I' ve just watched the movie, so I m stil wondering about it. The story centers upon a father' s struggle to overcome the death of his wife.But it is most abuot the relations between him and his sons- a 6 years old and an adolescent (from his first marriage)- in "the pig 's paradise " a space of no rules in an atempt to remain a familly. It is both funny and sad but not very melodramatic to watch them doing the laundry and reading bedtime stories and just being boys and having a boysh behavior.Here it is the movie point - all the problems , all the inner journeys do not end with some major descovery but with a simple one: the boys are back and they stay together , free, crazy, tender spirits cruising in a convertible across Australia.
This is not ,, a love movie,, this is not the classic romantic story the title and the plot may suggest. This is a haunting allegory about what could happen not in such a distant future ( in 2021) if…