The WeatherMan is a comedy film produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Gore Wibbinski and starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Kane, the film was released in the United States on October 28, 2005. The film tells the story of a weather forecaster who chooses to change his life in the face of everyone who can laugh at him.
David, a weather forecaster in Chicago, is well known in the city and has a relatively smooth job. Occasionally, passers-by would recognize him and ask for an autograph, and he would refuse for various reasons; occasionally, passers-by would throw junk food just because he was unhappy with him on TV. Of course, being on TV also has benefits, so he met his wife and had a sweet encounter. However, life is always full of twists and turns, and the divorce between the two due to contradictions in life makes his daily life more difficult.
Although he has not studied professional meteorological knowledge, he is always smiling in front of the stage, confident and bright. People mistakenly think that he is like on TV in real life, but this is not the case, he is also an ordinary person, he will be very irritable, not always calm. The mantra used to make the show popular, "Spree's Underestimation Day", is the result of which some passers-by will insult and humiliate him and throw fast food at him to vent their dissatisfaction. He was a little upset about it, but he wouldn't pay too much attention and fight back.
Father Robert, a great writer with countless honors, called him the wealth of the nation. In this case, he still did not neglect the family and was a good father. His over-famous father puts pressure on him all the time to know how he sees himself. He plans to further his career and strives to reconcile with his wife. Whenever he finished his work as usual, he drove to pick up his daughter and take him home. The overly obese daughter, nicknamed by her classmates, secretly smoked in private, and her father did not have much time to accompany her at busy work, and even did not notice the situation of her daughter. I went to take my father to the doctor, and I learned from his mouth that my daughter Shirley was in a bad mood.
David would give his daughter the money he carried with him on the way to pick him up, and he would not be able to afford even a newspaper when his father saw the doctor. The father communicates with David to cultivate and discover more suitable hobbies for his daughter, and finally the daughter chooses archery. David took her to the archery range to study under the guidance of a personal trainer, hoping to improve her mood, but after a few lessons, her daughter never went again.
His son, Mike, is addicted to drugs and undergoes regular detoxification treatment. The drug rehabilitation counselor who did not want to be a drug rehabilitation counselor was a bastard with a personal beastly heart, who usually took good care of Mike, but in fact he was eyeing him for evil intentions. In the usual way, he will try to please Mike, and when they meet at the supermarket, they will rush to help him pay. On the surface, he just wanted to be close to Mike, but behind his back, he was a dog-like pervert. David occasionally picks up his son home, communicates with Mike about the latest situation, and expresses his love. Every time I get home, I want to show kindness to my ex-wife, but because of my lack of communication, I act self-consciously. The results outweigh the losses. The company held a party, David and his daughter participated in the skating competition, the daughter fell heavily, David constantly encouraged the daughter to complete the game, which should have been a good experience, but caused the daughter's ligament strain, and the ex-wife also complained about it.
His father met David by chance while walking and told him that he had lymphoma and was diagnosed with a serious illness, and that time was running out. The father was calm, and David was very worried about his father's body, but he had no choice.
David's job is simple, two hours a day, basically reading the inscription board, earning $240,000 a year, and appearance fees, which is a lot of income. David was very concerned about his father's opinion of his son who was out of the family, non-meteorological professional, but was broadcasting weather forecasts, often being smashed, and messing around. David strives to get a "Hello America, Hello" job, and uses the further development of his career to successfully cheer up, please his father, and let the family get back together.
When David picked up Shirley from school, he found her classmates laughing at her and calling her Camel Toe, and David was determined to untie his daughter's heart knot. He should have noticed it easily, and should have prevented this from happening, David accused himself of being irresponsible as a father, and wanted to reunite with his ex-wife and better fulfill his father's responsibilities. Go to the marriage counselor's class with your ex-wife, write down the secret of each other's dissatisfaction with each other, and give it to each other, never open it to show your trust. As a result, David turned to the bathroom and opened the piece of paper, and found that it contained a complaint about the science fiction novel he had written for four years. When the two were eating, the wife felt that the course worked well, but David directly expressed his dissatisfaction with his wife's accusations against the novel. The relationship between the two fell to a freezing point and broke up again.
Accompanied his father to the doctor, his condition is not optimistic. Life is not going well, but in his career, David received an invitation letter from the national program "America, Hello", and David had the idea of moving with his family, starting over with his wife Nolin and starting a new life. I want to be able to show my excellence in front of my father, and I want to have a happy and satisfying life.
David went back to the archery range alone, bought a three-month course, learned archery, and learning to shoot archery was not easy, but every time he shot a good arrow, David felt like he was improving. Slowly becoming more and more skilled, David took his daughter to teach her archery himself. At this time, the daughter had no interest in archery, and David had to respect her daughter's wishes. Whenever the work is done, he often sends the children back to his ex-wife's house, and David parks his car outside and looks at the house, watching the children inside, which is the most comfortable time of the day. Anything that makes sense is not easy, and there is no such thing as easy in adult life.
David's life seemed like a mess, but the good news of his career brought him a lot of comfort. "Hello America," called and invited David to an interview. David believes everything will get better. Talking to his daughter alone and asking about things at school, David was blunt, and her daughter told her thoughts truthfully, surprisingly finding that Shirley was so strong. David took his daughter to the mall to buy new clothes and change the way she dressed in the past, Shirley looked much more beautiful, and her daughter finally became very happy.
