This is a delightful film, full of summer splendor, whether you agree with the old father-in-law or not, but it is full of joy to watch, whether it is visually, the bright streets of Prague, the beautiful women's clothes The skirt is fluttering, or in the plot, the various plots make you laugh and laugh all the way.
But no matter what, the betrayal happiness theory of the old father-in-law that runs through the whole film is still the soul of the film. In the story, we see that the old father-in-law cheated all the year round but the marriage is still strong. To make money to change cars, it seems that the mother-in-law is also unfaithful, it seems that Alice and the cook also have an affair, and so on, and so on, and so on, this theory does not seem to be inevitable when you are dazzled. We keep seeing the words "rationalized derailment" in many film reviews, and many viewers seem to have found more rationalization reasons for derailment, and take this film as a standard.
I don't know if many people really want to see such a theory hold true, or if the balance in their hearts has been tilted, or if they are completely overwhelmed by the stunning image in the film, or if they find a reason for themselves, a lot of film reviews stop abruptly here, thinking that What the director wants to express is such an alternative view of happiness, a controversial concept.
But everything doesn't seem to be that simple. If it just stays here, why does the story have to make waves? At the 1/3 of the film, the director began to dissect this theory like peeling an onion: from the father-in-law for the first time for his son-in-law to "justify" his son-in-law; the mother-in-law and daughter counted her husband's cheating more than 100 times but did not expose him. When it comes to the joy of her husband's success and the guilt in the face of marriage; to Valentino's bag, to the car accident where the mother-in-law tried to recover the bag, to the apology ceremony carefully arranged by the father-in-law but can only wait for the bag; to the discovery of the mother-in-law's " lover”, to anger; to discovering that his wife’s infinite nostalgia for the past with him; to discovering that he has never really paid attention to his wife’s inner preferences; to rejecting the love affair of the shop girl; to persuading his son-in-law to end his relationship with Sarota relationship; to the pregnancy in order to protect the marriage of the son-in-law...
At the end of the film, when the old man is sitting on the roller coaster holding his wife's urn, the ashes are poured all the way, and the past and the wife's bits and pieces are vividly remembered, your love Are your eyes wet? Do you think the old man is still insisting on the rationalized derailment happiness theory that he flatters his whole life?
think about it……
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