Smoking and drinking tattoos, but I'm still a good mother

Dusty 2021-12-21 08:01:07

In 1971, Disneyland in Florida was completed. This amusement park covering an area of ​​12,228 hectares is the largest of the six Disney parks in the world. It is divided into "Animal Kingdom", "Magic Studios", "Science Fiction World" and "Dream There are 4 theme parks in the world and 3 water parks. It takes at least 5 days to finish all the amusement facilities.

When this Disneyland was initially planned, it was also called the Florida Project (The Florida Project).

But "Florida Land" is not about the story of the initial construction process of Disneyland, but about a "children's amusement park" composed of motels next to it. This is where the story happened.

There is no exciting roller coaster in "Florida Paradise", no wonderful animal shows, no dolls walking around to please tourists.

To put it bluntly, it's just a slum.

Here live all kinds of people from the bottom of society. These people have not received too much education and do not have a decent career. The family is crowded in a small and dark hotel single room, bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room, except for the toilet. All functional areas are in the same place.

This is the same as director Sean Baker's last work "Orange" shot with iPhone 5s, which is to pull the line of sight and put it on the bottom of society.

The protagonists of "Orange" are transgender and transgender groups. My biggest impression is that one is noisy and the other is drama, which has been passed down almost intact to "Florida Paradise".

"Orange" set photo

What's better this time than in "Orange" is that he hides the narrative, the whole film does not fully tell a certain thing, there is no inheritance and transformation, but it seems to be recording a certain period of the protagonist's life. , There will be some meaningless scenes of other people in the motel in the middle, but this is like an evaluation of "Orange"-"A dialogue in reality is the right way, instead of a person who finishes a line and so on. Another person said. "This operation is even more life-oriented, after all, this sense of reality and inferior quality complements the current status of life at the bottom of the society.

Halle and Mooney are typical representatives in this slum, a pair of mother and daughter who depend on each other for their lives.

Halle's unruly appearance seems to have long been doomed to their destiny incompatible with mainstream society.

They can't pay the rent.

Halle’s last job as a dancer was fired for refusing to provide sexual services to customers, and she was no longer able to find a job.

Every day, I rely on my friend Ashley who works in the restaurant to take care of some leftovers.

In such an environment, children naturally follow suit, they are dirty, mischievous, and grow up savagely.

Can we say that the imbalance of the social system caused their mother and daughter to be so downhearted, or should we blame Halle for not being enterprising and unable to provide her daughter with a good growth condition? It doesn't seem to be, but in any case they are reduced to such a situation, unable to escape, not all pheasants can try to fly on the branches and become phoenixes.

But even so, they did not lose the confidence to live.

Fuck you rich man, I have my way of survival

Without a job, Halle went to a small wholesale store to buy cheap perfume, and then went to the upscale tourist area of ​​Disney to sell it, and it sold little by little.

You can beg without buying perfume.

She would also steal other people's amusement park tickets and resell them to other tourists at low prices. What is propriety, righteousness and shame? Can it be eaten?

Corresponding sharply to the pressure of survival in the adult world is the innocent and romantic childlikeness of children. Every day, selling perfumes, making scalpers, and begging with their mothers is probably just an adventure game.

This motel, which seems to us unbearable, is a macarons dream amusement park in their eyes. Every plant and tree can become an object of play.

After eating leftovers, you can dance happily with some music.

Good friends are leaving, there is no sadness of parting, only the joy of getting new toys.

Without money to buy ice cream, he tells a lame lie seriously without realizing it.

He went to an abandoned house and set a fire, causing a catastrophe, and after a sleep, he left it behind.

Tell a beautiful fairy tale for the rainy rainbow.

The fireworks in Disneyland, don’t mind that they are not blooming for yourself at all, they can also be birthday gifts.

How free and unrestrained, not bothered by worldly fame and fortune, as long as you can eat and play, there is no big deal.

Every adult in the slum is using his own way to protect this precious childlike interest. Although they cannot provide the children with a good living environment, their love is not inferior to the rich.

William Dafoe, who plays the role of the hotel manager, always treats mischievous children with a good temper, betting with the children that if a drop of ice cream falls, they will be driven away, so the three of them play with big eyes and small eyes. Up.

Seeing the old pedophile man approaching the children who were playing, he greeted him friendly in front of the children and drove him away viciously when he walked a little farther away.

It usually seems to be a barren iron cock. The most common sentence is whether you have paid the rent, but when Hallie encountered difficulties, she did not hesitate to dig out her wallet.

Halle seems to be a negligent mother who has not fulfilled her duty to discipline Mooney, but there are two kinds of good parents in this world. One is to strictly discipline children and carefully train them to be useful to the society. The other is like Halle. Instead of being a parent, it is better to be a friend and grow up with them.

When Mooney was tired from walking, she bent down to carry her home.

I don't care if I get sick or catch a cold when I get caught in the rain. I want to play crazy with my daughter in the heavy rain.

After earning a few hundred yuan, she immediately thought of taking her daughter to the supermarket. Mooney sitting in the shopping cart smiled happily than anyone else.

Even in desperation to the point of prostitution, she would ask Mooney to take a bath and play music to cover up her voice.

Carefully separating the pure white world of children from the dirty adult sex trade with a toilet door. This is the last thing Halle can do as a mother. Even though she has fallen, she still lifts it with both hands. With Mooney.

Perhaps the audience will be preconceivedly judged by wearing colored glasses. In the film, the couple who wanted to go to Disney for a vacation but came to the motel by accident, frowned and disgusted the people in the hotel when they got out of the car.

But I don’t think this movie is talking about how miserable they are and how cruel the social oppression is. In these subtle, trivial, and ordinary fragments, I have seen their fate like a quagmire, the more they struggle, the more they sink, watching them like this. Helpless but so lovely life.

But even if they are impoverished, they are still struggling to live and love.

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The Florida Project quotes

  • Bobby: It's only the second week of summer and there's already been a dead fish in the pool.

    Moonee: We were performing a science experiment: we were trying to get it back alive.

  • Moonee: [crying in front of Jancey] I can't say it!