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Oscar's relationship with his father


At the end of the movie we see Oscar having some childhood memories with his father. He seems to be a caring father and young Oscar seemed happy. Was all that in Oscar's imagination ? If not, what happened that ruined this relationship and made the father an *beep* ? I mean, just because his wife left him, he decided to be an ass to his son? Also his father made him a crossbow, why would he do that if he didn't care about his son? I don't get their relationship bit in the movie...

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I enjoyed this film but did find it a bit odd the way he treated his dad near the end. He didn't seem to be such a bad guy and I found it a bit difficult to believe that he would kill the hamster.

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He's a complicated person. He's human. He obviously cares very deeply for his son, but as the film goes on we see more and more his immaturity and intolerance.

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It was never explained what happened to make him go this way since from what we saw during Oscar's memory sequence at the end, he was a caring father when Oscar was a young boy. Unless those memories were not real and just created by Oscar to make it easier for him...

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I don't think those memories were fake. His father loved him, but he's a complicated person. He clearly has anger issues. What he did to his son's room and to the hampster were done in an angered state and it seemed that he was somewhat remorseful for what he did.

I think the film did a good job capturing Oscar's changing perceptions of his parents. In the beginning, Oscar saw his mother as the 'bad guy' who left and deserted their family. He villanized her and probably glorified the father a bit, overlooking some of his obvious flaws. But by the end he's moving in with his mother and finally coming to terms with why she left.

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Yes my take was that was Oscar's imagination. He dreamed of genuine love and acceptance by his father. Hence the balloon sequence at the end, signifying a dream.

His father had his limits. He was a homophobe through and through. His wife couldn't stand him. The father did not seem like a very noble, caring man.

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It's not so unusual for a father and son to be close early on and the relationship turns into something toxic when the son comes of age. It's only then when the son begins to act in ways that confound the father's rigid expectations, or the son becomes a player in the rifting apart mother/father dynamic. A self absorbed, insensitive father can still be enchanting to a child, and excel in the role of omnipotent protector because little ones are so easily impressed by grand, yet empty, gestures that an older child would see right through.

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