Heartbreak is a drama comedy directed by David Duchonny and starring David Duchonny, Tia Rione, Robin Williams, and released in the United States on April 15, 2005. This is a touching story about the growth of boys into men's hearts. The film was filmed in Greenwich Village, New York, also home to director David Lee. Duchuni's hometown, choose his hometown to shoot a story about growing up, although the plot is fictional, but I believe that director David Duchuni is immersed in a strong nostalgia to complete the filming of the film.
American painter Tommy lives in the beautiful and romantic Paris, France, ostensibly living a free and enviable life, in fact, in Tommy's heart, there has always been a knot, which is a long-buried heartbreaking past, Tommy carefully never opened it, so that his wife felt that Tommy had not really faced herself. Until his son's 13th birthday, Tommy decided to confess his past to his wife.
Movie "Heartbreak" - Tommy as an adult
One: Those parents taught us things: I used to think that life was happy, but I didn't expect that happiness to be a flash, a flash, and suddenly disappeared.
The story begins in New York, USA in 1973, the teenager Tommy, who is not yet 13 years old, does not have a normal and happy family like other children of the same age, after the death of his father due to cancer, his mother has been immersed in sad emotions, and every day is muddy, she puts all her hopes on Tommy, hoping that he can get into a good university and have a good job and life in the future. Although his mother is emotionally unstable, irritable and crying, Tommy loves his mother deeply, worried about her mother's suicide, he counts the number of sleeping pills every day, and lies under his mother's bed with the sound of his mother's breathing to sleep peacefully.
Slept under Mom's bed
The child is the anchor of the mother's life. When she learned that Tommy had been expelled from school, her mother quietly took a large number of sleeping pills in despair, sent to the hospital for rescue, and was declared brain dead by the doctor. Little Tommy loses his mom after losing his dad, and life doesn't stop hitting you just because you're a child, and this blow isn't once, it's time and time again. From the death of his father, Tommy followed his mother everywhere, tried to live according to his mother's requirements, and did his best to reduce his mother's burden, it can be seen that when his father was alive, the family had good feelings, and Tommy, who was nourished by love, was particularly considerate and sensible in his heart, and at a young age he could understand his mother's sadness and understand a mother's pain and powerlessness as a woman.
Say goodbye to your mom
Tommy bears everything he shouldn't have endured at that age, and because of this, Tom's heart is both sensitive and fragile, but also strong and independent.
Two: Those friends teach us about growth: Friendship is tolerant, and it is long-lasting because of tolerance.
When he wasn't in school, Tommy worked as a delivery man for a delicatessen with his good friend Papas in order to ease the burden on the family. The 41-year-old Papas has a mature appearance, but his mind is as simple as a child, in addition to delivering goods with Tommy, he also works as a cleaner at the school where Tommy attends, because Tommy, whose family is under great pressure, and Papas, who is ridiculed by others, have cultivated a deep friendship in their long-term relationship.
Movie "Heartbreak"
Friendship is indispensable to anyone, a good friendship can make your life happier, more fulfilling, and better growth. Like love, friendship also has to pay and responsibility, and many times, friendship is even more touching than love.
The two actors, both of whom are no longer alive, are here to pay tribute and remembrance
As a mentally retarded adult, Papas in his life, in addition to his father, who drinks all day long, the last person he wants is Tommy, and he even thinks that Tommy should be his friend alone, even if it is a girlfriend, he can't take it. So when Tommy goes dancing with his beloved girl and doesn't go to delivery, Papas gets angry, he steals the bike they've always wanted to buy, and throws away the tips they earned by delivering together, although this later leads the principal to misunderstand that Papas was fired by Tommy at his behest, but when Tommy hears Papas tell the principal that the car was stolen for Tommy, Tommy defends himself without continuing to explain, he understands Papas's heart for him, he knows that the car was stolen for him.
Three: First love teaches us things: I like you, but not say forever.
Tommy, who is in the midst of adolescent hormones, falls in love with a beautiful girl at school who lives in a high-end house and loves Tommy as well. In order to meet Tommy, she even ordered takeout from the shop where Tommy worked. For the first time in her life, Tommy fulfilled her wish to dance with the girl she loved. But later, after Tommy was expelled because of the misunderstanding of the headmaster, the two people who were not from the same world never met again, and a beautiful and short-lived love ended.
Many people come to your life, just to accompany you to walk a road, let you understand some of the truth of life, after the end of this road, we get off the station, and then embark on their own paths.
Four: You will always meet a mentor in your life: Tommy, run, although life is difficult, at least you still have freedom.
Tommy and Papas buried the tip they had received in the sewers downstairs of the prison where the female prisoners were being held, and once the female prisoner Bonette found Tommy counting money below through a mirror that reached out the window and talked to him, and in their constant conversation, Bonette became Tommy's psychological "counselor". It was with her inspiration and help that Tommy tasted the sweetness of her first love and experienced the bitterness of lost love, and it was also under her encouragement that Tommy was able to pluck up the courage to leave New York to find a new life.
Bonette solves one problem and question after another for Tommy from a female perspective, and in Tommy's heart, the appearance of Bonette fills the gap of maternal love that the mother should give but does not give. Years later, when Tommy returned to New York from Paris, the first person to look for him was Bonette, and their special affection was fulfilled by Bonette's eyes from the window and Tommy's eyes.
Reunion
Five: When you bear the unbearable weights in life, instead of carrying these weights to continue to move forward, it is better to unload these heavy things for the time being, let yourself go lightly, go out, and come back with the right posture.
In life, we often encounter the time when we let ourselves fall into trouble, many people are devastated, forever immersed in the trough of life, Tommy in the film, experienced the death of his father, the brain death of his mother was pulled out of the oxygen mask by himself, because of misunderstanding and was expelled from a series of weight-bearing blows, if he continues to stay in New York, the familiar environment will make it difficult for him to be himself again, so he chose to leave, leaving is not to escape, nor is it cowardice, at this time the departure is to choose the right path, is courage and because of love. In the end, through his own efforts, he took his family back to the hometown where he had fled, and realized the ultimate consummation of the unfinished love of those years.
Run forward, at least you have freedom!
Run forward and be your truest self!