The protagonists of the story are a father and a son.
The adolescent son's relationship with his father was antithetical at the beginning, and his heart was full of hatred and resentment - hating his mother for abandoning him, and complaining that his father was incompetent. He did not want to have anything to do with the family, trying to forget all the memories related to the past. When his father drove the car to pick him up, he didn't want his girlfriend to know that it was his father; when he came to the bullring, he didn't know his native language; when he heard the familiar music, he forgot those The mark of a baby; he even asked the father outright, why do poor people have children? ...At the same time, the most worrying thing is that my son's girlfriend and friends are all gangsters. Whenever I see a gangster, my son's eyes always shine with longing. He seems to feel that being in the gang can make him rich, become stronger. This can't help but make the audience worried, afraid, really afraid, afraid that he will go astray and waste his father's good intentions.
But the father's kind love still slowly flowed into the son's indifferent heart. When he saw his father's tired and huge body curled up on the dilapidated sofa, his son was moved; when his father's car was stolen, his father was drunk and exhausted, and his son cried; The car is accompanied by the son... The son gradually understands the father and understands the father's love.
But his father could not escape the clutches of fate after all. Just when the twists and turns turned, his father was caught and had to be sent back to China. Before leaving, the father answered the question that haunted his son: because you gave me the courage to live, because you are the motivation for me to create a better life, all for myself. However, if it really goes to the end, isn't the father for the child? Because children and their parents are linked together, children are the continuation of their parents' lives.
This film uses the experience of the father and son to reflect the sadness of the people living at the bottom of the present. They yearn for a better life, but the society cannot give these people a correct name and create a better life in an open and aboveboard manner. I think the reason why this film is so sad is also because of its truthfulness and cruelty. It is not like "When Destiny Knocks on the Door" and "Happiness Terminal", after the kind and hard-working protagonist encounters layers of blows, he is left with all his hardships. A realistic failure. This is the true portrayal of the people at the bottom - life is not as fair as you think, and it is not how much you invest, how much you will get back.
Perhaps the greatest reward of fate to a father is not to let his son go astray. When the sun shines on my son's face at the end of the film, I feel a sense of hope - at this moment, the son is the father's hope to live in the distance, and the father is also the driving force for the son to create a better life.
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