nostalgic father-daughter love

Monica 2022-10-01 03:29:43

Behind the quiet appearance, through history, the generation gap between the two generations is like the nostalgia of the division between East and West Berlin. In the indescribable awkwardness, flesh and blood are connected and parted. I have seen many German directors who have begun to try to create with big themes in recent years to show humanistic care, but this film chooses to start from a relatively small perspective, directly from the perspective of family relations, and restores it more deeply. The relationship between a father and daughter.

The relationship between Winfred (father) and Ines (daughter) in the past is not explained in the film, even what disputes and estrangements exist between the two at present, and the relationship between him and his ex-wife during the family of three Nothing that happened was explained. The director skillfully used 20 minutes to explain the characteristics of the father and daughter, including daily hobbies, living conditions, etc., and also used a scene where the daughter was on the phone in front of her father, briefly explaining the relationship between the two. Relationship. In these 20 minutes, we can see that the father is a part-time job, likes to play pranks in daily life, and lacks company. He is an old man who lives in his own world. The setting for his daughter is relatively simple, namely She is a strong woman who threw herself into her work. The film does not do much language here, but focuses on the characterization of behavior. The film begins with the old man joking with the courier brother. The old man uses a seemingly boring "separation technique" to make the courier brother. Meng was stunned for a moment, but this setting did not bring much sense of substitution. The audience may not understand the father's actions very well, but the setting of this scene seems to be straight to the point, which is convenient for some audiences in the future. understand.

"Tony Erdman" is another identity set by the father himself in the film, just like his father's "separation technique" at the beginning of the film, in the same way. The father needed his daughter's company and came to Romania in search of her daughter, and saw her life - which he would never understand. The current way of life of my daughter is just like the way of life of countless white-collar workers and even many successful people in the world. The work that can never stop, the life that can never be slowed down, year after year. It’s not that my father doesn’t fully understand, and it’s not that he hasn’t seen many people who are living like his daughter at this time. His doubts may only stop at the meaning of life, not just for the future, but forgetting a lot of precious and worthwhile things. Something to stop and enjoy.

When I asked my daughter, "Are you still a person?", the proposition was right. It is not difficult to judge what kind of social environment my father grew up in, and all kinds of hardships he must have experienced. He was helpless at his daughter's youth--the daughter was actually not young anymore, she had already reached the age when she should get married and have children, but it seemed that she had never experienced the way her father thought was the right way of life. The reason for the behavior of changing identities and returning to the daughter's side. Of course, the father's mentality and cognition are not completely correct objectively, but the construction of the creator's subjective intention can easily bring us into this fictional concept of right and wrong. Although at the beginning of the film, the director made the image of the father absurd, but I think most of the audience's sense of identity is still more on the father's side.

The daughter believes that the reason why her father came to Romania to find her is because of the death of the dog named "Willie". Of course, as for the reason why the father came, the daughter may think that this is the hidden part of the father from herself, and the real reason is just because of sadness and loneliness, but I don’t know if my understanding is wrong, why the daughter doesn’t think about it, the father Why hide this from yourself? If it was simply the father's fear of affecting his own life, why didn't the father make up a more suitable reason? The death of "Willie" was indeed one of the reasons for the father's trip, even the direct reason, that was the spiritual company of the father when his daughter was away. Now that "Willie" is dead, the father has forced his way into his daughter's life as an intruder. In the lobby of his daughter's company, he still uses his own way to see if his daughter will notice his presence. Of course, the daughter noticed it, but sent an assistant downstairs to greet her - what an obvious sense of estrangement, when the daughter had no time to have a direct conversation with her father, and in such an embarrassing situation, she Everything that was laid out at the birthday party has finally been further developed.

