Films are my only connection to my dad
I've been thinking a lot about making this post in the sub. I do not know to which extent this is suitable content, yet it is related to movies in general.
Movies have now, for the past year, covered a sizeable amount of my time, and I'm proud to call it one of my favorite hobbies. Due to certain circumstances, I had a lot of time for myself and nothing to fill it with. Movies had always been a topic I wanted to get into for a long time. The best way I can describe it is a space in time where only you and the content of the movie are present. No phones. No short-form content. Just you, your feelings, and emotions trying to capture what the director of the film intended.
I started logging each and every film I watched into my Letterboxd account to keep track of them and also give recommendations to my friends whenever they wanted to watch a certain type of film. It also gave me a lot of conversation starters with a ton of new people I met. Shit, I even have day-to-day friends because of it. In general, movies did help me a lot to get through a very dark moment in my life and also understand different perspectives in life.
Throughout my life, I never got along with my dad. He is still present, though, and a lot of things he has done are very questionable, as well as not talking almost at all. It saddens me to understand that I virtually know nothing about my dad because he is inaccessible. I tried to learn stuff about him just by watching and made efforts myself to get along with him, yet I feel every attempt has been to no purpose.
We have a dog. Well, some years ago my dog chewed on a very pricy and valuable pair of headphones my dad had. He purchased a pair of SONY MDR studio headphones on a trip to Abu Dhabi. I remember at that time he was constantly using them to either enjoy movies or listen to his favorite music. After that he had other headphones, but he was not able to enjoy them as he used to. Digging through old family photos, I saw that pair of headphones and started to research through the internet if I could purchase the exact same model. I got close, yet I purchased the most similar pair I could, the Sony MDR-7506. I gifted him that pair of headphones, and he was astonished for a moment to see them again. He never thanked me for that, yet I see him enjoying music and movies as he used to.
Nowadays, our conversations are short. We only talk about essential stuff since we are very different from each other, and it usually resorts to us arguing about stupid stuff. The only topic we can talk about without putting our egos on the line is movies. He has recommended me a lot of movies that I watched, and I also tell him about the movies that I am watching.
Since I log every movie into Letterboxd, I often scroll past the movies that I logged and remember why I watched them. Yes, I have admitted I will never get along with the old man, but movies are the only thing that keeps us somehow connected.
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Since we are at it. Can you guys recommend me any movies regarding fatherhood?