The plot of this film is adapted from the playwright and director's own childhood story, so it is quite delicate. Has been successfully abandoned, self-centered father. Wife who is tired of boring life, successful female writer. Adolescent Walt was deeply influenced by his father and was emotionally shaky. Young Frank fell into a hesitation about family and sex. There are a few episodes that I am particularly admired. The beautiful thing that Walt can recall when undergoing psychotherapy is that his mother relieved the stimulation he received in the Nature Museum, and his father did not appear in this memory at all. Father kept looking for parking spaces in the block, cursing other motorists, and showing his disappointment and resentment extremely well.
Not only is the plot exquisite, the performance is also very good. Especially for the two children, their sensitive and excessive reactions are very natural but very strong. Perhaps each of us has experienced all kinds of mental pain. It's just that we have buried them in the corner of memory, but Noah Baumbach has always remembered. And reactivating and amplifying those pains, so that things in the memory of each audience jump up again.
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