Later, the daughter and father finally met, but the daughter was eager to go to the reception, and she brought her father with her. During the reception and at the banquet, the existence of my father finally caused unspeakable embarrassment-to everyone, my father was not a person for this occasion at all. However, I was nervous in my heart, for fear that the scene would lose control due to some differences at a certain moment; the director’s effective control made my worries come to nothing, and the mutual cooperation between the characters in several scenes always existed. Distance, in the several group activities that my father participated in this cocktail party and changed his identity to "Tony Erdman", there was no fuse that triggered the character's emotions and the outbreak of the situation. Hidden in the character's restraint and forbearance.

In fact, the film does not deliberately emphasize time and space. Although the background of the times exists objectively, the film is more important for the embodiment of humanism. We don't know the exact year of the story, and even when we watched it for the first time, some friends couldn't tell which was Germany and which was Romania. Only by reading the whole film can I realize that these are not important. Some things can happen in Germany or Romania, as long as the father and daughter can get together from the two countries they are in. Everyone in the film is faced with the id and others, and the focus is on people rather than regional differences. The description of the space can be pointed out. The creators know very well that the non-emphasis is transferred to the key point, because in this way, the humanistic color of the film can be fully displayed.

After leaving out a lot of less important elements, we then got a feel for how the creators added drama and ideological tension to the film.

The father chose to leave after being blamed by his daughter for calling the bed. The daughter stood on the balcony and watched her father cry when she was gone. Because the emotions contained were too complicated, I don't think the impact was as strong as the moment when the father changed his identity, put on his dentures, and reappeared with a new look. . It was so suddenly that the daughter was taken aback, and the audience could understand something while feeling the same. Seeing the father talking nonsense to his daughter and her female companions in a serious manner, as well as several scenes, actions, and details of the later high-profile corporate executives, it seems absurd, but it makes people feel that - this It is the reality in life, an excellent movie, the exploration of all potential possibilities, I think it is the necessary value for it to be called excellent. The details projected into life can be surprising without making it feel like a dream.

As mentioned above, my father is not someone who belongs to similar occasions. When my father wears a wig and dentures, and his suit appears in a high-end occasion, it will definitely produce an effect that is out of tune with the surrounding environment - the director did not deliberately portray this. , but used a completely natural expression method, enough to see the skill. The two scenes with the most dramatic tension in the film, the first is in the so-called "party" where the daughter invites her father to participate. I think the daughter's drug use is testing the father's tolerance limit, just waiting for him to reveal his flaws to show the truth. identity. The results may be expected, but when the truth is shown in front of us, many people will still feel particularly shocked.

Facing the drug, the father refused at first, but after seeing his daughter take a sip, the father immediately took the drug and wiped it in his mouth. This scene shows us not only about father and daughter concentric. Think again what does it indicate? It shows that the father has not given up, he will continue to accompany his daughter. This shows that he still has the determination to lead his daughter out of the sea of ​​misery.

The second, needless to say, is that in the last part of the nude party, I valued more than the frankness of the naked people regardless of gender, that my father was dressed in black long hair and wearing a long-haired monster mask. The quick part. This part presents a full humorous effect, and the complex emotions it contains are intriguing; the daughter puts on a robe and follows the back of the "hairy monster" to the park. , it is the father's good intentions. The daughter shouted "Dad" and hugged the "hairy monster", and then had some fun with each other. This is actually a calm eruption of emotions, as peaceful as clear water, but it brings an explosive effect. This is by no means the deliberate tear-jerking that I am against. The plot is set in the film, but it is the finishing touch. The complex relationship between father and daughter that runs through the whole film is sublimated to the extreme at this moment. It is not just that the daughter understands the father or the father understands. It was the two of them who reached an unanimous agreement, and gradually accepted each other in the progression of the plot, not abrupt or far-fetched, as if this hug was missing at the end of the film, and this hug appeared when it was most needed. appeared, and the beautiful vision that many people were looking forward to finally arrived and was satisfied in the process of watching the movie. This is the grace of art to the people without asking for anything in return.

