The change of the storm is used as a metaphor for the brokenness of the family. The home is as solid as ice, but it is actually very fragile. This is what is refracted by the two families in the film.
At the end of the film, the family faced each other, Ben cried, and the family finally got together once after Thanksgiving. This time, the mutual gaze was a new beginning after the ice storm, and it was a new trust and tolerance between the family members. Home is the final destination. Ben's cry was a spiritual lift and liberation, and he finally took off his armed mask and admitted his vulnerability and shame to his family. (Chinese people in the world - Ang Lee) The collision of eyes in Ang Lee's works can always bring people a point of view.
Ang Lee once said that the main element of his film is a world of glass and mirrors, which sets the visual style of the film. The first half is photorealistic and the second half is impressionism. Realism presents a moving and absolutely objective angle to examine the task, and requires many high-contrast and reflective materials—mirrors, glass, metal, ice and other reflective materials to create an empty and reflective effect to present a gradually out-of-focus environment. The above is from a world of mirrors and glass, a high-tech but artificial realistic style, to a pure world of frozen crystallization, when the power of nature sweeps the earth in the dark night, showing the style of Impressionism.
In short, I have to look at Ang Lee's films with admiration once again, and shoot such era dramas from the perspective of a Chinese.
One of the words in the film that left the deepest impression on me: In fact, it refers to a square, a space, not a number, but a space. It's the perfect space, but it only exists in the mind, you can't draw a perfect square in reality.
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