Jealousy about a child

Leopold 2022-03-24 09:02:48

The story is pulled from the boy's perspective: his sense of smell, his confusion, his contemplation, and his actions quietly push the development of the plot to a climax. There is no intense verbal conflict, and more progress is made through the boy's musings and discussions with girls who have had similar experiences with him. It was in the little girl's righteous analysis that he finally took action.

The main line of the story alternates between the failure of the mother and the father's final marriage and the reason for the imprisonment of the fugitive. The two parallel lines are drawn further and further away from the growing affection between the mother and the fugitive, and finally converge to form a common escape plan. They all had an unfortunate marriage. The mother's repeated miscarriages and the fugitive's wife's pregnancy with another's son were also related to the intention of "children", which eventually became their respective depression. They can understand each other so much and they are so convinced that they can live together in the future because they both bear various psychological burdens brought by different forms of bereavement.

The film isn't so much about "love" as it is about the end of a derangement triggered by a child's jealousy: the fugitive is sent back to prison, the mother is banished from her quest for love, the father is given custody, the town The panic and discussion gradually subsided. He may not have expected that this move overwhelmed all his previous fears and pushed everything in front of him into the abyss, interrupted the escape plan, and ended his mother's expectations and fantasies.

After that, the boy gradually grew up, had his first girlfriend, his own family, his own shop, and achieved his own career. Along with this jealousy, he displayed a composure and ruthlessness beyond his years, which almost destroyed all his mother's hopes and ruined the luck of a fugitive.

On the other hand, this "jealousy" is enough to make children grow up, try to understand the world of adults, and at the same time try to repair the lack of their own childhood. And the behavior of harboring fugitives, which is not tolerated by the world, and the love or kinship that accompanies this situation are so superficial compared to the child's constant self-reflection and growing up in the next fifteen years.

Fortunately, the director did not let these fifteen years of precipitation be in vain. The mother and the fugitive who was released from prison finally walked together. From just five days of passion to after such a long period of mutual watch, they finally got together. Can stay together.

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Labor Day quotes

  • Frank: You're a fine boy, Henry. Anyone who says otherwise is not worth your time.

  • [last lines]

    Adult Henry: [narrating] I spent half of my life worrying that my mother wouldn't be able to go out into the world on her own. But as it turned out, she wouldn't have to.