Toast

Sigrid 2022-03-25 09:01:20

When I first watched this movie, I was a teenager, and my mother wasn’t very good at cooking, but she cooked fried vegetables very well. If my father didn’t come home for dinner in the winter, I would cook a bowl of hot porridge with fried vegetables. The warmth inside and out, this is a mother's love, even if the mother is not proficient in cooking. Every time I see in the film my mother still burns canned food every day even if she doesn't know how to cook, and tears when she teaches her son to make biscuits. She doesn't feel that she is trapped in her emotions.

The film depicts a family that is not normal or too old-fashioned in all aspects from every detail. The rebellious period of the child can be imagined, but the rebelliousness is not serious, and the sexual hallucinations of adolescence flashed by. The main contradiction is the death of my mother. Many things have changed. This change is reflected in my father. He eats food, dances, and does gardening. The loneliness attracts another lonely person - the stepmother. The three people in the new family all have different attachments to family love, but they are so awkward that they have to express it in an antagonistic way. In the end, this relationship disappeared, and the male protagonist also walked out of adolescence. Bitter childhood memories.

Every time I revisit the movie, I always get fresh again, each time with a different detail digging. My mother can't actually cook canned food, and the kitchen machine has been out of use for a long time. At first, I hired someone to take care of the garden and then my father took care of it. My stepmother is paranoid about the family, and my mother's drooping triangular eyes are always tender and fragile with tears. Details are also given to the food, pasta, grilled fish, salad, lemon pie, and grilled toast.

The performance of the older generation is lively and fragrant. Haimo is a little immature but fits the character. In the end, he left home relaxed and seemed very happy, but I still cried. The pain of growing up can only be felt by yourself. I am willing to smile at the last face, or I will say "Thank you for your blessing".

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Toast quotes

  • Mrs. Potter: I brought you a cup of tea, nice with a cake.

    Nigel Slater: I don't want to, I don't have to have it. I don't want you in my life anymore!

  • Nigel Slater: It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.