sad power

Kim 2022-03-18 08:01:01

On a not-hot, comfortable summer evening, I found it under the "Unseen Movies" folder on the E drive, and slowly followed its soft music and rich colors, and entered the story of Ivani's house.

Thirty minutes from the beginning of the film, there is no sense of film at all, and the main characters are calmly explained, with a little character characterization: my father is a psychiatrist who works at the desk and listens to patients’ venting, a beautiful and gentle mother, and a daughter Irene who loves playing basketball. The little boyfriend, the shy son Andre... an ordinary rich family: he likes to drive, sing and travel on weekends, and he likes sports. Dad has a shoe cabinet with a full range of sports shoes, and there is no problem with family communication, like many Like a family, meal time at the dinner table is the best time for family communication. It was a very peaceful and beautiful middle-class family. If there was a bit of drama in the first 30 minutes, it was Andre who concealed the fact that he stole the laboratory fossils. In this matter, the father took it seriously as a father, negotiated with the parents of the children who were witnesses, and dealt with the principal. This plot is very similar to Carver's short story "Bicycles, Muscles and Cigarettes". It tells the story of fathers negotiating because of conflicts between children. It is also about the relationship between father and son, which is very beautiful. Speaking of the film, there is no more explanation for this theft incident later. I think the appearance of this plot is just like a quiet explanation of some small things in life between Andre and his father. In short, before the thirty-minute limit, it was a gentle picture of family life, tepid, just right bland.

Thirty minutes later, the film gets to the point when Andre Diving died unexpectedly. The start of this incident was still at the dinner table. By coincidence, they did not jog as originally planned. The father visited the doctor temporarily, and the son went on a trip with friends. In the following period of time, the director (oh, forgot to mention, the director played the actor Dad, he wrote, directed and acted by himself) described the scene of the family facing farewell in the hospital in great detail. Details, nailing the coffin. The atmosphere of the film went downhill. The haggard mother, the father who keeps reminiscing and never regretting, the sensible daughter's hidden sadness.

Here are some details I can't forget:
1. Dad was disappointed when he went to the amusement park at night, got on that kind of high-altitude bumpy car, and covered his head in the violent shock. The expression of struggle and pain is unforgettable. He went to the diving equipment store to inquire about the knowledge of diving equipment. He wanted to find out the reason for his son's accident, but they said it was not the equipment's problem, so he started to blame himself again, regretting the temporary visit to change the plan. At that Mass, the priest said that fate is determined by God, even if we don't know why.

2. When the elder sister Irene was covering the first floor of the coffin and asked to open it, she just glanced at her brother again. After the accident, when she walked to her parents' room with breakfast, she bit her lip and did not shed any tears. He was extremely irritable on the basketball court, and broke up with his boyfriend because he couldn't calm down about his younger brother. The best detail is in the dressing room in the mall, an extremely natural and bland plot: try on a dress, mom says both are beautiful, she's going to try it again and crouch in the dressing room with a pile of hangers and clothes cried out.

In this large part of the film, there are very few conversations between family members, and Andre is rarely mentioned. The main conversation exists between Dad and his patient. He is obviously a psychiatrist, but in the face of When it comes to his own emotional and psychological problems, he is more sensitive and vulnerable than ordinary people. There is a knot that dad struggles to untangle is the patient Oscar, because it was because of him that he temporarily changed his plan and did not accompany his son to run. What happened next. The fullness of the character of Dad is here. He does not treat the patient as fair as a stereotyped workaholic specimen. He said something to stimulate the terminally ill person, but he did not want to tell Oscar directly. I lost my son because of you. Because he knew that such a statement was just a kind of weakness, and he couldn't blame others if he believed in fate. Dad has lost his balance between work and family and cannot function properly. Here's a detail. At the beginning of the film, the father's footsteps from the studio connected to the home are brisk, and after that, he drags himself out of the room to face the cold son's room. The film's most violent outburst comes in a conversation between the husband and wife at the dinner table in the middle and back of the film, when Dad picks up on the old decor and flimsy furniture in the room, and then he throws a teapot. The old furniture a few days before the accident can still bring comfort and familiarity, and it has become a breakthrough and starting point for him to find environmental changes in an instant. He finally broke down in such a situation and temporarily gave up his job as a psychiatrist. What's interesting is that he said goodbye to several patients. Some patients were hysterical, while others were quiet and peaceful and comforted him. Who is the psychiatrist? Is this another theme that the director wants to express?

