This is an old photo. In the
screen, there is a father and daughter.
The father was very young and compared one to his daughter's head
Both of them were smiling happily.
Look at the background, it should be at night.
From their smiles, you will definitely guess that the father and daughter must have had a wonderful night.
That let us go back to that night.
At the dinner table, after taking the photo, my father smiled, but he just "smiled".
The eyebrows and forehead pressed down desperately, hoping to make the emotions in the eyes that had nothing to do with "smiling" lighter, and lighter.
Do you still think this is a wonderful night? This photo of
comes from a new film recently released.
is very powerful. The director's first debut work was nominated for the best new director in Cannes. He was spotted by the distribution company on the spot. It is expected to be released by A24 and Mubi in the United States and Britain. Two days later, North America will be released first.
, which competes with memories - "Holiday after the sun".
A-side
Cozy 11-year-old summer vacation
This is the summer vacation that 11-year-old Sophie has been waiting for for a long time.
My parents divorced at the age of 7, and she and her mother lived in Scottish .
The summer vacation is coming, and she can finally see her father.
That summer, it seemed that it was not very hot, with less noise from the city, and more sounds of waves slapping on the reefs in my ears. In the middle of this summer, my father took her to Türkiye for a trip.
That is a city with a sea.
This memory is always mixed with the sea, DV machine, and silver fine sand.
The scenery along the way, the microphone that is disconnected from time to time on the travel bus can become their chat topics.
It was almost 12 o'clock when I arrived at the destination. The hotel gave the wrong room, and there was only one bed in the room. My father turned off the lights, smoked on the balcony, and waited for the hotel waiter to add an extra bed.
Sophie looked at it and fell asleep in her father's back.
There is no plan for this trip.
The first day, the keyword is swimming.
In the afternoon, they swam in the hotel pool, opposite the construction site; in the evening, they walked to the beach and soaked in the water to watch the sunset.
The next day, after talking to the child's mother to report safety, Sophie and his daughter went to the playground to play.
In the next few days, I didn’t go to serious attractions.
activity range is in the playground with a swimming pool.
Play billiards, motorcycle racing, swimming, or listen to the screams of paragliding in the air in the lounge chair in the open-air swimming pool.
attractions, there are also places to visit.
Go to the island to dive, visit the carpet shop in Türkiye, and go to the Hot Sulphur Pond for a day trip.
My father is almost 30 years old and he is always mistaken for brother and sister when he is together.
Compared with the classic combination of the irritable father and naughty child, the father and daughter get along more like friends.
There are quotations and volumes, and there are back and forth chats and complaints.
Father is always listener, and daughter always chatters.
Lying on the beach and looking at the same sky, the daughter will talk about her longing for her father while playing.
The father took his daughter to the hotel buffet together, played billiards with the boys he met, and even signed up to participate in the open-air karaoke competition and danced together.
This summer vacation is a bit different for Sophie.
She made her own little discovery.
She found that she didn't like to play with the younger kids.
Boys and girls who are older than her always hug each other and "bite and kiss", although those older brothers and sisters said it was a tongue kiss.
It turns out that two men can kiss each other even together.
The little boy Mike who plays motorcycles together is not bad, she likes it very much.
You have to ask if she is having fun this summer vacation.
Although I had a little awkward relationship with my father, from the videotape of that holiday, the father and daughter still left many beautiful memories.
My father took her to braid her hair and taught her how to defend herself.
On her father's 30th birthday, she asked all the tourists in the scenic area to give her father a birthday surprise.
The father was still talking to his daughter at sea, leaving behind words to make Sophie warm for the rest of his life.
-You know, I want you to understand, you can talk to me about anything, as you grow up, do you know
No matter what party you go to, what boy you meet
-Dad
-No, I'm serious, Sophie
I've done all of these, you can, promise me you will talk to me about everything
So, at the 11-year-old summer vacation, Sophie is happy. The recorded in
DV always laughs loudly, makes faces, and is vivid and cute.
But is this trip really that perfect? Is everyone so relaxed this summer?
(p.s. If you haven't watched a movie yet, but want to give it a try, then Uncle Meat suggests that you skip the B side and go directly to the conclusion part)
B side
Father hiding the last straw
In this seemingly happy summer vacation, there is a father who is about to collapse.
9 years old and his mother were not married. He had several relationships, and even reached the stage of engagement, and wanted to settle in London.
When talking about this with Sophie on holiday, he was excited and even talked about the colors of the walls of the house, but he stopped thinking about it.
His father did not let the topic continue
0 years old seems to have been a long time for him.
To be honest, I couldn't imagine that when I was 40,
could live to 30 years old. It was a surprise.
. When I was having extra bed in the hotel, my father walked around outside the window, smoking a cigarette.
A person stands on the railing with his arms spread out. seems relaxed, but in fact it is shaky.
On the father's birthday, the daughter quietly told passers-by that with the countdown, a group of people sang birthday songs for their father.
His reaction is like this.
Can't see the surprise or the touching of being blessed. Just like the hanging left hand, powerless and at a loss.
The most common colors appear in "Holiday after the sun", is blue.
That is the color of summer, the clear sky, the sea.
can be the same blue color, but in the eyes of the father and daughter, it is completely different temperatures.
