The contradiction between the son and the father is just a disguise, a clue. The protagonist of the film is the father, and the focus is on the man's life and his inner world.
To a certain extent, you can see the contradiction between the son and the father as the contradiction between the ordinary reality and the dream that this man yearns for.
Marriage, family, sons represent reality. He was a big fish, free in the river, with cool water, blue morning mist, silver moonlight, he wouldn't get caught by anything, wouldn't bite any hook, but he did A ring, love fished him up from the river of dreams, and entered the net of real life from then on.
In the end, he was lying on the hospital bed, with his son by his side, the cold hospital, the cold reality, and just died of boredom? No, there is still one more ending to the story. He asked his son to make it up for him: a grand escape in the sun, to the wild river representing freedom and dreams, and all the friends who were drifting on the road of life returned to their side, smiling With, bless. He gave the ring back to his wife, his son let him go and pushed him into the water, and he was free of all ties, and there would be no resentment, no chatter, no quarrel, no grief. He turned into a big fish again and swam into the wilderness. He regained his freedom, and the price was his life, his life.
The ending made up by the son represents the son's reconciliation and understanding of him, and also represents the reconciliation of the reality to him. After all, no matter how strong the reality is, I am already dying, what else can I do to me? Reality has violated a man's life, can he be freed when he dies? Reality can no longer exert an influence on him, because he is about to die.
So, this is actually a story of a romantic person bravely confronting ordinary reality.
Reality is extremely powerful and almost irresistible, so he can only resist by fantasizing and making up stories, but he resisted until the last moment, never giving up, until death, "there is no time to explain", this is The dream in the hearts of all boys, even reality had to make way for him.
Think back to when you were a child, what kind of fantasies did you have about life? In fairy tales, you will meet elves in the forest, you will meet small talking animals that ask you for help on your way from school, the thousand paper cranes you fold on a long summer afternoon will come to life, and you will Be the chosen child and you will receive an acceptance letter from Hogwarts.
And as you grow up, reality tells you that none of this is possible. You will only grow up, work, get married, have children, leave and die. What a boring reality.
When I was a child, I lived in the south, in a small town on the plain of Dongting Lake. There was a big lake in front of my house. To the left and opposite of the big lake were endless fields, and to the right were some walls and houses along the lake. The wind direction of each day of the year. The sun rises daily on the left side of the lake and sets behind the fence on the right. At that time I often wondered, where did the sun set, what was behind the wall, where would I lead if I kept walking? On the other side of the lake, beyond the fields, where is it? What kind of story, what kind of people, what kind of world is there?
Later, when I grew up, I looked at Google Earth, found my house, and found the lake, and then I realized that the distance is not far away, and I keep walking behind the wall. The counties and cities in China, and even a little further away, are nothing more than one city after another, and I have been there long ago. this is the truth.
Reality took away our dreams one after another, and gave us only responsibilities, obligations, trivialities and desires. Then when we die, can we let us unload everything and return all these dreams to us, and let me also become a big fish in the lake, maybe I can swim to Dongting through a secret waterway at the bottom of the lake, to the Yangtze River.
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