Single mother Adele is a middle-aged woman. She is extremely loyal to love. Although she is divorced, she suffers from heart disease because of the lost love. On the eve of Labor Day, her son Henry took her to the supermarket, who rarely left home, but ran into the fugitive Frank who wanted to find a hiding place. Frank "hijacked" them. Their attitude towards the man who came suddenly was completely confrontational and fearful. Even when the man was cooking, they didn't know if the man would give them medicine. However, when the man fed the food to the mother one bite at a time, she seemed to perceive the original feeling of being "loved", and then they discovered that this seemingly fierce "old boy" is actually a good family man who has never met in a century. , Their lives seem to be moving in a positive and orderly direction, but please don’t forget that the man is a criminal, and his escape from prison caused serious panic among the people as public opinion spread.
From a personal point of view, these three characters are all very sensitive to feelings. However, before the tilted horizon of fate, they may not be able to love or be loved. Adele is a woman who longs to be loved, but her physical condition has caused her to have multiple miscarriages. She is eager to save it. Unfortunately, her poor fate eventually prompted her husband to leave her eventually. This is why she became hysterical. reason. In addition, why Frank became a criminal is also because of his wife's infidelity. As a housewife when he was young, he was regarded as a fool by his troubled wife. Under the impulse of a man's self-esteem, he pushed her. It was this gentle push that made him endure the suffering of half a life of imprisonment in prison. His son Henry is a young man who loves his family. First of all, he loves his mother, be a "husband" and "date" with her, hoping to pull his mother back from the abyss of loss. But the arrival of this man seemed to gradually alienate the relationship between his mother and him. At this time, he was ambiguous about a rebellious smoky makeup girl. Because of family changes, she always believed that parents in the world would often abandon them because of her own bad deeds. She even educated Henry to "justify" and "rebel the family." But family is of extraordinary significance to him, and he still hopes to help his mother.
However, personal emotions and social indifference have produced obvious contradictions. There is a famous classic line in "Casablanca": "In this crazy world, the story of three little characters is not worth mentioning." This sentence of war age Obviously, his lines are no longer suitable to describe this people-oriented era. Nowadays, everyone can enjoy emotional freedom and no one interferes with you, but this freedom is precisely being held hostage by society and the law. Criminals are a bunch of sinister bad guys, as if most people agree, so ordinary people fall in love with criminals and harbor criminals, and most people do not favor criminals because of their feelings. But must criminals be sinister? Few people can say it clearly, because the quality of a person is often defined by the media and public opinions that represent objective and fairness. Most of us only acquiesced in agreeing to the media’s words and the court’s judgment. This kind of consciousness often prevents an independent individual from loving and being loved upright, and even deprives a family of happiness. Just like in the film, even if Adele explains to the judge, Frank’s crimes cannot be reduced. The law is a tool to maintain justice. In such incidents, personal considerations cannot be made based on personal examples. This is a flaw that the law can never solve. . However, the media arbitrarily promote the ugliness of criminals based on legal trials, which seems very inhumane. It has to be said that this kind of accusation against the law and the media, as well as the praise of the humanistic view of love, first appeared in "The Male and Female Thief", and because of this revolutionary point of view, it has become a revolution. Sex film, this film quoted a lot of content about "The Male and Female Thief".
However, the film finally allows the lover to return. Even though Adele always looks sadly at the fairy tale ending in the novel, her persistence also allows the fairy tale to shine into her reality. This optimistic and progressive attitude finally proves the love of love. value.
Jason Reitman is an optimist. Whether it's Juno, the pregnant high school girl, or Ryan, who is flying around to lay off employees, these marginalized groups under the lens of Jason Reitman are always looking for true love and hope under the troubles and difficulties brought about by fate. . His movie is still the same, but this movie is contrary to the previous comedy style and adds suspense. Once won the Oscar for Original Screenplay Award, he can always make the rhythm of the film rise again after another. The most exciting place is the passage when the police car picks Henry home. The editing rhythm slows down, and the music rhythm is like holding your breath. In the end, the police car gradually drove away from the family, and the temporarily tense nerves finally relaxed, but the true climax of the story always knocks your heart inadvertently.
In short, this movie is a movie about love. His plot is full of crests and troughs like life, with joys and sorrows. But when his son opened a pastry shop based on Henry's exclusive recipe, he became a local celebrity; Adele was old. Embracing the same old Frank tightly, we can hardly imagine that only a few days under the same roof had an impact on several characters for decades. If you use vacations as an analogy: people always take vacations, whether it is a public holiday or a long vacation after retirement, but love will never take a vacation. It will always exist in everyone's heart. This is the power of love.
-IMDB: 6.9
-Rotten Tomatoes: 33 (This time I don’t understand European and American film critics a bit. They think this movie is too clichéd?)
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