Father and Son, a film about growing up.

Denis 2022-03-23 09:02:27

As a child, fathers were often the object of worship for boys. To be like a father is his life goal.

When I grew up, I found that my father was not as stalwart as he used to be. Perhaps, his success also has original sin, and his life is also full of bad marks. . .

If you don't want to be like a father, when a child wakes up and finds himself, the first step is to remove all the father's brand. But DNA relationships, environmental relationships, and social relationships have to make us become like our fathers.

The son put a disgusting sticker on the wall to clean up the traces of his father.

In order to avoid being like his father, his father used drunkenness, depression, and giving up until he was schizophrenic, and imagined a Mr. Beaver to replace himself.

Killing our fathers and killing ourselves doesn't make us the best people we can be. Acknowledging that no one is perfect, and accepting that my father is also an ordinary person who can make mistakes, be stupid, and run away when he encounters problems. Accepting the imperfections in life allows you to let go of others as well as yourself.

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  • Madeline 2022-04-23 07:03:04

    The success of "Beaver" comes from its stereotyped and subtly exaggerated middle-aged man after the financial crisis. The movie has a closed narrative space, drawing out the relationship line between the established characters, and then enriching it little by little. The insertion of the image of the beaver was a surprise, and Jodie Foster also showed her talent as a director, successfully creating a shift in the protagonist's identity and self-contradiction. Plus I don't like Mel Gibson at all.

  • Jalyn 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    In fact, Jodie Foster's movie is quite healing and interesting, and the theme is actually quite clear, don't fight the pain alone, bury the pain. But the emotional sublimation is general, and the outbreak of the plot is only the one-man show of Mel Gibson.

The Beaver quotes

  • Porter Black: Tagging? Like... like graffiti tagging?

    Norah: More like art. It was just... illegal.

  • [first lines]

    Walter Black: This is a picture of Walter Black, a hopelessly depressed individual. Somewhere inside him is a man who fell in love. Who started a family. Who ran a successful company. That man has gone missing. No matter what he's tried, and he's tried everything, Walter can't seem to bring him back. It's as if he's died, but hasn't had the good sense to take his body with him. So mostly what he does is sleep.