A Bad Son

A Bad Son 7.3
  • Genre: Plot
  • Premiere: 1980
  • Running time: 1h 50m
  • Country: France

This is a restrained film about the trivial relationship between father and son. In the father's mind, the son's drug trafficking and imprisonment is the cause of his wife's depression and death. Two generations struggle to fill the rift with friendship but turn against each other because of the recruitment of prostitutes. The father drove away the "little rascal" son, but the son did not understand the cause of his father's anger, until Bruno once came home to see his father and his old lover naked. The film has no answer to who caused our mother's melancholy death. What the film leaves us is the way to live and face the future. With the help of drug rehabilitation and psychological assistance agencies, he found a job in a secondhand bookstore. Duzat, the owner of the bookstore, was a kind old man, and Catherine, a female clerk in the bookstore, was once a drug addict. compared with Bruno's determination to stay away from drugs, the director compared her detoxification repeatedly with Bruno's determination to stay away from drugs, the bookstore owner in the film undoubtedly became a paternal role, and his avoidance was different from Bruno's father. This gay old man is a lovely old man who never stops. He saved two souls at a critical time. In French movies, this kind of care represents cultural humanitarianism and human love.