Since it's a main theme movie, I didn't expect much before watching it, but I was a little surprised after watching it, and I was still moved by the clichéd sensationalism. Not by the director's technique, nor by the actor's skill, but by the most bloody plot: the deep love between father and son. At the beginning of the film, the image of a successful lawyer is explained: Hank, who is selfish, sinister, unreasonable, only knows money, is a typical urban nomadic group, and he gets along like a fish in water in a cold city. Because of his mother's funeral, he returned to his hometown where he swore that he would never go back, and saw his upright, kind, and respected father judge. When he returned to his hometown again, he faced the alienation of father and son. In his father's murder, Hank of course became his father's defense attorney. As the case progressed, family and family conflicts emerged one by one. In the end, fortunately, it wasn't a happy ending, which made it less awkward for the father and son to release their past grudges. The most successful part of this movie is that it doesn't play too much guns, it just tells the story. But the plot also has some flaws: that kind of plot where the daughter sleeps with the mother after sleeping was intended to play a role in lace, but it was so abrupt that it seemed nondescript in this movie. At the beginning of the film, Hank's divorce from his wife has already played a role in lace, and there is no need to arrange another green plum to appear.
This film is mainly sensationalized through fathers, sons and families, and the sensational methods are also very common, which is the method used in ordinary American films: old houses and pickups, family images of children in childhood, and desolate and sad soundtracks. Elements that move people. It is very good to have a sensational scene. It can be said to be the best scene of the director. His father fell in the bathroom. Hank rushed upstairs to help his father up and deal with his physical incontinence, which made people feel warm and real. . The always proud father didn't show any psychological resistance, and Hank didn't show enthusiasm or anxiety, but both of them dealt with it in the way of ordinary people, and the lack of drama made this episode even more moving. Another sensational picture is when the father expressed his feelings for his son during the last court trial. These two sensational passages are very successful, and they are not handled in traditional ways, but if there is no foreshadowing of the old and desolate ones in the front, it will not make the audience cry in the next line of dialogue. In the film, in addition to the father-son relationship, there is also brotherhood. Hank ruined his brother Gran's professional baseball career because he was young and crazy. He felt guilty in front of his brother, and he couldn't lift his head. Make my brother's life mediocre. The elder brother didn't complain about Hank substantively, but just asked Hank to defend his father well. In fact, the elder brother had already forgiven Hank's mistakes when he was young. What he didn't forgive was that Hank didn't go home all year round, which made his parents miserable. But all the unhappiness between the brothers was resolved with a hug at the end.
The law has different meanings for fathers and sons. For lawyers who have been wandering between money and justice all the year round, the law is just a weapon. Holy judgment. All things, for Hank, only wins or loses, there is no truth or falsehood, let alone any morality or not. Hank is a typical middle-class person who relies on intelligence to achieve worldly success. There are a lot of such people in the United States, and he is also the kind of successful image that Americans admire: smart, handsome, rich, selfish, with a figure as good as a high school girl cheerleader. wife. The law is his tool to get it all. In fact, he doesn't enjoy family life, his parents have been estranged from him for a long time, and his wife is also in the process of divorce. The law is sacred to the father, not in exchange for anything else. So when Hank defended his father, he used all kinds of methods that Hank is proud of, all the techniques Hank learned in law school and the methods he has been in the industry for many years. At the table, I saw countless lawyers being tongue-tied and unmoved, because he had a reputation for fairness in his heart. He has spent his life upholding fairness, so when Hank said he was going to bring up his dementia in court, he was categorically unacceptable. He is such a proud person. If the villagers know that he is demented, it means that the previous judgments may be unfair. He cannot trade fairness for factors in his favor. Until the end, Hank asked his father: What is the name of this deputy sheriff who has served you for more than 20 years, his father could not answer, and pride was defeated.
Perhaps most fathers and sons in the world are clumsy when expressing love. Fathers hope that their sons will learn well, but they are strict with their sons, but they cannot understand them. The rebellious and unruly son saw his father's ruthlessness and disappointment, and he was more disappointed in himself. No one was willing to admit that he was a failure, so he wanted to escape from his father very far, never read disappointment on his face again, never again. I don't want to remind myself that I failed. Hank and his father are the most common cases. Hank was rebellious when he was young, ruined his brother's future, and made his life look bleak. Maybe he didn't think it was so bad, but in his father's eyes, he was a devil and needed to be saved. So the judge's father severely sentenced Hank who made a mistake: the punishment that should have been community labor was changed to six months in prison. Hank felt that this kind of father was simply iron-blooded, without any feelings except justice. Hank hated such a father and hated such a family. When he graduated from high school, when he graduated from college, his father did not attend his graduation ceremony, how cruel to his son. The most important occasions in my teenage years are nothing more than a few: important games and graduation ceremonies, but my father is absent. So when Hank said viciously to his father: I not only graduated from law school, but also graduated first in my class, first! When he said this, he should be a little proud. His father didn't love him, but he could still live well. The most fundamental reason a son said this to his father who didn't attend his graduation ceremony was a kind of negative anger, hoping to hurt his father's heart and make his father regret and feel guilty. Father naturally fought back: If I hadn't been so strict with you back then, you wouldn't be today. Every growth process is so precious and irreversible and irreversible. If the child does not enjoy the father's love at this stage, it is really missed, and it will be useless to make up for it in the future. Everyone's growth is so precious, and memories will affect every stage of life. Hank may think that the stupid things he did when he was young are inevitable and normal. He will get better as he grows up, and he doesn't need to be so harsh on the growth process. Many fathers feel that they are spoiling or being harsh on their children for his own good, and choose a parenting method that is correct in the father's opinion. Hank's father would only deal harshly with children who made mistakes, but he didn't learn to be gentle with children in need of love, especially when they were growing up. The father doesn't think there is anything wrong with him, the child is naughty and doesn't understand. So Hank hated his stubborn father for making his adolescence so miserable.
