The original intention of choosing this director for this movie stemmed from his love for Xu Anhua. I heard that Xu Anhua highly respected Ken Loach. After reading it, I found that it is a similar style and theme. There are no very surprising photography and editing skills, but more of the content and plot left people moved and sighed.
The relationship between the characters I like in the film is the evolution of the relationship between Dan and the two children, and the other is the warmth and bond between Dan and Katie who are like relatives and friends.
Dan is a hard-mouthed, soft-hearted, warm and kind old carpenter. He has a very harmonious relationship with his colleagues. He and the neighbor's big boy "Lao Zhong" also fight each other all day long, but they actually care about each other. As he said, he is not a dignified "dog" who eats soft food. When faced with the questioning of the audit telephone, Dan showed dissatisfaction, but still answered according to the truth, so that the failure of the final audit led to more troubles . In the face of Katie, who was also in trouble, he was still willing to stand up and help. When Katie was arguing with the staff, Dan was the first in the onlookers to speak up, already showing his superhuman toughness and sense of dignity. At the same time, Dan is a bit stubborn and conservative, maybe because of the carpenter's reasons, or because he is old, he is reluctant to try new things, whether it is a computer or a resume. While studying and experimenting with computers, I often frown with the kind of anxiety that the movies show, and really feel the same way.
The little boy Dylan and Dan are actually similar. At the beginning, Dylan was resistant to Dan, as if Dan and the unfamiliar city he moved to are both unfamiliar and the breaker of his original peaceful life, so Dylan In the way of hitting the ball, he expresses his silent dissatisfaction and struggle with irregular and complicated percussion sounds, just as his sister said: "Others never listen to him, why should he listen to others." This sentence has also become Later Dan acts as a summary of the trajectory. Dylan gradually integrates into his new life, but Dan, on the contrary, begins to express his struggle against life. He graffiti on the outer wall of the application center is exactly the effect of the phrase "other people never listen to him, why should he listen to others" It shows that when he found that no one listened to him and that the government only acted according to the rigid rules, the desperate Dan chose not to stop other people's words, insisted on his own way, and defended his dignity.
The question and answer between Dylan and Dan, which seems to be unintentional and full of innocence, is skipped in the tone of coaxing children, but it actually deeply reflects the social outlook reflected in the film. "Do you think sharks or coconuts, which one kills more people?" "Coconut". As a well-known dangerous creature, sharks are naturally considered to be more aggressive, but coconuts, as a food to quench thirst and hunger, often make people less vigilant, and there are not a few people who never want to be killed by coconuts. And the social welfare system reflected in the movie is like this. It seems to be helping the poor people at the bottom, but it often puts people in a more difficult situation. Things like Dan and Katie happen, as the female staff does. "I've seen a lot of good people end up on the streets, there are so many examples," he said.
The clip about Katie is very memorable, and several plots set up in the film are too stinging. In the case of her own hunger, Katie gave the children and Dan the only food left in order to feed the children and thank Dan. In the supermarket where she received the relief supplies at the relief station, Katie was carrying the crowd like a dog who had been hungry for a long time tore open the can and dumped it on her hand, as if the animal was trying to fill its hunger by nature. At that moment, she gave up her self-esteem in desperation. . The movie lingers between the good and the bad. In addition to Dan's selfless "good", there is also the man in the supermarket showing "good" for other purposes; and the "bad" is nothing more than a result of the rigid system. kind of helpless. Katie struggled between "good" and "bad". After a helpless life forced her to sell herself, Dan's appearance completely broke the bottom line of her inner self-esteem. Her dignity seemed to be trampled under her feet. She hated Dan's frankness and selflessness, the cruelty of society, and the inflexibility of the system, but the most unacceptable thing for her was that she couldn't get rid of the status quo in the predicament, and could only continue to struggle forward in the mud.
I think this movie is about growth and choice. From the beginning to the end, Dan chooses to stick to the facts, maintain his dignity, stick to justice and kindness; Katie has been shaken and has been choosing to surrender to the status quo or choose Swinging in the face of difficulties; the old, middle-aged and black people choose to use opportunities and minds to change their status quo. There is no right or wrong among the three different choices, because they are all reasonable and reasonable based on their own identities and living conditions. It is about growth, in fact, it is more from Dan's influence on children. The little girl is more mature than the boy. From the details of her love to read books, it can be seen that she is quiet and calm. She has learned kindness, enthusiasm and kindness from Dan. An understanding and tolerance of difficult situations. When she was ostracized and gossiped by her classmates, she didn't play a role, she talked to her mother aggrievedly, and also considered whether her mother had money to buy new shoes. When looking for Dan, she asked, "Since we have difficulties, you helped We, why can't we help you now" really made me feel the impact Dan had on her and the growth of the girl herself.
On the other hand, the growth is also reflected in Dan's redemption for Katie, and the reunification of the two is really touching.
The song "Voyage" in the movie is not only the status quo of Katie leaving London with her two children, but also Dan's process of maintaining his dignity. Just as his wife's dying words "I want to sail against the wind and sail away", Dan finally chooses to welcome her. In the face of difficulties, I vowed to defend my dignity to the death, and never bowed my head. But just when everything seemed to be about to see the light, his life came to an abrupt end, and all the grief and helplessness were vividly reflected in "Voyage", which reappeared in that "poor funeral".
Dan is a real person, hard-working and unyielding. No extravagance, no compromise.
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