If you only look at the back part of the race, "The Great Dad" is a rather bizarre sports film, a fat uncle with insidious limbs, a weak crown teenager with only a faint sense of light left in his eyes, standing on the starting line of the Mountain City Marathon, this special running combination itself is very interesting, not only because they are different on the field, but also because they are still a father and son, a pair of violators who cheat the race, in order to compete in the exchange of identities, the father pretends to be a blind runner, and the son pretends to be a sound runner.
A twist and turning plot, rich race details, a large number of running groups involved in the shooting, so that it creates a fake real race scene, can make people watch very bloody at the same time, there is an immersive sense of substitution, which is actually very rare, in addition to running horses, there is really no sport can create this sense of participation, as if the audience is also running with the father and son.
Of course, many people may question that the uncle is so fat, it is impossible to practice the ability of the full range in a short period of time, and any game cannot tolerate such a low-level imposter, in fact, there is no need to discuss this logic, this is not a documentary movie, they are not official athletes, for a common belief, they bravely stand on the field, regardless of the result, this behavior is worth applauding.
Marathon is a sport that focuses on participation, if it happens in reality, the organizer will then take the results of the father and son, and then pull the blacklist to prohibit registration or fine money and the like, it doesn't matter, they are not for the results, just like the son once trained together outside the sports team, he just wants to prove that others can do it, they can do it, and they can do it.
Then talk about the plot of this film, on the surface, "Great Dad" story does not have any special advantages, if you are an audience that has watched a lot of movies, you can even spit a little old-fashioned, yes, all the father-son movies are not such a routine, a mixed very undignified single parent father, suddenly awakened, to do a silly thing, for the sake of children to fight for breath.
"The Piano of Steel" is like this, a precarious worker, to use the outdated lathe technology, to build a sophisticated piano, clear-eyed people know that there is time to go out to work, make money to buy a more reliable; "Ocean Paradise" aquarium workers, before leaving, to teach the autistic son to live, ride, go to work, smart people understand, sent to the welfare home is the most reliable choice; and "A Lang's Story" racing driver for his son to return to the track, these stories are in praise of an adversity in the struggle, Although he lost to Yu Rong's father.
From these waste wood fathers on the screen, in fact, it is not difficult to see that in the East people are still more tolerant of their fathers, according to normal points of view, they are all losers, at least in the matter of making money to support the family is not very good, but precisely because of the lack of materials, they invest more emotions and bear greater pressure.
Like "The Great Father" Xiao Daming is pragmatic, using his own way to teach children to adapt to life in the dark in advance, the attitude is too tough, but this is actually not the main reason for the estrangement between father and son, the main reason is the lack of effective emotional communication between the two, Xiao Erdong's stubbornness is also difficult to blame, he only wants to chase the light of his ideals, but ignores the father's good intentions, the contradiction caused by the psychological deviation of the two, and finally through the identity exchange on the field, a reconciliation is formed.
Such a story for the audience with a little experience, should be able to produce a touch, in the real world, most of the sons are actually not much different from Sholdong, have opinions and ideals, often feel that the father is very useless, conservative and stubborn, not only can not provide help, or even their own stumbling blocks. If there are several such sons who, after watching the movie, have a little new understanding of their fathers and feel that ordinary is also a great thing, "Great Dad" will win.
Wang Yanhui's performance is a major highlight, as an actor with a villain's face, it was not easy to receive positive and protagonist plays before, always making people feel good acting but not addicted, but this time, he really acted addicted. Father Xiao Daming's working state is better than the brother's brother, buying a piano to bow to life, teaching the child's toughness, the father and son fighting wits and courage are angry and funny, including the scene of seeing his son running barefoot and regretting it, eating a box lunch with the workers, there is no trace, very real life, presenting an ordinary fat paper under the hippie smiley face, but also inadvertently showing a weak and sensitive heart, as well as the disguise of "Master Zhao" and his son fooling around together, giving his car a sense of deflation, The whole is quite rich, and I have to say that the plain and unremarkable appearance has given him extra points this time.
Therefore, in this lackluster, full of indiscriminate and embroidered pillows, "Great Dad" is definitely the first choice of recommendation, may be worse than "Steel Piano" and "Ocean Paradise", the sense of life is not as rich as the former, the atmosphere is a little more relaxed than the latter, better than most other films of the same type, winning in solid and full, true feelings, the style of the mountain city, the life in the bitterness, laughter, tears, blood, touching, there should be, not blowing or black, the movie is worth seven points, the father is worth ten points.