Many profiles tell a series of stories that happened after his father Conrad suddenly visited his daughter innis one day. By portraying an interesting character, Tony Odeman, the father got close to his daughter, repaired the relationship between father and daughter, and pointed out the direction of life for his daughter.
But with my shallow knowledge, I can't see any comedy at all, except the narcissistic and hypnotized "humor" in the play.
This is an embarrassing film that has been playing from beginning to end. Awkward jokes and nonsense, awkward COSPLAY, awkward meeting and staring.
There seems to be no other conversation between father and daughter except embarrassment.
Judging from their background, Father Conrad is nearly 60 years old and semi-retired. On weekdays, he keeps a dog, takes care of his old mother, lives with his neighbor Dashan, Kan Kan, and takes care of his daughter who travels around the world but seldom comes home. In his eyes, the meaning of life is assembled from these small moments.
My daughter Ines works in a large German company in Bucharest. She runs around all year round, wearing a professional white shirt and black suit, meticulous makeup and a pair of high heels. For her, it is much more meaningful to help the company talk about consulting projects and layoffs when necessary than to sit down and discuss the "meaning of living".
She is an out-and-out pragmatic elite. In the male-dominated workplace, she used 18 martial arts just for by going up one flight of stairs.
People from two different backgrounds have a bottomless generation gap. When one side wants to impose its will on the other, it is bound to be full of contradictions.
The first contradiction
After Wang Xingren died at home, his father became increasingly lonely and embarked on a journey to visit his daughter alone.
My daughter was caught off guard, and all her energy was only used to cope with the workplace war, leaving her father really little.
The father didn't understand his daughter's busy work every day, lost himself to please those customers and asked her what the meaning of living was, but gave her a dry and pragmatic answer.
The two men covered up the contradiction with awkward silence.
The second contradiction
I thought that my father had gone home, and my daughter seemed to have unloaded her baggage and went to a party with her old friends, and talked frankly about the influence of her father's arrival on her.
However, my father did not leave. But made up the identity of "Tony Odeman", appeared beside her, and heard her daughter complain about herself.
He refused to talk to his daughter as a father. Instead, he became a "fitness coach, German embassy ambassador and business consultant" with the help of the funny design of "Tony Odeman", and gradually came into contact with people, friends, bosses, colleagues and customers around his daughter ... Ironically, when they heard people closely related to their careers, these people would be skeptical and immediately become tolerant.
Facing "Tony Odeman" who disturbed her life from time to time, her daughter innis shouted angrily: "Are you going to ruin me?"
The third contradiction
Tony Odeman went to discuss the project with his daughter.
There, he witnessed the cruelty of today's capital society.
He just appreciated the seriousness of ordinary employees operating tools with their bare hands, but was told that his boss would fire the employee because he didn't wear gloves according to the regulations.
He got help from the local original owner, but was told that Fiona Fang Baili's native land was about to be modernized.
The world he knows is full of human feelings, but it is just a joke laughed at by his daughter in the rules of Beijing.
He took his daughter to a stranger's family dinner and forced her to sing a song.
Yin Naizi was silent for a long time, perhaps to calm his anger, perhaps to recall the lyrics, perhaps to think about ways to resolve embarrassment.
She sang anyway. However, there is unwillingness, anger, helplessness and deep self-doubt in the voice.
The fourth contradiction
The impromptu nude birthday party scared away many elites and bought Innes time to think quietly.
Originally a huge party, only the boss, assistant and myself were left. All three people are embarrassed to say birthday greetings, completely unaware that the original purpose is to "strengthen the cohesion of employees."
Without the aura of the workplace, you and I are just peers in this ordinary world. Maybe this is what the director wants to convey to us.
"Tony Odeman" once again appeared in the daughter's house as a stuffed animal. This time, the daughter gave her father a big hug, perhaps thanking him for his silent support all the time, perhaps thanking him for his gentleness that he never left because of anger, perhaps feeling guilty for his selfishness and ruthlessness, or perhaps understanding the idea advocated by his father more deeply.
Maybe, just because he is the father.
Because I am a father, I tolerate your jokes, understand your questions, sympathize with your efforts, and understand your good intentions.
It's just that I can't live the life you imagine.
The daughter finally resigned and went home to attend her grandmother's funeral.
Is this the father's will successfully transferred to his daughter?
The reality is that my daughter found another big company and opened up another world in her workplace, and my grandmother didn't see her for the last time.
Father said, "Don't lose your sense of humor", so she put on her father's funny denture cover and weird hat collected by grandma, and stood comically on the land of her hometown, waiting for her father to take pictures as a souvenir.
Taking off her braces and hat, she just looks lonely and tired.
There is no background music in the whole movie, only car horns, brakes, doors opening and closing, noisy music in bars, people talking to each other ... only the most primitive and close sounds in the world.
These primitive voices amplify the embarrassment and keep telling you that this is what happened around you.
Does the director want to tell the story of a father and daughter? There is no doubt that this father-daughter clue exists. But I see more women's role setting in this world. In the workplace, you must work hard and use clothes, performance and language to blur gender discrimination, so that you can go further. Be sure to play all kinds of gentle roles such as mother, daughter, wife and granddaughter at home, so that the world will ignore your strength in the workplace. The same is true for men.
There are always Qian Qian's worries in my heart, but there are trillions of Darwin's realistic steel pieces at my feet.
Perhaps this is called "the dilemma of middle-aged people".