marital predicament

Connie 2022-04-24 07:01:14

The shooting style is delicate and the subject is revealed profoundly. It depicts two middle-class American families with a pair of children in the Nixon era who have been married for more than ten years. They are neighbors to each other and have many contacts on weekdays, but they both face the same marriage. Crisis and educational dilemmas with children of youthful rebellion. The wife of family 1 is reticent, the husband, the husband of family 2 is busy with work all day and neglects his wife. The two middle-aged couples love their families, but the lifeless married life makes them depressed, and they also try to accept marriage by Counseling to improve and save, but with little success, in order to escape and seek stimulation, the husband and the neighbor's wife secretly have a secret affair, and the sensitive and silent wife finds out and is greatly hurt. relation. Adolescent boys and girls in two families are also trying to find a vent for hormones, full of curiosity and impulse towards the opposite sex, at the same time full of contempt and irony for the chaotic society and politics, full of impatience with parental discipline, husband and wife. Between the children, between the two families, the invisible undercurrent of contradiction roams in it, and the energy is constantly accumulating, and finally broke out on a night of ice storm. Li, maybe after this ice storm, the two families will find the true meaning of married life again, and the children will understand the cost of growing up.

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  • Federico 2021-12-22 08:01:32

    Judging from the movie alone, although it is a bit boring, the atmosphere is still well created, with a sense of loneliness as the cold winter wind whizzes by. From the point of view of adaptation, it didn't reflect the main idea of ​​the original work at all, and it made a happy ending abruptly. The protagonist is also much more handsome and kind than the original. The meaning of the original book is roughly that a group of middle-class people are obliterated by life and their passions eventually fall apart in indifference and lack of love, and the film lacks a bit of realistic cruelty.

  • Darion 2022-03-28 09:01:05

    So speculative, speculative bitch

The Ice Storm quotes

  • Ben Hood: Well, that's the whole point of the holidays, Paul. So you and your sister can mope around the house, and your mother and I can wait on your hand and foot, while the two of you occasionally grunt for more food from behind the hair in your faces. Believe it or not, we actually enjoy it.

  • Paul Hood: When you think about it, it's not easy to keep from just wandering out of life. It's like someone's always leaving the door open to the next world, and if you aren't paying attention you could just walk through it, and then you've died. That's why in your dreams it's like you're standing in that doorway... and the dying people and the newborn people pass by you... and brush up against you as they come in and out of the world during the night. You get spun around, and in the morning... it takes a while to find your way back into the world.