Home is our heaviest and sweetest burden

Kay 2022-01-02 08:02:00

This film made me cry, but afterwards the tears kept falling, and the crying burst into tears.
The only thing I want to do is to rush home and hug my dad.

I have heard sentences like this a long time ago: Home is a corner where you can hide at any time, just like a lighthouse in the distance when sailing in the dark, always shining warm yellow lights for you. Even if you are abandoned and loathed by the whole world, the door of home will always be open to you. There is a faint smile in that door, there is delicious food, there is a strong fire, someone who loves you puts on a thick coat for you, and tells you that it’s okay to come back.
The beauty of a fairy tale, a utopia that appears and does exist in everyone's heart. However, is home like this to you?

Whose home will really only be laughter forever.
Have you ever been reprimanded by your stern father when you were in school and then angrily fell on the door of your home, and then angered each other for three days and never talked to anyone;
have you ever hated your parents for not understanding, in fact, you are not doing well It’s just that you really don’t want to do it;
have you ever been aggrieved and feel that the pressure is coming from your family? ;
Have you ever wanted to grow up quickly and leave this place called home early, because all your pressures and burdens originate from this place. You can live your own ease, want to go home a few points home, you can decide what to do tomorrow, I get up, you can afford to do yourself, just leave this place;
you have You don’t want to get the approval of your parents again and again, but it always seems to be a little bit short of their requirements;
have you told them the good news and then put the bad news in the most secret corner of your heart.
Whether you have ever had it or not, I really have experienced each of them. So when I stood from another angle and looked at the whole thing from the point of view of "Dad" in the film, suddenly there was a kind of unexplained distress, mixed with some kind of guilt, and it swept over me.

The beginning of the story is a story that anyone can predict. The lonely old man bought red wine to prepare dinner and waited for the children to return home for reunion. It was indeed a cancellation call one by one at the last minute. Too busy, there are things, children are sick, going out touring, there are always such and other excuses, so that the elderly have no room for rebuttal, can only be alone in the empty room to quietly put away the prepared food, facing the air and his wife say. So the old man chose to find his children by himself. His most worried child, David, is not at home, amy, robert, rosie, everyone looks good on the surface, plain and warm, smiling, and taking a group photo. The old man has seen everything he wants to see, but still feels Something is missing. There are lies one after another under the calm appearance, which makes the lonely old man hopeful and disappointed again and again. There is a scene of an old man who wanted to help others but was robbed of medicine calling an empty home and watching a movie in a telephone booth. My heart has always been as painful as tugging. "Are you happy?" he asked each of his children. "Happy? yes of course, yeah." This is always the answer. Are they really happy? In fact, at first I thought that the old man didn't know they were lying to him. It was only when he fainted on the plane and went into a dream. They are not doing well, but they don't want to tell him. Suddenly feeling very heavy, what kind of mood does this father continue this journey with.

In the past, their mothers did this communication work, and the four children would only talk to their mothers even if they had something in their hearts. Because the father is strict and tall, and his father always has such high demands on them, they think that they must be good in front of their father, meet their father's requirements, and be glamorous and successful. All the dark sides in real life used to be able to tell the mother, but after the role of the "listener" left, they could not directly transfer to the "impressor", so they chose to hide and choose to escape. However, they didn't know that their father didn't really ask each of them to be like they thought. That really didn't matter. The father actually loves his children like a mother. The role he once played is his duty and the way he loves. In fact, his father was as stubborn and lonely as a child, he just wanted to know how well they lived.

Do you want me to succeed or do you want me to be happy?
I once asked my parents about this question.
My mother said that we want you to succeed because we want you to be happy.
In fact, parents really want their children to be happy, and they also hope that their children will often accompany them to talk. Sometimes the methods they use are a bit extreme. Some parents blindly place their unfulfilled ideals and wishes on their children and do not care whether they are what the children want. But in the final analysis, even if you do not meet the requirements of your parents in the end, nothing will change. The door of that home will always open to you, and they will still be willing to leave you with that smile. Think about it in another direction. When parents in this mood ask you "How are you doing" sincerely, if you say something perfunctory every time, it's good, and then they rush to hang up the phone. How sad it will be.

When I think of the original call, whenever my dad answers the phone, I just say directly, "Is my mom there? My dad always hums and calls my mom, just like the father in the movie. I just want to sit next to my dad and tell him my life and everything about me quietly. I don’t think I know him, just as the four children in the movie didn’t see their father introducing them with a little pride on the train to the person sitting across from him, and I didn’t know that their father was one at midnight. How cute is it when people eat and watch TV in a fast food restaurant and laugh out loud.

The last old man in the film went to the gallery where his dead son David was to buy a painting. Under the leadership of the gallery owner, he saw a simple but beautiful oil painting painted by David. On the screen were wires coated with PVC protective film. , The profession that father has been proud of all his life. The gallery owner told the father that David used to say that he would never become an artist without his father. He could only become a graffiti and paint on the wall, and the dog would pee on the wall. I think my father's heart is the warmest at this moment, and everything he did has been rewarded at this moment. In fact, the father has done nothing wrong. Parents should be a Yan Yisong singing a white face and a black face to their children, but as children, we should send these two people who love us the same return.

After getting close to death, the family was finally reunited. In fact, the problem is still there, but what does it matter? After the storm, the warmth of the family seems so real, there is nothing lacking but a lot. Life can't be smooth sailing, but at least you can forget everything when you are at home, you can be unscrupulous and be the most true yourself. Home is one of the most important parts of each of us, but it is also our heaviest and sweetest burden. And what we can do is actually very simple: take it and enjoy it. This is what this movie told me.

everybody's fine. Really, everyone is fine.

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  • Art Gallery Girl: He used to say that if it wasn't for his dad he never would have become an artist. He said he would have ended up painting walls, and that dogs pee on walls...

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    Frank Goode: If you would ask me I would have to say in all honesty, Everybody's fine. Everybody's fine.