2. Philomena and Martin represent two classes of society, or to put it bluntly, two classes. Philomena is addicted to popular novels and soap operas, with short-sightedness and limited knowledge. She is a typical middle- and lower-level laborer, mediocre all her life, but she never feels complacent. Martin is very knowledgeable, has dealt with politics and media circles, and has always been very disdainful of Philomena's words and behavior. He is an elite, a well-known person, and a mortal who wants to enlighten the bottom.
3. The curve of the mentality of two people is the most interesting part of the film. Filomena had the simplest desire to tell at first, and wanted to tell the story to the reporter and return to the past on paper; Martin was only out of the most snobbery at the beginning, just when he was unemployed and attempted to transform, he tried to write that he did not bother. Story of bad vulgarity. But things are changing. Philomena gradually became a woman who sought after her son. She stepped towards her son’s growth, witnessing his son’s joy, sorrow and death again and again, and finally returned to the monastery, completely forgiving the Dongdong who had sent her son away. Talking-hope-frustration-anger-forgiveness is her psychological trajectory. Martin's psychological clues corresponded to it, disdain-interest-sympathy-expression of justice-finally understood Philomena's heart.
4. There is a transition between Philomena and Martin's character interaction. At first, Philomena was passive and Martin was active. The former is ignorant and ignorant, while the latter controls everything. However, the direction started to move a little bit. Philomena, the housewife, accepted the reality that her son was a "comrade" and died of AIDS in the eyes of everyone's surprise. And firmly knocked on the door of his son's ex-boyfriend. This shocked Martin. He suddenly saw that the people at the bottom had a stronger heart than the elite himself.
5. The hypocrisy of the church has never been the subject of the movie, or even worth mentioning. It is placed in the distant history, becoming a helpless past. Martin determined with his natural elite consciousness and politician thinking that if the child was taken away in the past, he must fight back at least to express his hatred to the other party. This is a typical enlightenment mentality, a posture like an intellectual's mission to intervene in politics. But Philomena almost never had even a little bit of hatred for the monastery and Dongdong back then. She can accept fate calmly, this is the logic of the bottom people.
6. Martin has always been directly and sharply criticizing and even insulting the behavior of the church. He endorses the values of progress, modernity, and science. As a victim of the church, Philomena has always insisted on her faith. In Martin's mind, this is equivalent to ignorance. In fact, Philomena’s persistence is not so much a belief, as she does not want to deny her life, and in her opinion, that kind of intellectual expression and confrontation has only performance meaning, but no practical effect. One is mourning its misfortune and angering it, while the other feels that the other party has its own appearance. This is the initial relationship between the two.
7. In the end, both people were transformed by each other. It's not just the elite who enlighten the people at the bottom. Reporter Martin got a story with common tears and reflections on history, while Philomena got inner peace. She knows her son's life, and she also knows his son's thoughts about herself.
8. Generally speaking, the movie is very general and lacks in-depth analysis of the subject. The actor's performance was dull and pompous. The final ending is like a third-rate fairy tale.
View more about Philomena reviews
