In the movie ‘Tree of Life’, a family is run by a authoritarian father. They are depicted to be not particularly special – American middle-class, attends church… But the father is so strict and hard in his punishments that his children begin to fear him. A son even hated him to the extent of contemplating to kill him. With the film’s deliberate ambiguous backdrop hints of the possible existence of a heavenly creator father, the human father seems to parallel the inexplicable harshness of the other father’s merciless ‘tough love’, that inflicts pain and misery, that is often perceived to be unreasonable.
The human father later experienced ‘injustice’ at work, despite his hard work. It could not be explained even with belief in a heavenly creator father. That somehow led him to realise his failure as a father, and his asking of his son for forgiveness. He had almost literally passed down the ‘sins of the (“heavenly”) father’ to his son, who could have pass them down to his future children, the next generation. Self-justified projection of one’s ego through a perceived transcendental ego is frightening indeed. In reality, as there is no heavenly creator father, there will never be any apology for the harsh realities of life. As history shows, there has never been a single one.
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