There are three main women in the film: Sarah, a traditional family woman, Kathy, a strong woman, and May, a strong and loving old mother.
As the most important role of the three, Sarah shows more of the confusion and helplessness of women in the traditional sense after becoming a mother for the first time. She is not gregarious, lives an ordinary life, has a family, and encounters the embarrassment of love or passion receding. In her own family, we can't find any moments of tenderness between their husband and wife, only strangers are shown, just like two people living together like that, in the name of husband and wife, raising a unified child, But there is no communication between the two. Sarah longed for a free life, and raising children was a burden for her - she felt like she had no room for herself. She loves running in the evening, and even conflicts with her husband because she can't have this time and space of her own. The concept of home was vague in her mind, probably just a place to sleep. And this sleeping place is also full of traces of her husband's previous marriage--I wonder if this means that her current marriage has no love at all, just a combination like a routine, for some helpless reasons. Before Brad appeared, she was very lonely, she could only have some innocuous family life with the surrounding mothers of the same age, and she could only convey some love that she might not understand in the caressing with the innocent little daughter. She walked away from the chatting women in her appearance, reminding herself to observe like an anthropologist, as a typical suburban woman researcher. But this kind of observation invisibly isolates herself from those typical women. As the narration of the movie says, she is not a typical suburban woman. Although she lives in the suburbs, Sarah is not willing to live a mediocre life, but she cannot find a higher level. In life, there is no channel for spiritual communication. She can only pretend to live like an ordinary person, plain and boring, like most people.
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