The success of "The Father Trapped in Time" also made the second part of the family trilogy, "The Son Trapped in the Heart", meet us as scheduled.
This is the brainchild of director Florian Zeller, who puts a family conflict with a broken marriage in front of usThe hidden details in the movie need to be watched over and over again to savor slowly.
What is the truth of the two-hour-long film and television work that makes people cry?It is not only the depressed people who deeply empathize with this movie, but also the teenagers and middle-aged people in the confused period.
There is such a sentence in Anna Karenina:"Happy families are all the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes. ”
Looking at the details of this film, there are actually many points that we ignore - if you think that only your son Nicholas is suffering from depression, then you are led astray by the rhythm of the film.
Because he is also suffering from depression, there is also Nicholas's father Peter, and it is not difficult to see from the dialogue in the film that Peter's childhood situation is the same as Nicholas.
From Peter's life, Nicholas was able to see a shadow of his futureNicholas didn't like that kind of life - he had no expectations for the future.
This is also one of the points of contradiction between Nicholas and Peter:Do you want me to become who I am now?
In the relationship between parents and children, parents will always stand on the position of "for the good of their children" and make their own choices and judgments, thus ignoring the hearts of their children, which in turn leads to the final death of Nicholas.
At the beginning of the film, a kind mother is softly coaxing a baby to sleep, and the baby in the cradle is sleeping soundlyBut it is in stark contrast to the teenager Nicholas who appeared later.
Nicholas has a complex expression, and there are few "laughing" shots in the film, while the baby in the cradle enjoys the perfect family, although he is asleep, the corners of his mouth are raised.
It is worth noting here that:He and Nicholas are half-brothers, but enjoy the love that Nicholas has lost.
This is undoubtedly very torturous for a seventeen-year-old boy.
In adolescence, Nikolai is the time when the mind and body are maturingThe psychological problems of children during this period are particularly important.
Because they began to experience society and growth, and for Nikolai's father, Peter, the most important thing for him now was to prepare for exams.
but ignores what Nicholas's mother mentioned in the film:Nicholas has a problem.
From the beginning, his mother sent Nicholas to his father in the hope that Nicholas would follow his father's mood, but his father did not show the care he should have for Nicholas.
He already has a new family, soSpend a lot of money to send Nicholas to the best school, tooThere was no time to accompany and care for Nicholas.
But apparently both the breakdown of the family and the life at school deeply troubled Nikolai's mind, and these were not what he wanted.
He was not cheerful, he had no friends at school, and judging by Nikolai's strong aversion to schoolHe may also encounter a lot of unspeakable things at school.
And none of this is enough for Nikolai's father, who believes that his children are not tough enough, because he himself can handle work and life now.
The film deliberately gives a close-up of the conversation between Peter and NicholasThe camera spends a lot of time on the facial expressions of the father and son, and Peter goes from concern to anger and bewilderment.
Nicholas went from nervous to scaredPush the conflict between father and son to a climax.
As a father, he does not understand his sonHe was completely unaware that Nicholas had developed psychological problems.
The evasion, confusion, and pain shown by Nicholas when Peter confronts him about why he did this can be seen that Nicholas himself is experiencing an inner struggle.
Faced with his father's incomprehension and anger, Nicholas could only bury his heart deeper again.
He becomes even more "strange", and Peter, who is completely unaware of the problem, naturally wants his son to take care of his own affairsHe rightly describes himself as a role model for success.
In fact, he was wrong.
Nicholas was certainly an imperfect son, but he also did not have a perfect father.
The film portrays a father's failed education:Anthony's change of heart led to the breakup of his marriage, and he married a "third person" to form a new family, which was a second trauma to Nicholas's heart.
Nicholas wants his parents to get back together - this is completely impossible in the eyes of the audience, but Nicholas has been tryingEven trying to integrate into the new family, everything he did was ignored by his father.
For Nicholas,Not only is the family broken, but even his parents are no longer what they were.
From the timeline Peter is in middle age, he has to deal with family and work, and the turnover of life makes him exhausted himself, and he does not only neglect to take care of Nicholas.
In his new family, he was never a qualified husband and father, and he chose the simplest and most brutal way to deal with philosophical problemsNikolai's depression became a burden in his life.
Throughout the film, Peter's education is more like a "change" than a "shape". He would prefer Nicholas to be a successful person like himself.
Nicholas was afraid of water but was thrown into the pool by Peter can be seen that Peter doesn't care what Nikolai thinks, he has always been thinking from his own standpoint.
Nicholas's depression did not change Peter's mindThis for Nicholas came to say, it was further despair.
Mental trauma is like a fire, eroded from generation to generation. Just as Nicholas's father, Peter, used to struggle with depression.
He sees the pain he has experienced as a stepping stone to his own success, so he wants Nicholas to overcome him as well.
The vicious circle of educating from generation to generation, whether it is Peter or Nicholas, tragedy is repeated.
We can see for ourselves that "your parents will teach you all the mistakes they made in the past", and no one cares what the reason is behind this, unless someone can step up and change it.
So the whole film gives a depressing feeling:Can't be understood by the people closest to you.
This is also the biggest gap between many contemporary young people and their parents, and "The Son Trapped in My Heart" allows us to see it from the perspective of a seventeen-year-old boyThe pain and loneliness of a depressed person.
And after reading the whole story, it seems that everyone is trying their best to help a depressed child out of pain, but only Nicholas trapped himself in his own mind and cannot be freedHe wanted salvation, but he couldn't get an answer.
Maybe he wanted his parents to get back together, maybe he wanted to be cared for and cared for by others, and the moment his parents sent him to see a psychiatrist, he was completely desperateBecause no one understood him, including the psychiatrist, he wanted to leave.
He disguised himself as healed, and looked at his parents waiting outside the door, as if Nicholas had returned to his previous life - before his parents divorced.
He wanted his parents not to leave himHe wanted to live at this time forever, but he knew that nothing was possible.
When he realized that all this would be lost sooner or later, he was relieved and relieved.
In the living room, the parents rarely talked and played, as if they really loved again, and in the bathroom on the side, with the sudden gunshot, Nicholas ended his life at this moment.
He spares himself and the people who are disturbed by him.
He is just an ordinary person, but he can't integrate into this world with other ordinary people, and I believe that many people are surprised by this ending.
The moment Nicholas "escaped" from the hospital was supposed to be a happy endingBut the sudden gunfire also pulled the audience back to reality, everything was impossible.
And Nicholas used his life to change the stubborn thinking of his father Peter, and Peter began to understand how to be a better father and how to be a husband who could be relied on.
At the end of the film, we see Peter's youngest son growing up freely, and in Peter's fantasy, we see Nicholas growing up**, smiling and sharing his life with Peter.
Everything can be so beautiful, at this time, everyone should be able to see itIt turned out that the son who was really trapped in his mind was his father, Peter.
The reality is cruel,Nicholas used his life to put an end to the contradictions between generations.
People with depression are always ignored by everyone, and they are often regarded as having a bad mood and so on. And this group of people needs to be "seen", whether it is family or society, and the final outcome can avoid death and grief.
I hope you can leave a little quiet mood for this film and savor the essence of a movie.