"Being a Mother" is a film about American family ethics. When I saw the title for the first time, I thought that it should be a movie about mother's love, but the whole movie is based on the characters' struggle against life in the movie, and finally the title is highlighted. In the end, because of love, everything turned out fine and everything started to get back on track. The heroine Sarah is a graduate student in linguistics. With a higher education, she pursues a high-level spiritual life and feels very contempt for being a housewife day after day. After seeing Brad, a handsome lawyer from the same community, he made an extraordinary move against the same community lawyer by betting with several women in the same community. She doesn't care about her children with the women in the community, and even forgets to bring Chinese food to her children. She thought she was a noble princess, not to be confused with these ordinary people. She fills her entire room with pre-marriage belongings. She thought she was Madame Bovary, beautiful and heroic against her own life. The male protagonist Brad has been taking the lawyer's license year after year, but has never passed. Because he didn't want this kind of life, he longed for another life full of passion and excitement. Whether it's sweat on the court or cheating in the laundry room, as long as it's another possibility, he'll be moved. In the film, two people decide to elope, which seems like a fairy tale, each pursuing their own happiness. But, where can you escape? What are they trying to escape? Is it social pressure and public opinion? Or is it a deep-seated fear of innocence? Perhaps, this kind of like aging, death has nowhere to escape. In the film, the two people gave up at the same time. When Brad fell off the skateboard, he found that he was no longer young, and that his passion was only a moment, and he would still fall fiercely in the end. When he chose to go home, it was consciousness, yes Happiness, or helpless compromise? No compromise, so what? Because of the children, because of the responsibility, the beautiful fantasy was finally shattered. At the end of the movie, the lives of both parties are finally back on track. The thing that struck me the most about the movie was the supporting character Ronnie, a showman who went to prison for molesting children when he was young. Later, he was released from prison and returned to the community where he lived, but everyone rejected him. In summer, in this unbearably hot season, he went down to the swimming pool to take a bath. Unexpectedly, everyone left the swimming pool immediately, and he was the only one left in the swimming pool. In the end, he even called the police. The camera zooms in, the loneliness of a person, the sadness of a person, and the helpless roar all make people sigh. His mother's last words, "Be a good child", completely changed Ronnie. He picked up the knife, and instead of stabbing the enemy who angered his mother, he chose the palace to give himself another chance to commit crimes. All of this was just because his mother wanted him to be a good person. I don't know how much courage it takes when he's squatting on the swing like a child, holding his head and crying helplessly to Sarah about his mother's death, but I think I know, it's Ronnie of the whole world. Mother is the person who loves Ronnie the most in the world, and the only person in the world who loves Ronnie the most. Only after seeing this did I understand the true meaning of the title. It's a mother's choice. Like in The Shawshank Redemption, with institutionalization, at first, we hate it, then, we get used to it, and after enough time, we can't live without it, we become part of the system. There is no escape from life, we can only master it by adapting to it and loving it.
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