfortunately, we all know later In hindsight, when you are in it, you often don't notice it.
At the end of the film, Winfried went back to the house to get the camera and didn't come back for a long time, and I was really worried if that would be the last conversation between father and daughter.
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