The story of the search for father's love - "Grand Central Station" after viewing

　The story of the search for father's love - "Grand Central Station" after viewing

　　This film is a story about Dora helping Yeshua to find his father, and a story about Dora's search for fatherly love and reconciliation with her late father.

　　The story takes place in a bustling central station in Rio de Janeiro. Here, a thief is caught begging for mercy but is still shot on the spot by the police; the police will collude with human trafficking agencies for profit; Dora, who makes a living by writing and sending letters for people, never sends one; the little boy Yeshua asks Dora to write a second letter to his father after his mother is killed, but Dora strictly refuses. This is a microcosm of Brazil's high illiteracy rate, brutal law and order, indifference and numbness in the 1990s, and the tropical, oceanic heat of the local climate seems unable to warm the hearts of the indifferent.

　　But Dora has a very powerful best friend: Elaine. When Dora wants to tear up the letter that Yeshua and her mother wrote to her father, she is stopped by Elaine; when Dora uses the money from the sale of Yeshua to get a new TV set, Elaine promptly recognizes and rebukes this behavior, and Dora is able to find her conscience; when Dora rescues Yeshua from escaping to the station and calls Elaine, Elaine says: I knew you were the bravest woman in the world. As a single, older woman, Elin has a kinder, more sober quality of knowing right from wrong, and is able to give encouragement and support to her friends when they are confused and when they are reformed, which is what true friends do.

　　The boy Yeshua never met his father until he was ten years old, and although his father was, in fact, a total alcoholic, his mother Ana gave her son a good father figure. My father works a lot, he is a carpenter, he is very good at carpentry, and my father built my house. The child's vision of his father is filled with admiration and respect for him. Although the child gets only a one-sided impression, but compared to the mother will only complain in front of the child about the husband's irresponsibility, spouting bitterness, pulling the child together as the antagonist of the unanimous dissatisfaction of the husband of this approach, but to avoid the mother cool, but the child has become a victim of the end of the failed marriage. With his mother's care and capable "father" to escort him, Yeshua grows up sunny and frank in a single-parent family, like a pure jade that has not been exposed to the weather.

　　When the heroine Dora was a child, her father cheated on her and her mother passed away. After many years away from home, her father no longer recognizes the adult Dora. She has a bad impression of her father as a character, calling them stupid and foolish. I think Dora is very afraid of separation, or rather the bad experience of being abandoned derived from not getting a good separation. Even the choice to be single as an adult is not without the possibility of being affected by the trauma of childhood, imagine even the closest people will leave them and will give themselves to oblivion, then why pay feelings to build relationships, these are not reliable, as if the bubble ashes. In this case, it is better not to pay that will not be hurt. Since there is no need to build relationships with others, it does not matter what the ego demands. So her life is very dark, dressed plainly, no makeup, no lipstick. She said to Yeshua, "Even if you put on makeup and look pretty, like Elin, isn't there no one who wants you?"

　　After the two arrived in North Bangisu looking for Yeshua's father unsuccessfully, the two were hungry, tired and penniless, Yeshua asked what to do, and Dora exploded: "Your parents should never have brought you into the world!" The words were so damaging that the little boy ran away in anger. She denied the value of the child's existence, in fact, shouted her own subconscious heart, the heart is full of holes in Dora held a negative idea of denying themselves and live. But this time she did not want to avoid separation, she rushed to Yeshua, searched for the boy in a sea of people, in a prayer meeting for salvation to Christ in which the whole city participated, and finally fainted from physical exhaustion. After the crowd dissipates, Dora opens her eyes on Yeshua's lap, and the two of them look at each other and smile, resolving the gap between them. I think this is also Dora and their own childhood reconnected on, with their own reconciliation, acceptance of themselves.

　　Next, the plot begins to take on a positive tone. There are a total of three letter-writing scenes in the film, the first is the opening is a variety of letters from passers-by forgiving relatives and friends, and the second is at this time two people in North Bangisu to save money for the road and stall to write, this time to write are grateful for the theme of letters. I think the screenwriter's arrangement is related to Dora's transformation, Dora's early family misfortunes she believes are caused by others, especially irresponsible father, but can not do anything to change, so she can only stand in a critical perspective to forgive others. The second time she writes, Dora opens her heart and accepts not only herself but also the world, and her perspective changes. Anyone who has done something wrong has also something to be grateful for. When a person stops attacking and denying herself, energy starts pouring outward and she starts to feel love.

　　The third letter was written by Dora herself to Yeshua, quietly leaving on the morning bus before dawn after sending the boy to find his brothers' home. "You are quite right, your father is indeed as good as you think. I remember when my dad used to drive the train, he would make me such a little girl and keep pulling the whistle and blaring all the way ...... I actually miss my dad and miss what I used to have." The letter has not yet finished, Dora has been in tears, so many years of dissatisfaction, in fact, buried deep in the pursuit of fatherly love and can not. Yeshua's father did a good job of carpentry, but alcoholism and house sales by the second son dislike, Dora's father although a bunch of broken things but in her childhood also gave her a little favor ah. No one is perfect, it seems so hard to want a perfect father. In fact, we don't have a choice about our parents, about many things. Romero said, "There is only one kind of heroism in the world, and that is to love life even after you have realized the truth of it." When she left, Dora changed into the blue floral dress that Yeshua had picked out for her, put on the lipstick given to her by a passerby, touched up her cheeks with lipstick, and walked towards the morning light with a light but steady and sure step. She has released her father's grievances in her heart, completed the reconciliation between her daughter and her deceased father, and has become more enthusiastic about life. Dora is not young, there are folds on her face, and young beauty simply can not be compared, but this time Dora is beautiful glowing.

　　Before she left, Dora sent the letter that the boy's mother had asked her to write to her husband's home, and the letter that her husband had sent home in six months, and the two letters were put together under their portraits. The letter expresses the love of each of them and their eagerness to reunite and start a family together. And the truth is: every child is the product of parents who love each other, or at least have loved each other. We are born for love, and we should live for love.