The return

Today we watched The return, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev. I would characterize the father as a very hidden person, and what i mean by that is he doesn't say more than what he needs to say, he also seems like he doesn't like to talk about his past, in the film he also seemed to be kinda mean and like he didn't really like his kids very much. The father seemed like a very negative kind of person when ever his kids would be upset or want to do something he would either just not do it or tell them they are not doing that anymore and that they have to leave to go do something else, without explaining what that other thing is. I feel like he has a very negative effect on the boys, Andrey tried very hard to see the best in this father and to be close with him but he still would be mean and hit him, like when the car got stuck in the mud and Andrey just wanted to get the sticks under there right to impress him but instead his father pushed his face into the car and made him bleed, Ivan never really wanted anything to do with his father and i feel he knew that, so through out the whole movie i felt Ivan just grew more and more angry with him and just wished he never would have came back. I feel like the father has made the boys relationship with each other much stronger, because growing up they never had that person to look up to so they had to figure stuff out and help each other out on there own, and when he finally came back and they saw he wasn't what they had hoped for I'm sure it made them want to stick together and not let people come in between them. I wish that the movie would have gone a little more into why the father toke them to that island, and what was in that bow that he put on the boat? i didn't really like how the movie ended, i just wish it would have explained a little more about the fathers life and why he was gone for so long.