"This is a very interesting perspective of looking at the world." This line of the protagonist in the film is really suitable to describe the feeling of watching this movie. For example, in the first 60 minutes of the film, when our protagonist was still a primary school student, the film basically looked at the surrounding environment from the perspective of a child. Especially their parents. If the parent is the guardian of the child, then the child is the "monitor" of the parent. While the parents are brazenly hysterical and noisy, the children are extra calm, as if they were born knowing what is right and what is right and what is wrong.
In the final analysis, this is due to their parents, although they have long been divorced. I have found that there are several important factors in the development of these children, and their parents are definitely the most important of them.
First look at this mother, she is the kind of traditional step-by-step person: go to college, find a job, buy a house, find a stepfather for the child, then divorce, then find another, work hard to pay off the mortgage, send the children to college, sell the house , and then to die, she said it herself. She's the kind of person who is very self-disciplined, doing well in school and at work. The by-product of self-discipline is he-discipline. She is also very strict with her children. Although it will suppress the children's unruly characters, it is a good thing in the long run. As the hotel manager said, your mother is a wise man. people. I also believe her life will start to get easier when her kids are in college, just not sure if she knows how. When she cried in front of her son, a certain mindset had already formed in her mind.
Look at their father again, he's a typical liberal, and I think that's the root cause of their divorce. He is passionate and uninhibited, likes to sing, likes to rock, and even has his own band. His son is very similar to him in this regard. Although he can't support them in the basics like their mother, he can always guide them at some critical moment and save them from falling into the abyss. For example, when he learned that his daughter had a boyfriend, he had to explain the common sense of contraception to them, which was also one of the biggest jokes in the whole film; he took the children to play every week; he carefully prepared gifts for his son on his birthday ; When the son is brokenhearted, enlighten him seriously. He always had a transcendent power to guide his children from the troubles of worldly life.
We see that the parents are completely two extremes, so their role in the child is also complementary, and they cannot be separated from anyone.
There are other elements, like the three gifts his son received on his fifteenth birthday: a Bible, a suit and a gun. I don't know if American law stipulates that 15 years old have full criminal responsibility, and China is 14 years old. This legally means that you are already an adult in the legal sense, and its subtext is that you are fully responsible for your words and deeds. From today, you kill for your life, so you can own a gun, and you can use a gun to protect yourself and your property. If you kill without paying for your life, then you can't own a gun, you can't use a gun to protect yourself. Behind this is a set of logical operation system of rights and obligations. With a gun, there must be a Bible, the gun protects itself, and the Bible manages itself. Because you are an adult, you can no longer depend on others, you can no longer rely on the management of your own parents, you must learn to manage yourself. And religion is a very effective method for self-management. In a way, the Bible exists to avoid gun use.
What about the suit, what does it represent. If the gun and the Bible represent two extremes, the suit is the middle ground. Between the extremes of good and evil, the power that can merge or separate good and evil is a set of social systems, or a system, more generally speaking, the rules of the game. It can exist in a situation, in a profession, in a group, in a country. When you put on this suit, you are destined to step into these, to play a role, to exercise your authority. Different people exercise their own powers, and everyone performs their own duties, which is the basis for the stable operation of a society. In this respect, guns and bibles exist for suits. But not all, because of guns and bibles, people become individuals independent of society. This is again a mutually reinforcing relationship. This is exactly what Aristotle said: A qualified citizen must be a good ruler and a good governed at the same time. (Whether it was Plato or Aristotle, I can't remember, but one of them said it anyway)
The power of literature is that it allows one to see a different kind of world, and thus produces a A transcendent force that takes us out of the inertia of life. The same is true of movies. Watching movies is an interesting way of looking at the world.
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