Frank has spent his life "catching shooting stars" for his four children.
In his eyes, no matter how old the children were, they needed his protection.
He tidied up the lawn.
He buys wine and builds a grill.
But then he got a call at night.
The children were unable to come home for some reason.
Frank hadn't seen his children for eight months since his wife died.
I'm fine, don't worry, take care of yourself.
In reality, he had decided to surprise the children.
He was going to visit the children in their city.
Frank's doctor didn't approve of this.
Frank had developed pulmonary fibrosis from his previous job.
He couldn't fly.
He can't work too hard.
Instead of traveling and having surprises.
Frank took the doctor's advice.
Then he went home, packed his bags, and set out with enough medicine.
First stop was New York, where his youngest son David was.
Frank took a direct train there.
On the way, he was excited to talk to people about his job and his family.
He was the guy who applied the protective coating to the power lines.
He had applied about a million feet of wire in his lifetime.
That's a million feet of wire to carry conversations.
It also allowed Frank to raise four successful children.
His oldest daughter is an advertising executive.
The oldest son is an accomplished conductor.
The youngest daughter is a dancer and the youngest son is an artist.
They are all accomplished in their respective fields.
Frank was proud of them and bragged about them everywhere.
After almost a full day on the train.
Frank finally arrived in front of David's rented house in New York.
He knocked on the door and David didn't answer.
He sat in front of the door and waited and waited and watched for passing cars.
David never came back.
But this was certainly David's place.
Frank looked at the paintings and remembered what he had said to David when he was a boy.
Little David wanted to be a free artist.
Frank told him he couldn't be a painter.
A painter paints on the wall, and when he's done, the dog pees on it.
You have to be an artist.
An artist is someone who paints things that change people's lives.
You have to work hard and make me proud.
David was certainly making Frank proud.
But now he wanted to ask David another question.
Unfortunately, David didn't have the opportunity to ask Frank. He never came home.
Frank couldn't reach him either.
All he could do was leave a letter through the door.
Proving that he was here.
He hoped David would call him back when he read the letter.
Frank took a car all the way to his oldest daughter Amy's house in Chicago.
Amy's house was an ultra-luxurious villa.
The interior was simple and elegant.
Outside, there's a pool and golf course.
Frank loved it.
Proud of Amy for having a house like this.
The plan was for Frank to stay here for two days.
Then he was to leave for Denver to see his oldest son, Robert.
But Amy wasn't welcome to stay for just two days.
She said the three of them were very busy.
They couldn't spare the time to spend with Frank.
It reminded Frank of an old man he met in New York.
The old man said I have a lot of kids and they're all too busy.
They're too busy to talk to me.
I have to make an appointment to see them.
They're lost and don't need anyone.
And then he lamented
People change and so does life
You treat your children with kindness
But the child may not be grateful and may feel that it is a burden
Frank never thought he would be in the same position as the old man
Amy didn't welcome him.
He had to decide to leave the next day.
Before he left, he handed Amy a letter.
and asked one question
Are you happy?
What do you mean?
Frank left Chicago with a cloud hanging over his mind.
But it wasn't that Amy didn't welcome Frank.
Rather, there was something that had to be resolved quickly without Frank's knowledge.
David had been caught smoking dope in Mexico.
She had to go and deal with it right away.
Frank didn't know about it.
He'd driven over a thousand miles across the country to Denver.
There were posters of Robert's band all over Denver.
Frank stood proudly in front of them and posed for pictures.
Then without a word, he went to the orchestra where Robert worked.
It turned out that Robert was not a conductor at all.
He was just a minor musician in the orchestra.
The kind that no one would even notice if he left halfway.
This is a complete waste of his musical talent
Frank suggested that he could go back to further education and study.
It's a shame to give up on conducting after all this time.
But Robert said I didn't give up and I didn't give up on myself.
I still compose and conduct when I'm not working
It's just that I don't make any money.
Now the job is stable income and less stress
That's what I want.
On the contrary, you seem to be disappointed in me.