But from Hank's father's point of view, luckily this kid didn't go the wrong way. Fortunately, he was turned around. The original education was not wrong, so he would refute Hank: Look, you didn't become a cook or anything else today. , but became a glossy lawyer. Hank lost his way back then but never returned, ruining his brother Gran's hopeful future and making it impossible for the baseball-loving Gran to become a professional baseball player, which is unforgivable to my father. What my father can do is try his best not to let Hank be ruined again. lose your life. His father wanted to use a cruel way to force Hank to learn well. Isn't Hank's ability to bully others smartly today proves that his father's education was successful? When it comes to home, Hank doesn't feel the warmth of the family and hates his father. This home looks like a Picasso painting to Hank. There is a weird father, and he can't raise his head to face his brother, which makes Hank feel that this family is abnormal. He didn't want to come back, and more importantly, he didn't want to forgive his father, and just complained about his father. His father was also resentful about Hank's behavior of not going home for 20 years. He was simply an unfilial son. The father is also in pain. Seeing that the child hates this home, there is not much warmth in the home, and the wife who loves deeply is also complaining that he should not be so cruel to the child. Father also hates Hank: Just because you don't come home, your mother counts everything on my head. Hank's willfulness didn't make his father much better, and even his father's marriage was flawed. Father's marriage should only belong to parents, Hank has no right to make other people's marriage miserable, but Hank messed everything up very unkindly.
No one knows what Hank would be like today if his father hadn't treated Hank harshly, he might still be a bright and successful person, or he might become a sloppy inaction. Hank and his father complained to each other, Hank thought his father was stubborn and callous, and his father thought Hank was selfish and willful. But they love each other so much, like all fathers and sons in the world. Two people are not good at expressing love, and they just clumsily love each other in the way they think or are comfortable. In the process of defending his father, Hank hopes to make his father innocent. Although his past work is to defend guilty people and get high salary, he really believes that his father is innocent at this time. He knew his father, he was so upright, and he regarded justice above everything else. Wasn't that how he treated himself at the beginning? Believing in his father's innocence from the beginning to the end, Hank spared no effort to find a way. But his father didn't cooperate, always using various languages to frustrate Hank. When he first chose a defense lawyer, he ignored Hank, a well-known barrister, and chose an amateur lawyer who ran a furniture store, which made Hank dumbfounded. Father just didn't want Hank to see his embarrassed side, especially his demented side. Father has the pride of President Reagan. He is a respected judge in front of the villagers, and he has always been a stalwart image in front of his children. He does not want his son to see his old age and mistakes. There are also some feelings of unwillingness to admit defeat in it. All fathers love their children, and Hank's father didn't express it in words, but at the last court hearing. Hank asked his father why he sentenced Brevik so lightly, knowing that he wanted his son to be sentenced to life imprisonment back then, and why he was so tolerant of a strange bastard. The father said deeply: I saw him, I thought of you, just as rebellious, as reckless, if he gets lost, I want someone to help him, just as I want someone to help you. The audience is generally moved by the greatness of the father when they see it here. What father doesn't want help when his child makes a mistake, Hank's father loves Hank the way he helps Brevik. Not directly and enthusiastically telling Hank: Father loves you. It's clumsy to love Hank by helping someone who is just as fallible as Hank. Hank's love may be more awkward. When his father was convicted, Hank sat in court and cried so much that his opponent couldn't bear to beat him. Crying is probably something Hank has never experienced in his life. I'm afraid that when his father sentenced him to imprisonment, he also glared at his father with a stiff neck. He was sad, maybe he couldn't face it The fact that my father was going to spend his later years in prison may be because he blamed himself for not realizing his father's painstaking efforts earlier, or because he felt guilty that his father had lightly sentenced Brevik because he loved him, otherwise there would have been no murders in the future, and his father would not have done it. He will be imprisoned, I am afraid there are all of them, and all the complicated emotions will come up, and he will cry like a child. Fortunately, at the end of the film, Hank and his father could open their hearts. The director used a long shot to place the fishing boat in the empty lake. His father passed away quietly, and Hank lowered his head. Their love didn't seem awkward now, and Dad answered Hank's original question: Who is the best lawyer you've ever met. The father said frankly and warmly: it is you, the best lawyer I have ever met is you. There is nothing more proud than being recognized by his father. When Hank left home, he was unwilling to read his disappointment in his father's eyes. That was denying himself. Now getting the approval of my father is the greatest success in my life, and it is more fulfilling than defending guilty people again and again in court.
Father's affirmation far trumps worldly success.
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