The most important scene in this film is the dinner after the funeral. All the characters in the film are present and have a scene that expresses their characteristics, so this scene is the most important and certainly the most exciting in my opinion. One of the pre-dinner prayers hosted by Charlie Aiken would make people think that this is a religious family. Perhaps apart from this scene, only the cross on the funeral chapel has a hint of Christianity. The prayer before the meal is ridiculous enough, almost no one pays attention to the prayer itself, as if it is a ritual that should be dealt with, and it is even more ironic when you watch the whole play. The father cheated and gave birth to a son with his wife's sister. Mom and his brother-in-law actually knew about it, but never mentioned it for many years. The eldest daughter and her husband separated because of her old age and her husband was looking for another beautiful girl. Their children are rebellious in their youth, disappointed with their mother and father, but their aunt's lover takes drugs. The third daughter is frivolous and noisy, and she drives a big red sports car with her lover, playing the best music all the way to her father's funeral. The second daughter originally had a beautiful relationship, but this cousin was actually his half-brother because of his father's derailment, and the love turned into incest. The most terrible thing is, of course, the old couple. The male is drinking and committing suicide, while the female is taking drugs and going crazy. In this family that is not the most chaotic, only more chaotic, there seems to be nothing taboo: affair, illegitimate children, unfilial, drug addiction, alcoholism, incest (even in the case of unknown circumstances), suicide... This is in Families who are half-hearted in prayer seem to be violating the Word of God everywhere. The final fragmentation and irreparable pain and recurring evil seem to be their punishment. Perhaps behind this story, the screenwriter also arranged a pair of god's eyes to silently watch the stage and end of this human farce.
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