In the first week of its release, Shen Teng Ma Li's new film " Catch the Baby " easily exceeded the 1.5 billion mark at the box office.
’s cumulative box office so far has exceeded 1.7 billion, ranking among the top 5 in the 2024 annual box office list.
With its continued popularity and favorable schedule, "Catch a Baby" will hit the box office mark of 3 billion, and is expected to eventually catch up with " Hot Hot " and be promoted to the annual box office champion.
At the same time, "Catch a Baby" also allowed Shen Teng and Ma Li to secure the top box office position among domestic male and female actors. The box office of the two starring movies exceeded 35 billion and 21 billion respectively.
Although "Catch a Baby" is a comedy, many people called it a "Chinese horror film" after watching it. Although
has a comedic shell, the core is still tragic. Especially the ending seems to be satisfactory. After all, the father and son have achieved reconciliation, and Ma Jiye has returned to freedom and is no longer subject to restraint and control, but it has moved towards another kind of terror.
After the exposure of the training and control plan, Ma Chenggang showed no signs of remorse when facing his son Ma Jiye. He did not think he had done anything wrong, but he thought he was still a good father. The explanation seems reasonable, but in fact it is a kind of sophistry and sophistry.
In Ma Chenggang's opinion, he was just pretending to let his son suffer.
He believes that a man must practice hard to become a real man. Everything he does is paving the way for his son. As long as he steps on it, he will reach the top.
He does not think that he has deceived his son, but he thinks that it is a white lie, and a white lie is never deception, but protection, love, and the highest dimension of love.
Finally, he even said that it seemed that he controlled his son's life, but at the same time, his son also controlled their lives.
Such an excuse is quite scary, but it is also a reflection of reality.
Many parents also have this understanding, which is narrow and one-sided. Such an excuse would make people mistakenly think that the problem is not with the parents, but with the son. As a parent, this seems to be what you should do.
This is obviously a twisted and deformed love, which is actually what is often called brainwashing pua.
But at the end of the film, Ma Jiye did not compromise, but chose the path he wanted to take.
However, the shadow left by the control of parents in childhood is lingering, which is another kind of horror.
Although Ma Jiye was admitted to his long-cherished sports university, he did so with an excellent score of 705. After that, in the running competition, he could only be ranked in the third echelon, and he wandered off to pick up the bottle midway.
This further proves the failure of Ma Chenggang’s education and training plan, which brought his son to another extreme.
In order to pursue his ideal, Ma Jiye ignored the reality, which was also a waste of resources. If it were not for the backing of his family, such an ideal would be worthless.
Although there is nothing shameful about picking up bottles, it is deeply influenced by picking up bottles in childhood. Even if you fall in love with running and choose sports, it is a choice influenced by your parents’ education and training plan.
Without the five-kilometer run to school every day, Ma Jiye might not have fallen in love with running and chosen sports.
Therefore, it seems that Ma Jiye chose his hobbies, chose the path he wanted to take, and began to take control of his life. However, he still failed to escape the control of his parents, and the influence on him had already penetrated deep into his bones.
Ma Jiye failed to embark on the path paved by his parents, but he also failed to embark on the path he really liked.
Of course, how many people can do it in reality?
Everyone is more or less influenced by parents and family, but it is divided into intangible and tangible influences. The so-called control is divided into active and passive, and no one can stay out of it.
Ma Jiye’s parents never thought that they had done anything wrong, they just thought that they had not done enough.
Finally, Ma Chenggang wanted to compensate his son, but the so-called compensation was to have a younger brother and sister.But this kind of compensation is not for his son, but for himself. After all, whether it was his eldest son's plan to raise his son richly or his second son's plan to raise his second son in poverty, Ma Chenggang failed. How could he be willing to accept his huge inheritance without a son to inherit it. Moreover, he never thought that he had done anything wrong. In the end, he chose to continue having children and continue to cultivate heirs.
If parents do not reflect deeply and make radical changes, then their ideas will naturally remain in the past, which is the most terrifying thing.
In short, the ending of "Catch a Baby" is a fake reunion that is really scary.
The so-called freedom is also relative, there is no absolute and complete freedom. In this society, we are all people in relationships, which has already determined that a person's growth will be affected by various relationships. However, being completely controlled by parents like in the video is abnormal and should be clearly opposed and resisted. Although the film contains many disturbing aspects, through these, the public can reflect, improve their own education and training methods, and create a more comfortable and good environment for the growth of their children.
