Rebecca Miller’s film is a portrait of her father, his times and insights, built around impromptu interviews shot over many years in the family home. This celebration of the great American playwright is quite different from what the public has ever seen. It is a close consideration of a singular life shadowed by the tragedies of the Red Scare and the death of Marilyn Monroe; a bracing look at success and failure in the public eye; an honest accounting of human frailty; a tribute to one artist by another. Arthur Miller: Writer invites you to see how one of America’s sharpest social commentators formed his ideologies, how his life reflected his work, and, even in some small part, shaped the culture of our country in the twentieth century. An HBO Documentary Film.
比利因性格原因常常遭受霸凌。在他生父留下的一台旧相机中,他感受到失落与连接的复杂情感。比利的母亲已经再婚三次,并和现任丈夫移居到美国。后来,他年轻的妹妹不幸溺水,家庭因此被继父抛弃,不得不返回台湾。
一天,洗完澡后,比利低声对自己说:“我要坚强,”身边放着几瓶药。他坐在马桶上,挣扎于孤独和困惑,试图逃避痛苦的现实。
Billy often faces bullying due to his personality. In an old camera left to him by his biological father, he feels a complex mix of loss and connection. Billy’s mother has remarried three times and moved to the United States with her current husband. Later, after his younger sister tragically drowned, the family was abandoned by her stepfather and had to return to Taiwan.
One day, after taking a bath, Billy whispers to himself, “I need to be strong,” surrounded by several medicine jars. He sits on the toilet, struggling with feelings of loneliness and confusion, trying to escape his painful reality.