Weird friday

Alexys 2021-11-17 08:01:28

The Chinese translation of Freaky Friday is not "辣妈辣妹", but according to the English literal translation, it should be "Strange Friday". Before I bought this film, I had seen the original soundtrack in "Charming English". The reason I was attracted at the beginning was because Chinese restaurants and Chinese people appeared in the film. After watching the whole film today, I was moved by the mother and daughter finally being able to understand each other's hearts.

The film tells about a pair of mother and daughter with different tastes and living habits. On a strange Friday morning, they find that their bodies are on the opposite sides—that is, mothers become daughters, and daughters become mothers. Helpless, they had to walk into each other's life: the mother went to her daughter's school, and the daughter went to replace her mother as a psychologist. They understand each other from different angles, and let the mother and daughter learn to understand each other again, but the premise is that they must find a way to change back before showing their feet in front of outsiders. In the film, the mother never understood her high school daughter, and tried to control her daughter’s life, and did not allow her to participate in the band. She criticized her daughter’s frequent F, and always said with certainty, “If I were you, I would definitely work hard. ...I can pass all the exams...". The daughter also didn't understand her mother. She tried to explain something to her mother and always believed that her mother was happy because she could "do whatever she wanted."

Watching the film, I also connected with the lives of my peers. Perhaps it is the difference between Chinese and Western education and cultural backgrounds. Chinese children are always behaved (at least I think it is). Even though we sometimes want to show up, our introverted thoughts seem to be deeply ingrained in our minds. We are more accustomed to obedient to our parents and follow their parents' arrangements to go on obediently. Although sometimes I often say to adults, "How nice you are, you can sleep as long as you want at night, no one can care! But our children always have to be controlled. How good is an adult...", I also It was in this kind of expectation that I grew up a little bit, but when I grew up, I found out that when I was happily listening to my parents saying "I'm older," why do I always look at the children running enviously? I always hear people say that if you don’t learn to change, you just refuse to grow up. I experienced the maturity of my thinking, accepted all kinds of unfamiliar knowledge I learned, listened to all kinds of indoctrination from adults, and tried to understand the strange and distant adult world.

Three years after the death of her husband, the mother in the film fell in love with another person and wanted to marry him. But she never asked her thoughtful and self-respecting daughter if she would be willing. The actual thought of my daughter is: no one can replace my father. And when they became each other, the daughter, as the "fiancée of the future stepfather", finally truly understood the stepfather's thoughts and the stepfather's love for herself and her mother... If it were not for this exchange, perhaps the daughter would never know the stepfather's Love. This is enough to show how important it is to express. If I love, I must express my love. Seeing this, I suddenly felt a little guilty. I love my parents so much, but it seems that I have never said "I love you" to my parents face to face in 14 years. At most, I stingyly said "missing you" in the letter or on the phone, and never told my parents my love for them. Although it is a written expression now, I want to say-Mom and Dad, I love you. Every day I grow up, my love will be a little bit more. My parents not only give me skin, but also give me thought and character.

I know that there is no such thing as changing roles in real life, but there is no need to use the magical cookies of the old Chinese lady in the film. I will experience the feelings of my parents as I grow up, and I hope my parents can understand a daughter who is getting bigger and bigger. heart of.

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Freaky Friday quotes

  • Harry: You go and ask her you old fart

    Grandpa: Boy youth is wasted on the young

  • Anna (in Tess's body): [Coming back from Anna's audition, Tess looks at Ryan and begins tearing up] Mom, what's wrong?

    Tess (in Anna's body): I need you to do something for me.

    Anna (in Tess's body): Sure, Mom, after, after what you just did for me. Anything.

    Tess (in Anna's body): It needs to happen now before all the toasts and speeches.

    Anna (in Tess's body): Okay.

    Tess (in Anna's body): Clearly, we're not switching back tonight. I need you to tell Ryan that you need to postpone the wedding.

    Anna (in Tess's body): [Shocked] What?

    Tess (in Anna's body): No, listen. I can see you're not ready for this and I can wait. I guess that I was just so happy, I wasn't thinking about what's best for you and Harry.

    Anna (in Tess's body): But, but, but, Mom...

    Tess (in Anna's body): - If he loves me like I think he does, he'll wait, too. He'll understand. He'll be very sweet and gracious about it. But, please...

    [Crying a little more]

    Tess (in Anna's body): ... just, please let him know that I love him and be as kind as you possibly can... for me.

    Anna (in Tess's body): [Understanding] Okay, Mom. I know exactly what to say.

    Tess (in Anna's body): I'll be along in a minute.

    [Anna - Tess's body - walks over to the head table, while, Tess - in Anna's body - stands back for a minute to let a few tears]

    Anna (in Tess's body): [to Ryan] Um, you should sit down.

    [Ryan sits down, where Anna - in Tess's body - picks up a glass and rings it to gain the attention of the whole party]

    Anna (in Tess's body): Uh, hi. Um, I, I guess I, I'm gonna start the toasts.

    [Tess, in Anna's body, looks confused]

    Anna (in Tess's body): So, 3 years ago, we had a really bad thing happen. We lost a Father and a Husband, and I didn't think we'd ever get over it. But then, this guy, next to me, came into the picture and everyone could see that I was happy again. I was singing in the shower again, not well, I might add...

    [Everyone laughs]

    Anna (in Tess's body): ... But I was still worried about my kids, Anna and Harry, whether or not they would be able to accept a new man in their life. And now I know how Anna feels. And what she feels is that...

    [Anna's emotion begins to build]

    Anna (in Tess's body): ... No one could ever take the place of her Dad...

    [Voice breaking, tears coming in]

    Anna (in Tess's body): ... Because he was a really great Dad. But somebody could be a part of a new family in its own kind of cool, new little unit and that, for someone as special as Ryan, that we would all make a little more room. Anna would really wanted her Mom to know that.

    [the room begins to shake in the style of an earthquake with Anna and Tess switching back to their own bodies]

    Anna: [Overjoyed to be back in her own body,] And I am so psyched to be here. I guess...

    [Walks down the steps, grabs a glass of water from a waiter]

    Anna: ... all I'm trying to say is, Ryan, welcome to our family.

    [Raising her glass of water]

    Anna: To the Bride and Groom.

    [Everyone applauds]

    Ryan: [In Tess's ear] What the Hell just happened?

    Tess: Trust me, you don't wanna know.

    [They kiss]