Day 15

The film The Return was quite shocking to me. Two boys, Ivan and Andrei, have been with there mother with the absence of their father for twelve years. He shows up and the mother just lets them go on a rip with him. I thought it was odd even though he was the father a person can greatly change in twelve years, The boys Ivan especially treated their father different then an average boy would. The Dad also treated them strange. Throughout the movie it seemed as if something was bound to go wrong, but I didn't think it would have been the way it was. The Father was always mysterious and we didn't know his story very well. When
Ivan was on the tower I thought that Ivan would have been the one to die, not the father. I also found that the boys treated it well for the circumstances. They got him to the boat and in the boat and to the mainland, but sadly the boat drifts away and sinks. It was heartbreaking to hear the boys call out "Papa" as he sinks and won't ever return this time.

The Father to me was testing the boys. He was trying to make up for lost time and turn them into men. He made them do work, which helped them on the way home. The Father wanted to make up for the time he was gone. It seems that he did not want it to be the way it was. He had the picture of the family in the car and I believe that the pictures at the end were what was in the trunk that he digs up on the island. He loved them.