Does this love work? I don't know, but at least it can make people less cold and tired. When you feel it, it will put a person's frozen heart in the palm of his hand and cover it. At this moment, the heart seems to be soft without the power to beat. As the two went on their journey to find their child, I gradually got to know Philomena through the eyes of the male protagonist, and discovered her cuteness and value. Her cuteness lies in responding to the world with kindness all the time, and her preciousness lies in being tolerant no matter what she has experienced.
Where there is love there is evil. Contrary to Philomena, the nun's malice stemmed from her own narrow-mindedness. They denounced all the beauty they had not experienced as sin, and judged happiness as depravity, and they compensated for their loss with the pain of others. Philomena was born in a breech position, but the nuns said "pain is her atonement", they let sin walk on the ground in the name of justice, and all the maidens trembled and prayed in her cries. They do these evil acts not for revenge, but for self-gratification, which is the purest evil.
But the movie does not vilify the image of the nuns, and only a few scenes show that they have different personalities, which is rare and correct. The film's techniques are mellow, the main line is smooth, and the interspersed memories are the finishing touch. The comedy clips that adjust the atmosphere during the journey are rare not exaggerated and warm. The interspersed home video is also just right, it is like the most distant and perfect dream, like the end point of this journey. But the end of the journey is not there, in a grave.
At the end of the movie, she returned to the starting point, the monastery, where Philomena re-understood her own life. She saw clearly that the people who have always endorsed her beliefs are evil, and the nun's words are no longer the truth. But this could not shake her faith, it only made her forgive herself. Her education had made her suffer from guilt all the time, and now she can finally truly accept herself. After Philomena understood everything, all she chose was forgiveness, not only for herself, but also for others.
In the face of sin, the male protagonist said to the nuns: "I won't forgive you." Philomena said, "How painful your life must be." correct. However, whenever I think of this time, there is a surge of sourness that I cannot stop. It shows the powerlessness of love, and the only one who forgives and liberates is himself. On the night of the birth, Philomena cried: "Don't let him stay there, it's dark and cold." Fifty years later, the grave of her child was covered with snow and dead branches.
People are powerless, and everyone's ending is doomed. However, as long as the ending has not yet come, then today's happiness is not illusory. Life is a blessing to be given, don't let him down. Don't give up the candlelight in the cold night, the flowers in the dry winter, this is the only thing we have.
It's a really good movie, and it leaves a lingering aftertaste.
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