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My Review on THE PARENT TRAP

Hot 3891 views. 2015-8-14 23:18 |Individual Classification:review| the, parent, trap, movie, reviews

Yesterday when I looked through updates on Tencent News, I found a very interesting piece which introduced a pair of girls sharing 99% similarity. And also a movie was mentioned in that scrap to indicate the similarity and that is THE PARENT TRAP. The name is very attractive with the photos shown together. So I decided to watch that movie.

And now I would like to say that is a very interesting, funny, moving and excellent one with a romantic music to start with. The rhythm of the song was slow and beautiful as if that music was played intentionally for a couple and they danced gracefully. And it is very easy to understand as it was on display slowly. Then pieces of scenes about a wedding on a cruise ship were shown, and only two person sit together who married on that day with servants and the couple kissed on the deck in the moonlight with the free breeze going by and fireworks playing overhead. Imagine the occasion, and that is wonderful and certainly romantic! I like this scene very much.

Then it went ahead to Camp Walden with so many girls who came here for a summer camp, the places where the two main little stars made their debut: Hallie Parker from California, who was lovely with different tricky ideas and was good at playing cards; Annie James from London, who owned class and was good at fencing. They were both allergic to strawberries while they did not know. In a sword-playing, Hallie was going to win the game and got praise from the surroundings while Annie turned up and asked for a challenge and finally, Hallie was at a disadvantage and lost the game, dropping into a water pond because they played too attentively. At that time, they met each other at the first time of their whole life and they found they were nearly 100% alike. However, Hallie thought Annie did it on purpose and decided to fight it back. So in a card game which was led by Annie, Hallie came in time. In negotiation, they made a bet and agreed that the loser would jump into the lake in naked. Hallie won the game confidently and beat the spirit of Annie who, however, never thought she would lose. So she jumped into the lake in naked, but Hallie along with her friend took Annie’s clothes.

Then pieces of stories about “revenges“ on each other took place. And finally Hallie and Annie were punished to live in an isolation house together where they made peace by helping each other and even discovered that they were real sisters: one with father only and one with mother only, and they were not just alike! They hug each other in warm tears, saying it was unbelievable. They began to exchange their knowledge about their parent who accompanied them and imagined how they looked like. Suddenly Hallie came up with an idea: they switched each other to see their counter-parent. Then a string of funny stories happened: ear-piercing, hair-cutting, and dancing etc.

The time finally came to them. It is so moving in these scenes of the two who longed to see their counter-parent and longed to hear any news from them for such a long time, and now finally could hug, touch, talk to him/her, and finally could call him/her dad/ mom. I could not even find some words or sentences to describe those parts because I could understand the feelings they ever had.

But an alarming: Annie found that Dad was going to married a young and sexy but cruel-hearted Miss Meridith, and called Hallie for help. Hallie lied to Mom and brought her to see Dad while Dad knew nothing about this meeting. Hallie and Annie did that. They arranged a dinner for Mom and Dad which was the same to that in the wedding shown in the beginning of the movie. Then they found ways together to squeeze Meridith out of their family. When Mom went back to London thinking that it was impossible to get together again with Dad, he took Hallie and made a reunion with Mom and Annie, saying that he would forever keep chasing Mom and never let Mom leave alone, and a happy ending.

The movie is a 2-hour-long one with simple contents to understand. But just those simple contents make this movie very funny, warm and touching. And just those simple contents are easily forgotten or ignored in our daily lives. Children love to stay with their loving parents, and they certainly do not hope for a separation. A child in a single family must hope to see their counter-parent one day. A child in a family whose dad or mom passed away must want to hug him or her for one more time. A child in a family where their parents show little attention to them must hope their parents could pay some time for a gathering talk together. And a child in a family where parents had quarrels together must hope they can understand each other some day and hug together. A family should be like that. 

Post comment Comment (6 replies)

Reply bluephoebe 2015-8-15 10:55
Looks like an interesting movie---although not my usual type. I normally prefer something not so close to real life, like crime/detective/fiction kind.
Reply sunnyv 2015-8-15 19:48
Hmm... I would take a look at this movie.
Reply Scarlett_Lin 2015-8-15 22:53
bluephoebe: Looks like an interesting movie---although not my usual type. I normally prefer something not so close to real life, like crime/detective/fiction kind ...
Oh, I love movies as long as it is funny or interesting: fictional or non fictional.  
Reply Scarlett_Lin 2015-8-15 22:54
sunnyv: Hmm... I would take a look at this movie.
Yes, this is indeed a great movie, one of my favourite ones!
Reply lovingfun 2015-8-16 10:30
I have ever read the introduction of the movie, but never seen it before. I just like see the movies which reflected some problems about the society.  I am not interested the movie which seems very romantic, for me too romantic to real.
Anyway, thanks for your introduction, maybe I could find some time to see it for a change.
Reply Scarlett_Lin 2015-8-16 11:55
lovingfun: I have ever read the introduction of the movie, but never seen it before. I just like see the movies which reflected some problems about the society.  ...
Hi thank you for your comment. Well, the former part is romantic, but the extent of romance depends on you. I think that degree of romance is fit for me, not more or less. And I think that movie is not just a romantic film, but also a very funny one with some reflections on society issues: the parent trap or we should call that a divorce. Considering this is a film which was on show in 1998, it played its way by two main little stars who were starred by only one girl Lindsay Lohan exchanging her English and American accents. Bravo! Besides, the charming and classes of these two girls in the movie were presented flexibly. Well, I admire this film not only because of its romantic parts and the great performing skills of Lindsay but because it raised a problem in front of us and solved it in a funny and moving way, which we should call optimism. So all in all, I think it is a very wonderful film. Yeah, please check this film and I am looking forward to your review too.

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