On Easter morning, daughter Anka stayed by her father's bed, kissed her father's face, and woke her father, Mike, with water. In the same way, the father "revenge" his daughter, disregarding her daughter's begging for mercy, and pouring a bucket of water on her daughter in the bathroom. The film tells us from the beginning that this is a single-parent family consisting of a father and a daughter, and the relationship between father and daughter is very harmonious. If we look back at this paragraph in combination with the subsequent plot, we will find different discoveries. Maybe we have felt it before, but we didn't care. When the daughter was soaked, her body was wrapped in wet clothes and her curves were exposed. At this time, the father's eyes seemed a little strange. I thought they were husband and wife, until later Anka's boyfriend called and Anka went to another room. Going to answer the phone and calling Dad to hang up here, I realized they were a father-daughter relationship. Another detail that follows is that in the process of answering the phone, the father did not hang up the phone immediately after the daughter picked up the phone on the other end, but overheard for a while, until the daughter and her boyfriend on the phone said, "I just fetched water with my father. The battle" hangs up. In fact, these two paragraphs are paving the way for the open and honest conversation between the father and daughter, that is, the father's relationship with his daughter is not just as simple as a father-daughter relationship, but also has a feeling between a man and a woman, but this feeling is always suppressed by reason , turned into the role of father.
Running through the main line is such a letter. On the envelope, the father wrote that he would be handed over to his daughter to lay it down after his death. The inside of the envelope was still an envelope, and from the content of the envelope, it was a suicide note left by the mother to her daughter. From the beginning to the end, neither the father nor the daughter has read the suicide note left by the mother, but the daughter and father with high IQ have already guessed the big content of the letter, that is, the mother wants to tell her daughter that Mike is not hers. biological father. But the father didn't want to take the initiative to give the letter to his daughter, but hoped that the daughter would uncover the truth and keep herself out of the way. He just didn't want to take responsibility for changing the father-daughter relationship. The daughter also has an Electra complex in her subconscious. He realized that her father intended to let her see the letter, but what she really wanted to know might not be the content of the letter, but why her father wanted her to see the letter. The precocious daughter has already felt her father's feelings towards her subconsciously, and she is also aware that her father is deliberately avoiding and suppressing this feeling, and she doesn't want her father to suppress her and say insincere words to her, so that she destroys and suppresses her feelings. Boyfriend's fetus. Now the decision to change the father-daughter relationship is in the hands of the daughter, and this decision has inspired the daughter's subconscious Electra complex. She took off her clothes, prepared to accept her father's indulgence calmly, and gave her father a reason for indulgence, but Her father put clothes on her, and at this time father and daughter finally returned to reason. Since the father's suspicion of trying to change the father-daughter relationship was finally denied by the father's behavior, she still pressed the reason why the father let her read the letter, and the father's explanation was for the reason of resentment towards the mother, I can't understand this answer, I still don't think that's the real truth, at that moment Mike wanted Anka to see herself as a man other than a father. Try to think about it, if you had a strange feeling about your colleagues and friends of the opposite sex around you, what would you want? You'll want the other person to treat you as someone of the opposite sex, rather than just content with a co-worker or a friend.
In the final part of the movie, the daughter wakes up in the morning and finds that her father is missing. Her first reaction is that her father can no longer face such an embarrassing father-daughter relationship and runs away from home. The father was only relieved when he went to buy milk, because it meant that the life between father and daughter was not disrupted, and everything was calm again. At the end of the play, the father and daughter burnt the mother's letter, because the content of the letter is no longer important at this time, the important thing is that they can still maintain this father-daughter love, nothing is more important than this! The information left over from the letter is actually a hint that the content of the letter is as the two people guessed, Mike is not Anka's father, I think this is the director's arrangement to conform to the plot, otherwise the display of this ethical relationship will appear too much. Ridiculous! The purpose of the film to fully excavate and show human nature is nothing more than to recognize ourselves rather than avoid it. We need to face it with a serious attitude, and the absurdity of the plot will obviously weaken our serious attitude when facing human nature.
I have to admit that some of the symbols in the film are not fully understood, such as the second unexpected encounter between Anka and the man who rowed the raft. I don't understand what the symbolism is? In addition, I don't understand the role of my father's friend Adam in this drama. He may be Anka's biological father.
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