A very typical European film, the plot has been laid out and has been going down. Many people are not used to watching European films, especially art films, and find it boring, dull, and boring. When I was watching all the "European art films", I had to struggle and convince myself, as if it was like a religious ceremony that Muslims worship four times a day, and then I turned on the screen and told myself not to be subjected to this kind of thing again. A movie with a strong narrative, but it seems empty and without a set goal, beats... Indeed, I will watch it every time. Why? Hollywood blockbusters are brilliant every minute, we see our hero, break through the thousand layers of barriers, and finally win, our mentality is relieved and released in this ending that meets our expectations. Finally walked out of the theater with a satisfied smile. Difficulty-fight-victory, as if our lives were like these heroes, in the end there was a perfect outcome.
European films will condense our lives. Scene by scene, every minute, it will tell us the trajectory of life in a familiar way. It is a problem we face every day and an unsolvable problem. Behind the crisis is no longer a turning point, but a naked Lay down the problem, as to whether it can be solved, there is no Hollywood-style decisive and resolute answer, only unfinished suspense...
I like European movies because after watching them, they make us think deeply, not just two sides, right and wrong, good and evil, loyal and evil, love and hate... It seems that they are all left to us to think about, not necessarily There is an answer and result.
Both father and mother are high-level intellectuals in Romania who have given up their comfortable lives abroad and chose to return to their hometowns. Later, because of the political, economic and social atmosphere of the place, the father decided to send his daughter to study in England. But before going to the UK, the daughter must first pass the local graduation examination, and only after passing the results can she come to the UK. Before the test, her daughter was robbed by gangsters, and her right hand was blocked, so she could not answer the test questions smoothly, all the problems caused.
It's actually such a simple story. At first, someone from outside smashed the window of my father's house, and my father chased him out and returned without any effort. At the beginning, he gave us a slap in the face and made us feel a little uneasy about the future. With the robbery of our daughter on the day before the exam, it was worse, and our hearts sank again. In the whole movie, the window of the house is smashed, the father hits the dog, but he doesn't know if the dog is dead? Then on the first day of the daughter's exam, the window of the car is smashed. We don't need to investigate who did these things. Bian may be trying to express the corruption of law and order in Romania, or a kind of conflict that is constantly eroding the family.
Romania is indeed a politically unstable country, and the president has been de-nuclearized and reset, and de-nuclearized and reset. In such a politically unstable country, relatively few people will invest in the economy. All the young people left one after another. Since they are both in the European Union, there are many young people who have the means to study in the UK and Germany. It is against this background that the director wanted to express the difficulties faced by his father, a middle-aged man. Desperately trying to send her daughter to study in the UK, but her daughter was robbed the day before the exam; his emotional swing between an affair and his wife; the moral struggle of taking bribes to make his daughter pass the exam; the father's mother's physical problems; In addition to conflicts, there are also people who turn the tide in middle age but are unable to do so.
In the movie, the daughter's attitude makes us see a bright light. She doesn't have to be like her father. Her grades were good, and her father asked her to go to England, and she did not object. Talking to the motorcycle instructor about the intimate relationship like a couple. Grandma fainted at home, she ran to her father's lover's house, called her father out, found her father's adulterous daughter, and tried her best to ask her father to tell her mother the truth. Except for the determination that his daughter went to study in the UK, the father chose to avoid everything else. Daughter's youthful energy and decisive view of things make this film still have a glimmer of light. The most classic is the decision to collude with the principal to cheat in the exam. The daughter decides not to follow her father's instructions to mark the exam paper. The father's submission, and the daughter's refusal to face moral honesty, show that the process is more important than the result, even though the father emphasizes the argument that the result is more important than the process several times in the film.
The mother faced the father, she could not decide anything. The daughter cheated in the exam, her husband had an affair, and she was unhealthy. It was not that she did not have her own standards, but in front of her father, she chose to compromise and give up. Even though her father still wanted to make up with her in the end, she couldn't accept it.
The final ending, in the daughter's graduation ceremony, stopped abruptly in the smiling photo. Did the daughter pass the exam? Did the father finally get forgiveness from the mother and went back? Did the father's lover leave? None of these directors told us. In fact, it doesn't matter, the process of going through everything is more important than the result.
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