In fact, I wanted to pick a comedy movie to Panasonic for the HSBC that just ended, but I saw the poster of Everybody's fine by mistake, so I bought the ticket.
It was really easy at the beginning. With my favorite "Catching a falling star" as the opening music, Frank (the male protagonist) happily took care of his small garden, went to the supermarket to buy all kinds of things, and prepared to spend the weekend with his children.
I think the parents are like this, because they can see their children and become anxiously anticipating and dreaming like an old child. At least my mother is like that. Every time I go home from Hong Kong, she will buy a lot of delicious food, even if she may not know that some of them have been eaten by me for so many years.
But just as the plot should develop, no one goes because of all kinds of things. Maybe something really prevents them from taking the time to go home, or maybe their parents actually don't have their original place in their hearts. The children already have their own families, their own lives, and the parents seem to have happened centuries ago. So this father (Frank) decided to travel and visit his children.
The first child, David, is not at home. Father looked at David's painting in the gallery window, a weird person like Picasso's, terrifying eyes. Father should be familiar and unfamiliar with this look. There should be David's stubbornness when he was a child, but it's more of their years of difference, another obscure and dark side of David that is unknown.
When he arrived at the house of his next child, Amy, he knew that all the excuses Amy did not go to his house were unfounded. He also saw his daughter whose family was not happy. When I saw Amy’s son Jack refused to pass his father’s hot sauce, I told Adrian next to me, “They got divorced”. Adrian looked at me in surprise, “how do you know that”. Yes, I just know that, because I can feel it. As if this happened to me once, I am Jack and I will do the same thing. My father left home because of another woman. I have any reason to forgive him and pretend that nothing is kind to him. Yes, I have experienced it, so I know it must be like this.
When I arrived at the rehearsal hall of the third child, Robert, he found that his son was not as good as he had imagined. And the last daughter, Rosie, seemed to be the one who looked forward to the appearance of her father the most, but she still kept secrets from her father.
The reality is like this. We always want to tell our parents the good news, hoping they will feel at ease, but some little secrets are hidden by ourselves, because we don't think they will understand. So we try our best to show the best, just like Rosie, we rented a luxurious extension car to pick up my father, booked a rooftop revolving restaurant, and found a bright apartment for my father...
and what moved me was that my father paid attention. When it came to everything, he didn't break it, but chose to leave sadly, leaving each of his children with a letter, a letter he decided to personally hand over to no one.
But things were so unsatisfactory, David died. I think it’s because of too much pressure. As a weird artist, he may be more or less schizophrenic, especially when his mother is dead and his father is so harsh.
I like Rober De Niro's performance at this time. I can see that his heart is really crying. At this moment, I held back, but actually almost cried. It’s not because of the single scene, but every time Frank sees his children, the first glance is the simple smile and eyes of their children, which is hard to describe. It seems that this makes a father who has a dead wife and his children ten The father who had not communicated for several years seemed even more lonely and lonely.
All of his incompatibility, he didn't know that the trolley case had rods and wheels, he still used a film camera, he insisted on taking pictures of his daughter at the door of the company without caring about passersby, and dragging the crunchy case to the band rehearsal site, which made people feel distressed.
He told people everywhere about how good his children were. Because he was too busy, he could only visit them by himself. He was sitting on the Greyhound platform alone, waiting for the missed car. Late at night, only a black conductor was talking to him. He went through the underground passage, trying to give a homeless man money to eat, but was robbed of his wallet, and finally stepped on the medicine bottle. He can only pick up the fragments of medicine and put them in his pocket. One of the shots made people very sad, that is, he poured the last bit of medicine slag out of his pocket, then picked out the clothes fibers inside, and then pushed the medicine slag into his hand along the edge of the table, poured it into his mouth, and licked it. Licked the palm of his hand. It is these details that make people very moving. This old man is so pitiful. I think only this word can describe him. He is very strict with children, so no one wants to tell him the truth. He lives in loneliness until one day. He felt that he should go to see the child, but found that he had lost the one he couldn't let go of.
Finally, Frank went to the gallery to buy David's painting, but unfortunately it was already bought. The shop owner found a picture David had previously painted, which was very simple like a telephone pole painted by a child, as well as a crimped telephone cable. Only Frank knows what it is. That is the profession that Frank has always been proud of, which is to use PVC for telephone cables.
Frank dreamed of David, Frank said sorry, David said it’s okay, I have to go, my mother is still waiting...
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