10 Best Pieces Of Advice From Our Favourite Film Father Figures
1. Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird)
On empathy:
“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch should be given the father of the year award, for he has many admirable traits: self-sacrificing, honourable, principled, and generous, to name but a few.
With his strong moral compass, Atticus tries to steer his children, Jem and Scout, in the right direction at a difficult time when racial tensions are high and people are questioning the morality of the segregation laws in South America.
Though his children refer to him by his first name, so they can interact with each other on as equal terms as possible, there is no lack of warmth in the family’s relationship.
For all of the important themes in the film, it really boils down to a father, seen through the eyes of his daughter, trying to make sense of the world in which they live while becoming our definition of “parenting goals.”