January 19, 2006
Meet the Parents & the Fockers
Speaking of family's circle of trust...who's in/out?
We decided to watch the whole series just hoping to find some "references" about this kinda stuffs. Of course we cannot compare the situation in the movie to others. Anyways, I still find how it can be quite interesting - particularly about "the circle of trust" which was mentioned by De Niro's character, Jack the father. It's interesting how we mean of "trust" and "be honest" to each other. On the father's side - he was right to initially prefer an honest guy, but on the other hand, thinking that some truths about his life might not impress his future father-in-law, Greg (or Gaylord Focker - Ben Stiller) decided not to tell him. Whose side are we on then? I guess they're both understood by the audiences while that kind of understanding never happened between themselves. Anyways, the father ended up purposing Greg for his daughter's sake and finally seemed to surrender just because of the love for his daughter. It was a happy ending - but I kinda don't believe that it would be that easy in real life, so it was not finished yet until they met again in "Meet the Fockers".
I kinda could see myself as like the Fockers, rather be sincere and honest enough to reveal what kind of person I am. But in the meantime, the Forcker parents were too much opened in some ways - and that's something I'm not like them. This time, Jack the father still drove the story by screwing up some more as he hadn't really accepted Greg to be in his "circle" yet. But at the end, by holding on to such a thought, again that he failed and found himself was actually out of the circle. Anyways, they could work out and things were finally clarified, happily ending as a normal comedy.
Yes, I got entertained and some laughs. But if turning this story back to our lives, I find it's truely stressful in some ways. How much effort would you have to take - not only just to win someone's heart, but also that person's rellies'? Would you be able to take that kind of situation and deal with it easily? I wouldn't answer that....
Coz "the One" above always knows that - even better than I do....
Posted by art at 04:14 AM | Comments (0)