Description
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
Так и выглядит взаимодействия со своими родными, которые чувствуют, но часто не понимают и не видят точно, что с тобой происходит, а тебе больно от всего, от их непонимания и одиночества, но и от любви к ним.
И то, как в этом фильме передали, как это воспринимается взрослой Софи, которая уже понимает, какие были сложности у ее отца в ее нынешнем возрасте, когда у нее самой есть ребенок…слишком реалистично и живо.
Но становится все ясно от знания, что Шарлотт — автор этой истории, написала ее о себе.
I was an eleven-year-old girl, but I was not an eleven-year-old girl with my father, so in many aspects of the father-daughter relationship, the film did not respond to me. But it was very enviable at times, especially at the beginning, when Callum was very worried that the vacation was not starting perfectly: either there was no administrator in place, then there was only one bed in the room, then a construction site outside the window, and even broke his arm. His awe for Sophie was literally physically felt through the screen. The volume and inner drama of the character are superbly conveyed: his love for his child and the unconscious and unquenchable pain of his little self. He burned himself in Scotland, where he was an unloved child, where relations with Sophie's mother did not work out, he does not find a home there, there is no sun there. And so he runs, not knowing where, first of all from himself and his feelings. Here I will immediately say about Mezcal - he is an outstanding actor, it is even surprising that this is his first major role in a film (and generally the third in his career): he is so honest, open, real, he merges with the character 100% and literally looks into the soul with those pure eyes of his. The way Mezcal was able to convey all the facets of Callum is worth a lot. Brilliant job.
Frankie (Sophie) is also a little star, she was just a kid. In almost all of her scenes, I wanted to smile at her radiance. Despite the fact that the main line is the relationship between father and daughter, for me this film is primarily about depression, and shown through the eyes of a child who knows nothing about it, but knows for sure that something is wrong with dad. Throughout the entire viewing, I was haunted by a feeling of anxiety, which was intensified by flickering inserts, and fragmentary shots, camera angles, Callum's very disturbing actions, rare dialogues; all this formed an obvious conclusion: this trip was the last time Sophie saw her father.
It was physically painful for me in the credits, and the afterburn cream (which is the same Aftersun) obviously won't help here. My sun will definitely stay with me for a long time. It was amazing.
It was all so long and so oppressive that I didn't finish the movie.