, a group of children seemed to be arguing about something. A little boy picked up a stick and hit another child, and the beaten boy covered his face in pain. It's always been a long-range shot, just enough for the audience to understand what happened, but they can't see their expressions clearly, can't hear the conversation, just give a good background to the follow-up plot.
The scene of friendly negotiation
appeared again. The mother of the beaten child was writing an agreement in front of the desk. Both parties were very friendly and harmonious, but the father of the beating boy raised some doubts about a certain wording. The two parties were polite, gentlemen and ladies, and were satisfied that such a civilized and harmonious ending could be achieved. The father of the beating child seems to be very busy, and has been dealing with the lawsuit on the phone, which will become a conflict point later. It could have ended like this, when saying goodbye in the hallway, until the mother of the beaten child insisted that the other parent should bring the child over, and that the boy should realize the harm that his violence had brought to others. At this point, the two sides began to quarrel, and the father of the beaten child eased the atmosphere and invited them back to the room to eat the pie made by his wife.
After the mask was removed
, the atmosphere seemed to be harmonious again, and they began to talk further about their families and occupations. During this period, the caller's father as a lawyer became frequent, and the content seemed to be that a certain drug had side effects, and the other party asked him how to deal with it. Frequent phone calls constantly interrupt communication, and the mood becomes more irritable. The conflict between the two sides lies in whether the child who hits the child truly recognizes the seriousness of the problem. The beating parents dropped the mask of politeness, implying that the boy who was beaten was also responsible, as if he was the one who mocked the boy for being a whistleblower first. The mother of the child who was beaten became angry, angry at their sophistry and disapproval, while the parents of the beater felt that she was making a fuss. The plot is still normal at this stage. Although it is not as polite as it was at the beginning, it is reasonable for parents to favor and protect their children.
family crisis
The following plot and conflict seem to be separated from the child's problem, but go deep into the internal contradictions of the two families. The husband and wife of the beating man knew from the dialogue that they were remarrying. The man was busy filing a lawsuit and being a lawyer, and he never asked about the child. The wife had long complained about it, and she felt ashamed in front of outsiders. The father of the beating child felt that his wife was too much. Hypocrisy, thinking that this world and people are the law of the jungle, there is no need to be so hypocritical and polite, and the husband keeps answering the phone to deal with things is also annoying, the climax is the wife's emotional vomiting, and the out-of-print album of the mother who beat the child will be stained , A few people are in a mess, cleaning up the messy and dirty picture albums, and sorting out their messy clothes. The plot is gradually turning to the parents of the beaten child. The father is a hardware store dealer. In the eyes of his wife, he lives in a messy life. He is satisfied with drinking and watching TV. His wife is also a writer with ideals, concerned about the African Holocaust and the community. It is hoped that human beings have more ideal moral principles and mutual understanding, but they are always frustrated and hit. The incomprehension between the two couples, each other does not recognize each other's ideas and life. Eventually the husband becomes indifferent and the wife is crying and hysterical.
The plot of the four-party chaos
will not be as clear as the documentation. In fact, several types of conflicts and contradictions are often intertwined. Beating the father of the child, mocking and belittling the father's career as a hardware dealer, the other party also retorted. The battering mother cannot accept that the battered father abandons his daughter's hamster, and turns a blind eye to its horror and possible doom, simply because he refuses to touch dental animals. The father of the beaten child received a call from the mother and learned that the drug the mother was taking was the kind that the lawyer was planning to avoid lawsuits and public opinion, so he was even more resentful of the other party's hypocrisy and oppression of consumers. A mother who beats a child feels that the mother of the other party is too standing on the moral high ground to criticize others, and has never paid attention to why her child was beaten. The other party threw her handbag on the wall because she couldn't stand her accusation, and the mother who beat the child couldn't bear her husband's phone call and threw the phone into the water. In the end everyone seemed to be on the verge of collapse and had the most miserable day of their lives.
end
The camera leaves the room and switches to the sunny park. In the close-up shot, the little hamster is alive and well. In the long-range shot, the two children are discussing something. Although they can't see their faces clearly, they look like two children arguing. They seemed to have reconciled long ago, and finally rode away together. The incident of the four adults arguing, it seems that the children have long forgotten and subsided. So what's the point of this quarrel?
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