Released in 2005, The Squid and the Whale was an early masterpiece by director Noah Baumbach of the Oscar-season hit "Marriage Story." The film tells the story of a middle-class family of four. There is an older brother and a younger brother. The older brother is closer to his father, the younger brother is closer to his mother, and their parents are divorced. The film opens with a succinct account of the discordant relationship between the intellectual family. Conflicts and estrangements between parents have affected the two children to varying degrees at all levels, ranging from mantras to life values, and even some personality defects of the two children. The "squid and whale" in the title is actually the emotional point of the film, which is a metaphor for the emotional state of family members who are entangled and inseparable and in constant conflict. The bitterness in it is self-evident. The confrontation between the squid and the whale vividly hints at the relationship between the protagonist and his wife, alluding to the ubiquitous clashes and fragmented loneliness of modern families. People are often unable to maintain a distance from the world, but can brutally destroy the trust of their loved ones. Spiritual Doctrine of Family Discourse The Bernard family is a new-school intellectual middle-class family in Brooklyn, USA in 1986. Their economic income, social status, personal cultivation and cultural accomplishment are excellent in all aspects, and their behaviors are different. Bernard judges whether a person is worth dating only by a simple but very harsh criterion: whether the other party is a layman who does not understand literature and does not read classics. So he was almost in a state of self-appreciation and absolute self, including to his wife who had become a writer himself, and he asked her to change the novel into a ending that he thought was wonderful. Immediately after being resisted, he was furious. So sometimes the stubbornness of intellectuals is more terrifying than the stubbornness of fools, because the latter only harms themselves, while the former may mislead the country and the people. Of course, Bernard's harm is far less than this, and he is just the biggest culprit who bears unshirkable responsibility for the family's falling apart. Bernard's sovereign advantage is mainly manifested in the fact that he enjoys and values the superiority of being an elder and a wise man to guide the country. In his attitude towards his son and wife, he is more like a meticulous and excelsior mentor, often with sincere enthusiasm. All of your own insights and thoughts are instilled in the minds of others, regardless of whether the obsessive thinking is really correct. A good movie like "The Squid and the Whale" that tells the story of life with the details of life and the future is really an obscure but fragrant flower, which is refreshing. For us, what we need most in life is not stimulation. It is not criticism, but a kind of reflection, a kind of reflection. Only by constantly thinking, reflecting, and changing, can we live a happier and more wonderful life.
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