Back at the hotel, he learns that Mike has been arrested for smashing the drug rehab counselor's car. Mike says the counselor is going to molest him, and then it happens, and the counselor says mike wants to steal his wallet. David believed Mike and called in time to ask his ex-wife why. His ex-wife had long since distrusted him and was constantly complaining about David, but the wife did not know anything about her daughter's previous name as Camel Toe. At this time, the father told him that his condition was incurable, and there were only a few months left in his life.
However, in various cases, tomorrow is the key program audition. David's mind was confused, and after drinking a small glass of spirits, he fell into an illusion. He fantasized about becoming a nationally recognizable figure, marching with his family, changing back to his original name (he had been ridiculed for his stage name, being ridiculed for his looks), becoming more frank and sincere, reconciling with his wife, all because of the show "America, Hello", which changed his life, and raised his salary to $980,000 a year, not including bonuses, and achieved real success.
On the day of the interview, although he did not have a degree in meteorology, he was extraordinary in the video, he was very good at the job, and thought that everything was going well. After the interview, he rushed to his ex-wife's house to talk to Mike, but left in a rage because he found another man at his ex-wife's house.
The mother decided to hold a funeral for his father, which was to gather relatives and friends, like a real funeral, but the protagonist of the funeral was still alive and spending his last time together. Archery has become David's new hobby, and he shoots arrows alone in the wild in his spare time. David, who had just finished shooting the arrow and was ready to attend his father's funeral, was asked about the weather by passers-by, David felt impatient, at this time, other passers-by threw apple pie at him, and he couldn't bear it, he ran up and slapped the pie on the man's face, David has changed, no longer as before. On the way, he received a call from the "America, Hello" program informing him that he had successfully passed the interview, and David couldn't wait to share the good news with his family.
Arriving at the scene of the funeral, David hurried to tell his ex-wife the good news, the annual salary of up to $1.2 million, and suddenly mentioned to his ex-wife that he wanted to start all over again, but the ex-wife told her that she was going to marry another man. David, who felt very disappointed at once, shot an arrow outside, vented his mood, saw the man in the distance, which direction the bow and arrow was aimed, and as the man found out and moved into the crowd, David had to slowly put down the bow and arrow and return to the room to wait for the speech. When it was David's turn to speak on stage, just at the beginning, there was a sudden power outage, and after 40 minutes the lights came back on, no one remembered that he was going to give a speech, and this part was gone. So his message was, "Whenever I think of my father, I think of Bob Seeger's Rock Solid," leaving only this sentence.
The "America, Hello" program calls David to leave a message to get a reply, David ignores it, Mike sits across from him, and tells the reason: the education counselor invites Mike to watch a movie and visits his home, Mike is a guest at his home, the counselor uses an excuse to make simple Mike take off his shirt and take a photo... When David learned of this, he picked up the clothes and camera given by the counselor and drove to the door of the drug rehabilitation counselor's house, and as soon as he saw the counselor, he smashed the camera at him, punched him in the face, said that he had seen the clothes he bought at the mall, and angrily asked him to withdraw the lie he had told. Afterwards, he dined with his son in the restaurant and told him that he had put everything in order, don't worry, he taught him a lesson, and Mike became relaxed and happy.
The father drove to David and listened to the song with him in the car, and the father remembered the speech he said, and the two listened to the song together, and the words in the song were the words that David wanted to describe his father: "I hold my faith, never compromise, as solid as a rock." Tell his father that he succeeded in getting the job, which he says is typical of American success; David tells his father that he can't work hard because Noreen is going to marry Rose; his father asks why David's hand hurts, and David tells his father that he taught the man a lesson, and his father tells him that he did a good job. His father had always cared about David, but he didn't express it regularly, and he also read novels written by David, who told him he had thrown it away. His father told him that he had come that way, kept practicing, and would do it later, and David's weather forecast was the same. Father warned him that in a bad life, there is always something to throw away, there is always something to take care of, you still have time, this is the father's final education.
Soon after, David's father died, and despite the heavy rain in the harsh winter, the vehicles were still lined up, and countless people came to mourn. The daughter comforts David intimately, and Mike and David talk about his future development. He once wanted to have the same good qualities as his father, but he didn't have them, and eventually became his current self, the weather forecaster. The daughter often lay at the table and watched her father's reports, and passers-by would ask him to sign an autograph when they saw him, and he no longer refused and accepted it calmly. Passers-by asked, "Is it going to rain today?" David replied calmly, "Who knows." David, carrying a bow and arrow, walked the streets as usual, and people never threw anything at him again. Every weekend David would return to Chicago to contact Mike and Shirley, and then come back to New York to broadcast the weather. The family lives with others, although they have successfully stood on the parade tour bus in their careers, they will not be very happy, things do not develop according to their own ideas, but there is no easy word in adult life. David decided to accept American-style success and accept his current situation.
Everyone's life is different, adult life is full of thorns and tribulations, face it calmly, accept the cruelty in reality, and strive to make themselves better. Everyone cannot be perfect, there will always be some shortcomings, difficult to change, even impossible to change. People long for happiness, but the road to happiness is full of difficulties, and when you reach the other side of happiness, you must also accept the unhappiness that comes with it. People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has clouds and sunshine, and this matter is difficult to complete. Life may be unsatisfactory and unpredictable, and being yourself is the best ending.