When I saw the title and poster of "Wild Life", my first impression was: Is it another cliché story of peculiar experiences and love and hatred? However, after watching the movie for nearly two hours quietly, I felt a touch of sadness and feelings.
I was thinking about what topic I want to write a film review that can accurately express my feelings at the moment. In the end, I chose "Life in the Mirror". Needless to say, life is the main theme of this film, but why is it in the mirror? Because this film is from the perspective of son Joe, from beginning to end, as a bystander like a mirror, reflecting the couple's married life and emotional changes. Very calm, but very objective.
From the moment the family moved to a remote cottage in Canada, Jane may have been a little uncomfortable. Although her husband Jerry was a little stubborn and stubborn, Jane was willing to work full-time for the happy life of the family of three and her well-behaved and sensible son Joe. housewife. Although she wanted to save face, she still refused to have a part-time job as a school teacher despite the financial constraints. And her husband Jerry is also a person with strong self-esteem, with his own persistence and paranoia. Although his wife and children were struggling to live with him, and he happened to be fired and unemployed, although he had the opportunity to return to work later, Jerry was unwilling to lower his self-esteem and the toughness of a man, sleepless nights, smoking, and not speaking. .
Son Joe, only 14 years old, a serious, sensible, sensitive and delicate boy. He saw every bit of his parents, and he also experienced and felt the turbulent life. There is no doubt that he likes the simple and happy happy family life at the beginning, where he does his homework, his mother cooks, and his father helps. However, life doesn't always go as planned. So much so that he had to accept that his father left himself and his mother alone to put out the fire, and he had to go to school and work part-time in a photo studio to make money to reduce the burden on the family. In the days after Dad left, Joe saw Mom's sadness, pain, sadness, disappointment, loneliness and helplessness. Although he doesn't like the ambiguity between his mother and the old man, he understands that his mother is having a hard time. As a son, he can't do anything. He watches his mother indulge and lose his temper. In the days, he did everything a man should do. In the end, Dad came back and, no doubt, had a falling out with Mom. In the bar, the father and the son have a question and answer. At first glance, you will feel that it is superfluous. You already know that your wife is having an affair. Is it necessary to ask your son these? However, if you think about it carefully, the director is right to handle it this way. Because, in life, in real life, we seem to be calm on the surface, but in reality, we are angry and resentful, trying to figure out what hurts me? How did it hurt me? I want to know the full details, so that I have every reason to retaliate, my emotions are justified, and the world knows I'm a victim, right? Therefore, it is not absurd and reasonable that Dad ran to a fire and burned the old man's house while drinking alcohol.
It's just, son Joe, it's hard, he's too tired, even though he's a mirror looking at the pain, sadness, betrayal and disappointment of his parents. But, that's all he doesn't want to see, and he's just a child? Why did his parents let him suffer the helplessness and pain that he could not understand? However, the director gave his son a very calm and restrained position. Even though his heart was miserable, he still calmly went to the police station to find his father. After returning home, he just said to his parents, "What about us?" Our life What's next? Mom said sorry, you can hate me, I don't blame you, Joe. However, the son didn't cry or blame his parents for his fault, he just calmly said "good night, mom"... I don't know what I really want to write, but I just feel that after reading this The movie wanted to write something about it. Maybe, I think from the child's point of view, I think the child is innocent, and the parents are understandable, but everyone comes into the world, it will be the first time to be a parent, and there is no experience to learn, but we really Are you an eligible parent? Maybe you or most people don't have the confidence to say that I am a good father (or mother), but will the children blame us? It should have been, but she (or he) may just want a simple and happy family, a peaceful and harmonious life, although it is difficult to achieve. However, the director still gave us a happy ending, a slightly awkward "family portrait", is for joe, of course for all of us.
Finally, I want to say that if you don't have the confidence to be yourself, you have no luck and chance to meet someone with more confidence than you and walk into a life of chicken feathers with you, or if you meet, but you are still there When you grow up and become a better version of yourself, please think clearly: we don’t want children because we just want to be parents and inherit the family, but we are ready to grow up with our children. We are a team, no matter what. anytime, anywhere, we can trust another anytime anywhere!
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