In the film "Golden Pond" starring Catherine Hepburn, golden sunlight sprinkles the lake, reeds are green, small lotus blooms, pairs of water birds, fragrant wildflowers, and quaint wooden houses and an old couple in their seventies and good spirits. The old man has a lonely personality, stubborn and competitive; The old woman is elegant and confident and loves life. After experiencing the vicissitudes of the years, they have come to the golden dusk of life.
At the beginning of the film, the environment to be unfolded by this story is very beautiful, making people feel that although the years are merciless, the scenery is still the same, the emotions are warm, but such a life also has some deficiencies and regrets, that is, the old man is often afraid that the twilight of life is coming, watching himself gradually aging from strong, he always feels a kind of fear and helplessness.
In order to prove his existence, he also had to "roar" a few times from time to time, by finding a job, by means of fighting with people to show strength to others, but this made it difficult for others, especially young people, to accept, coupled with the feelings with his daughter have always been incompatible, which has made the old man fall into deep anxiety.
Coinciding with the 80th birthday of the old man, the daughter came to congratulate her new boyfriend and her boyfriend's 13-year-old son. But the lively scene still can't hide the emotional crisis between the three generations, and what is more fatal is that the daughter and her boyfriend still have to leave the child with the elderly for more than a month, which is a new test for the three generations. After the daughter left, life will continue, the three grandchildren together rafting, diving and playing, and finally found the long-lost happiness and laughter, the old man also experienced the joy of the child.
In the film, the old man inadvertently calls the child with the daughter's name, which can make people feel the deep love of the old man for the daughter, and finally, the old man and the child have become friends for the new year. At this time, the daughter also just came back, after a deep conversation, the father and daughter finally unlocked the mustard that had been stored in each other's hearts for a long time, the father talked to the daughter in an appreciative and appreciative tone, and the daughter also communicated with the father with a positive and understanding attitude.
After the daughter overcame physical and psychological obstacles and completed the backflip diving that had never been completed, the father also personally put on the medal he won when he went to school for his daughter, and finally, the father and daughter embraced each other. Although the film does not explain the reasons for the psychological estrangement between father and daughter very clearly, so that the resolution of the contradictions in the film is slightly abrupt, the performance of this part is still very delicate and touching.
As a classic of family ethics films, "Golden Pond" is relatively successful in portraying various feelings such as family affection, love, and friendship, which is prominently manifested in the depiction of the feelings of two old people who are in love with each other; When she perceives that the old man is afraid of old age, the old woman embraces each other affectionately and still calls the old man Prince Charming; When the old man was trapped on the reef, the old woman took the lamp and rowed the boat, searching hard, and when she saw the old man, she jumped into the water eagerly; When the old man is ill, the panic and panic at the end of his life can make the audience truly feel the deep attachment between the two old people. At the same time, the film is also sincerely touching and meticulous in the emotional portrayal between parents and daughters, the elderly and children.
Golden Pond explores in a soothing way the psychological crises of older adults as they face death and aging. Strong family affection, faint melancholy, the slightest grievance, coupled with exquisite pictures, the director has always firmly grasped the audience's sight and emotions, in addition to the aesthetic visual enjoyment, but also brought endless thinking and aftertaste to the audience.
In the film, veteran hero Henry Fonda uses his superb acting skills to portray the old stubborn to three points without showing a trace, while Catherine Hepburn convinces an old lady who is full of love for life and full of love for her family with her unique slightly exaggerated performance. Katherine Hepburn won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film for the fourth time, making her the most person in Oscar history before 1999.