There are also many family films about fishing in the United States, such as "Golden Pond" and "Big Fish"... Maybe "Nemo" is also one.
"Dahe Lian" is also one.
The big river is the Troit River in Montana. The sun shines through the cracks in the tree tops, and the river surface is pulsating with fine golden light, and the fishing line leaps and throws with rhythmic jitter. What is splashing is the coolness of the fine water drops.
Father, mother, two sons.
Father, the priest and fly fishing master of the peaceful town. Teach your sons heartily to experience the laws of nature created by God. He said, "Only by mastering the rhythm of God, we can regain strength and beauty. All goodness-whether it is eternal salvation or fishing for trout-comes from the grace of God. It comes from art, and art is hard to come by.” Then in this family, the joy and sorrow of every member of the family, life and death, are also divine graces, art, and hard to come by.
The older brother Norman is delicate and tender, and he knows how to take care of his younger brother since he was a child. Reading, teaching poetry, being a professor, loving a woman seriously, getting married and having children. Life progresses in an orderly manner. He is a player who abides by the rules of the game, and the results obtained from it are also fruitful.
Brother Paul, free, unruly, stubborn. Be a reporter, drink heavily, gamble, and make Indian girlfriends. Until he died due to gambling debt disputes. He is a kid who can chase a trout until the rapids. It is a work of art, not suitable for life.
Such three fathers and sons, fly fishing, Dahe and God are overlapping colors. The river has been flowing all the time, not stopped because of the joy and anger of mortals. It's like a god watching silently.
In the end, everything will flow into the rushing river and merge into one.
Perhaps each of us has Norman and Paul living together in our soul.
One is calm and conservative, the other is free and passionate.
The soul of that passionate art will die like Paul when youth has just passed. The calm and well-mannered Norman began to live alone, and began to do things that he thought was right, avoiding things that he thought was wrong.
Then at some point, that Norman would remember that in his teenage years, Paul looked into his eyes when the small wooden boat was pushed into the water. At that time, dare you take off your jacket and say, I will go.
We have been fishing in the same river. In the old age, the trembling hand threw the fishing line.
The whole film is this special river. The plot where the two boys grow up is the sunlight flowing slowly on the river, the plot where the father and son are fishing is a stable and solid river bed, and the conflict of fate caused by the different personalities of the brothers is the reef in the rapids. The stories written by this family river are the stories that people live, love, understand or don’t understand.
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