"Unmanned Pilot" talks about a similar self-salvation of an American father. One day, a busy father, Sam, negotiated a long-awaited business. He happily called his son in college to have a meal together to celebrate, and his son also jokingly avoided class. The sun is shining and everything is business as usual. At this time, in his father's mind, he felt that the world had never been so beautiful, his career was successful, and his family was harmonious. He waited for his son in the restaurant, and finally found out that he had put his pigeons. When he was leaving, he glanced at the TV and found that breaking news was covering the shooting of his son's school. And Sam's son was the murderer of the shooting, and eventually he left the world himself.
Desperate Sam decides to change his lifestyle, get divorced, and move to a boat alone to make a living as a painter. The real drama starts here.
The actor who starred in his father is Billy Crudup, who has starred in many high-scoring films such as "Almost Fame" and "Big Fish". This time, the handsome uncle broke his role in two. The first part was frustrated and fell down, with a sense of despair of rejecting the world, while the second half perfectly performed the hidden hope under the face of still seemingly down and down.
On the surface, the protagonist of "Unmanned Pilot" is his father Sam and a young man he later met, but there is actually a hidden protagonist-music. In this movie, music is wine, glue, and medicine.
Sam's ex-wife threw a box of his son's relics to him in order to start a new life. There are a lot of demos of songs written by his son, and a guitar. In those songs, the son sang his own mood. Sometimes lonely, sometimes sunny, sometimes angry, but no matter what, it is a side that makes my father feel strange. He thought he knew his son, but in fact he never approached each other. This is the first time that my father dared to examine himself, and this is also the first theme of the film-alienation. From then on, music became Sam’s indulgent spiritual alcohol, and then, it became a bridge between him and the real world, and finally healed him.
In order to relieve the longing, Sam began to sing the songs written by his son in the bar, and met a boy who loves music. He was forced to form a band and perform together. In the end, the past he tried desperately to hide and the source of these songs were all discovered.
This film is actually the epitome of this type of film, a reorganized father-son relationship. Sam lost his son, and this young man has lived in a single-parent family since he was a child. The relationship between them has changed from a collaborator to a year-end marriage, and finally evolved into a father-son relationship. And this relationship eventually rescued two people.
The movie designed a reversal. At first, the boy dragged the uncle forward to let the desperate man out of the darkness. Later, everything turned upside down. After the uncle’s life experience was exposed, the boy felt hurt and decided to give up his music career. Sam again Began to become his psychiatrist. To some extent, they have become mirror images of each other, and they have also become their guides. Two people who failed in the family relationship, or those who were hurt by family and banished by the family, used music as a link to produce a wonderful kink. This is the warmest part of this movie.
Anton Yeltsin, who plays a young man, is a Russian actor who has played roles in a series of American dramas including "Criminal Minds". This time, he performed the change from shyness to openness naturally and relaxed. . In this movie, the director himself guest-starred the bar owner, the man who played his father Frank in "Shameless Family". The owner of the musical instrument shop is a black man in "Crime Scene Investigation-Las Vegas". Boss, they all made this film a lot of affinity.
The music in "Unmanned Pilot" was praised by many fans. To some extent, the music made this movie. The father finally sang a song on the piano, telling everyone who his son was. No one hurt or insulted him, and almost everyone shed tears. There is an emotion that cannot be explained clearly. What people see is a father who has lost a child, although he is the father of a murderer. It was a tragedy, and everyone was a victim.
Using music to redeem a person's life is easy to write hypocritically. However, "Unmanned Pilot" used a sometimes small, refreshing and sometimes tear-jerking way to explain an originally heavy story, completing a near-perfect performance. Therefore, "Unmanned Pilot" is not only the name of the band in the movie, but also a true portrayal of everyone's life.
(Text/Yang Shiyang)
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