The Backside of Relatives - Feelings from watching the film "The Savage Family"

Stanford 2022-03-24 09:02:56

This is the story of every family, in which everyone can find the hardships and struggles in their past and future lives and the courage to move on.
The near-middle-aged siblings finally began to contact each other after receiving the news of their stepmother's death. The children did not know where their father lived, the father did not know the son's job, the younger sister did not know the marital status of the older brother, and the older brother did not know the embarrassment of the younger sister's life. It seems very crazy to the Chinese who have a strong sense of family, and it may seem unbelievable to the Americans. After the children grow up and become independent and the father remarries, the family seems to be surrounded by only an invisible line of blood ties. Tie together, there is no connection, no care, no greeting, the shape does not exist, you are there, but we are walking on a strange road, our own lives. The story restores our own life. Our relatives seem to be the ones we ignore all the time. I don’t know who mentioned it. “Families who are usually noisy and quarrelsome or ignore them will still be tightly bound together after a big incident. Stand together." They are the people we never want to cherish. They are the ones who don't need to reply text messages and calls in time, and occasionally think of "Have you eaten?" "How are you doing?" It's raining in the weather forecast, so bring an umbrella." With a single list and no reply location, I felt a little guilt in my heart. If I go back to the past, the alert light on the mobile phone will light up again soon, as if the person who sent the text message has been staring at it. Waiting on the screen of your mobile phone, but you deliberately ignore the waiting, so that you don't feel so guilty. In fact, you ignore what is more worthy of your cherishing. The person who is waiting never blames you. It seems that waiting is the right thing to do, and you also Of course. In fact, you will also feel a little guilty, thinking of their waiting mood, thinking of them finding reasons to comfort themselves, and a convulsive distress. However, once people get used to a certain emotional pattern, it becomes a matter of course, and it is a matter of course not to cherish what they know will not be lost. People are so rude and shameful. Eason Chan sings "What you can't get is always in turmoil, and what is favored is always fearless." It is really difficult to pay attention to and cherish the little luck that you are used to around you, air, sunshine, love. We complain about not being able to be happy. Many times, it is we who have lost the ability to feel happiness in the rush of time.
After watching the film, I wanted to go to a place with fresh air to breathe a sigh of relief, and the feeling of oppression in my heart was like choking in my throat. "She's going straight to reality, her realism is unadorned and clean, like a sharp knife, piercing the essence of life." Jealousy, complaining, quarreling, and giving up of the closest person will make a person lose confidence in life. When the person who knows you best hurts, the unpredictable harm will already be greater than the harm itself. The pain it brings is the collapse of the wall of trust. Brother Joe's jealousy, contempt and harshness towards his sister did not even have the sympathy that an ordinary person should have. When the father's nursing staff told Wendy that he wanted to read her script and agreed with her, Wendy did not hesitate to kiss her, like a The isolated child is comforted, ironically, in a stranger to endure in the closest person. Just like us in life, it seems that there are always some things that we feel that our family members are unreasonable, difficult to communicate and inhumane, and turn to classmates, friends and even strangers for understanding. The film shows all the realities of family life to the audience. That is the pain that none of us dare to show to others. The disappointment and doubts about family love hidden in our hearts. We are praised by the family. It seems that there is only warmth in the family. The images guide, repress, and get lost in the reality that he sees. In this maverick film, there is no praise, no accusation, and no superfluous subjective emotional color in it. It just restores the scene that a normal family will always appear when a family faces the old age of the father. , we see the heartache, but also the relief. Understand that the most beautiful back in the world will also have the ugliest existence, and there are also hurt, abandonment and betrayal on the back of the most sincere and indestructible family. The hero and heroine face the pain of sending their father to the nursing home, and use loud arguments to communicate with each other. Attack releases inner struggle and pain. However, in addition to these unspeakable depressing moments in life, the film is also interspersed with scenes of Wendy and her married lover walking happily by the seaside and in the woods, as well as the happy scene of Joe and his wife rehabilitated at the end of the film, telling us , Life is like this, there are pains and struggles, and there are brilliant flowers. Relatives are like people who are placed on a small boat in the sea of ​​fate. On this drifting boat, there are attacks and complaints against each other when encountering wind and waves, and there are also people who lean on each other when the weather is sunny, but no matter what, it is this. A small boat to carry you across the ocean. At the end of the film, Wendy runs in the morning light, turns around, and says come to the young dog (the old one is dead), full of director Tamara's dark humor in the face of suffering.
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The Savages quotes

  • Jon Savage: We don't have to go after him Wendy; we're not in a Sam Shepard play.

  • Jimmy: Are you married?

    Wendy Savage: No... but my boyfriend is.