The good and the bad

I like this film very, very much. Since watching WES ANDERSON's ROYAL FAMILY, it is the first time I have found a film with such a similar temperament. The first scene at the beginning of the film established the family relationship of the whole film. The younger son and mother stood on the same front, while the eldest son and father stood on the same front. From the way he played, it could be seen that Dad had always been a very aggressive man, somewhat macho. Even if it hurts Joan, it doesn't matter. I think it also has a lot to do with the breakdown of their relationship more or less. Each family of four has its own plight. Needless to say, Dad, a deeply male chauvinist is falling behind Joan in career. As a mother, the mother is targeted by the eldest son everywhere. The younger son vented his anger at his parents' divorce by dabbling around and drinking. The eldest son has been living in the shadow of his father. Treating his girlfriend and everything with the arrogance and unremitting cynicism of a literati. I like the growth of WALT in the play. At first WALT apparently used his father's opinion as his bible. Whether it's for books, girlfriends or all aspects of life, gradually WALT saw the embarrassed side of his father, worried about money, kept saying that he would not fuck with schoolgirls, but bumped into him being rejected by LILI's courtship. It was not until finally WALT went to see a psychiatrist that he found out that he had always been on the side of his mother, agreed with his mother's values, and preferred his mother more. Finally, when this powerful father figure fell, WALT finally found himself. In the hospital bed, Walt wanted to spend a few more days with his mother, and his father ordered Walt in his usual macho tone, Walt finally learned to say "no" When his father suggested that if it was because he didn't like the color of the room, he could buy more posters and change the color of the wall, but Walt cried. I think at that moment WALT must have mixed feelings, pain and simple rough way with his father while ignoring his emotional needs for his mother. It can also be seen from the following lines that WALT has been suppressing himself. He has always been such a sentimental and SENSITIVE person, but he tried his best to disguise himself as his father. At the end of the film, walt ran all the way back to the aquarium he was afraid of. It turns out that the squid and the whale are just a model. Just as WALT has always lived with someone else's glasses. Just as he imagined squid and whales under his mother’s story when he was a child, and now he judges and lives under his father’s values, when he muster the courage to come out, he will be able to look at the world with his own eyes more calmly. is real growing up.

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