A 350-word movie review of To My Father

"To Father": Family love is like water, and father's love is like mountains!

Father’s Day is a foreign holiday that Chinese people have just begun to celebrate in the past few years. The film market has not yet produced films specifically for Father’s Day, but micro-movies with more flexible forms have begun to be produced specifically for this holiday. Festivals create works, and this is the case with this film. Although it is a customized micro-film for a certain car brand, the entire film does not have the strong advertising atmosphere or overly explicit product display of other similar micro-films. Instead, it pays more attention to the integration of brand concept and film connotation, making this calm story come true. A heart-pounding emotional tension.

The well-known actor Li Chen plays a moderately successful photographer in the film. One day, he is called home by his father to take pictures of neighbors. He unexpectedly learns that his father, who runs a photo studio, has serious vision problems. An opportunity to work abroad came before him, and he needed to return immediately. Li Chen walked halfway, thinking of his father's illness, and decided to give up the opportunity to go abroad to find out about his father's illness. In the heart-to-heart communication with his father, he felt the deep father's love again, thus eliminating the estrangement between him and his father in one fell swoop. Life seems to suddenly become clearer.

Although the film focuses on father's love and family affection, it takes a warmth and life-oriented route. There is absolutely no dramatic plot of heart-rending and conflicts that deliberately attracts attention. Instead, it is through Li Chen's The two emotional lines with the neighbor's daughter show the generation gap between the two generations and the greatness of father's love and mother's love. The neighbor's daughter was in the rebellious stage and always felt that her mother was too controlling and prevented her from being free. Li Chen helped her recall the past when her mother ran a few stops to buy marshmallows for her when she was a child, which made her realize her mother's meticulous care. Take off the rebellious mask and become your mother's good daughter again. This enlightenment seemed to make Li Chen realize something himself. He returned home and asked his father about the cause of his eye disease. Unexpectedly, he asked what he had always thought about - his father was not present when he opened his personal photography exhibition. This was not his father's love for him. He expressed his disapproval and did not go to support him. Instead, he suddenly suffered an eye disease when he went there. He couldn't see, so he had to stay at home. When his eyesight recovered, he missed the exhibition. These words completely untied Li Chen's heart. He deeply felt the plain yet heavy father's love. He reflected on his indifferent attitude of alienating his father because of his work. Finally, he used two neighborhood photos of mother and daughter and father and son. Photos pay tribute to family and father. The estrangement and misunderstanding between the two generations shown in the film, as well as the indifference of family ties due to busy urban life, are undoubtedly topics that most young people can relate to and reflect on themselves. This film can tell such a quiet story, Achieving heart-pounding emotional tension, the director's overall control over the film is quite solid.

Although this film is a customized micro-movie for a car brand, the car brand is properly displayed in the film, and it never overwhelms the focus and makes it look like an advertising film. The car only appears in three scenes, the first, middle and last, respectively, corresponding to Li Chen returning home, temporarily deciding to return halfway because of his father's eye disease, and after settling the differences with his father, driving back to the city with a satisfied smile, making the character Like the family relationship in the film, the car brand has become a comfortable, gentle and considerate existence.

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