To be honest, I don't know the title

Margarita 2022-04-23 07:02:47


When I started watching this film, I didn’t go for the title. The title didn’t give me a bit of room for reverie because of my imagination. It came for the director. It’s hard to imagine that this is Noah’s autobiography. work.
After watching the film, I have three questions?
1. What do squid and whale mean or symbolize in it?
2. The defense line of American children is too fragile, right? If the relationship between parents is not harmonious, will they degenerate themselves?
3. What is the real reason for the discord between husband and wife?
Overall, this film is very good, the actors' acting skills and the rhythm of the plot are all well grasped. The depiction of the character Mao Dun in ordinary life is very delicate and very real.
In the opening credits, the family plays tennis, with mother Joan and youngest son Frank on the one hand, and Walter and father on the eldest son. This clearly divides the battle lines. In the short 80-minute movie, both children are influenced by the side they look up to. The eldest son regards his father's words as a slogan. When choosing a girlfriend, he is timid and timid. He has no own judgment on literary works. The younger son, because he is young and does not have enough care and encouragement, walks into the misunderstanding of precocious puberty. The mother is empathetic because the father has lost the charm of the past, and the father is unhappy at home because the mother has become a new celebrity. These very small problems, under the day-by-day fermentation, eventually erupted into inevitable Mao Dun.
Then there is a question, that is, when the eldest son's peak image of his father collapsed in his heart, he asked his mother in the living room if
you loved your father?
If not, why did you marry him?
If you're leaving, why bring us in?
Mom: I never thought it would be like this, he was unique when we met, he was so different, and now...
It seems that all this can be solved with love. If there is love, the father will be sympathetic to the mother and help with the housework when he is sick. If there is love, the mother will only love the father's more vicissitudes of life. I had planned to leave before, and my father was ambiguous with the female students inside. They have love in their hearts, but they just love themselves more than they love others.



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The Squid and the Whale quotes

  • [first lines]

    Frank Berkman: Mom and me versus you and Dad.

  • Bernard Berkman: Joan, let me ask you something. All that work I did at the end of our marriage, making dinners, cleaning up, being more attentive. It never was going to make a difference, was it? You were leaving no matter what...

    Joan Berkman: You never made a dinner.

    Bernard Berkman: I made burgers that time you had pneumonia.