The title The Way Back is not a movie about returning but a movie about bravely facing the painful past and the fact that the past cannot be changed, and moving towards love in the future.
Even after his wife brought him out as a teenager, Big Ben failed to face the shadow his father had brought him. He avoided playing basketball and hurt himself and never touched basketball again.
After his son passed away due to illness, he couldn't face this incident and chose to close himself to alcoholism and alienate his wife and family.
If you don’t face the past, will the past let you go? In the past, I would only torture you in my heart and make you lose the people and things you really love. You can’t move forward. Because you escaped the injury of your father, Daben gave up basketball. Because he escaped the injury of his son’s death, Daben gave up his family and wife.
The priest of the school hopes to give Daben a chance. Of course Daben himself has basketball talents, but what the priest hopes most is to encourage Daben to face the high school bravely and find his true love with the frankness of high school children and Daben’s love of basketball. You can see the high school in the film. In fact, all students are brave and late for the basketball that they love. I put them down with tears and apologize. People who are not confident must have the courage to command loudly for the basketball that they love. This kind of bluntness is not seen in the big itself.
Therefore, at the end of the film, the patient’s child’s condition was aggravated to bring Big Ben to his heart demon again. Unexpectedly, coaching the basketball team is just another way to escape him so far. He still hasn’t learned to face the past and carry the past forward. Crash, alcoholism and being expelled from the team, the plot is here, and the psychologist starts to point the question:
"We cant change the past, what we can do is choose how we move forward."
"Think about Michael, what would he want you to do"
It was here that Daben started to learn to face his son who loved him for the first time, so he cried and said to his wife that I was sorry for not being able to perform the duties of a husband when he lost his son, comforting her and reopening to her family. Basketball team making contact
Finally, regain the basketball that has been on the shelf for a long time.
So from a structural point of view, this is a very complete movie. Encountered Injury A (Father only cares about how good his big basketball is)-Escape A (abandon college basketball scholarship)-Saved by external forces (wife)-Encountered Injury B (death of son)-Escape B (abandon family and wife alcoholism)- Rescued by external forces (instructed by the basketball team)-Injured C (Son's sick friend gets worse)-Escape C (Alcoholism)-Facing the past, carrying the past, regaining hobbies
So if you watch this movie as an inspirational basketball movie, you will think how come the playoffs suddenly come here? ? But this is not a basketball inspirational film. It is a movie about Big Ben bravely facing the past, then stand up with the past and face the future with his true love. The rhythm is great, worth five stars.
The Ps piano score is very interesting.
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