Robert was going to go outside to smoke.
Frank went up to stop him from smoking.
Robert, in order not to make his father angry.
Robert had to first say, "I don't smoke, at least not in front of you."
Then he mentioned his mother.
Mom used to say, "Make your father proud."
He worked so hard for us.
I know you're disappointed in me right now.
But I'm working very hard here.
I give it my all every day.
Frank tried to explain that he wasn't disappointed.
But Robert wouldn't give him a chance to talk.
And he couldn't control his desire to smoke.
Frank said you can smoke if you want to.
You can't live without it anyway.
Instead, Robert threw away his cigarette and said I'm quitting now.
But I didn't quit because you wanted me to.
I quit because you thought I couldn't quit.
And then he realized that he was not being nice.
He apologized to Frank.
Frank humorously replied that it was okay.
It's inevitable that you'll be grumpy when you quit smoking.
Father and son sat and talked for a while.
It was getting late and Frank was leaving.
Because Robert said he had to go on tour with the band in Europe.
He was leaving tonight.
Before he left, Frank asked that question again.
Are you happy now?
Yes, really.
I play drums every day to earn money, how can I not be happy?
Actually, Robert would like to stay with his father for two more days.
He does not have a tour and does not need to go to Europe
But he was afraid that if we spent more time together.
David's story will be leaked to his father to make him more sad
Robert followed his father secretly
He was relieved to see him enter the station.
The next stop for Frank was Las Vegas, where his youngest daughter was.
He had bought a direct ticket.
But he missed the train because his watch wasn't right.
With the help of the staff
He took a hitchhiker to the night bus station.
The hitchhiker was a woman who had lost her husband.
After the death of her husband, the woman spent her days drinking.
Trying to forget all her memories.
She said people binge-drink and drink to excess.
It's like chronic suicide.
But she can't help but make excuses for herself
Because it's too painful to face reality
People don't like pain.
They're used to a life of comfort.
Frank felt the same way when he heard it.
Eight months after the death of his wife
It's too painful to face this reality.
But is it really possible to be happy when you're living a lie all the time?
After a night of ups and downs.
Frank arrived in Las Vegas.
His youngest daughter, Rosie, had already heard the news from her brother and sister.
She was waiting for Frank at the exit.
To make her father more comfortable.
She'd taken an extra limousine.
She booked a fancy revolving restaurant
Unlike her older siblings.
Rosie really wanted Frank to stay a few more days
to spend more time with her father.
But soon after she arrived home, she didn't have a chance to have a nice chat with Frank.
A neighbor came to the door with a baby in her arms.
The neighbor had some urgent business to attend to and asked her to watch the baby.
Rosie took the baby and he didn't cry, he was so cute.
Frank loved the baby too.
Holding him and making him happy
Frank could have spent a few happy days here.
But then he overheard a phone message.
The message said that Rosie's apartment was being repossessed early.
In order not to burden Rosie.
Frank decided to leave at dawn.
He couldn't go to the revolving restaurant in the evening because he had to take care of the kids.
Rosie made Frank a pasta dish with her own hands
The two of them ate and talked.
Rosie said that sometimes I pick up the phone and try to dial my mother's number.
And then I remember she's not here anymore.
Frank told her
Next time you can keep dialing.
I'll pick up the phone if the number stays the same.
I don't even know what you guys are doing.
You used to tell Mom everything.
But you never told me you were always calling her.
But when I pick up the phone, you say.
Are you there, Mom and Dad?
Rosie explained that it's not what you think.
It's just that it's easier to talk to Mom.
Mom's a good listener.
And you're always making comments about whether we're doing the best we can.
You're pushing us too hard.
I think David was the one who felt it the most.
Because he never wanted to live up to your expectations
And then Rosie asked if you had any ambitions or dreams when you were young.
Frank replied that I had no ambition whatsoever.
I just wanted to have a decent job.
I just wanted to have a decent job and find someone to marry who would stick with me and that would be enough.
But when you were born, everything was different.
I have to choose.
