Our Father

This film (drama)Also known as我们的父亲，is aMainland ChinaProducerbeauty live，At2005Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating8.6(For reference only)。

A rural father saves his three children living in the city in his own special way; however, his good intentions only complicate their lives further. His love prompts him to make selfless sacrifices for his children, resulting in numerous humorous yet heartbreaking emotional displacements. The father silently brushes past us, leaving us to carry the burden of being unfilial grandchildren while experiencing familial affection. This is both a hymn to familial love and a scalpel dissecting our souls. A father from the countryside has three children working in the city. To solve the difficulties faced by his children, he ventures into the city; however, his well-meaning interference only makes their lives more chaotic. He digs a well for his pregnant eldest son's wife to prevent the fetus from being contaminated by water, but ends up sourcing polluted water instead; he uses various schemes to reconcile his daughter and son-in-law, who are on the brink of divorce, but accelerates their marital breakdown instead; the process of solving his youngest son’s marriage issues complicates the entire family dynamic, turning it into a tangled mess. His love drives the father to make repeated selfless sacrifices for his children, leading to a series of absurd yet heart-wrenching emotional misalignments. All three children believe that one of them will always take care of their father; yet he frequently disappears right under their noses, and each child later has their reasons for forgiving themselves—excuses like being too busy with work or facing emotional hardships. Thus, the seemingly dutiful children let their father’s emotional expectations slip away time and again. Every time the father desires to communicate with his eldest son, a phone call pulls the son away from him, and the longest time they spend together is when the son, a police officer, needs his father to act as an informant; the daughter, owing to her own emotional misfortunes, pays little attention to her father's feelings, only starting to care when she views her healthy father as a patient, thereby erecting barriers that isolate their emotional connection. The youngest son takes advantage of the father's deep love for his children, which leads the father to spend his life savings; despite working in a special profession, he ends up asking his father to effectively be a dead man while still alive. The father's sudden passing brings all his children to genuinely reflect on the love he once gave, realizing that family is a countdown clock, and every moment spent with their father will never return. Thus, the pain of wanting to be filial when one’s parent is no longer present brings them to tears...