I collected this movie before brushing Hao Jingfang's Weibo, but today I quietly watched this film.
I think it's a movie worth seeing, it's based on true events, it's the American journalist Janet Wales's concept of home. Most of the stories presented in real life are "children want to be wandering singers and poets, and parents force children to find jobs in reality". The film is the opposite, telling the story of "parents are wandering singers and poets, and children want to go to school and find a job".
Parents travel with four children throughout the United States. But they also "enjoy", starving, being kicked out of the house at any time to escape debt collection, unable to have a normal period of growth. They went through one flight after another, and each time their father told them that this was the last time, but there would always be a next time.
They chose to go home and their parents told them to rebuild the house, and each room was a glass partition. They were very motivated, digging the foundation and cleaning the room, but the work stopped again. Every promise of my father became the wine in the glass, and there was no room for maneuver in one sip. When the family's water pipe was broken, her father took the family to bathe in the pool; forced Janet to learn to swim, so he threw her into the water again and again; there was no food in the house, Janet mixed butter with sugar for her sister to eat, but my mother said, This is what I kept to make bread. It seems that there is really nothing for them to linger on in this family, and they want to change their lives, and they can only rely on themselves. The glass castle is a childhood dream of the four of them, can not get, can not afford to build, will collapse at any time, this is the life given to them by their parents.
Let his children live a life without a home. Don't let them escape from his bondage when they grow up. The family's life seems to be normal, but this layer of years under the cover of their parents is not friendly to the four children.
Until they returned to their father's hometown, with their grandparents
Here, my father promised them, pointing to a dilapidated house without water and electricity, saying that we would rebuild the house, with glass partitions in each room, and build solar cells on the roof so that we could save a fortune on electricity. The kids excitedly said, is this our glass castle? Can we really build one of the best-looking houses in The United States this time?
The four siblings began to secretly save money, and for every time they saved enough money to fill the piggy bank, they would leave the house and have a child. When Janet was about to leave the house, her father pointed to the architectural drawings and said, don't you go, this time I really want to build a glass castle.
Her father's alcoholism had already disappointed her. The only things she couldn't let go of were her younger siblings and mother. And the land that was to be built to build the foundation had long been filled with countless garbage, and the castle had long ceased to exist. Janet's several times of emotional loss of control came from the memories of this original family.
May we get rid of the shackles of our original family and be better ourselves!