"I know that I can only carve in a complicated way, write with a camera, and quietly stare at the wounds of my family and the broken images of my soul in the subtle gaps between the lines. This is the only thing I can do. Cruelty is the only way out. Documentary director Chen Junzhi wrote in the book "Taipei Dad/new york Mom".
At some point in life, everyone should use his best tools to face his family and himself at home. However, few family stories are full of dramatic tension of love and hate, and bear the imprint of the times.
Before he was ten years old, Chen Junzhi was the eldest son of Taipei Jazz Color Printing Boss. His father started from scratch and opened seven chain stores in his heyday, but 1966 closed down because of excessive expansion. In order to escape the law, he and his wife fled to the United States in a hurry. Since then, the drama of family changes has been staged again and again, and the family has no chance to reunite.
Jun Chen He Zhi's elder sister, younger brother and younger sister followed her grandfather and grandmother back to the humble ancestral home in Xindian. They can only miss their mother from the dollars and stationery that her mother sends back every month. My parents divorced after two years in the United States, and my father was devastated after returning to Taiwan Province Province; My sister committed suicide in Chen Junzhi's sophomore year, and my younger brother and sister soon immigrated to the United States to reunite with their mother. Chen Junzhi, who stays alone in Taiwan Province Province, has to bear the pain of "broken hands and feet".
The struggle between Chen Junzhi and his father "lasted for decades at the cost of the most distorted father-son relationship." From father's irresponsibility to strict discipline, my sister committed suicide; Later, I opposed him to study art, and even went public at the age of 30.
After coming out, his father asked him to kneel in front of the ancestral tablet and repent; Chen Junzhi blatantly went out of the door and decided that he was a "tramp without a father" from now on. It was not until the living father took out his photos and explained the aftermath that Chen Junzhi realized that "the tug-of-war with his father has come to an end."