' we may not be perfect, but we love each other so much', that is what we called family.

Johnnie 2022-10-06 21:11:18



It is said that "Happy families are the same, but unfortunate families are unfortunate in their own way." "Modern Family" perfectly interprets this sentence, which is a sitcom about a big family composed of three families. Different families, full of conflicts and contradictions, but novelly interprets every dispute and quarrel from the perspective of different people. Transposition thinking and understanding are exactly what every family needs, so that people who watch the drama understand that your personality is very different from yours. How people think and understand how people who have different identities than you see the same things. Every episode is so lively and noisy, but it is unexpectedly full of moving, full of tears, and it will make people realize at the end that it turns out that those stubborn Shunjian are full of care and love.
Jay, the head of the family, divorced after retirement and married a Latina girl, Gloria, who looked more enchanting than her daughter, and brought an independent, brave and precocious son Manny, who was about the same age as his granddaughter, who wanted to take care of the world. son Joe. The second family is Claire, the daughter of the head of the family, a serious housewife who sings blackface, while her husband Phil is a real estate salesman who is naturally optimistic and expressive, and has three children. The eldest daughter, Haley, is fashionable and precocious and abandoned her studies. The second daughter, Alex, is smart, independent and advocating science, and the youngest son, Luke, is kind, brave, and confused. The third family is the son of the head of the family, Mitchell, a serious and cautious gay lawyer, and his spouse is really loud and emotional. Cameron, a big fat man from the farm, they adopted a smart, unique and possessive Vietnamese. little girl Lily.
Almost every episode exposes an extremely common family problem, which may be emotional or distinctive, but gradually we will find that although each family has different expressions and different conflicts and disputes, but The reasons are probably the same: we will pay more attention to another child who does not grow up as we expected and ignore the anguish of the sensible child because we are too sensible, and we will refuse to admit that they can because we are afraid of their growth. After doing something or finding out, we will be overwhelmed. We will forget to care about the people we love or pour cold water in front of our love because we are too concerned about the busy and trivial things under our hands. We will complain and ignore each other because we are too stubborn in taking notes. The love, we love each other so much that we forget to express it in a timely manner, causing many misunderstandings...
Everyone is not perfect, every family is full of problems, and we don't even understand why two people who are so different in aesthetics or lifestyles can live together, they will be tacitly understood by a detail. move. Yes, because they love each other, so they take on everyone's responsibility, they know that communication is important after a conflict, they believe that they love each other, whether it is father and son, siblings, husband and wife, whether it is blood or legal. Contact, because we love each other, we are sure of each other's love for ourselves, we will all choose to make concessions, we will try our best to communicate and reconcile, no matter the problem is the final or temporary reconciliation, this big family full of contradictions, quarrels and lively is the only talent. It's our home. Because we are not saints, we are not perfect. Because we are family and we love each other, we hurt each other sometimes and we end up feeling full of love too.

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Modern Family quotes

  • Phil Dunphy: Gotta fix that step.

  • Gloria Delgado-Pritchett: Family is family. Whether it's the one you start out with, the one you end up with, or the family that you gain along the way.