The epidemic has closed all movie theaters, and in the days when there are no new movies bombarded, more attention is paid to the old movies of the past.
Quietly settle down and watch an old movie. In fact, many new movies are the continuous reincarnation of old movies. Those joys, sorrows, struggles and difficulties have been described cleanly many years ago...
For example, the 2006 film "Being a Mother", formerly known as " Little Children ".
Starring Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson, they were nominated for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay at the 79th Academy Awards, but none of them won in the end.
But that doesn't stop it from being a good movie.
To date, it maintains a freshness and popcorn score of over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
IMDB score 7.5.
It profoundly presents the childishness of adults .
This fits its original English name - Little Children, which means, childish adults .
But it is not equivalent to "immature adults", but refers to the state of every adult in the predicament of life.
Kate Winslet, a household name from "Titanic", plays an ordinary housewife in an ordinary community, Sarah.
It can be seen from the picture that Sarah is out of tune with the other housewives in the community. When they chatter about the shortcoming of their parents, Sarah is emptying herself.
Even when joking with them, the words were full of suppressed irony and sarcasm.
When pretending to listen, the disgust in the smile is almost overwhelmed, and you have to take a deep breath to continue pretending.
And she always sat two meters away from them.
These expressions and actions are all shouting for her heart: If I stay with you for one more second, the old lady will collapse!
Look at the topics that housewives talk about, nothing more than the trivialities in other people's lives, and the trivialities in their own lives.
For example, who has just given birth to a child and actually wants to work with the child? !
My husband fell asleep halfway while making out with me at night...
The housewives firmly believed that this woman who was working and raising her children would sit on this bench with them in half a year.
They are also half-heartedly complaining that their husbands are no longer passionate about them...
It's me, and I'll go crazy listening to this group of people rap every day.
This movie has already shown what a high-quality movie should look like from the beginning - there are sufficient foreshadowing before and after the plot, and enough details .
Quietly, we have been able to fully understand the inner monologue of the heroine Sarah, and follow this silent monologue into the plot.
Soon, the hero Brad (Patrick Wilson) appeared~
And we also read the next plot from Sarah's eyes in a second.
That look, not love at first sight, but rather sharp, as if to see through the essence of the other party.
See if they are the same?
Fortunately, it was her kind, a depressed person who was also kidnapped by life .
The movie also paved the way for the hero Brad's psychology. Like Sarah, he was highly educated and had his own pursuits, but he had to get a qualification certificate that he was not interested in in order to make a living.
After failing the exam continuously, Brad has been reading books with his baby at home and became a housewife and man.
He fell deeper and deeper into the mediocre life and his own confusion.
There is a sentence in the movie that hit Brad's mind with a single blow.
"The clown hat is what really bothers Brad, wearing it all day when the kids eat, play and sleep.
But as soon as his mother steps in the house, the hat means nothing to him.
Like everything that happened in the day before this moment, it was a meaningless game . "
The camera also looks down at Brad's face from the perspective of the clown hat thrown into the sky. His eyes rise with the clown hat, but his eyes are full of confusion.
The clown hat was full of childish joy, but Brad's face was full of disappointment.
Brad suspects that everything he's going through every day is meaningless because there's a hole in his heart.
This is another quality aspect of the film - its psychologically precise portrayal of characters that ultimately casts doubt on Sarah and Brad's extramarital affair .
Is this love?
Contrasting with reality, isn't this a middle-aged person who is unwilling to live a mediocre life and seeks out passion?
Use it to resist the stagnant life, meager and powerless.
Those who fell into it still thought it was love.
There is a very ironic scene in the movie.
In the end, Sarah and Brad decided to run away, and they made an appointment to meet at night.
As a result, Brad saw a group of young people on scooters on the way to the appointment, and he stopped unconsciously when he was running...
That night, instead of going to the appointment, he skated with the group of young people, and finally broke his head.
Leave Sarah alone and wait alone with the child.
As for Sarah, her baby was almost lost that night. She found the baby and cried a lot, then went home and slept in her clothes, leaving Brad behind.
This quiet ending is also the ending of many middle-aged "lovers" in reality.
After all, there are very few people who are heart-wrenching and fighting, and most of the passions in the middle of the journey are quietly extinguished like this.
Brad loves, is that Sarah?
He loves passion , and passion, football can inspire, skateboarding can inspire.
Near the end of the film, Brad wins the game
Although Sarah is a master of arts, she claims that she is not a typical suburban woman, but wants to think like an anthropologist, but does she only hate the housewives in the same community?
Deep down, she hated herself .
The one who was with the housewives every day, had to endure their boring conversations and wasted time, but was unable to escape, and even more powerless to change himself.
She was comforted by the affair with Brad, but not from Brad, but from herself, as if she still had the strength to fight mediocrity.
Of course, for Brad, it's the same, Sarah is just the same thing as football and skateboarding, which can generate passion and energy.
Their relationship is the inevitable product of all external conditions. Without each other, there will be others as substitutes .
This is the plight of middle-aged people, both at home and abroad.
Obeying the various established rules in society will inevitably lose a lot when it is accepted by the society. Dreams, enthusiasm, freedom, the older you get, the more extravagant these things will be ~
Looking for passion from the outside has never been able to shake the rigid inside . Instead, it is a cowardly and childish performance, which fits the title of the movie - "Little Children".
In order to truly get out of the predicament, the only way to completely smash the mediocre life is to leave and give up, it takes great courage, and sometimes it needs to bear the pressure of the whole family and even the whole society .
Ordinary middle-aged people, few people can do it.
It's like Sarah and Brad finally retreat into their tortoise shell, comfort zone, is that an epiphany, or a compromise? I'm afraid only they themselves know.
"Little Children" is carefully laid out, and it hits the unbearable pain of middle-aged people with sharpness and precision.
Probably because I am getting older, my understanding of the subtleties and subtleties of adults’ hearts has increased, and the world is always cyclical. The road we are walking has long been completed.
There is nothing new in the world, and we have to keep going.
(First published in today's headline number: Tianya bird movie)
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