Father and children I would call this film like Turgenev “Father and Children” or “Father’s Love”.
God’s 5th Commandment: “Honor your father and mother, and let your days be long on earth.” If you fulfill this Holy Order with love and responsibly, then everything in your life will be safe and good: a loving and understanding wife, wise and patient, and health, and well-behaved, obedient children, and peace of mind and harmony in the family and with the whole world, and respect, and self-esteem, and success and prosperity, everything will happen!
If you forget your filial duty and neglect it, your life will also consist of want and disappointment, eternal discontent and envy, and there will be little, if any, joy in it.
How is it that in the same family, the same parents, giving both children the same love and affection, care and attention, grew up such different children? Different in everything and, above all, in relation to filial duty.
The film has many emotionally piercing scenes, painfully sad moments, difficult life collisions. Played and shown flawlessly, the acting work is excellent.
With this film, Cheran probably wanted to pay tribute and gratitude to his parents, and he succeeded.
Happy is the son who has known the love of his father, but happy is the father who has known the grateful love, boundless respect and selfless care of his son.
Someone will accuse the film of edifying, someone of protracting, but it will not be fair. Even so clearly showing two opposite attitudes to filial duty, stories like those told in the film, unfortunately, did not become less.
More and more young people strive for freedom, for independence, for isolation. The continuity of generations is collapsing, family ties are breaking, forgotten old people and children are appearing, and it seems that we ourselves will never be old and frail, sick and abandoned. Or maybe we won't. .
For such an attitude to our parents, who gave us life, nurtured, and put their life on us and for us, the Lord will not give us longevity, success, or prosperity, and if we live long, it is difficult and joyless, and our children will do the same to us, because they already have someone to look at.
This talented and deep film is for all ages, but the young need it first of all, because they still have time to fix everything, like the hero of Cheran, to start life with a new leaf, with repentance and correction, to make their parents happy!
The older you get, the less you have this opportunity, and many have lost it irrevocably, there is no one more to care for, no one to make happy, no one to ask for forgiveness. . .
And this pain, this unbearable bitterness, this unbearable weight, will be with you forever, not just until the end of your days, but also in Eternity, for the soul is immortal.
And it was necessary so little: a little attention, a little warmth, a little patience and help, care and kindness.
Hurry to love! Hurry up and help! Hurry up and take care of it! Hurry up and do good! As long as there is for whom, as long as there is strength, as long as they live!
Honor your father and mother, that your days may last on earth.