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John was very sad to meet such a family. He couldn't imagine what his Mike would be like in such a family.

On the way home, John suppressed the anger in his heart. He didn't understand why the adoption agency would introduce such a family to him.

At this moment, Little Mike, who was holding hands, suddenly asked, "What is adoption? Dad!"

John was taken aback when he heard this, and looked at his son's innocent eyes, he explained: "When a child can't be taken care of by his father and mother, and then he goes to live with two wonderful new parents, they will give him a Lovely new home!"

After listening to Dad's explanation of adoption, Mike looked up and said, "I don't want to be adopted!"

Isn't this what John thought?

Growing up with Mike, watching him get married and start a business, he doesn’t have to experience the childhood he experienced, just like seeing children carrying schoolbags on the side of the road, he often wonders whether Mike will be like this in the future?

Walking through the streets and alleys, on the road, and returning home, he excitedly called Dad, and then gave him a hug, but he knew that Mike would no longer have him in the future.

Watching Mike let go of his hand and ran to a white line in front, stepping on the line, with his hands open, and walking staggeringly, he suddenly felt that he was starting to play jealous, jealous of the person who would be called daddy by Mike in the future people!

Inside the bakery.

Mike asked why he arranged such a family for his Mike, and Xiao Na said helplessly that all this was done in accordance with the procedures and regulations.

It's not just you.

"Where did you find these people? What procedures did you arrange for them?"

John couldn't help but said angrily: "I don't want to give them a dog to take care of, nor a rabbit. This is the most important decision in my life. They don't understand, don't you understand?"

"It's not that I want to, it's that I have to! Do you understand?"

Xiao Na also sympathized with John, but there was nothing she could do, because she had done everything she could.

John calmed down and said: "Actually, the important thing is Mike. I always thought I knew him, I really knew him, he is, he is my son, but do I really know him? Do I know enough? I now Some are uncertain!"

John's greatest surprise and hesitation was still with his son.

He thought he understood him, but he suddenly discovered that his son Mike seemed to know a lot more than he thought.

He would ask that single lady, when will you die?
Obviously, he memorized the word death and began to try to understand the meaning of death.

He asked what adoption was, and he obviously felt something, which is why he said he didn't want to be adopted.

This made John even more uneasy!
When he got home, John bathed and washed his son's hair, combed his hair and caught the lice. After catching the lice, John said to his son, "Tell the teacher that the lice are gone!"

But I heard Mike say, "They're all dead!"

John's health was getting worse and worse, he was physically and mentally haggard, and he knew that he was getting closer and closer to death.

When eating, Mike finished eating, so he picked up the spoon in his father's bowl and wanted to continue eating. John saw it and took it away immediately, telling Mike not to use his own spoon.He was worried that he would affect the children. He would not allow Mike to touch his used spoon. He would not allow Mike to eat the food he wasted because of his illness.

Mike said I still want to eat.

John opened the refrigerator to take out the orange juice, but the hand that poured the orange juice was shaking all the time!

Mike looked at his father's appearance, he always felt that he understood, but he didn't seem to understand anything.

John had to speed up the progress. He began to try to get Mike to accept new things, but this was met with resistance from Mike. He seemed to be sensitive to his father's thoughts, and threw away all the new things his father bought. Out of the room, whether it is those old things, or John, he is unwilling to lose.

John looked at the mess and smiled, but his smile was extremely complicated and helpless.

On the one hand, I am gratified that my son is starting to understand, but helplessly, he has to do this, and he must gradually adapt to all this, to the new environment and new things!
It is not only Little Mike who wants to break away from the past, but also himself.

He saw Mike decorating the truck with his favorite red, John asked what did you put in the truck?
stones, the son replied.

John knew that Mike remembered the woman who gave him the hard candy.

No matter how much nostalgia and reluctance to give up, what should be lost must still be lost.

He came to the wide place alone, sat on the grass, looking into the distance, he was more uncomfortable than Mike.

But he had to do it.

He started to deal with the last things, throwing away the old things on the car, and then sold the car and tools to colleagues, and also attached a list of customers, including their tempers, preferences and so on.

He has been working hard.

It's a pity that none of this matters anymore, because he is about to leave, leave this world, and leave Mike!

After doing this, he can finally put down his work completely, take his son Mike, and go to the playground to play.

Bumper cars, pirate ships, eating marshmallows, looking at distorting mirrors.
This good memory is not only for Mike, but also for John himself!

Back home, he finally made up his mind and told Mike what death is and what it means.

He told Mike: "Like a beetle, the body is left, but now it is flying around in the woods, and one day soon, your father will leave his body, but will always be with you, in the air!"

"Like a balloon in the air?"

John nodded!

"You can't see me, but you can talk to me, I can hear you, you can't hear me talking like now, but you can hear it in your heart!"

"In your heart?"

"Yes! Because I will always be by your side, in the air around you, in the sun to warm you!"

"Is it raining too?"

"That's right, it's raining too, making you wet!"

"And grapes too?"

"Yes, but not in the grapes, but in the taste!"

Mike also seemed to understand that his father was leaving. He nodded and accepted what his father said. They had no better choice.

John still decided to leave the time capsule to Mike.

It contained all his blessings and nostalgia for Mike, the little candle, the gloves left by Mike's mother, and a picture of her holding little Mike, a picture of him in the playground, his work cap, The window brushes that have been around for a long time are also put into the time capsule together.

He figured it out. He always thought that everything he did was for Mike's good, but he ignored it. Although Mike was only three years old, he still had a memory.

