"Sunshine" is a film about family and crime directed by director Zhong Menghong, which won five awards at the 56th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Editing, and also received 6 nominations.
The film tells the story of a family of four, but because of the tragedy of lack of communication between family members: Arwen and Qinjie have two sons, the eldest son, Ah Hao, is both good at learning and handsome, sunny and handsome, is a typical "other person's child", but because the parents' expectations are too heavy, he has no time to breathe, took away the shadow of him wanting to be "lazy", and finally jumped down from the balcony and bid farewell to this sunny world.
The youngest son A He rebelled at a young age, and at a young age he became a confused boy, and the good brother Caitou entered the juvenile detention center because he cut off someone else's arm, and the family of the person who was cut off looked for the caitou family to compensate for no results, so he came to The Arwen's house to ask for huge compensation, in addition, Ah He who came out of the juvenile detention center was looking for trouble everywhere by the resentful caitou, in a dark rainy night, the father Arwen drove down the caitou, and Arwen used this extreme love to protect the younger son Ah He.
Leaving aside the artistic achievements of the film, in "Sunshine", in the film, the mother Qinjie and the younger brother Ah He, the father Ah Wen and the older brother Ah Hao form a group symbol of two parents educating their children: the mother Qin Sister is blindly tolerant of Ah He, Ah He runs into trouble, and Qin Jie thinks about how to help him get rid of the punishment.
During Ah He's execution, his 15-year-old girlfriend Xiaoyu was pregnant and wanted to give birth to the child, and Sister Qin took on the responsibility of taking care of Xiaoyu without saying a word. Sister Qin represents a type of parent who is unconditionally responsible for all the behaviors of their children, but they have no ability to help their children correct their mistakes, and can only continue to carry the pot for their children.
The identity of the father in the film is a driving school instructor, who is in the coaching field as soon as he appears, dutifully teaching students to grasp the time and grasp the direction. Through the close-up of the detailed shots, the double yellow lines on the road, and the constantly adjusting steering wheel in the hands of the students, the various exam instructions with words in their mouths, and even the bright red characters on the coaching field, all of this is constantly reinforcing the two words, time and direction. This has also become the most reasonable saying that my father believes in.
So in his father's view, his direction was that of his gifted brother Ah Hao, and the wrong one was his younger brother Ah He. Even when asked, he only said he had a son. If things really develop as easy as a driver's license test, the preset direction, the scheduled time, can reach the goal. But the biggest variable in life is uncertainty. No one will know what's next.
The good student Ahao calmly and peacefully chose another direction, not as his father expected, and he would study medicine in the future, and he would no longer be the child of someone else's family. Ah Hao's departure is actually reasonable, an empty classroom, everyone is sleeping and I am awake, and the Teacher in Chinese language class asks the teacher, do you believe it? Sima Guang's own in that dark corner of the vat. The slogans of dreams plastered everywhere in the classroom show that he is out of place with all this.
As a specific group of good children, no one really understands his needs from childhood to adulthood, and only sets a bright road that seems to be in the right direction, and cannot make mistakes subtly.
He said that the fairest thing in the world is the sun, the sun shines, everything grows, everyone can find a cool place to hide, but he has nowhere to escape, because he is a gifted student, can only be exposed to the sun, evaporate the last bit of strength, and finally jump. In his father's dream, he calmly walked in another direction that was completely opposite to his father.
His choice is in strong conflict with his father,and from here one can feel the first collapse of his father's faith. Stacks of red notebooks printed on time and direction are the biggest contradictions.
As a father who has always practiced the right direction, I forget that time in this world is as fair as the sun. Later, he himself also went in a different direction, this father with the most extensive experience and experience, the representative of the three views of the world, for the safety of his younger son, he killed people without reason. Completely deviated from the proverbs he had originally believed.
The two people in the film who can best grasp the time and grasp the direction have broken this "truth" one after another and gone to two extremes, which is the director's great irony of the so-called "truth". When the sharpest contradictions in real life are exposed, they can cause people to feel pain and think.
On the contrary, some of the other people in the film who do not believe in this dogmatism can make bold choices, without fear of time, without fear of direction. His younger brother Ah He has always followed the path of his choice, whether it is punching people on campus or marrying Xiao Yu later, so that after he was released from prison, he desperately worked to earn money. He was lucky, and he was free.
Although the name of the film is "Sunshine", in this film, there is still no hope. Ah He is already a father, and his father used the price of killing people to let him get rid of the entanglement of caitou and have a chance to get his life on the right track. At this time, Ah He was still a person who took it for granted to pry open other people's bicycles for borrowing, and as a mother, Qin Jie still did not express any objection to this behavior.
"The fairest thing in the world is the sun, and everywhere, regardless of its dimension, is half the time of day and half of the time of darkness throughout the year." The film reveals a desperate atmosphere everywhere, in fact, day and night are not always half and half, but as said in "Thief of Time", life is always "one step is difficult, one step is good", as long as you grasp the steering wheel in your hand, you can control the direction of life.