When I was in high school, I accidentally bought a book, which opened my eyes. For their gypsy-like lifestyle, the movie was too short and omitted a lot. Although they always moved and wandered in the beginning, they were still quite happy. But when they got to Welch, they had a fixed residence. What impressed me most was the irresponsibility of the parents described in the novel, the father was alcoholic, didn't work, didn't go home for a few days, and the mother knew how to paint all day long , and do not work hard, thinking that work is a waste of his artistic talent, but what he does is a waste of time. The siblings were always starving, looking for food in the school trash can, wearing dirty and torn clothes, and being ridiculed and ridiculed by black classmates. When they were all starving and scrawny, they found that their mother secretly hid a jar of honey, eating more and more fat.
Parents do not want to be bound by material life and live like wayward children.
Of course they also teach children a lot, such as freedom and bravery, kindness and self-confidence, as well as romance and self-awareness. The father is very knowledgeable in physics and mathematics, and the mother likes writing and painting, and has deeply influenced them in literature and art, so the heroine and sister are both engaged in related occupations.
Being a parent is really not easy, material and spiritual, what is the best thing for a child?
Didn't like the happy ending at all. The movie is a bit messy, but it's better to read the book. I really like the first half of the novel that describes their life as a family, la la la la
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