I have been waiting for you to come back

Ima 2021-12-10 08:01:40

I still remember that every time I went to my relatives, I was always talked about by them who had haunted my dad when I was young.

The absurdity lies in the fact that after nearly two decades of getting along, the two of us are still bored with each other.

Well, maybe I am tired of him.

I don’t know if it’s like this. He passed middle age and then followed a strong menopause. His extreme and radicalism seemed to endure for more than forty years and then broke out. Obviously maybe it can be content. When I was young, my family moved from a small city to the city I dreamed of. I had a job with a high income and I didn't get bored. After all, I realized most of my dream back then. The home is not big, but it is very warm and comfortable. There are good confidants and relatives who take good care of us. At least this kind of wandering life does not always feel lonely.
I still remember that sentence, this peace of mind is my hometown.
I felt that in such a life, my father should also be content and at ease.

But no, Dad is like Jack in the dream in the story, career, life, material, I don't know when it seems that nothing is enough.
The once vigorous self-confidence eyebrows have fallen from the loneliness of the years, but they began to talk about his sudden awakening ambitions. I kept talking about the decision if I was at the bridge of the year, and I was saying that maybe no matter how hard I tried my career, I could go up to the next level. Saying he has money, he can buy a big house instead of having a family crowded in the small and ruined two-bedroom and one-living room in the urban area.
Then, he finally squeezed the original father away.
There is no weekend when a family goes out to play, there is no Mid-Autumn Festival dinner that is very lively together, there is no walk around the lake after dinner every day, and the delicious soup he burned when he was young to make original fish balls. His lofty ambition was wiped out on his face, but he appeared in the chattering mouth that seemed to be wound up.
Anxiety, restlessness, unrealistic whimsical. These dark shadows entangled him tighter and tighter, and they almost forced us to breathe.

In fact, life is a very simple thing to think of, and mediocrity can only be so many years of cold autumn.

Life is obviously petty bourgeoisie and sentimental, a big meal together, an outing for the whole family, an unexpected anniversary surprise, and then the usual noisy, lively and lively, although sometimes the market can make people Sweet as sweet.
The most memorable thing in life is the clouds of fame and fortune, or the happiness that comes from the sporadic small touches in the turmoil of personnel? Even if there are high-ranking officials, how to stay alone for a lifetime in an empty mansion, it is better to squeeze in a small snail house together with the cherished people to accompany you as you grow old.
Such a simple truth, he has already walked halfway in the corridor of life, why hasn't he understood it?

Maybe it is. If it exists, he never met his mother and was not tired of our family. Instead, he went to another direction of life, a mansion, fame and success, but he was alone.
Then, is he really content?

Or, should I be like the little daughter in the story, and ask him, my father, will he come back?



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  • Michelle 2022-03-21 09:01:58

    Very smooth Hollywood mainstream, it is not easy to make a movie like this. I quite like the mother book of this story. It can be traced back to "How Beautiful Life", and it's all Christmas files. Guan Hu also made a remake version of "Who Moved My Happiness".

  • Leonard 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Don't screw up the best thing in your life just because you're a little unsure about who you are.

The Family Man quotes

  • Kate: [about the apartment] So, what's the big surprise? You didn't rent this for the weekend, did you?

    Jack: Think bigger.

    Kate: For the week?

    Jack: This place is a perk, Kate.

    Kate: A perk? For what?

    Jack: A company called PK Lassiter investment house. Uses it to attract new executives. I'm going into arbitrage, Kate. It turns out, I have an act for it.

    Kate: Jack, what are you talking about?

    Jack: I'll be making twice what I make now, plus a hefty bonus and that's just the start. And we can live in this apartment practically rent free until we find a place of our own.

    Kate: Are you out of your mind?

    Jack: I don't think so. This is gonna be a better life for us. We can put Annie and Josh into private schools...

    Kate: Annie goes to a great school, Jack.

    Kate: I'm talking about the best schools in the country here, Jack.

    Kate: Jack, what could you possibly thinking about? What about my - what about my job?

    Jack: Well, this is New York City. It's like the needy people capital of the world. Your Jersey clients aren't a tenth as pathetic as the ones you could find here.

    [laughs]

    Kate: I can't even believe you're talking about moving back into the city, Jack. I thought the reason that we left was because we didn't want to raise the kids here.

    Jack: No. No. This is the center of the universe. If I were living in Roman times, I would be in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman empire. New York is Rome itself. - John Lennon.

    Kate: Jack!

    Jack: Listen, Ok, you know something? I'm detecting, like, a funky tension here and this was supposed to be a happy day, so guess what? I don't need this. We don't have to live here. Forget it. I'll commute. I'll drive to work.

    Kate: God! In traffic, Jack. It's over an hour each way. That's like three hours every day. When are you ever going to see the kids?

    Jack: Kate. You're not understanding me. I'm talking about a perfect life, a great life. Everything we pictured when we were young. The whole package. You said so yourself. Life is throwing us a few surprises and we made sacrifices. Well, guess what? Now I can finally get us back on track. I can do that, Kate. I want to do that. I-I need to do that as a man! For all of us. Please just think about this for one second. No more lousy restaurants. No more clipping coupons. No more shoveling snow.

    Kate: Then get a goddamn snowblower, Jack! Don't go get a new career without even telling me about it! And don't - don't take Annie out of a school she loves and don't move us out of a house we've become a family in.

    Jack: You're-you're... Don't you see? I'm talking about us finally having a life that other people envy.

    Kate: Jack. They already do envy us.

  • Jack: Do you have any idea what my life is like?

    Kate: Excuse me?

    Jack: I wake up in the morning covered in dog saliva. I drop the kids off, spend 8 hours selling tires retail. Retail, Kate. I pick the kids up, walk the dog, which by the way, carries the added bonus of carting away her monstrous crap. I play with the kids, take out the garbage, get 6 hours of sleep if I'm lucky and then everything starts all over again. So-so what's in it for me? Wh-where are my-my Mary Janes?

    Kate: You know, it's sad to hear that your life is such a disappointment to you.

    Jack: I can't believe it isn't a disappointment to you! Jesus, Kate. I could've been a thousand times the man I became. I could have been one of the richest - Forbes - How could you do this to me? How could you let me give up on my dreams like this? Really, I want to know.

    Kate: Who are you?

    Jack: All right, look. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I was such a saint before, and I'm such a *prick* now! But maybe, I'm just not the same guy that I was when we got married.

    Kate: You know what? Maybe you're not. Because the Jack Campbell I married would not need a $2,400 suit to feel better about his life. But I'm telling you, if that's what it's gonna take, then buy it. Jesus! We'll take the money out of the kids' college fund.

    Jack: [takes jacket off] Forget it. We'll get a funnel cake. It'll be the highlight of my week.