The great thing about "American Pastoral" is that in the face of various types of politics, whether mature or immature, there is no scramble, no cynicism, but just treats the tragedies caused by political factors in life as disasters and blessings. , whoever encounters whoever is unlucky, suppresses it tightly on the background level, and the rest is mainly to focus on this unfortunate father, how to let the audience realize the ordinary, eternal and greatness of father's love through him. The wonderful thing about this film is that it shows people's "symbolic dilemma" intentionally or unintentionally: we define ourselves and the world with symbols, and then redefine symbols in a world full of exceptions. He can't break free from the symbol in his life. In this sense, rather than saying that this film is whitewashing the "petty bourgeoisie", it is better to say that it "cleans up" everything and restores the complexity of the symbols, which makes the symbols simpler. The advanced level of contemporary Western film and literature, I observe, is mostly reflected in this level.
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