The film ostensibly tells the adventures of a talented teenager, but in fact it is about how he reconciles with his indifferent parents, especially after the tragic death of his twin brother Raymond.
The movie spends a lot of space on the relationship between TS and his younger brother Raymond. The simple and straightforward Raymond is like the missing side of TS's life. It can even be said that Raymond is the childhood itself that TS lost due to overage intelligence, and Raymond It is also the most important relationship mediator in the family. Therefore, Raymond's death is a turning point in the movie. The accident has cast a great shadow on the family and made TS even more insignificant at home. Therefore, he changed his mind and decided to go to Washington for himself. Received the award for a genius invention.
On the way, from TS's mouth to talk about his father's partiality, his mother's fault, and the sadness of his brother's death, his tone is calm but contains a touch of sadness, but it makes people feel his precocious mind and a touch of warmth. The scenery of this trip and what TS feels and thinks is the most fascinating part of the film.
The plot in the second half of the movie is a bit ugly. The satire of the academy teachers and broadcast hosts who just want to use the news value of TS is more deliberate, a little unnatural, but it also gives the parents a complete foreshadowing to rescue TS. When TS put his father's cowboy When the hat is put on his head, all family conflicts are reconciled.
At the end of the movie, TS's mother's re-pregnancy seems to give the family new hope, but I believe that in TS's heart, Raymond's figure will always be there.
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