The director is a trickster. When we see the title of "The World's Greatest Father," we may not be able to wait to see what this father should look like. Maybe in our hearts, he will be as rich as Bill Gates, he will be admired as a leader of a country, he will be as strong as Schwarzenegger, he will be like a philosopher, and he will teach us many things about being human. philosophical sense...
But after watching this movie throughout, you may only be surprised. Because... how can such a person who has failed even in his own life be the greatest father in the world? Although he has dreams and is a writer, he has not published a single work. Because no other publishing house looks down on him; although he is a high school teacher who is in the same school as his son, he often cheats with a female teacher who is twenty years younger than him behind everyone else's back.
But after all, this is the "greatest father in the world" in the director's mind, so let's try to review what is worthy of our appreciation for the father in this film.
In our traditional concept, father's love is often deep. Not as strong and active as maternal love. What is more is not to sit down and teach you how to be a person with heart to heart, but to prove father's love with silent actions. The relationship between father and son is closer to a special friendship. As a kid, he played football with you, like your teammate; when he grew up, he sat in front of the TV watching football games, and he was like your friend, foe, and you chattering about defending your favorite team. No matter what his child is like, fatherly love is always like that.
The father in the film also seems to be the same. But not as we imagined. When the father saw the child masturbating to the pornographic pictures on the computer in a perverted way in the house, the surprise was not anger, maybe it was his weakness. Facing the child's rebellion and arrogance, and shouting "You violated my privacy!" in the face of the child, the father was ashamed and resigned at this time. He didn't want to see the child like this, but he also wanted to respect the child's privacy. In the conflict, the father finally chose the latter. He didn't fight or yell, just hurriedly closed the door of the child's room, his expression tangled and sad.
The father's repeated concessions did not allow his child to understand and reform, but instead made the child feel arrogant and unreasonable in front of his father. Children can talk about porn and sex in front of their father, open and close to vagina and sex. But the father was at a loss, with a shy expression on his face. The father finally found the courage to let the child know that he was having an affair with a female teacher, and asked the child to join them on a date. The lecherous child secretly took a cell phone to take pictures of the panties under the female teacher's skirt under the desk. And went home to the computer desktop and started his already addicted masturbation. This time, I was not so lucky, and instead played with fire. It's not that he was "caught" by his father again, but he accidentally died in the process of masturbating and masturbating...
For any father, this is the most painful thing in the world. Although the child's behavior is so stupid, although the father knows that his child is just a bastard, he is still the child's father, and he loves his child deeply. Without a wife, the children are everything to him. No matter how trash and stupid his children are.
In order not to let the cause of the child's death become the laughing stock of everyone, but also to protect the child's dignity, the father created the illusion of the child's death, making him appear to have committed suicide by hanging. And also forged a suicide note for the child. The content reveals endless sadness, despair and guilt for his father.
However, unexpectedly, this forged suicide note became a turning point in my father's life. When people saw the content of this suicide note, they were all shocked by the emotions and insights it contained. It turns out that such an unremarkable bastard in school has such a complicated and profound inner world. Coupled with the sympathy that his death had drawn from those who had looked down on the student, the suicide note seemed even more expensive and noble.
At this time, the father, who received so much attention, suddenly thought of another idea. Now that the child has been so popular, it is better to forge another child's diary. To reach more people and attract more audiences. So he relied on his literary talent as a writer to stay up late on weekends to forge a diary and find someone to publish the book. What he never expected was that this diary had attracted the attention of the whole country.
Gradually, the image of the child in people's hearts not only changed completely, but became an idol worshipped by everyone. No matter which corner of the school, everyone will hold a child's diary, and wear a badge with the child's head on their chest. It's like a copy of Che Guevara.
As a father, he himself has been extremely popular and popular. Various publishers and TV stations started offering olive branches to him. Ask him to do various talk shows. This was a dream he had always longed for. Now that it can be achieved, he is naturally full of joy. But deep in his heart he also bears the accusation of deceit.
The original intention of the father to write the suicide note was to safeguard the dignity of the child. Yet he also made himself famous by the death of his child. The title of the diary was "You don't know me." In the book, the father makes his 17-year-old child's inner world look like a mature 40-year-old man, even though he knows his son is just a slow, troublesome bastard...
Under the halo of all kinds of praise and worship, father's heart began to become more uneasy at this moment. Because his morals and conscience are also being severely tested. He didn't know whether this was protecting the child or murdering the child - to obliterate the child's true heart and image in his own way, perhaps the child would only say to his father with more hatred under Jiuquan - you don't you got me.
If a father is like that, he really doesn't deserve the title "The Greatest Father in the World". At the end of the film, the father exposes the lie he has woven for a long time in front of everyone. Tell everyone that the child just died accidentally while masturbating at home...
We can imagine the expressions of everyone present at that time. It is the feeling in the heart of the deceived person after the lie is exposed. It turned out that there was no idol at all, no suicide note or diary. Kyle (the child's name) is just the rascal boy that people saw in the eyes.
The video is here. I think most people still admire this father more or less. If it were you, how much courage would you have to admit this fact? How many people can achieve "how can you be as good as you want, but you have to be worthy of your heart"?
Although his father was despised and abused by everyone present, his heart was at ease and relieved. Because he made the choices a father really deserves and the understanding, sincerity, truth and tolerance necessary to treat his children.
In the end, my father no longer cared about everyone's attention. He took off his clothes while running and came to a swimming pool, climbed on the diving platform, and did his favorite diving. At this time, he really heard the words in the child's heart: I love you, father.
Maybe a movie like this doesn't impress you very much. And neither is your "world's greatest father". After reading it, I didn't feel that this father was "the greatest in the world", but the most important thing is not the name. It is the quality that a good father should possess: he can live an ordinary life, but he must be sincere and simple to his children in his heart.
I watched this movie with my parents. To be honest, I had the urge to stop watching it a few times. Perhaps it is the gap between Chinese and Western cultures, and foreign parents may generally be so open. But every time I play a scene where a kid talks to his father about sex and sex, I feel a little awkward watching it with my parents. Seeing this, we all kept silent, just as it was just a movie. There is also the scene of the father and the female teacher cheating on the back, which is also very embarrassing to watch. Fortunately, I am an adult, otherwise I would have been kicked away by my parents.
Such conventional wisdom also makes us think that this father is not "the greatest in the world". But please don't say this movie is badly made, sleazy and unprofessional. Because in China, even if the movie is real, it will be blocked.
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