It's so sad, but I think everything is fine

Deontae 2022-04-21 09:01:40

For the first time in the 144-minute movie, I knew it perfectly, and every second I looked at Downey, there was an incomparably thick love in my eyes.

Also interesting, every Downey I know, fatherly love seems to be a sensitive word. Iron Man's father, Howard, ignored Tony because he was looking for Captain America all his life. He waited until the fifty-year-old Tony opened the dusty video and heard his father's words "The greatest achievement of my life is you". The resentment turned into remorse for not saying "I love you"; the judge's father personally sent his son to the detention center because of his drunkenness when he was young. He did not attend his graduation ceremony, and would rather affirm strangers than himself. Twenty years after the father-son relationship broke down, he told him that "the reason why I sentenced the young man lightly was because I thought of you when I saw him", "you are the best lawyer I have ever met" - why? Why didn't you tell him in the first place? When a man is nearly fifty years old and still feels like he has never been affirmed by his father and is as vulnerable as a child, I want to rush to the screen and tell him that your father loves you, but he is too stubborn and too bad. I don't know how to tell you. As for Downey's own father, too bad to say. I really thank him for smoking marijuana for my eight-year-old son.

Like the lens to go a lot. When the tornado came, the family hid in the basement to enjoy the "home movie" made by the younger son who had some problems with IQ; the second son, who was shrewd and hardworking in the big city, cleaned up the dirt for the father who fell in the bathroom, and the two suddenly burst into laughter; During the day and night, I would go to see my girlfriend from twenty years ago; and in the last scene, my father died peacefully on the lake - this is really the best way to die I can think of.

The sun was warm that day, and the lake was calm and sparkling. The father and his favorite son were fishing in the boat in the middle of the lake. After so many things, the father and son finally reached a reconciliation with each other, and they were finally honest about their love. They were in the sun, and the father finally told his son. He had waited half his life for confirmation from his father, and when his son looked down at the fish, he slept peacefully, just like any other time before. I suddenly thought of that sentence, "Where I go I don't need courage, you need courage."

Those who leave will leave, and those who stay must live well. Fortunately, in the boundless world, we still have family. We hate each other but love each other, and if you leave, I will carry on with your part until I leave too—hopefully that day, too, on a sunny day.

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  • Helmer 2022-03-26 09:01:03

    There are some things that we can never change and escape: parents, origin, hometown... Instead of escaping, covering up, complaining, it is better to accept, understand, and cherish (that is, there is less court drama = =)

  • Ima 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    He and he are father and son, misunderstanding each other and loving each other.

The Judge quotes

  • Hank Palmer: Why'd you pull me out of Boy Scouts?

    Judge Joseph Palmer: As punishment for blowing up the McCraw's mailbox with M80s.

    Hank Palmer: I was 13. *That* you remember. *That*!

    Judge Joseph Palmer: Oh, old enough to know better.

    Hank Palmer: You didn't come to my high school graduation or college. Why?

    Judge Joseph Palmer: [Overlapping] Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. "Why?" Jail time, truancy, I don't get to reward anything! None of your shit!

    Hank Palmer: I graduated from *law school*, for Christ's sake.

    Judge Joseph Palmer: As opposed to what? Dropping out?

    Hank Palmer: Fuck you!

    Judge Joseph Palmer: Let me tell you something, okay? I put a roof over your head, money in your pocket, clothes on your back... *food* in your *mouth*! Who paid for that college education? I never showed up to kiss your ass, but your mother? She's a house wife! Why couldn't you swallow your God damned pride and just come home to her? You tell me why!

    Hank Palmer: [On the verge of tears] You know, you'd invite people at the end of their parole back to court... You'd *recognize* those who did their time, turned their lives around, made something of themselves. Everyone in the court applauded, and you made sure they did! Tell them how *proud* you were... Proud of *fucking* strangers!

    Judge Joseph Palmer: Is that all you wanted, Henry, was a kind word? An 'atta boy? Then to use your words, you should have *come* the *fuck* home! We all waited, *quietly*, but you never came. Okay? And I was the one she'd blame, because you wouldn't come home. Me. Now, was I tough on you? Yes. How'd you turn out, Henry? Waiting tables? A bum?

    Hank Palmer: You put me in Juvenile Detention... you sent me to fucking Vanderburgh!

    Judge Joseph Palmer: [Interrupting] No, no, no, no, no, you put yourself there.

    Hank Palmer: Did I?

    Judge Joseph Palmer: Yes.

    Hank Palmer: The prosecutor recommended community service. That was *your* call!

    Judge Joseph Palmer: No, no, no, it wouldn't have *helped* you!

    Hank Palmer: I didn't need *help*, I needed *you*!

    Judge Joseph Palmer: You were high, you rolled a car with your brother in it! He had a major league career ahead of him, a 90 mile-an-hour fast ball, and he runs a turnip shop! You crippled him, you stole his future, and you call *me* an ass hole?

    Hank Palmer: What do you want from me? I was 17 when that happened. I was *17*.

    Judge Joseph Palmer: Oooh, "I was 13, I was 17." You were headed down the wrong path! I did what I thought was right.

    Hank Palmer: [Holding back tears] You know, I didn't just graduate from law school, I graduated first in my class... I was *first* in my class... I did *really* well, dad.

    Judge Joseph Palmer: You're welcome.

    [Walks out of the room]

    Hank Palmer: [Grits his teeth and clenches his fist; he sits at the kitchen table, speaking in a barely audible voice] Fuck... Damn this house... God damn this *fucking* house...

  • Mike Kattan: And how does it feel, Hank? Knowing that every client you represent is guilty?

    Hank Palmer: It's fine. Innocent people can't afford me.