My father said to the indigenous people of Romania: Don't lose your sense of humor. This sense of humor is not the sense of humor we understand. Combined with the father's various behaviors in the film, we may be able to understand that the father's pursuit of life is exactly his own pursuit of happiness. The "sense of humor" can satisfy the father's happiness in daily life, and it is easier for the father to think that the "sense of humor" can bring happiness to the people around him. This is the spiritual sustenance of an old man who has experienced vicissitudes of life and has tasted all the sufferings of the world. Although ordinary people can't understand his father's behavior, his father enjoys it, and every move brings endless joy. His behavior shows the brilliance of human nature and wins back his daughter. The unpretentious "sense of humor" finally won the victory; after all, the daughter will return to her father, which is common sense and the result of her father's behavior.

Of course, I also felt my father's "sense of humour", which was indeed a real sense of humor, but also a piece of my father's sincerity. But while he was showing his "sense of humour," I felt heartbroken and desolate. This method of self-help from the post-war German people once saved a country and saved countless families; today, even if it is a little more difficult, even if it causes misunderstanding, even if it causes embarrassment, it will still persist for others. Not just life, but soul.

"Pro-Yuan Xian fish, as retreat webs". The old man was deeply stubborn, but he used his inaction to exercise his way, because he understood the purpose of doing this, and the way to make himself happy will definitely make his daughter happy. He thought so, because he no longer knew other ways. He has tried to disguise himself as a modern person, but every time he does so, it seems like he is throwing his old body and soul into the air, floating around at will, not knowing where to go, only his simple soul keeps him steady. He felt tired and lost, but the young modern people in the deep material society, aren't they lost? How can the souls of these people make them stand firm?

It's like a scene that can't be fixed in a movie. What the director wants to achieve must be stable and not impatient, as the story shows, calm and gentle, but the occasional shaking of the camera will make my heart beat faster with every moment my father and daughter are together, for fear of being depressed. Outbursts and conflicts are created, which can get out of hand. At the climax of the film, at the Easter banquet of a woman whom her father met as a German ambassador at a party, the daughter reluctantly sang "The Greatest Love Of All" to the accompaniment of her father's keyboard. Combining all kinds of complex psychology, the scene at this time contains infinite possibilities, including unknown misunderstanding and understanding, conflict and relaxation, indifference and emotion, all of which are included in the lens that should be fixed but always shakes slightly. . But it is at this most suitable point for an explosion that everything is hidden in the singing. After the daughter sang, she left, leaving behind her lost father, who confessed to the lady that she was not the German ambassador.

The lady said: I know, I know the German ambassador.

The phrase comforted his father's "sense of humour." Finally, in this world, my father found a place for his soul.

I found that the film did not deliberately interpret too many emotions, but incorporated all the emotions in the film into the parts of life and spread them out equally. Everything is just life, including the "sense of humour". It is not through crying and laughing that the audience's emotions can be mobilized. The real appeal may come from the little things in life. Just like in our daily life, because there are parts of our hearts, happy or unhappy, satisfied or dissatisfied, what is there to worry about?

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Extended Reading
  • Fabiola 2022-04-28 06:01:02

    The characters, performances, and tone are all very good, and the humor has a kind of ruthlessness to death. The handling of the last scene already gave people goosebumps, and the subtitles sounded The Cure's Plain Song, which was a complete success.

  • Torrey 2022-04-28 06:01:02

    Also known as "A Clumsy Life Like Me", it is about the daily life of an older young woman from a middle-class family in Western Europe, interspersed with the delicate relationship between a useless father and a workaholic daughter, the delicate relationship between professional life and private life, The delicate relationship between Western European powers and Eastern European developing countries, as well as the subtle relationship between the actor's crime in the film and the audience's self-substitute in front of the screen, is especially suitable for treating the late stage of embarrassment.

Toni Erdmann quotes

  • Winfried Conradi alias Toni Erdmann: No concept makes sense without the client.

  • Ines Conradi: I don't want to lose my bite.