How did the children in 'Glass Castle' escape their families of origin?

Zane 2022-03-27 09:01:17

Watching the movie "Glass Castle", a family that moved around to hide from debt, a couple who lived as they wished, a mother who was passionate about painting but had no success, a father who ignored the family when he was drinking, and four children who often couldn't eat. Building a glass castle is a sober father's dream to his children, and a drunken father smashes this dream again and again. Until one day, the second daughter woke up and could only leave the house on her own. The children began to work hard to live their own lives, saving enough money to escape their families one by one and start their own lives. The father is the victim of his own family of origin, but why are the children lucky enough to escape the tragedy of the family of origin and not fall because of such childhood? When a father is awake, he gives his children dreams, takes them to do unusual things, makes them feel different and has confidence in that uniqueness. When his daughter was burned with ugly scars, he told the child that it proved that she was different. As someone who has been reborn from ashes, he was destined to do extraordinary things, and these scars were the evidence. Bits of dreams and self-confidence made the children finally bravely escape from home. As the father was dying, the children finally forgave him, because the children found that it was also him who sowed the seeds of courage and confidence for their escape.

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  • Joana 2022-03-14 14:12:26

    The broken and reconciled family relationship has as many shortcomings as the advantages. In summary, only such a score can be given. The past and the present are like two irregular curves, only occasionally crossing somewhere abruptly. The way to create a climax basically depends on the quarrel between the protagonists and screams, and finally the father and daughter use cheap tears to win the sympathy of the audience and The cliché ending that finally reached a reconciliation also made this attractive film instantly reduced to a mediocre work.

  • Julien 2022-03-23 09:03:01

    Acting is okay, my father can't do anything about it

The Glass Castle quotes

  • Rex: Rich city folks live in fancy apartments but their air's so polluted they can't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to trade places with any of them.

  • Jeannette: Do you think... Erma ever did something to Dad?

    Rose Mary: Like what?

    Jeannette: Like what she did to Brian.

    Rose Mary: You can't think about things like that. It'll make you crazy.

    Jeannette: ...

    [Meets Rex in a bar]

    Jeannette: Dad... I'm sorry about Erma.

    Rex: Whenever it's time to go, you go.

    Jeannette: I'm not talking about that... "it's impossible to breathe when you're drowning in shit."

    Rex: ...You still believe in your old man?