He understands what death is, what adoption is, he understands a lot of things.

And these belong to Mike, he will grow up one day, and he has the right to choose whether he needs these things.

Of course, that candle was his selfish thought, how he wished he could spend more time with Mike and celebrate another birthday!

Everything is coming to an end.

John took Mike on that road for the last time, holding hands like countless times before, and Mike went to press the traffic light. The difference was that this time, John didn't drive, but took Mike on the bus.

It's just a pity that John's life has come to an end, he can't grow up with Mike, he can only hold his hand and send him to the next stop in life!
That's right, he didn't choose the first rich family, nor did he choose the family who didn't like dogs, and he didn't choose the middle-class family in the global village. Naturally, he couldn't choose the mean family either.

He took Mike and chose the single lady who was not rich.

She may not be rich, but as she said, only two people who love each other are eligible to be together!John knows what love means. He loves his son. At the last moment of his life, he found the most suitable person for his son to adopt as his father. From the perspective of love, in the name of love...

Of course, it’s not just that, in all the families, only the lady would ask Mike when he was a child, and wanted to know every stage of the child’s growth.

And this is also Mike's choice. In the process of meeting those families, he only interacted with the lady when he met and remembered that she loaded his truck with candy.

At the door of the bachelorette, Mike glanced at Dad, and John nodded.

He stepped forward and rang the doorbell.

The door opened and John smiled.

It's just that there are too many things in that smile.

mike looked up at dad
The camera freezes at this moment, without giving John any look back at Mike.

The last shot is the back of John leaving. His back is no longer majestic, but has become extremely rickety, and his steps have become extremely embarrassing, like a man who has lost everything.

He turned his head and glanced behind him reluctantly, then turned around resolutely.

He saw a white line on the road, and he stepped forward suddenly, just like his son Mike did before, spreading his hands and stepping on the white line.

Tick, tick.
It's just that I don't know when, this strong man who didn't cry even when he was facing death, even when he knew he was terminally ill, burst into tears at this moment!

The movie is over.

There was silence at the filming session, except for occasional weeping.

"Very peaceful film. No hysterical bursts, but it can make you cry.
I love the calmness in this movie, the warm sunshine on the tired face of the main character, the trembling way of children walking with a water glass, and the scene where the father and son walk hand in hand, the height difference between the two forms an incomparable The powerful and warm power is mutual dependence, trust, and unreserved love for each other
About death, how to explain to a three-year-old child, how to say goodbye, and face such a departure
It just left its body, but it still exists in the air, in the raindrops, and in the smell of grapes
But the movie is undoubtedly a good movie, but it seems too peaceful, we need to think again! "Said a theater watcher.

"The story is warm and hopeless. What is warm is that the father, who was covered in tattoos and had an unhappy childhood, released all his tenderness to his son when he carried the family alone.

He can speak slowly, read stories to his son, run with his son in the supermarket, and play childish games with him.

But the passage of life is uncontrollable and inevitable. He is reluctant and has to face separation to make the final choice for his son. The despair from his father and his loss of control and tears to social workers are the most true feelings of this father. emotion.It is also the most direct touch of this story to the audience.

But if it is an ordinary audience, can they persist until the end?I need more footage! "Another viewer also said the same.

Film watchers, film critics, and media people are different.

When they watch a movie, they need to analyze it from different angles. What is the attraction of this movie?Where are the highlights?

How's the rhythm?

How is the plot?

Can it attract an audience?

Is there a market prospect, etc., etc.

As a result, although almost everyone said that this is a good movie, they all expressed doubts about the market prospect of this movie.

If it's not a good movie, it will definitely get a good box office.

This was actually within Li Yi's expectation.

Dean Films may feel a little lost, but it will not really start to relax the announcement of this movie.

The effect of the movie screening in theaters is not ideal, and of course it is not the end of the world. There will be a special session for film critics and media people next.

This movie may lack commercial selling points in the eyes of filmgoers, but for the announcement of Dean Films, it also points out the advantages of this movie. This will definitely be a very popular movie. nice movie.

Then publicize this piece, and you can do things.

Soon, Dean Films arranged a special session for film critics and media people.

The movie "Unknown" actually has a little more publicity than the previous "Pounding Heart". After all, Maury Darren and his son starred in this movie together, which itself is also a good publicity stunt.

And the fact is as they expected.

Film critics almost all applauded this film again and again!
"Adults may not do better than children when it comes to accepting death and separation. So it seems like we are saying goodbye, but in fact we are experiencing the last stage of growth!"

"Silent as the sea, sad but not hurt, delicate to the bone, family love is the only light in the long tunnel."

"This is the most ordinary father, the deepest love for his son, witnessing the greatest fatherly love in the world in peace! "Unknown" is worth watching!"

"The film avoids deliberate sensationalism, it just talks about "accepting loss". There is not even a strong dramatic conflict such as life and death. The overall emotional tone is a bit sad, but it has a lot of stamina. Xiao Da Lun is in a very good state, so well-behaved, and very distressing. Morrie's performance is also good, showing the last obsession of a dying person in the world, neither accusing nor selling misery, just showing it plainly out."

"There are actually many films on the topic of entrusting orphans, but this one is more relaxing and healing. The two male protagonists, one big and one small, performed very well in this film, especially the young male protagonist! The film passes slowly and slowly. Two fast lines, the slow line of the daily life of father and son, and the fast line of the father eager to entrust the child before his death, tells this sad and warm and healing story... It is not tedious at all, but rich in bits and pieces , Zhicheng's feelings! The overall tone of the film is very good! Good film!"