A story of a pair of exemplary parents

Brain 2022-03-23 09:02:00

As you know from the title, I'm a layman, I don't know the background of the movie, I don't read the original work, and I don't care who the director and actors are. Yes, I'm the lowest-level moviegoer who only cares about how the movie itself makes me feel. From the beginning to the end of this movie, I sighed one thing: being a parent is really not easy, nanny!

When the little boy yelled at his mother: "Why didn't you die!", many people wanted to kill him, right? including me. But, can his mother smoke him? His mother could only hide her broken heart and try her best to comfort him helplessly and accommodate him infinitely. She couldn't even shed tears. When her son is running wild in the streets, how worried the mother is, everyone wants it, but the son resists her, yells at him, prefers to trust strangers and exclude her from his own world. What can she do? Losing a lover is painful enough, and facing a son who is mad at the loss of his father.

So I watched the first half of this movie with great irritability. There was a suspense that kept me watching, not the key, but what kind of hatred the little boy had with his mother. I thought there would be a similar reason for having an affair and hating his mother. At the end of the play, I realized that the boy's hatred of his mother was actually an anger, and he transferred his anger to his mother. Because in the child's selfish subconscious, the only one who can bear everything he has unconditionally is the mother who is despised and trampled on by him. During the entire film, I sympathized with his mother. At the end of the play, I vulgarly sighed that "mother's love is really great".

The image of the father shines brightly in the memory, perhaps the memory of the dead is always good, and perhaps the father was indeed such an exemplary one. So, this is the story of a model couple who love each other but have a son who is ineligible.

Whether the background is 911 or not is actually unimportant. It can be replaced by war or accident. The story is the same, but there is one less gimmick.

When I watched it, I always planned to play Samsung. After the play, I was lying on the bed and reminiscing about it. I suddenly felt that the little boy was actually acting very well, not artificial at all, and was underwhelmed from beginning to end. The characters are also written very realistically. The child was originally a mixture of angels and demons. The age of 789 was a watershed. The angelic side slowly faded away, and the demonic side gradually revealed. The awakening of the self always means the denial of parents, which is often unabashed and blatant contempt because of the unparalleled confidence in blood. What could be more heartbreaking for a parent than this?

You also have to suffer the sadness, who made you want to be a parent?

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Extended Reading
  • Joannie 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    The director of "Every Moment" still retains the technique of magnifying the details of the moment and the wonderful philosophical dialogue. However, the blueprint of the film is not good. Like "Hugo", there is an inexplicable sense of rupture and patchwork. Does the deletion of the old man affect the plot? Maybe the whole film is just like the lines say, no need to make sense. Hopefully the director can go back to more personal subjects next time. PS: It's a pity that the little boy doesn't become a rap singer.

  • Bria 2021-12-14 08:01:15

    There were a lot of tears and laughter, but I didn't cry at the end. Maybe it’s because I watched the trailer and looked forward to the movie too much. After watching it, I didn’t think it was [so] as expected. That's it, I can't tell. The performance of the little boy and grandpa was impeccable.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close quotes

  • Oskar Schell: Doesn't anybody know that there isn't anybody in the coffin? We should have filled it with his shoes or something. It's like a pretend funeral, for a goldfish or something.

    Oskar's Grandmother: This is just what it is, Oskar.

    Oskar Schell: It doesn't make sense.

  • Oskar Schell: Why do you want to come in?

    Linda Schell: To tell you that I love you.