QUeast evening on Rai 3 at 21.20 we cry for The Son, dramatic history from the theatrical work of the film director, Florian Zaller. In competition at the Venice Festival 2022, stages the family relationship, between new balances and profound guilt of the protagonist Hugh Jackman, Father of a fragile and unhappy sonunable to accept the divorce of his parents. Love will not be enough to save him. In the cast a painful Anthony Hopkins In the role of the grandfather And a combative Vanessa Kirby in those of the stepmother.
The Sonthe plot of the film on Rai 3 this evening at 9.20 pm
Peter is married in second wedding with Beth (Vanessa Kirby), from whom she recently had her son Theodore. His eldest son Nicholas (Zen McGrath), 17 years old, He lives with his mother Kate (Laura Dern). The teenager He never managed to accept the divorce of the parents: He suffered the separation and betrayal of his father, who left them to make up for a life with the youngest Beth. The balance of this enlarged family breaks when it turns out that Nicholas has not been going to school for months and would like to go to live with her father.
Despite the opposite opinion of his partner, Peter decides to welcome him home. In order not to make him lose the year and compromise the school future, He enrolls it to a new school. Despite everyone’s efforts to make him feel better, Nicholas doesn’t seem happy at all. It always appears troubled, suffering, listless and very passive, up to commit to committing deeds of self -harm. The father tries to speak to him to understand his malaise but he is convinced, erroneously, that his state is caused by a disappointment of love.
Actually, The young man is deeply depressed and in a pathological way. He confides to his mother to have suicide thoughts every now and then But she does not collect the request for help, thinking is only the classic adolescent melancholy. The first to seriously notice his problem is Beth. When the babysitter called to look after little Theodore is no longer available, Nicholas offers to replace it. The woman, however, refuses in a dry way because it judges him not balanced and unreliable. Unfortunately, confirmation comes to his fears.
The Son, Nicholas’ drama
Nicholas He stopped going in the new school for months. Instead of going to class, he spends his days alone, without a destination, In the streets of New York. When Peter discovers him, a very heated discussion arises between the two: the boy reproaches him violently to feel bad because of him because he abandoned him and his mother.
A few days later, the veins are cut: Beth finds it in that state and takes him immediately to the hospital. The boy seriously risks life. Once out of danger, is visited by doctors, who suggest it to hospitalize for a few weeks in a psychiatric structure in order to avoid a new suicide attempt.
Traumatized by the clinical environment, Nicholas implores parents to get him out From there. Crushed by the sense of guilt, interrupt the stay earlier than expected e they bring him home. It all seems solved but Nicholas appropriates the grandfather’s hunting rifle (Anthony Hopkins) and shoot.
Zen McGrath, Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern in “The Son” (01 Distribution)
The cast, explanation of the ending (spoiler). But is it a true story?
After The Father, Director Florian Zeller once again brings a theatrical drama he wrote on the big screen. Although the work The Son is dedicated to his son Gabriel, The story told is not true. The author chose to continue to explore the complex and tenacious nature of family ties, capable of generating relationships and deviations from the unpredictable effects. Between father and son there is not only inheritance but psychological constraints which influence, for better or for worse, the way of seeing life, of making their own choices.
Net of one screenplay That He cannot completely grasp psychic fragility and the turbulence within a family unit, to give a vibrant tone and intense to the film A cast of excellent and great actors thinks about it. Anthony Hopkins is not mistaken an emotion But it is no less the son Hugh Jackman. His It is an excellent interpretation of a father divided between his career and guilt senses built around his happiness.
The ending of The Son It is a three -year time jump. Peter receives the unexpected visit of Nicholas: Now He attended a school in Toronto and is happily engaged. It seems calm It is full of projects. Peter feels a deep joy but, at the same time, an unspeakable pain so as to cry.
Thomas has vanished: This encounter nothing more than the fruit and projection of its unconscious. He cannot give himself peace for not having understood the real malaise of the child and regrets not having helped him. Now, he can no longer have a future. The latest images are those of father and son on a beach of many years ago. A peaceful moment, without shadows.