There is hardly a single sunny scene in the whole film. Cloudy days, strong winds, heavy rain, and the sparsely populated manor are gloomy and depressing at the beginning, just like this little boy Connor.
I don't know where I started crying when I saw it, I just remember that I kept crying whenever Connor's mom showed up. Later, I cried until my shoulders were shaking, I couldn't help myself, and I cried for more than an hour.
We all read other people's stories and shed our own tears. When I was about 7 years old, because my parents were divorced, my mother ran away from home for a while. I became a child without a mother, and my father was too busy to take care of me.
If I could go back to my childhood, I should be like Connor, holding my mother's hand tightly, crying and yelling for her not to go.
The sequelae of my childhood experience is that, until now, I still feel that I don't have a mother, all my emotions and thoughts are only hidden in my heart, and I can't say a word when I see my mother in front of me. It is also because my mother is a very emotional woman, she often imposes her own emotions on me, which leads me to distance from her in my heart.
It's as if the "mom" who could accept who I am, accept my emotions, and comfort me when I need them, is gone.
Although most of the childhood experiences have been forgotten, they are not forgotten, but buried in the subconscious. When a point is touched, they pop up.
The yew tree monster in the movie is actually the painting that Connor's mother taught him to draw when he was a child, and those three stories are also the stories that his mother once told him.
The first story The Tree Monster told him that there will be no good people and no bad people all the time. The bad guy you think is actually not that bad. Connor was thinking about leaving his grandmother when he told this story, and he thought living with her would suck.
In fact, the story is also a metaphor - his grandmother was not as impersonal as he thought. This was also confirmed when the grandmother watched the video of Connor's childhood by herself.
But Connor couldn't understand, he yelled at the tree monster: You can't help me get away from Grandma, what's the use of you telling me these stories? I need you to heal my mom!
The tree monster said something that left a deep impression on me: The one who needs to be healed now is you!
Connor hopes that someone will help him heal his mother, and he hopes that his father will not return to the United States, but these are unchangeable facts.
We, like Connor, hope that those we love never leave, and that everything goes well. But reality often doesn't go as expected.
Growing up is accompanied by a lot of pain and helplessness. The most important thing to learn is to face reality, accept reality, and let it go. This sentence is easy to say, but it is really difficult to do.
Here are a few more impressive snippets:
1. The yew tree represents the hope of healing and life, but in the movie, the yew tree is surrounded by tombstones, which is death. Death is not the end, it may just be the beginning of another life.
2. "Aren't you going to punish me?" This line appears twice in the film. The first time was when Connor smashed the living room of her grandmother's house, and she faced her broken-hearted grandmother; the second time was After he sent the tall man who bullied him into the hospital, when he faced the strict teacher, the answer he got was "what's the point of that?"
When he did these things according to his true thoughts, no one really punished him. The one who has been punishing him is actually himself, his own inner fear.
There are still many small details in this movie worth scrutinizing, and now it is second only to "The Undertaker" in my heart.
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