This is a very touching film, which reminds me of a film "The Trip to Bountiful" I watched a few years ago. The film is about an old lady who is over sixty years old. In order to return to his hometown to see before his death, despite the opposition of his son and daughter-in-law, he went on the road alone, and finally embarked on a heart-wrenching journey. At the end of the movie, of course, the grudges between the old woman and her middle-class son and daughter-in-law were resolved, and of course the whole family reached a new state of communion. From this perspective, although the stories are different, the spiritual core of "The Trip to Bountiful" coincides with that of "The Trip to Bountiful", with Mrs. Watts on one side and Frank on the other, both bored retirees , are also desperate old people who are facing a crisis of trust in their children, are also a father with an extremely determined character, and a mother who can bear the great sorrows and joys of life.
Of course, everyone's fine, based on the remake of the 1990 Italian film of the same name, is actually what Frank said in front of his wife's cold tombstone in his later years. : This is a movie that looks so complicated. Only when people are really old can they feel the heart-wrenching feeling of wasting. 19 years later, Americans have taken up this theme again. First, the core of everyone's fine story is very close to the current living conditions of modern people, especially in the past 15 years, the aging of American society has been increasing day by day, huge economic pressure. Next, the Mesozoic gradually developed emotions and tendencies to deviate from the family. First, the director himself had a serious break with his parents. It was not until they suffered serious illness that he realized that he was financially independent, but he could never leave them spiritually. .
everybody's fine could have been remade into a more serious and serious family ethics film than the original. Hollywood has many such themes, such as "Ordinary People", "Mother and Daughter Love", "Kramer and Mrs. Kramer" in the 1980s. In this version, the director deliberately avoided the misery of the old protagonist's life alone, but showed all aspects of life through his interactions with several children. The children concealed their own things from the old father, and life was not satisfactory. , but they also maintained the most positive and optimistic attitude.
Robert De Niro, who plays Frank, has already won this year's Best Actor at the Hollywood Film Festival for everyone's fine, making his first Oscar-nominated appearance, but the rest of the film's characters, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell, are all out in the open too. Although they don't have any genetic genes in appearance, the one-line connection of Frank's character makes the film's allegorical richer.
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