Another turning point in the film comes with a love letter to Andre from a girl. The husband and wife were inexplicably excited, and this was the last little thing in the world they could grasp that had a connection with Andre. Dad hesitated and couldn't write a reply. Mom analyzed her impression of Andre revealed by the girl between the lines, and then put Andre in the eyes of the opposite sex and their lost son Andre. They wanted to see this girl, the only love that their son had left in the world, and the girl refused at first, and then suddenly appeared at their house. The girl is very natural and graceful. At the end of the film, the family of three and the girl and her companion are sitting in the car together, just like the family of four at the beginning of the film on a weekend outing. Slowly driving across the road, at the gas station, I was about to drop off the girl and her companions who were going to take a ride to France, but looking at their sleeping faces, they drove forward again and again until dawn, and finally they came to the French border. I can imagine the driving on the highway in the middle of the night, and my heart is also stretched. Slowly, in addition to the scenery passing through the car window, the family has gradually gotten rid of the shadow of the loss of their loved ones.

At the end, when I said goodbye to the girl and her companions, there was a shot of the girl sitting on the bus waving her hand, and her eyes were full of tears. But the family of three standing by the coast did not cry. Irene asked angrily why they came so far. There was a basketball game at night. After that, the family of three laughed. The second real laughter heralds a new beginning.

The lighting and colors of the film are very nice and discreet. The characters in the film prefer dark red and soft clothes like Mo Lan, and the main scenes and dialogues take place in the dark blue reclining chairs in the psychological clinic and the simple white kitchen at home, which is simple and natural.

After watching the movie, I was wondering why the title of the movie was called "The Son's Room" (this is a literal translation, and in the free translation it is also translated as "Love in the World"), I think the son's room is a symbol, a kind of The father's self-conceited intimacy with his son is as simple and easy as when the father enters the son's room, but in fact the son's room, as a space that exists independently of the parent's world, happens to be a kind of relationship between the child and the parent. distance. The father thinks he knows his son, when in fact he doesn't. After losing his son, he began to understand his son. Go to the record store to find the boss to buy the music that the son likes, and look at the photos brought by the son's little girlfriend: in the photo is the son's own room, he found that the son observes and shoots his own room from a completely different perspective, just as he It's like watching my son's life from a completely different perspective. As a psychiatrist, he hears the complaints of various patients every day, such as suicidal maniacs, housewives who are obsessed with cleanliness, and wretched perverts, but he has not been able to take a good look at his son and adjust himself and his family in time after the misfortune. Mental state: Andre never admitted to his father that he took the fossil, but told the truth to his mother. The reason he didn't tell his father was because he knew that his father was accustomed to all rational psychological analysis, and taking fossils would rise to the moral level of stealing in his father, but for himself it was just a whim of a joke. The director criticized his father's previous imperfections as a father, such as power and being too rational, and also satirized psychiatrists and other people who advocated the use of science to cure emotional problems.

To me, a good movie doesn't depend on what awards it won (of course, the film won the Palme d'Or), how many good actors it has, and how good the plot is. In my opinion, it's all the hardware of the movie. Something that must be faced by both the movie and the potential audience. What I care about is how much the film connects with me, how many emotions it touches me, or what kind of thinking I've never had before. "The Son and the Room" is such a film, it uses the power of calm to tell us that sadness can also be very powerful: the transition between sadness and strength is a momentary transition, and the process in between takes a lot of effort or a moment. The epiphany is also different from person to person, this is the so-called various tastes.


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  • Kevon 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    There is no hysterical grief, but it is clear that the blood dripping from the heart touches the pain in my heart

  • Billie 2022-03-18 09:01:10

    There are two kinds of pain that science, reason and even religion can't eliminate in a short time - the defeat of love and the coming of death. That's why Moretti set the protagonist's identity as a psychiatrist and described the sermon and sacrament. The shot is light and delicate, and it is a masterpiece. But definitely not worthy of the Palme d'Or, especially compared to [Mulholland Drive], the main competition in the same year. PS: Broken bowls and pots are irreparable as in the past. (8.5/10)