the ending is so stupid. the father is selfish beyond belief. art my fcking ass. why did he have to live with that woman? accidental fell in love my ass. so the mother is suppose to live by herself in her old age? the movie had a horrible resolution. why did their kids suddenly become happy? not to mention how pretentious it was the entire time. i slogged through it hoping for some resolution but it was so bad.
shareI think this is the only movie that made me really regret that I wasted almost 2h of my live.
shareWell it's a drama. The father is a pretty typical narcissistic personality. For him everything is either awesome art or he is nothing. It is hard to imagine for someone who hasn't experienced it but that is a serious condition. Either he shines or he is nothing. That is a mechanism to fill an emotional hole in himself, one that he can never fill. It's a symptom in a way that can express itself differently. If he fails it will be depression and anger.
Such people can rationalize anything (like he always did) in order to feed their own ego. But like narcissus in the story they just fall in the pond and drown.
So while what he did was horrible I think what the ending meant - at least to me - is that the children realize it and just finally walk away and stop seeking their approval or whatever. So in a what that is catharsis for them and they can live their own lives.
The ending was a bit too Hollywood and narcissistic in itself ("oh look at them now they are famous artists themselves! Everyone is great!") they cling to the glimmer of hope like the ending of his book about the children in the pit.
I can't believe out of all of the comments, you're only one who identify NPD of the father. The father thinks his art is special. He loves the people's reaction to his art and more than willing to use his family to gain the audience's attention/shocking reaction. He slammed a glass to the ground right during interview and scared his wife. The glass could have cut his wife but he enjoys that it scared her and possibly getting a reaction from the interviewer.
He is unapologetic to his adult children and justifies his action that they're probably going to screw up their kids as well if they are going to have kids. He basically uses his children as puppet for his art. But he makes it like that they have a great exciting childhood. He lied to his kids in order to make them participate in his art.
Yeah he's a pretty textbook case. He doesn't just love the praise, he needs it like an addict or he'd get depressed. He'd rationalize anything to make his behavior acceptable.
And now that his career is over he is trying to use the two boys music career as an outlet for his narcissism. Parents always pass the baggage that they secretly carry around down to their children and so on.
I didn't like it either great acting by everyone though
shareThe movie was really good up until, I agree, the ending with the father...Unpredictable but quite unsatisfying. I think it would've been better if there were no twins.
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