Several characters in the film are caught in their own predicament.
As a mother, Sarah, a former master of arts, can only spend all day with a difficult child, or with a few housewives she despises. This kind of life makes her tired, tired and suffocated, so her love affair with Brad became her only way to save herself. She imagined herself as Madame Bovary who fought bravely, and almost got the same ending. .
With the gentle encouragement of his beautiful and capable wife, Brad, a full-time dad, could only take the lawyer qualifications that he was not sure of passing. To be honest, he didn't seem to be interested in being a lawyer either. What can make his blood boil is to play football with a group of policemen and regain his former glory; it is to have an affair with the young woman next door and enjoy the pleasure of indulgence. Even though he had a fever and promised Sarah that he would run away with her, he had never thought about how two people with no work and no income would face life in the future. Fortunately, the experience of being injured in an instant while playing skateboards with a few hairy boys helped him to avoid the hard days destined to be with Sarah in the future. Lying in the ambulance, he made the right choice in life: stay and continue Stay with your wife. Anyway, this time the qualification test is finished, and he will come again next year.
Sarah's husband, Richard, doesn't make many appearances, is bombastic, and smug, but at least he's using his well-paying job to support his family and give his wife the confidence to dream and cheat. He is obsessed with hot girls in the porn network, but he turns a blind eye to his wife who is also very beautiful. I wonder if it would be more fun for him to see his wife and lover together, than masturbating in sexy panties?
Larry, a former cop, is simple-minded, reckless and weak. He was incompetent in playing games; he also killed a boy due to an error of judgment while performing a mission, so he retired early. It is such an incompetent person, who claims to be the small town security ambassador, humiliating and making things difficult for Ronnie, who has just been released from prison, and finally leads to the sudden death of Ronnie's mother. I thought that in the end Ronnie would kill him out of anger and despair, but he accidentally rescued the self-castrated Ronnie when he repented - the screenwriter was kind to him.
Ronnie, a 48-year-old middle-aged man who was jailed for sex crimes, is still a good boy in his mother's eyes. The mother worked hard for him, helped him find a girlfriend, stood up to protect her son when Larry came to provoke him, and even made his son so big without brushing the bowl once. Perhaps it was due to excessive care and inappropriate care that caused him to develop a sexual disorder. He was not only a mamabao boy who could not stand on his own, but also a sexual pervert who could not integrate into the society and interact with others normally. After the accidental death of his mother, the only way for him to take revenge on this society is bloody self-castration. I secretly hope that he can stab the former policeman who repeatedly hurt him - that way, at least he can be a man again.
I really like the narration of this movie, the nice male voice, and the right narration, which let us know more about the causes and consequences of the inability to present the picture, and the inner turbulence of the characters. Perhaps, this film is based on a novel, a very good novel.
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