Family issues are the core axis of the whole movie. Starting from an ordinary American family, let the audience slowly discover the abnormalities under the calm surface. It turns out that these family members have their own problems, big or small. Although they have the closest blood relationship and living distance, they have lost their spiritual dialogue. , Causing them to be close at hand but do not understand each other’s thoughts and troubles, they are a group of closest strangers. From the family’s disharmony, other ancillary issues have been extended, such as the exploration and desire of the body during the teenage years, the physical derailment of extramarital affairs, etc. I want to talk about these issues in just a few hours, and Li Ang makes every character in the play take a little responsibility. , To make the audience aware of the responsibility of these many issues, but does not fully reveal it without in-depth discussion. This movie does not tell you the solution, only points out what is the problem that we may all encounter.
Ang Lee buried a lot of ironic dialogues and metaphorical symbolic things in the movie. The puns and the interlacing of real and false words further emphasized the absurdity of the characters in the play and the seriousness of the problem. For example, when an adult who encounters the physical body warns a child that the body is a sacred temple and cannot be manipulated by desire to violate the will, these words slap himself severely at the same time. Not an adult is qualified to teach a child, because they are not necessarily With absolutely mature and rational behavior, maybe a teenager knows more about love than an adult.
In fact, the biggest metaphor in the whole movie is the movie itself. The temperature refers to the changes in family relationships. Everyone is closed in their own world and does not communicate. The emotional thermometer begins to decrease, slowly lowering in the continuous cold life. When it rained and reached the freezing point, and the friction between getting along with each other accumulated over time, it finally broke out on the day of the formation of the ice storm. This storm swept everyone in the family and suffered some shocks and injuries. After an ice storm raged, the surrounding scenes of disasters that seemed to be broken and incomplete, but also represented the collapse of the high wall of people’s hearts, they had a new opportunity to reorganize their family relationships after they had returned, because people always understand that they cherish after they have lost it. .
The "key party" in the adult world pointed out the weak power and ugliness of human nature's moral control in the face of desire. The relationship between husband and wife can be traded like a game chip, or in other words, voluntary participation in the "key party"
At the beginning of the movie, the train is moving in the dark night. The boy on the train and the family waiting on the platform have complex facial expressions, making it difficult to interpret clear emotions, and it is impossible to get some plot information from these scenes; At the end of the film, the same scene is repeated again, and the audience who have gone through the ice storm can finally experience the emotions contained in those incomprehensible expressions, including homesickness, anticipation, and starting anew.
Although the family is like an anti-matter gun, which can create and destroy Superman, we all yearn for world peace.
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