It does not focus on depicting the process, experience and feelings on the road, nor does it create a lonely protagonist who is difficult to see the past and does not know the future. It talks about the reasons for going on the road and returning.
Therefore, our protagonist Travis is not a mysterious wanderer, but an ordinary person who brings his family and faces a crisis in his life. The reason why he went on the road was because of the breakdown of love and family, and it was family and family who recalled him from the journey of unknown purpose.
"On the road" is unruly. But there are all kinds of fetters in the film - brother, son, wife. After all, I think this is also a family film. What touched me the most was the love between Travis and his younger brother, his son and his younger brother Wats and Travis' son.
In the film, the longest and most delicately handled part is the process in which Travis, who was initially aphasia, gradually began to communicate with his younger brother and worked hard to get along with his son.
The estrangement between the son and Travis slowly closed as the family sat together watching a home video filmed five years ago. He said Dad softly before going to bed. The next day, the son accepted Travis to pick him up from school. The two walked on both sides of the road, and the son imitated his father's posture... It sounds like a very ordinary plot, but it is touching. It's the kind of touch that is as silky as silk.
But the film is indeed an authentic "road film".
Because all "on the road" originates from a starting point, all "on the road" will also return to an end point.
It's time for a road movie to tell the story of both ends of the road: why go on the road and why stop? In fact, there must be a love story or a family story behind any road story. Besides love, what else can make a man exile himself?
Where the film can reflect the spirit of "road film" at its core, there is also the director's answer to family life and the fate of the protagonist - loneliness.
Travis is alone. He can't stay with his wife. Although they love each other, they hurt each other. The so-called fate has no part. He once said to Wats' wife Ann: Jane (his own wife) is no longer a mother. In fact, in the end, he found that he was not a qualified father.
Wats and the Ann couple too. They regarded Hunter as their biological son and spent four years together day and night, but Hunter went to his mother without any hesitation.
Even little Hunter was learning how to deal with "loneliness". He hears Wats and Ann arguing about himself before bed. Which family does he belong to? Who should you be with? This is a question for the little brain to think about alone, and he didn't talk to anyone.
Whether it's driving a tattered pickup truck on an inaccessible interstate, everyone is probably alone, there are things that have to be faced and endured by one person, and eventually they go home alone.
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