My daughter yearns for the blue sky and wants to take a paragliding.
Father, who doesn't even have a diving certificate, wants to go into the sea, the deeper the better.
A montage picture, and the Meat Uncle was deeply impressed.
Under the blue sky, there are a few paragliders floating. As they floated, they became scattered leaves and debris in the swimming pool.
The young and ignorant daughter has a new life, and the young father has long been trapped by himself, helpless and desperate.
The blue of the sky and the blue of the water surface have a brief intersection.
1-year-old daughter can detect the abnormal movements of growth, but cannot sensitively smell the collapse of her father trying his best to hide.
She asked her father when the last time she saw her grandmother, and her father stood up and avoided the positive answer with the question.
She mischievously photographed her father underwater, but she didn't notice that the moment her father was not smiling.
She held the DV machine and asked about her father's 11th birthday experience. But he didn't notice that his father's tone had obviously worsened and refused to face the camera. She was asked to turn off the machine before she could continue the conversation.
-No one remembers that day was my birthday.
When I told my mom, she was very angry and grabbed my ears and asked my dad to drive me to the toy store to buy toys.
- This is a little...bad. What did you choose?
-I chose a toy phone.
-Select well.
-Thank you.
Unfortunately, this short intersection is like the pair of goggles when they dived under the sea .
eventually sinks into the sea of time.
They still missed it.
Conclusion
Your parents are actually not just your parents
Uncle Meat has to talk about the narrative of this movie.
The narrative rhythm of the whole movie is very slow, almost the turn of the father and daughter during the holidays. DV pictures and reality alternate. It was also decorated with strange flashing scenes during this period.
You may lose patience because of "slowness", but "After the Sun Holiday" will definitely not let your patience down.
This holiday, there are two states flowing.
Girls grow up happily.
There is a disguise from being ignorant to being "mature", which makes you laugh for her.
In the toilet, she listened curiously to the older sisters chatting about ambiguous love and sex. Sophie smiled successfully when the other party was considered too young to understand.
Facing the little boy you like, you will also lift your hair and pretend to be cool
. In addition to this joy, there is also the occasionally exposed father, a man who is about to enter middle age. The two states of
are flowing with each other.
is just like " Adele's Life " There is no big storyline, only a long and dramatic daily life. The movie tells the story of a couple's simple love and separation.
Although trivial, you will still be moved by it.
"Holiday after the sun" is the debut work of Scottish screenwriter and director Charlotte Wells.
inspiration comes from a family photo she took when she was 13 years old at home. When she saw her parents’ youth, she realized that aside from time and space, the two were “peers”.
She began to recall her former father, her father when she was a young man, and talked to her everything. Even if she was called to her brother, her father would not be angry to correct her.
She originally wanted to make up this story, but she still couldn't help but immerse herself in it.
Finally, she traveled through time and touched the heart of the man outside of the identity of "father".
A child who is so self-centered
The world really revolves around you
For you your parents are just parents
You don't consider their identity
Don't consider their inner life
Screenshot from variety interview from youtube
Gibran has a poem, "Your child is actually not your child".
"They are children born from life's desire for themselves.
They came to this world through you, but they came not because of you, they are by your side, but they do not belong to you."
Uncle Meat wants to say that your parents are not just your parents. You are the closest strangers, separated by a cloak called "Blood Relative".
"Holiday after the sun" wears this coat.
Yes, there is a third person in the camera of "Holiday After the Sun".
Note that there is a reflection in that DV screen just at the beginning of the movie.
is similar to the woman sitting in front of the TV at the end, and she is Sophie as an adult. The story of
This story has the real subject.
Adult Sophie, looking at the DV picture at the age of 11, completed the missing corners she didn't pay attention to when she was young, and she completely discovered her father who was on the verge of collapse.
The man who rushed toward the high tide in the middle of the night, trying to subdue himself with the waves, but was finally pulled back to reality by the "father's"'s reason, his shoulder was damaged, and he cried in the hotel room.
She said goodbye to her 30-year-old father from a distance.
appeared 5 times in "Holiday after the sun", each flashing in less than 6 seconds.
In that picture, it seems like the flashes of your and my life flashed by in pieces.
Uncle Meat used these 5 flashes to piece together another story.
Adult Sophie opened her eyes in the crowd. She found her 30-year-old father in the summer of 11 years old.
She watched his happiness.
sensed his pain and determination.
She wants to hold him and win him back.
She failed.
Although Sophie in "Holiday after the Sun" is a pity.
But she had at least touched him, the ordinary, vivid and concrete him besides his father.
They have met and said goodbye.
"Holiday after the sun" may be another movie that Iranian directors Abbas prefer.
A movie that can only end with you.
I prefer another type of movie. When viewers sit so vulnerably in the dark screening hall, undeprived of reason and need not succumb to emotional blackmail, they watch things with more conscious eyes.
A good movie will provoke and awaken your inner things, and you are still questioning you for a long time after the movie ends.
A good movie needs to be completed by you, and in your mind, sometimes it is really completed after a long time.
Sophie, when she became an adult, touched the person she loved the most through the DV screen.
Where are you?
Where are you in?
Today's worker: Jiezijun