What kind of father would I be if I wasn't strict with you?
What kind of father would I be?
I just want to be a good father.
We talked for a long time.
The next day Rosie took Frank to the airport.
When he said goodbye, Frank said
Take care of yourself.
I'll do it for you.
You must take care of yourself.
I will.
Frank was on his way home.
Although the doctor wouldn't let him fly.
But it's a shame he's never flown in his life.
And he'd taken all the pills he'd taken on the way out.
It's always good to get home soon.
But not following doctor's orders is really not an option.
The plane was bouncing around at high altitude.
Frank suddenly lost his breath and collapsed on the ground.
He returned home in a daze.
The sky was cloudy and the children had turned into children.
Frank asked why they were always lying to me.
Amy, ever since I met your husband.
He's been wearing the same clothes since I met your husband.
Does he not live with you anymore?
You're divorced.
Robert, there are posters of your band all over the place.
You don't even have to go to Europe when it's on.
We could have stayed longer.
But you lied to me. You didn't want to be with me.
Rosie, do you really think I can't see that the child is yours?
And David, where the hell do you live?
What happened to you? How am I supposed to see you?
The comatose Frank was still full of worries.
He wanted to know what was wrong with the kids and help them out.
But the kids had their own ideas and they didn't need him anymore.
Frank woke up in the hospital.
The girls had rushed back to see him, but they still hadn't seen David.
He knew something must have happened to David.
It didn't matter if the kids didn't tell him.
He just wanted to know when David would be back.
But David wasn't coming back.
He's dead.
David already had a lot of problems and wasn't happy.
He never got over his mom's death.
It was a very painful life.
Then he went to Mexico and we thought he was on a trip.
But we heard from him the other day.
He had died of an overdose.
Amy, the oldest daughter, is going to Mexico these days to confirm this.
That's why we didn't let Frank stay at home.
When Frank heard the news.
He didn't want to believe it was true, no matter what.
But not believing it didn't change anything.
It's the truth.
He couldn't help but blame himself for what he'd taught David.
He didn't want David to be a free-spirited, ordinary painter.
He wanted to be a great artist.
He was wrong. There's nothing wrong with being ordinary.
It was enough to be happy.
In his sleep, he saw David as a child again.
Later, after Frank was discharged from the hospital, he went to New York again.
He bought David's paintings.
David's paintings were not very commercial, not very popular.
But he had his own style and didn't follow trends blindly
There was a painting of a world connected by wires.
It was his father's world and his world.
"Wires" hold the family together for Frank.
Let David grow up in the harbor
It's what keeps families together and connected.
The wire carries good news and bad news.
On Christmas Eve, it delivered the news.
The children were coming home to spend the holidays with Frank.
Frank came to his wife's grave and told her about it.
He said the kids are going to spend Christmas with me.
David will be there with you.
You used to say to me.
I should stop treating them like children.
You can't make all the decisions for them. They have to work it out for themselves.
I didn't listen. Now I get it.
I'll be a listener.
I'll be a listener and listen to my kids talk about the smallest details of their lives
If you ask me later how they are doing
I will say that everything is fine for everyone and everyone is fine.
"Journey to Heaven" is directed by Kirk Jones.
Robert De Niro in the lead role.
It's a remake of the film of the same name by Tonadore.
It is said that a man's life will have 3 times to grow up
The first time is when you break up with your first love
Understand that nothing in this world can defeat you
The second time is the birth of a child who knows how to love his wife and children with his life
The third time is the death of parents to take responsibility for the "whole world"
The process from boy to man to father
It is the process of a man gradually possessing "superpowers"
For the sake of his children and family, he becomes brave and fears nothing
He silently supports the whole world of his family with few words
His love is introverted and subtle
He never talks about his wounds and pains and heals by himself
He never remembered any Father's Day
But treats every day his children come home as a holiday
When we were young, he asked us to try to be good
When we grew up, we wanted to be good so that he could be proud of us
He let us know that
There is a warm place in this world called home
(End)
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