Pretty boy, not really pretty.
In the play, what Nic said to his father after taking drugs was: "This is the real me, the one you don't like." These are the words he has buried in his heart for 20 years. Only through his drug addiction can he dare to speak to his father. vent.
He is beautiful and good, he was admitted to six universities, but he is a drug addict, why is he taking drugs?
He had a father who loved him, no doubt about it. In the play, Nic's father did as much as any parent in the world in order to help Nic detoxify. He even tried drugs in order to feel the feeling of Nic's drug addiction. He kept running around to find his son who was often missing. He rushed to his son, and then opened his arms to forgive Nic, who failed again in his detoxification.
Every time my father fell into despair and pain because of him, he would recall the cute and sensible clip of Nic when he was a child. It was the most beautiful and beautiful boy living in his father's memory. The intertwining of reality and memory made the running figure of his father even more vicissitudes. , which also made the audience feel deeply sorry for Nic, and deepened the film's intention to keep everyone away from drugs.
But when we look at the story from Nic's point of view, the results are quite different.
Nic's original family is not perfect. After his biological parents divorced, Nic usually lives with his father during the year. He has to fly to his mother's home during the holidays, losing his own social life in exchange for the love of his parents. Nic is vaguely mentioned in the film. The reason for Nic's reluctance to go out is because he was isolated by everyone. I wonder if the life of running around since childhood was the reason for Nic's difficulty in making friends, but there is no doubt that this family model has caused him to lack a sense of belonging since he was a child. family in which he had been an estranged spectator. I feel the same way. I remember when my parents just divorced, my father bought a new house. At that time, he said, "If you want to come and live in the future, you are welcome at any time." I thought to myself, my father's home is my home, and I will definitely Go live. But later, when my father's house was not renovated, a new family was formed. I fully understand this, that is, I thought that I might never live in that house, because the hostess there has nothing to do with me, that is Other people's families, even if the house is my father's, go I can only be a guest. So I fully understand Nic's feeling of being lonely when he seems happy. It's like there is an island in his heart that has never been discovered by anyone and doesn't want to be discovered by anyone. Besides, Nic's situation is even worse. He was so young back then. His stepmother gave birth to two children to his father, and that is a truly complete family. Nic is nothing. Even though he is the most amiable brother in the world on the surface, he still has a deep sense of alienation from the family of four. But he never showed dissatisfaction. When his father put the child born by his stepmother into his arms, he had no resistance. He was so well-behaved and sensible that he deceived us all in front of the screen. When he successfully returned to his father's house after temporarily detoxing, he hugged his stepmother, and the gentleman said politely, "Thank you for inviting me." I don't know what he was thinking, how bitter he was, but all we saw was that he took his younger siblings to play in the water happily in the sunset, they were running and laughing, it seemed that the years were peaceful, and his Father sat in the reclining chair watching this scene with relief.
You might want to say, if he feels wronged and dissatisfied, why didn't he speak up sooner? Why didn't his father know? I want to tell you that you can talk to your parents about any troubles in the world, except for the harm caused by family reasons, because that kind of talk is also a kind of harm to your parents, not to mention that they are powerless. What can you expect them to do? Human beings are animals that succumb to the warmth of reality. His father is so happy now that he will not change all of this for his son. From this point of view, the father at this time has lost Nic's trust. So Nic chose to close his wounds and lick slowly by himself, but from marijuana to methamphetamine, from inhalation to injection, he vented in the wrong way, and the result could only be destruction. In fact, once he almost said it, he told his father that he took drugs to escape those stupid things in reality. He wanted his father to find out that there was something in his words, but his father just thought that the world-weary literature he read brought him. Negative impact. There have been many times when he was confronted with his father and became emotional, he almost blurted out but held back, and in the end he could only shake his head in pain and cry.
The film is adapted from the biography written from the perspectives of the father and son, but it mainly uses the father's perspective to narrate, and the performance is all about the difficulties of the father. The episodes about Nic are all about drug use and hurting his family, so the audience is naturally more Stand in the father's position more, but if Nic's perspective can be enriched, the film's idea will be more profound: what impact marriage and family will bring to teenagers, those children who have been traumatized in childhood, will grow up They will not have unsound personalities. How should they deal with the psychological problems caused by those injuries? If the injuries never stop, will they suffer from depression or even rely on drugs to paralyze themselves like Nic? Our parents are the ones who gave birth to us, and we should have a lot of love and respect for them, but those childhood wounds are as deep as scratches on the glass, casting a layer of dust on our love for our parents, sometimes even Blinded our hearts and made our love for our parents mixed with resentment and even hatred, but Nic's kind nature let him know it was wrong, and his conscience let him hide his resentment and maintain it for the well-being of others It was peaceful on the surface, but this hatred turned him back, so he had to find another way to vent, another way that would allow him to temporarily escape from reality and find happiness.
Finally, when he finally burst into tears in his father's arms, their father and son may finally be able to treat each other frankly. After such a long circle, he finally let his father know that they are not the closest father and son in the world, nor is he What a pretty boy.
It's a pity that this drama is a bit of a pity. If you can increase the son's perspective and form a contrast between the father and son's perspective, the theme can be sublimated to another level, not just a drug rehabilitation education film.
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