Movies are boring, at least that's what I thought at first. A father who smoked and drank, a father who never brought a stable life to his children, a father who always thinks differently and crazy... At the same time, he is an ordinary father who loves his children.
The father taught the four children a different way of life. Even if tomorrow is dark and the road ahead is lost, they will live happily today. The mother gave them the knowledge of culture, as gentle as the oil painting under her hand. Four children gained freedom and real life that many school children do not have access to. Fathers teach their children things that decent families despise, such as: messing around at the door, then running away from the hospital with the child to escape the cost of the hospital; teaching the child to swim by throwing the child into the pool over and over again; wandering around with the child , lived like a gypsy; had no money to buy Christmas presents, and took the children in the yard to choose stars as gifts. Under such living conditions, they learned to survive on their own, and possessed strength and perseverance different from other children. Among these children, the most successful one educated by Rex was Janet.
Janet was very much like her father in many ways, stubborn, intelligent, kind, and longing for freedom. So many times she is also the spiritual support of her father.
Father hopes that many of his ideas can be realized in Janet, who is the inheritance of his ideas. But Janet is not exactly like her father. Because of the wandering life when she was a child, Janet especially yearns for a stable life. But she didn't know that her pursuit of freedom had already been immersed in her bones like a habit. But Rex knew all this, he knew that he was the one who knew Janet best, and he didn't want Janet to tie herself to a square inch of space, to gossip magazines, and behind men. His daughter is unique in the world, she should be like a star in the sky, free and eye-catching.
But Janet didn't know all of this, she was immersed in the pursuit of a stable life, regardless of her father who had been behind her.
No one is perfect, and Rex here is the same. While giving freedom to children, he also brings a lot of negative influences and does not give children enough sense of security; dependence on tobacco and alcohol even drives children crazy Feeling scared; the misunderstanding caused by rejecting a huge inheritance and not having enough to eat; panicking about the child wanting to leave him and trying to stop it... All these push the children farther and farther, and eventually lead to a situation where father and daughter are against each other's goals. .
In the end Janet found a stable life, but she found that she did not like it. Suddenly, she seemed to understand what her father had been thinking all along, and she also understood that being herself is the most important thing in this world. When she dares to face her past and her ugly scars, she is the little goat her father called, the little goat who seems to be gentle and harmless but has her own ideas and will fight for it.
My dad was like a low profile Rex (a lot of dads are), but with a bit of timidity and indecision, and so did I.
It is these that we are not the eye-catching "glass castle", just a pair of ordinary father and daughter. He finally compromised with life; compromised with a stable life; compromised with the burdened family. Struggling from time to time, trying to prove that he was once young and fearless.
And now I am also a member of the ordinary, but no one is willing to be ordinary.
The movie wants to tell us: thinking should not be bound, it should be like a "glass castle" with unrestrained imagination; people should not be like molds, but should live their own differences; only after experience, we know what is What you want most; do what you like, only if you like it is not suffering, immersed in it, you will forget the pain of time.
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