Being Flynn evaluation action
2022-03-22 08:01
"Being Flynn" is an emotionally likable film. A father and son learn to communicate and redeem each other. The Nick Flynn character in the film is a real person in real life, and the story is also true. The content is narrated in two voices. The son writes a book about Lao Tzu, in which Lao Tzu is narrating his life.
The film is suspected to be a Hollywood redemption story about family love. It is also a genre film. Usually, the characters will know each other, redeem each other, and grow up with each other. The biggest difference in the film is that, until the end, there is no relationship between the son and the father. Knowing each other, Lao Tzu still doesn't agree with his son's poems. It's like the son finally asked his father what he thought about his poems. Not only did the father not answer, but he was still cynical. The father didn't even know that the son was married and had children. A movie is a cross-section of a character's life, taking the audience for a while, and then throwing the audience halfway before the end, which is very different from traditional family redemption films like Hollywood. Both the father and the son live as destined, they are very passive in front of life, do not inspire anything, do not redeem anything, very much like the life of ordinary people, just live in the moment, and the real sense of this life is the genius of the movie. place.
Extended Reading
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Nick Flynn: [reading father's letter from a publisher] Your book is a virtuoso display of personality. Unfortunately, its dosage would kill hardier readers than we have here.
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Nick Flynn: [narrating] There's a balance between escalating and defusing. Knowing when to step in, and when to back off.
Nick Flynn: Hey buddy, calm down!
[takes a right hook to the face]
Joy: Oh, shit!
Nick Flynn: [narrating] I don't know that balance yet.