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Preface
My hard work to make money is not all for you!
I believe that many children in China have heard this sentence from their parents.
Parents are indeed working very hard to give their children a better life, but this seemingly "loving" sentence has become a heavy burden on many children.
The movie "Wading through the Sea of Anger" presents this suffocating "Chinese-style" father's love through dramatic techniques.
Not a simple story
At first glance at the synopsis of this movie, viewers who don't know why will think that this is a typical story of a father chasing the murderer for his murdered daughter for thousands of miles.
However, there is no portrayal of father-daughter relationship in the promotional poster of the movie, and there are only two adults, Lao Jin (played by Huang Bo) and Jing Lan (played by Zhou Xun), who look at each other viciously.
And the "big red background and font on the movie poster, as well as waist-high sea water and icy rocks" give people a sense of desperate suffocation.
Coupled with the sentence "audiences under the age of eighteen watch with caution", this kind of makes us feel that this movie does not seem to be simple.
Sure enough, at the beginning of the movie, a girl is in a cabinet with a light, because the light is too dim, you can only vaguely see what she is drawing, and there seems to be blood in her mouth.
This scene appeared very abruptly, and it pulled everyone into an extremely depressing environment at once, and then the plot continued to advance with Lao Jin's voice.
Lao Jin said heavily: "30 nets at a time, 200 catties of fish in one net, this is 6,000 catties of throwing away the cost, and the remaining money is not enough for you to study in Japan." ”
Lao Jin's sentence is like the sentence that Chinese parents say to their children: "I work hard to make money, and it's not all for you."
After saying this, her daughter Nana did not answer, but by watching the plot behind, we can know that this money is not enough for Nana to study in Japan.
And the reason why the daughter didn't answer is because in her opinion, it is very difficult for her father to come up with this money, but is it really not easy?
Lao Jin has a total of more than 30 boats in the waters of his hometown, which shows that his economic conditions are not very bad, so why does he say that?
Because he is a father, he has to let his daughter know that it is not easy to raise her, and let her know that he is doing his duty as a father.
But did Kim do his duty as a father?
Love, no
Nana grew up in a divorced family, and lived with Lao Jin when she was 8 years old, her mother did not discipline her much, and Lao Jin neglected Nana because she was busy going to sea to fish.
This situation is not uncommon in China, but fortunately, many children are still taken care of by their grandparents, but Nana does not, so such a lack of companionship also makes Nana extremely insecure.
So whenever he is afraid, he will hide in the cabinet at home, draw sunflowers, and look forward to Lao Jin's return or dawn, which also sets the stage for the later plot.
But finally waited for Lao Jin to go home, but the company that Nana was looking forward to did not appear, and there was only a party between Lao Jin and his friends, thinking about when he would go to sea next time.
At the party, Lao Jin will also lose himself in the voice of his friend, "You are really a good father", as if he really did something for him.
And after this friend's boasting, Lao Jin will impatiently send his daughter to his ex-wife's house, and the two will not have time to shirk each other in front of Nana.
In the end, Lao Jin rudely pushed his daughter Nana to the car, and then threw a sentence to his ex-wife, "Do you like to take it" and left, completely ignoring the helpless expression of her daughter looking at her back.
That's what a "competent" father does.
What's even more terrifying is that the daughter's expression is followed by a strange smile after a brief period of panic and helplessness.
This smile is incomprehensible, I don't know whether it is happy or sad, the extreme is uncontrollable, but we can see that at this time, this child who is still in elementary school has psychological problems.
She began to feel that as long as any problem went wrong, it was her own problem, and she began to deliberately cater to other people's preferences. This also laid the groundwork for the girl to be stabbed 17 times later.
When the camera turned, the girl had grown up and was preparing to study in Japan, and when she was in the Japanese Xi class, the teacher asked her to form a word with love, Nana reacted for a long time and said "love, no".
This understatement tugged at the audience's heart at once, and what had to be done to say such a thing. And Nana will have such a reaction, and Lao Jin has to bear the main responsibility.
But at this time, Lao Jin did not realize the seriousness of the matter, and was still busy taking care of his 30 boats.
In the end, her daughter came to Japan as she wished, but the first thing she did when she came to Japan was to find a job, which also answered Lao Jin's previous question about whether his daughter had enough money.
Obviously, the money is not enough, but Nana knows that her father is "not easy", so although the money is not enough, she has not mentioned it to Lao Jin.
But it was during this time of part-time work that Nana met the man who changed the direction of her fate.
Seventeen knives
This boy's name is Li Miaomiao, and he is also a student from China, Li Miaomiao is handsome and very caring, Nana was easily won by Li Miaomiao.
But what Nana didn't know was that Li Miaomiao was a wolf in sheep's clothing, a very black-bellied child since he was a child, and deliberately knocked off the oxygen tube of his seriously ill grandmother in order to retaliate for his father not taking him to Japan to play.
In order to prevent his parents from divorcing, he stuffed a firecracker into the frog's mouth and blew it up alive, and the fragments collapsed Li Miaomiao's face, and Li Miaomiao's parents postponed the divorce after seeing it.
Under such a series of events, a false hint was left in Li Miaomiao's heart, as if violence could change the direction of things, which also made what should have been an innocent child become a thoughtful and dark boy.
It is conceivable that Nana, a girl who was originally a pleasing personality, met such a boy, and she was quickly mentally controlled by Li Miaomiao, and even did not hesitate to be raped by three men for Li Miaomiao.
But after Li Miaomiao found out about this matter, he actually beat up Nana who was dedicated to him, Nana was under the long-term influence of Li Miaomiao, she actually picked up a knife and stabbed herself, and after stabbing her, she asked anxiously: "Can you forgive me in this way." ”
It was obvious that Nana would be affected by Li Miaomiao at this time, but Li Miaomiao was unmoved by this, and watched Nana stab herself "after seventeen knives" and left.
At this time, Nana, who was on the verge of death, thought of her childhood safe harbor - the wardrobe, where Nana stayed in the closet for 6 or 7 hours before dying of excessive blood loss.
During this period, she called Lao Jin because of a mistake, and after Lao Jin received a call from the child, he hung up the phone when he heard no sound here, because at this time he was collecting nets on his beloved ship to "earn tuition" for his daughter.
At this time, a scene worth pondering came, after Lao Jin rushed to Japan after learning the news, his first reaction was not to pay attention to his daughter's whereabouts, but to complain that he still had more than 30 boats at sea.
After learning that his daughter had a boyfriend in Japan, Lao Jin also hurriedly said: "She told me. "I want to prove that I am close to my daughter.
When he saw his daughter's corpse later, Lao Jin couldn't help vomiting, and Nana's mother, who was also a parent, just felt distressed and couldn't stand the urge to vomit after seeing this scene.
Lao Jin also knew that his reaction was wrong, so he hurriedly took off his clothes and wiped his vomit.
All of these incidents give us an illusion that Lao Jin really loves his daughter, so much so that he still needs to keep hinting to himself in his heart that "that's his daughter, it hurts".
epilogue
At the end of this movie, Lao Jin found the cabinet where his daughter was hiding after being stabbed 17 times, and in it he looked at the sunflower full of cabinets painted by his daughter with blood, but this time Nana did not wait to save her sunshine.
The significance of the filming of this film is also to call on everyone to pay attention to adolescent mental health, in recent years, there have been many more cases of adolescent suicide in China.
Most of the reasons for their suicide are the self-righteous "love" of their parents.
I hope that in the future, parents can pay more attention to their children's mental health, not only focus on grades, only worry about making money, but more about companionship and communication.
Otherwise, it will be really late.