The principle of not watching bad movies will be implemented in my entire film watching career, even if those bad movies have my destiny.
Jesse's early films (before social networking here) seem to be the only one with a rating above 7 (perhaps adding the boy who won't leave), so I thought it would be a good one - and it is! I originally watched the introduction of the film as a bland family drama, until the "squid and whale" metaphor completely caught my interest. The origin of the title is that Walter, played by Jesse, went to the American Museum of Nature with his mother when he was six years old to see the squid and whale exhibition - Walter said he was afraid that the squid and whale would fight. The mother reassured her child at that time with humor. This appears in the happy memory of Walter's conversation with the psychiatrist, and it is only a dialogue. Until the end of the film, Walter flew to the place that brought him happiness more than ten years ago, and the shots of squid and whale finally gave the ending of the film.
This kind of expression is very comfortable, and it is a very good script before shooting. Although some scenes lack some grip (perhaps because the plot is not coherent and vivid), the rough expression makes it easy for people to grasp what it is trying to convey. very comfortable.
Of course, in terms of plot, it really doesn't sum it up - parents are writers, father is in fading, mother is on the rise and dating other men. Then they were going to divorce, which led to subtle psychological changes in the two children. The eldest son, Walter, thought he should be Pink Floyd, and declared that "Hey you" was his original work in the school performance. The girl dated and fell in love with the same young woman as her father; while the younger son began drinking beer and masturbating, smearing the residue on the spines of the school library. Weird, wretched, but you feel as if you can understand it, maybe it's because of the common feelings of human beings. Each of us has encountered family problems more or less, and you don't know why when you do these, you just want to do it, for example, I want to break a wine bottle to stimulate the mood in a state of being dumb but not frustrated. Nerves and gets attention, because friendliness among strangers is mostly superficial. The store clerks smiled at me, they were just doing their job to lure me into the store. It's a kind of revolt of unknown mentality, silent and seemingly gentle, in order to heal its underlying uncomfortable state of mind, although we know that the result of doing so can only be worse.
Fortunately, at the end of the film, the father lay on the hospital bed and vowed to find the cat and decided to get back to the mother, and the woman who attracted the father and son moved out (without explaining the process but just proposing the result, which is a bit like short stories), which seems to me to be reconciliation. The dysfunctional, theatrical life of the family's tepid life intends to struggle to get right.
I have to mention the excellent soundtrack of the film. "Hey You" runs through the whole film and handles the tender sadness very well. There is also the music of the younger son's phone call at the 54th minute of the film, the soundtrack of squid and whale at the end of the film, and a song and a tune when the staff rolls the list, with harp and piano winding.
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