Big family grievances that don't involve money

Dorothy 2022-10-18 00:55:42

Personally, I think the most outstanding part of this movie is that it has raised the grievances and entanglements within the giants to a higher level. On the surface, everyone wants to compete for inheritance, but at a deeper level, everyone's resentment towards the family is due to emotional factors such as the lack of family affection and lack of parental approval. The two wills that appeared before and after appeared to be the key to the death of the parents, but at the end, everyone was not for money. The eldest son and daughter-in-law just wanted to be free from their father, and the second son and daughter-in-law wanted their literary works to be obtained by their father. recognition and investment, and the murderer was a harmless-looking little girl, which was quite unexpected, and the reason she poisoned twice was because she resented her grandfather for denying her ballet talent, killing the maid was to cover up the crime. I have to say that at the end, I was thinking about what kind of family environment could make an innocent little girl's mind so distorted to peep, eavesdrop, and forge letters to frame the blame. The two wills are also a good foreshadowing for the ending. Because the parents are indifferent people, they will only leave a small amount of money to the widow, and leave the rest to the excellent granddaughter. In his words, resources It is more valuable to be concentrated in the hands of capable people, which also reflects that he does not care about family affection at all, so the whole family is so deformed that little girls can become cold-blooded killers.

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  • Josephine: I hate stupid people. They're useless, apart from dying during wars like Grandpapa used to say.

  • [first lines]

    Newsreel Announcer: Death of a legend. It is with sorrow that the country learned this week of the death of Aristide Leonides. Born in 1871, he arrived from Greece, aged 23, without a penny in his pocket, and opened his first restaurant that same year. The first hotel was ready for business not long after. His first wife, Lady Marcia de Haviland, died young. But Mr. Leonides wasn't alone at the end. He is survived by his young and lovely American widow, Brenda. Here is Mr. Leonides with his eldest granddaughter, Sophia. Friend or foe, no one could dispute Aristide Leonides was a colossus of his time.