The film "Father and Daughter" tells a story of persistent waiting. Like Godot who is waiting, the story has no end.
The soundtrack "Waves of the Danube" runs through the story. The music is in the form of Viennese waltz, and the melody is mainly in minor keys, beautiful, stretched and slightly sad. The soundtrack is a waltz, and the rondo is also the rondo of life. The music "Waves of the Danube" is mixed with variations in the melodious manoeuvre, just like a film about the theme of change and change. As my daughter grows up, the world is changing, the weather is changing, and the people who experience it every day are changing. What remains the same is the persistent waiting. Just like her daughter's driving tool, the spinning wheel of a bicycle, it tells the movement of convolution and variation.
The ordinary thing of bicycle, as an important protagonist throughout the film, appears in the form of close-up many times.
The first appearance of a close-up of a bicycle wheel. At the beginning of the film, the bicycle, an important character, appears on the screen in a close-up. The father and the little daughter rode slowly and leisurely on the straight road. The soundtrack is slow and euphemistic, and its melody is as relaxed and melodious as a slowly swirling river flowing with the close-up of the picture - the rotation of the wheel slowly unfolds the story.
Second appearance of a close-up of a bicycle wheel. The close-up of the wheel appeared in front of the audience for the second time, heralding the end of the daughter's girlhood. The girl is no longer alone, but accompanied by a lover. In the constant rotation of the wheel and the persistent waiting of the daughter, the change came quietly, and the waiting of one person became the common waiting of two people.
The third appearance of a close-up of a bicycle wheel. After the vicissitudes of life, the girl is no longer young. Already an old woman, she pushed a cart alone to wait for her father's return. This part ends with a solitary bird and begins with a flock of birds accompanied by the swirling waves of the Danube, heralding the arrival of reunion. The river has dried up, and the old woman no longer waits.
At the end of the film, the old woman found the boat that her father was riding on, and the ending was obvious. This is a sad story, but not a tragic ending. The old woman lay peacefully in the boat, as if in her father's arms. , in peace of mind. Decades of waiting finally came to fruition. The soundtrack rhythm resumed. The woman ran quickly towards the sunset. This was a new starting point in life. The woman ran and hugged her father when she was young in her dream.
The cycle of life rises and falls, and finally ends, and the dust settles.
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