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On the way, he received a phone call from Lenny, an assistant who stayed in the company, informing him that his father had just died. Charlie showed indifference, but he decided to go to Cincinnati to attend his father's funeral.
It turned out that Charlie's mother died when he was two years old and his father was very strict with him. When Charlie was sixteen, he once went out for a ride in his father's favorite Buick white convertible, regardless of his father's ban. Unexpectedly, his father deliberately reported that the car was stolen, so that Charlie and his classmates were detained by the police on charges of "stealing a car", and Charlie's classmates were quickly released on bail by their parents. In order to teach him a lesson, Charlie's father deliberately kept Charlie in the police station for two days. As a result, the father and son turned against each other. Charlie left home in a rage and refused to contact his father in any form. Charlie's father said in his will that "he lost another son". But after all, my dad is my dad. Besides wishing Charlie all the best, my father left him the white Buick that turned his father and son against each other, and his award-winning grafted rose bushes. As for his house and other legacy with a total value of $3 million, they are listed as trust funds and entrusted by the trustee as the beneficiary of this legacy.
Charlie was disappointed and very angry. He thinks he is the sole heir to his father's property, but who thought it would cause disputes? However, the tough and clever Charlie never intended to stop there. He decided to find out the whereabouts of the huge legacy left by his father, and prepared to fight a legacy defense war to defend his rights.
Finally, Charlie and Susanna found a nursing home called Walbrook. It was soon discovered that the trustee of the original $3 million estate was Dean Bruno. Dr Bruno is an old friend of Charlie's father for many years. He was appointed to manage the estate, and the beneficiary of the estate was Raymond Babbitt, who lived in a nursing home for a long time. Raymond is autistic. He can't communicate with people in a normal way and can't adapt to social life in the usual sense.
Only then did Charlie know that he had another brother. Faced with this brother who has no concept of money but inherited 3 million dollars, Charlie expressed his anger and laughed: "What does this money mean to him?" He felt that his father was deliberately fooling him, punishing him and playing a big joke on him. He vented his resentment against his father on this "brother" who suddenly appeared in front of him. Looking at this stupid brother with mental problems, Charlie was jealous and contemptuous. However, this Ramon seems to be easy to manipulate, and Charlie decides to use him to get back half of his inheritance.
Without Bruno's consent, Charlie took Raymond out of the nursing home privately, and as long as he got custody of Raymond, he could get back his father's inheritance. Besides, he has to go back to Los Angeles to handle business. Susanna was very dissatisfied with Charlie's use of Raymond and left him in a fit of pique.
So Charlie had to take Ramon on his own. However, this kind of psychology is problematic.
My brother is not easy to get along with him. Ramon's life follows a fixed ritual, and he must do fixed things at a fixed time (because Ramon is an autistic, he is repetitive and rigid in some things). Watch TV programs at a fixed time, have a fixed recipe for each meal, and sleep at a fixed time. He only wears boxing shorts bought from the store. In addition, he refused to fly and drive on the highway, all of which stemmed from his fear. At the airport, he suddenly lost control and shouted because Charlie tried to force him to fly. During the trip, Charlie was exhausted by Ramon's many eccentric living habits and made a fool of himself because of his inexperience. However, Charlie also quickly discovered the high talent of this mentally retarded brother: Raymond has an amazing memory and an unforgettable memory. He can accurately report the flight frequency, time, place and reasons of all major air crashes in flight history, and he can quickly count 246 toothpicks dropped on the dining room floor. He can also remember any phone number he has read in the phone book. His mental arithmetic speed is no less than a calculator.
Clever Charlie had a brainwave and a plan: "He trained Raymond and made some" packaging ",and then took him to a casino in Las Vegas, which really lived up to expectations. Raymond won $86,000 by gambling with his amazing memory. Charlie lost his loan, his car was confiscated, his credit card was frozen and he didn't have much cash. Later, he found that his brother had a good mental arithmetic and went to Las Vegas.
For Ramon, it was also an unusual trip, leaving the routine life in the sanatorium and changing the routine life ritual he was used to. All this made him feel uneasy, but it was also a brand-new experience: even taking the escalator made Ramon feel novel and interesting. He won money for his brother by counting cards, played a roulette wheel of fortune, had a brief conversation with the girls in the nightclub and booked a room according to his wishes. Although his "female companion" didn't come at last, in order to comfort him, kind Susanna danced with him in the elevator and taught him to kiss.
In other words, this journey, which is full of a series of frictions, disputes and differences, has made the two brothers gradually sprout brotherhood or find back their old family ties. Once, Raymond saw the hot water injected into the bathtub and suddenly lost control again, shouting, "Hot water will hurt the baby and never hurt Charlie Babbitt." Only then did Charlie know that Raymond was the first rain man in his childhood vague memory. (In English, "Rain Man" is Rain Man, which sounds like Raymond, so Charlie mispronounced it when he was a child. When little Charlie is afraid, Rain Man will sing to him to comfort him. For a long time, Charlie thought that "Rain Man" was just a friend in his childhood fantasy, but this fragile person who needed to be protected once protected and comforted him, and was sent to a nursing home by his father because he almost hurt him. Only then did Charlie know how much he was cared for and how much his parents and brothers sacrificed for him. Although he has no impression of his mother, he can't perceive the love of his father who is not good at expressing emotions. However, how much love he got from his family.
Charlie, who has always been indifferent to family values, was deeply touched and his resentment against his father melted. Raymond in front of him is his flesh-and-blood brother, witnessing his family's deep love for him, and Charlie's feelings for Raymond also make Susanna see Charlie's inner world, his primitive feelings and innate virtues. Their love is also deeper and stronger.
Charlie didn't win custody of Ramon in the end, but this time Charlie didn't care about the inheritance. He was afraid that he would never see Ramon again. Raymond put his head on his brother's head. He expressed his love and attachment to his brother in this childish way.