A powerful story tends to have a bland appearance or camouflage. Many viewers felt that the director smashed the story and made the characters pale. If you look more patiently, you will find that the male protagonist is actually a very hard-working, struggling and helpless father.
Dilapidated city, demolition site. The male protagonist is a man who is willing to do anything for a living. On this day, he received a letter from his daughter in a French prison. The farmer went to a foreign country, and after seeing his daughter, the man learned that the daughter was wronged. Then, the father began the road to save his daughter.
Language barrier, no relatives and no reason. The father begged for help everywhere and kept hitting the wall, but he never doubted his daughter in the slightest.
The daughter's reversal of the case was unsuccessful. Facing the clumsy father, the daughter is resentful in addition to disgust. She feels that her father has a great responsibility to have what she is today. After seeing it, we know that the daughter's appearance was horrific because she couldn't bear the fact that she had committed crimes (even if the victim was not killed by her own hands, but because of her), the daughter's externalization of escaping her inner condemnation was done through her. It was accomplished by refusing to resent the father.
A father who has no way to seek help is like being exiled in a strange country, waiting for the opportunity while trying to survive. In the process of running around, my father met a kind-hearted mother and daughter, and his life gradually improved, and the mother and daughter gradually integrated into the life of a man. Because of the emergence of clues, this time the father chose to ignore the legal procedures and procedural justice, just to clear his daughter's innocence. The father, eager to save his daughter, distorted his behavior, causing the lie to gradually corrode his relationship with the mother and daughter. In the end, although it turned around for her daughter's case, she also lost the mother and daughter and her new life.
The daughter was successfully released from prison. Father also gradually understood the truth of the whole thing, but at the cost, the confidence that finally rekindled life went out again. Father and daughter return to their own country. Facing the new life, the daughter asked her father if she wanted them (French mother and daughter), and the father said of course. The daughter asked if she wanted to go back to find them, and the father said with a heavy expression, no. Then, the father and daughter looked into the distance at the same time. Daughter: It all looks the same, nothing has changed. Father: For me, everything has changed here.
This is an American story. I don’t know much about American culture, but the powerlessness and struggle in the face of life revealed in the story tells us that life is cruel. The pain it brings to people is not only the past, but also the scars that are unwilling to look back. Even if they have experienced beauty, but if they miss it, they miss it. The cruelty of life makes them not have enough courage to recover the beauty that belongs to them again. Because, in order to live, they do everything they can, they are tired!
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