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Jackie chan film about daughter dying11/10/2022 Jackie Chan says he has been restoring and destroying a car for years.Įndless reproductions of the trauma. Jaden Smith looks at photographs of the dead woman and the dead boy and the original smashed car. Jaden Smith gets into the passenger seat. Having smashed the car quite well, Jackie Chan limps into the driver’s seat. He is smashing the car he has been fixing throughout the movie, the car that has been lodged in the screen like a tumor all this time, the car that has been like the Chekhovian gun, whose appearance in the first act foretells a disaster in the third. In the scene during which we find out Jackie Chan’s secret pain, Jaden Smith comes across Jackie Chan in his house. Jackie Chan is gazing at Jaden Smith in the foreground with one such look.įor me, the relationship between the two could have become something like Jean Reno and Natalie Portman’s relationship in LÃ-ON. In one of the first scenes we see Jackie Chan’s face, framed in a window. Looks of practiced self-loathing and real curiosity, and yearning yearning yearning most of all. Throughout the film Jackie Chan gives Jaden Smith looks that I knew carried more, far more, than fatherly affection or mentorly pride. In THE KARATE KID, Jackie Chan is a broken man because he killed his wife and son in a car accident while he and his wife were arguing (though I don’t think Jackie Chan says explicitly that they are his wife and son, and indeed he talks about them with a kind of reverent distance as if he had been the woman’s secret lover and the son’s secret father, which is not the sort of thing one is exposed to in what is supposedly a children’s movie).
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