Is this perhaps a study in masculinity, and not one dripping with testosterone? There is a distance between father and son, and yet at the same time an unbreakable bond.
The backdrop of the protests I think is very crucial, as is the final visit between father and son. We find out the two are linked by standing up to other men in authority, the son killing the (likely) rapist, the father "clocking" his commanding officer in WW2. In each case, the importance is the individual uprising set against a more sweeping national crisis.
Anyways the father tells his son his war story seemingly for the first time, in a movie where honoring silences speaks loudly. Vive old school masculine stoicism!? Not as valued these days it seems, but less can mean more, even if it comes with a longer prison sentence.
The backdrop of the protests I think is very crucial, as is the final visit between father and son. We find out the two are linked by standing up to other men in authority, the son killing the (likely) rapist, the father "clocking" his commanding officer in WW2. In each case, the importance is the individual uprising set against a more sweeping national crisis.
Anyways the father tells his son his war story seemingly for the first time, in a movie where honoring silences speaks loudly. Vive old school masculine stoicism!? Not as valued these days it seems, but less can mean more, even if it comes with a longer prison sentence.