important things

Martina 2022-09-18 19:13:26

At the beginning of the plot, it is an old man with grotesque humor. Because of his fat body, messy beard, and living alone, with a dog as company, I thought it was about loneliness. It was my recklessness and one-sidedness.

I watched the whole film at 1.5x speed. It turned out to be about important issues in life.

Under the bright appearance, the daughter under the professional aura, you think that you will be "happy". No, high-pressure work, false and grievances to Party A, grievances to accompany the big-headed wife to buy gifts, but don't care about your father's gifts. One time he got up late and missed the call, got nervous, yelled at his father, and maybe even killed himself. You can laugh with your business partners, but you can't talk about life with your father. What is the important thing in the end, and the father accuses her of not being human.

Just like the title "Beast" given to her by her boss, under the resolute appearance, she is fragile inside, bursting out at any time, out of control.

When she drove her father away, her father waved to her with both hands before getting into the taxi. She smiled. In the inhuman state, she finally showed a human smile, but then it was painful, and she burst into tears in the next scene. I don’t know if everyone has had contact with depression. They will cry for no reason, and the sudden depression will make people cry helplessly.

Thinking that my father's "burden" was gone, I complained to my best friend about what my father did, but I was overheard by the disguised father. The scene was embarrassing, I thought it would be an angry father, and then the plot in the future was the father's way of saving his daughter.

The father suddenly broke into his work, was frightened, and was disturbed. The father played a buck-toothed weirdo, dealing with Party A, colleagues, and oil foreman with his daughter. The hug of the hairy weirdo's father.

In your busy life, you always lose something, something important to you, and the story will also be told to the audience with an open and silent ending.

What about you, what do you think is important?

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Toni Erdmann quotes

  • Winfried Conradi alias Toni Erdmann: No concept makes sense without the client.

  • Ines Conradi: I don't want to lose my bite.