Deliberately want to watch a movie about father's love on Father's Day, but the first choice is not "Perfect World". So when I finished appreciating this story about fatherly love, about perfection, and about life, I couldn't help but feel that the world was not so pure and perfect originally.
This is an excellent teaching case film about "Stockholm Syndrome". Born into a single-parent family with a loving and strict mother, little boy Philip didn't have Halloween, roller coaster rides, or trick-or-treating like most children, and his childhood was incomplete. And when he was kidnapped by Butch and began to run away, he finally realized what the joy of childhood is. The time with Butch was a joy, even though he was a criminal, a term commonly used to label him as a bad guy, and that didn't stop Philip from having a crush on Butch that he fell to the ground when he was shot. At that time, Philip could only cry and sigh helplessly. Yes, the hostages developed a favorable impression of the criminals and could not extricate themselves. This is the symptom of the so-called "Stockholm Syndrome".
But if analyzed in terms of medical theory, every film would appear pale, feeble, and thin. What is most important to a person? There is no doubt, of course, feelings! It is precisely because of the emotion poured into it that the characters can be vivid and full, the story can be smooth and vivid, and the viewer can be immersed in the scene, whether happy or sad, to observe his own life through images.
Both Philip and Butch had a gray childhood, the difference is that Philip was going through it, and Butch had gone. So when Philip expresses the desire for life that an innocent boy should have, Butch will of course think of his childhood, his mother, and of course their common topic: father. Philip and Butch's family life is not complete, Philip's father is missing - dead, running away, unknown. So, Butch's father is a soft eater who has abandoned his responsibility as a father. Despite the absence of their father, both Philip and Butch retain their desire and love for their father. When Butch urges Philip to spend Halloween, ride roller coasters, and play trick-or-treating games, perhaps he also remembers that his unhappy father didn't take him to play these games. He had these desires when he was a child, and now he has made Philip fulfilled, and on the other hand, Butch has also fulfilled his childhood dream.
The reason why the title is called "Perfect World" is precisely because there are too many imperfections in reality. When I was a child, my family was incomplete, my father’s love for my mother was not sound, my living environment was too oppressive, and many desires could not be satisfied; when I grew up, I was under great academic pressure, unfulfilled work, and even more fruitless in love; after that, my career encountered a bottleneck. , the family burden is too heavy, the midlife crisis, the constant quarrels between husband and wife, the increasingly thinning gray hair, and ... and then, loneliness, loneliness, relatives and friends pass away, the pace of death is approaching, and finally to heaven or hell. Human life is nothing more than this. There are so many unhappiness and sorrow in life, is it simply barren, wasted, and unresisted? Fortunately, despite the impossibility of perfection, we maintain our desire for the good in life. After all, people are animals with feelings. When faced with obstacles in reality, emotional lubricant always makes people have the determination and courage to continue. Philip was like this, Butch was like that, and so were the rest of the world. The power of emotion is so powerful that everyone is willing to be its captive.
The Perfect World was not meant to be a tear gas, I guess. But it is so sincere and even a bit plain and straightforward that it shows feelings, especially the breadth of father's love, so that people who have feelings have to be moved by it. At the end of the film, Butch is fatally shot just because he takes out his father's postcard from Alaska, which he wants to give to Philip. Alaska is a remote, cold place with the longed-for father in memory that Butch can't get to in his life, and what about Philip?
So, if there is still love, can you reject the perfect world?
ps Stockholm syndrome (Stockholm syndrome), Stockholm effect, also known as Stockholm syndrome or hostage complex or hostage syndrome, refers to a complex that the victim of a crime has feelings for the perpetrator, and even helps the perpetrator in turn. This emotion causes the victim to develop a favorable impression of the perpetrator, dependence, and even assist in perpetrating others.
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