The movie starts with Mooney and Scout playing and ends with Mooney and Janice running. It started suddenly and ended unexpectedly. Recalling the whole story, what exactly is this movie trying to say? Is it a friendship between children? It seems not.
Through the depiction of the life of single mother Harley and daughter Mooney, the film seems to be a connection of sporadic life fragments, but in fact it is a microcosm of the lower-level society in the United States. Although Disneyland is beautiful, it is a symbol of grace and luxury, and it is a paradise in the hearts of children.
However, the reality is not only beautiful, the world is beautiful, but also cruel. This is probably why the director chose a motel near Disneyland as the background.
What reveals the cruel side of the world is not the innocence of Little Moonie and her friends, but the setting of her mother Harley.
The young and beautiful Harley has an untimely innocence. She has no job and lives on her face and reselling. Because she was angry with her friends, she could go to restaurants to eat and drink as she liked; she could not pay the rent, had a big fight with Willem Dafoe, and threw the menstrual paper on the glass with a bang; she fought with others and got revenge in the middle of the night Stepping on the floor... She never considers the consequences, she just does whatever she wants. She doesn't have a long-term plan, she survives every day, sells pirated perfumes when she is short of money, and will never worry about the rent for the next quarter.
She is like an immature child.
No, she was originally a child... She was not grown up, so she was given the responsibility of an adult. She has a childlike innocence, but this leaves her bruised and bruised in the adult world. She took two little girls to the outskirts of Disneyland, and when she watched the fireworks for her birthday, she told Jianxi that the fireworks were for you. No matter how bad the world is to her, she will take care of her daughter and her daughter's friends with love.
She's not a perfect mother and didn't give Mooney the perfect life, but she loves her daughter more than anyone.
In the film, my favorite sentence is what little Moonie said to Jianxi: "Do you know why I like this tree? It fell to the ground, but it never stopped growing." I think, this is probably I mean, it's my mother and myself. The world is not perfect, but for Little Moonie, where mother is, where is home, where is heaven.
So even if those uncles and aunts wanted to take her to such a wonderful place, she didn't want to. Because, there is a mother here, even if it is only a small suite less than 20 square meters. She knew that her mother had done everything for her.
At the end, the picture stopped at Xiaomouni and Jianxi running.
Jane Xi took Little Moonie's hand, and the two of them ran desperately, without looking back once, passing through crowds one after another. Maybe in the end Little Moonie will still be taken away by the Child Protection Association, or maybe Jane Xi took Little Moonie to hide forever... What happened in the end, we don't know. Since the director chose to end here, it must have his meaning.
The two girls just kept running towards the castle in every child's heart, Disneyland...
The filth of the bottom society, the happiness and friendship between children, are like the sunshine in Florida; the seemingly heartless orphans and widows are growing stubbornly and extensively.
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