In recent years, more and more films have begun to discuss post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as a way to show the huge psychological damage that war takes on soldiers. This mental illness makes many soldiers who have experienced war unable to adapt to life in modern society. Some of them choose to close themselves at home and not contact the outside world; others choose to flee the city and live in the forest.
The film "Leave No Trace" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States on January 20, 2018. Based on the novel of the same name, the film tells the story of father Will, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and daughter Tom illegally in the woods A story of living together in the park.
The originally peaceful life was broken by the logging workers who came to the forest park. The daughter, who had been living in a near-primitive environment, was attracted by modern tools, questioned her father's insistence on using primitive tools, and forgot her father's constant emphasis on paying attention He avoided, but was accidentally discovered by tourists who came to the forest park for a run. The police dispatched to arrest the father and conducted a psychological evaluation, and the daughter was also taken to the social security institution for temporary care.
The film's director, Debra Granick, may sound a little strange, but her 2010 work "Winter's Bone" competed with "The King's Speech" for the best picture award at the 83rd Academy Awards.
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