Miura Ziyuan wrote in his masterpiece "Strong Wind Blowing": "Which road is the right one, or I have to rely on myself to find out the answer by running." ”
At the Spring Festival Gala in 2014, there was a song that touched everyone.
When singer Wang Zhengliang played the piano and sang "Where Has Time Gone", a group photo of the father and daughter of the "Big Mengzi" in the past 30 years appeared on the big screen of the stage. The daughter is growing taller, and the father is getting older.
At the Spring Festival Gala in 2014, Wang Zhengliang sang "Where Has Time Gone"
The lyrics of a sentence "before you feel young will become old" tear-jerking, which is from the eyes of children to see the change of time in their parents, but also the lament of young people on the years. Grateful for the parenting of parents, helpless to the pressure of life, in addition to tears when recalling, waiting for parents to remember to be old before remembering companionship, what else can you do?
The new film "The Great Dad", released on June 18, is worthy of reference for young people who want to get along well with their parents and accompany them.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > love, on the way</h1>
Love is not a result, but a process. Therefore, love is done in communication, which means that it is necessary to demand from one person to the other, rather than just according to the role of the parent or child.
The protagonist, Xiao Erdong, played by Zhang Youhao, is a high school student, and the father played by Wang Yanhui makes a living by renting a taxi. This is a home where the husband has lost his wife, the child has no mother, the father and son are a big child, a small child, and no one is sensible enough.
At the beginning of the story, the father who drives a taxi is somewhat sloppy
From the very beginning, it can be seen that the father-son relationship is very twisted. In order to let his son participate in the piano ability test on time, the father began to make strange moves after encountering traffic jams, drilling through the needles in the congested traffic, trying to find a shortcut, and while telling his son to do eye exercises well, he did not know that his son had jumped out of the car and ran.
The contrast between the two is also obvious, the father's hair is long and messy, his beard is pulled, his face is shiny and difficult to hide, and his son is inchy, thin and dull, and only a light appears in his eyes when he runs.
The chaos and bleakness of life not only appear in the appearance of the two, they also do not communicate, all day is to fool and deal with, love is impossible to talk about.
Master Xiao's wife died of a stubborn disease similar to frostbite, the marathon run, which she loved before her death, and this disease was also passed on to her son. Master Xiao not only did not want his son to hide in the house for a long time, but also worried that his son's running, jumping and jumping would cause his illness to accelerate.
The more the father stops, the more the son becomes obsessed with running, because running a marathon will make him feel closer to his mother. Cruelly, his son's eyesight deteriorated, reminding him that death was not far away. A teenager in the flower season, there are not many days to come.
Father's love is very deep. In fact, from the very young age of Sholdong, his father told him to learn to live with his eyes closed. But this love made Sholdong overwhelmed.
The father wants his son to calm down and play the piano, which is the way out that a clumsy father racked his brains to figure out. He was a trumpeter in the band when he was young and thought the best option in the world was to make music. He went vegetarian, worked, saved money, haggled with old friends, and finally bought his son the best piano.
The father loves his son in his own way, but the son always says that he does not need it. He knew he was dying and didn't deserve such a good piano.
This is the film's most distinctive narrative design, which arranges hidden emotional motives for the characters' actions according to the respective perspectives of father and son.
The son misses his mother, but why doesn't the husband miss his wife? However, the son commemorates his mother by running, and the father transforms his attachment into care for his son.
Throughout the story, the father and son do not talk about this matter, and the collision between the two seems to be deciding whether to run or not, but in fact, they are expressing their views on love through running.
When the son was almost blind, the father watched him sink day by day, very similar to the last days of his deceased wife. The double love allows the character to achieve a transformation and begin to move closer to his son's wishes.
Losing the opportunity to compete, Sholdong, who gradually became blind, was very depressed
He cut off a messy hair, changed into clean clothes, put on sleeves, pretended to be another person in front of his blind son, and silently accompanied his son through the darkest moments and ran with him.
Love is not to teach the son how to live longer in pain, but to give the son the opportunity to let life bloom. The father rehabilitated, kept up with his son's pace, and both achieved their long-cherished wishes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > inspirational, not sensational</h1>
Sports inspirational themes are flattering. The topic itself is convenient for value, and all that remains to be done is sensationalism. But it is also difficult to please, how easy is it to sensationalize?
The advantage of "The Great Dad" is that, first, it is not a one-way expression of the father-son relationship, and the other is that the narrative is light and approachable.
The embodiment of the profound and grand theme of "love" is in the process of realizing the protagonist's wish. This is a "cross-sectional" narrative that has recently been revived in genre films, successfully synthesizing the strengths of family films and inspirational films, sublimating the concept of the whole story, and the arc of father and son is reflected through the "growth of love", and answers the same grand "life" question.
In the face of his son, who was almost blind, Master Xiao pretended to be a male nanny and accompanied and cared for him day and night
For a sub-healthy taxi driver, is running a good thing? For a terminally ill teenager, did long-distance running training hasten his death?
The story ends with the fulfillment of wishes, but it also leads to the above two questions, reminiscent of a passage in "Strong Wind Blowing" by Japanese novel writer Miura Ziyuan: "Which way is the right one, or I have to rely on myself to find out the answer by running." ”
Father and son run with each other, so that love flows, no longer exists in the form of a form of pressure, the two "boys" have grown, understood life, and every step under their feet is injected with the father's and son's nostalgia for his wife and mother.
This home is complete again, this love is also complete, and this is the answer to running. Life will come to an end in all its ways, and there will be no loneliness with love along the way.
This story is easily reminiscent of the legendary father and son "Team Hoyt", and their story has also been made into a short documentary "Hoyt Team". In order to fulfill his son's wish and encourage his son to live, Dick Hoyt pushed his son in a wheelchair to participate in 1091 endurance races, including 252 triathlons, 70 marathons, 94 half horses and so on.
Hoyt father and son in the game, father Dick Hoyt has passed away this year
Inspiration to this level, coupled with the film's final mixed cut of a series of documentary shots, the brilliance of the real story is released, which truly realizes the inner touch of the audience, rather than the superficial sensationalism. Insisting on long-distance running is not an easy task, so the love of running is not another cliché of parents "how much I give to you", a story down, running has become the endorsement of love.
Of course, this kind of sports youth inspirational film is in the first place, in contrast, this film is still insufficient. But when the end credits scroll, the screen is full of the names of the members of the Sichuan-Chongqing running group, and there is still the sentence in the film, "The end of the marathon is to go home safely." The advantages of the whole film such as simplicity and strength, ease and warmth will once again make people's hearts surge.
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