Probably every adolescent boy or girl has the idea of running away from home. We are tired of our parents' nagging and discipline, and we are eager to break free of the shackles and stand on our own. And if one day, the role is reversed, and the daughter who is satisfied with a comfortable life is actually taken away from home by her mother, what kind of life will be waiting for them?
▲ "Fangxin Tianya" Phoenix Satellite TV Movie Station was broadcast at 12:00 on July 15
Released in 1999, the film "The End of the Heart" tells the story of a 14-year-old daughter who longs to be away from her mother but is closely connected to her. Directed by Chinese-American director Wang Ying, the film is another exploration of the mother-daughter relationship after "Happy Luck Club".
At the beginning of the story, Adele, a single mother, forcibly takes her 14-year-old only daughter, Ann, away from the eastern town where she has lived for many years and goes straight to Beverly Hills under the pretext of going to Los Angeles for an interview job. Ann enjoys the comfortable life of the town, and she gets along well with her stepfather and has a close relationship with her cousins. When her casual mother arbitrarily changes Ann's familiar environment, she is resentful but has to compromise. Ann waits for a ripening opportunity to stay away from her mother.
▲ Mother Adele took her daughter Ann away from home
After arriving in Los Angeles, knowing that Ann did not want to be a star, Adele still paid attention to the audition news and encouraged Ann to participate. The director borrows the different calculations of the mother and daughter for the future to reveal a very common contradiction in the parent-child relationship, that is, the differences between the parents and children in the life planning.
Not long ago, "decent work in the eyes of parents" appeared on Weibo hot search, "state-owned enterprises", "five insurances and one gold", "compilation" are high-frequency words in the comments. In the name of "people who have come over", parents use their thousands of years of life experience to tell the next generation that a stable job can bring the most decent life. Radical parents will even force choices for their children, and parents who have suffered in a certain field will avoid their children from engaging in the same industry; the big family will naturally hope that the younger generations can inherit the industry. Under the balance of various factors, children's interests are always ignored first.
▲ "Decent work in the eyes of parents" has been hotly discussed in hot searches
But paradoxically, can children accurately plan their lives without parental interference? Young people who have never set foot in society stay in the ivory tower of school for a long time, and the simple learning life nourishes our imagination, but it does not tell us how to be able to do it without restraint in the cruel social competition. Everyone fantasizes about becoming a winner in life driven by interest, and whether the interest is realistic, whether the dream can come true, and the boys and girls who are immersed in the utopia still need the help of their parents to open the door to sobriety.
The film's director, Wang Ying, was born in Hong Kong, and when he was an undergraduate, his parents originally planned to arrange for him to study medicine in the United States. However, Wang Ying resolutely listened to her heart and devoted herself to artistic creation, and gradually became one of the most influential Chinese directors in Hollywood. Perhaps what the director wants to tell us through the film in combination with his own experience is that when young people face the fork in life, whether it is completely following the guidance of their parents or firmly listening to their hearts, we must have the courage to gamble and the determination to never regret after making a decision. In the same way, if parents decide to let their children go, when their children are hindered, they should first extend their caring hands, rather than scolding and insulting.
▲ Wang Ying, director of "Fangxin Tianya"
Parent-child relationship is a familiar subject matter for director Wang Ying, and in 1993 he shined in Hollywood with the film "Happy Luck Club", which also explored the relationship between mother and daughter. Unlike "Happy Luck Club", which focuses on the estrangement and identity issues caused by the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures between Chinese mothers who immigrated to the United States and their daughters born and raised in the United States, "Fangxin Tianya" shows the mother-daughter relationship born under pure American culture.
▲Wang Ying's masterpiece "Happy Blessing Society"
Although her mother, Adele, was abandoned by her husband and raised her daughter alone, she did not sink into the painful past, and she easily passed a job interview and took her daughter to root in Los Angeles. Many film and television works always solidify the single mother into a weathered and bitter and bitter appearance, and the behavior in "The End of the Heart" jumps out, and the obedient Adele is the opposite. Adele embodies the spirit of American independence, freedom and directness, while also inheriting the whimsical and unbridled ideology of the United States. Parents and children are interdependent but independent, and even if they reach middle age, parents have the space and right to realize their self-worth.
▲ Adele and Ann buy Christmas gifts
Adele's desire for love has not diminished in the slightest, and she is still well-dressed and well-dressed in middle age. When she thought she had found a good person, Adele was excited like a maiden in her first love, pulling her daughter Ann to watch the sunrise and confide in her her love. After realizing that she has been abandoned by her boyfriend, Adele is devastated again, and only regains her strength with The help of Ann.
▲ Adele meets her new boyfriend on the beach
Through the interaction between the mother and daughter, the film vividly interprets the straightforwardness and complexity of the parent-child relationship. In addition to the simple giving and taking of love, a healthy parent-child relationship is the transmission of love and the tolerance of each other. When we reach a certain age, our parents are not only our elders, but also friends who can open their hearts and talk to us.
Adele was enthusiastically involved in every stage of her daughter's growth, and she was like a big bird clinging to her wings. When Adele received an acceptance letter from Eastern University, she was very disappointed, complaining that her daughter did not understand that she had paid for many years in order to keep her around and take good care of her. But when she learns that her daughter is upset about her high tuition fees, Adele sells her beloved used car in a neat way. The mother and daughter say goodbye at the airport, and this time, Adele takes the initiative to push her daughter into the free world she has longed for.
▲ Adele and Ann
Maybe maternal love has never been rational. Mother's love can be ten thousand reasons to hold her children in the palm of her hand, and mother's love can also be the completion and letting go of a whim. Either way, the romantic, strong, firm heart wrapped around the mothers' fanatical behavior is just as strong and as deep as ever.
Ann's monologue is cleverly interspersed throughout the story to reflect the changes in the mother-daughter relationship. From the initial incompatibility of water and fire to the reluctance at the time of farewell, the warming of feelings between mother and daughter is convincing and touching.
The original English name of "Anywhere but Here" means that her daughter Ann longs for the sea and the sky and escapes to any corner without a mother, but at the end of the film, Ann's heart is closely connected with her mother, and she is eager to go away and fly high, and she circles around and returns to the origin of family affection.
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Text: Loose pine
Editors: Fore Magic Song, Batam