Don't give in, without a fight.

Devyn 2022-04-22 07:01:38

I think women may be more disgusted with their father's style after watching this movie. Describing the character as "sleazy" is completely emotional. I feel like the film spent more time portraying Walt and his father because the director himself was more influenced by his father and spent more time with him during that time, from adoration to father figure The collapse, which is a process many people go through. This film is a semi-autobiographical film by the director, and the transformation of the thought process expressed by the director starts from his belief that his mother should be responsible for the entire marriage, and ends when he realizes that it is not her mother's responsibility. The movie's ending isn't suggesting that he's passing that responsibility onto his father. My interpretation comes from my personal experience: it took me a long time to realize that none of my intellectual parents should be responsible for the failure of the marriage, and I have also gone through an extremely painful and long process of changing from what I once thought One of the parents should be responsible for the whole thing. I agree with what the heroine said about this marriage in the DVD special: "No one is totally innocent, no one is totally guilty. Never any one person's fault. It's just the life span of that marriage ran its cause. "My dad's sentence may be more accurate, he said, I and your mother are "negative and negative". :)


There is no sensational scene, but it touches people's hearts. The dialogue in the film, the style of intellectual parents, and the growth experience of WALT and FRANK have brought back countless memories in me, and tears were shed before I found out, but this film seems heavy It's humorous, just like my father's four-word summary. Intellectual parents have their own characteristics: rational, good at guiding and influencing their children, and paying attention to their changes. He tells you how to grow up and should not be a tennis coach, what kind of girls to associate with, and how to lose your singing competition. It would only be the result of the judges being too stupid, as if his unsatisfactory career was only a matter of publishing. In addition, it may be easier for children to detect that one partner is trying to influence the other. It may be easier for children to find out what characteristics they have inherited from their parents, starting from your facial features and skeleton, to your words, and you will suddenly realize that someday you will suddenly realize that your outspoken comment on the freckles on your girlfriend's face, It is the influence of your father's style.


High school friends who are familiar with me may also ask if they meet after graduation, if your parents are divorced. I always want to laugh when I hear this, because I think of a scene in the movie "The Rainy Season of Flowers" where a boy asks a girl the same question in order to provoke her. My friends didn't mean to irritate me. My parents didn't live apart until I was twenty-three years old, so I'm used to talking to my friends about my parents occasionally. I think the biggest difficulty faced by an only child in a family may not be the loneliness without siblings, but the inability to make a side choice like the two brothers in the movie: "Mom and me versus you and dad." I always feel If I had a brother like WALT or a brother like Frank, maybe some experiences would have been better for me.



There are many things that can be involved in a troubled marriage, husband and wife, children, house, husband and wife's career, child support, tuition, television, books, pets, psychiatrist, tennis coach, and others. When I was a child, I also had two animals that I was very afraid of. It turned out to be the two giant sculpture pandas in Xiangmi Lake. My mother also mentioned to me that I stood in front of them and took pictures, and I was afraid to look back. The two pandas are long gone.

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The Squid and the Whale quotes

  • [first lines]

    Frank Berkman: Mom and me versus you and Dad.

  • Bernard Berkman: Joan, let me ask you something. All that work I did at the end of our marriage, making dinners, cleaning up, being more attentive. It never was going to make a difference, was it? You were leaving no matter what...

    Joan Berkman: You never made a dinner.

    Bernard Berkman: I made burgers that time you had pneumonia.