How much forgiveness exists between fathers and sons?

     Lu Xun once said that a father should "shoulder the gates of darkness and let them go to a broad and bright place." However, the film *After This Our Exile* deliberately portrays a father who, facing a loss of humanity and the hardships of reality, even encourages his son to steal to make a living, leading a life of vagrancy. He lives in a world constantly begging for opportunities. The son, however, accepts everything about his father with a broad mind. Such a flawed father may be rare in reality, but the film uses this flaw to create a most genuine and beautiful expression of familial love. In the film, after Zhou Changsheng, the father, incurs a large debt from gambling, his son doesn't leave him. Even after learning where his mother is, he returns to his father's life because his mother's departure prevents him from giving his father a chance, living a life of poverty with him, because he knows and believes his father can support him. Even when his father couldn't afford thirty yuan and was being chased by debt collectors, leaving him alone at home and hearing the calls of creditors, he could still forgive his father. He believed his father could change and support his family like others. His father, however, continued to fall into depravity, even forcing him to steal. After his first failure, he knew his father was forced into it. That's why, on the shore, he could still see the beautiful stars in the sky and his father's hope. Because in a family, the father's position in the son's heart is always lofty; even if the sky falls, he will stand up for him. Perhaps, as many film critics have said, this is the root of the perpetuation of patriarchal society. But in people's minds, the image of the father is always good. Because he believes that even a poor man like Zhou Changsheng in the film, with a father who seems somewhat animalistic, can be forgiven. Because in the son's heart, he has a heart that forgives and understands his father. At the end of the film, after A Bao leaves the orphanage, the son still recalls his father's figure on his bicycle with tears in his eyes; he is still searching for the warmth he once had and should have had. If the son can do all this, why can't the father, as a mother, tolerate it? I'm not suggesting that everyone should endure it.