The director and screenwriter " Mike Mills " of " Women of the Twentieth Century " is amazing.
He uses a soft material that is difficult to shape to form a story with a clear context.
01
Sometimes life changes because of a trivial matter.
However, many years later, when you recall this past, you will always start with the spontaneous combustion of the Ford Galaxy.
So, "Woman of the Twentieth Century" started with a small fire in the parking lot of a supermarket, because humans recall the past in the same way.
"Women of the Twentieth Century" is a family story.
Dorothea, the heroine of the story, was born in 1924 and died of lung cancer in 1999.
She is a woman who has lived in the twentieth century all her life.
02
In 1979, Dorothea was 55 years old, and her ex-husband’s Ford Galaxy burned in the parking lot on her birthday.
This car is one of the few connections between her and her ex-husband, and the other is her 15-year-old son Jamie.
Not only was the classic car gone, she almost lost Jamie.
The suffocation game is popular among boys, and most people can wake up in a few seconds.
But Jamie, almost couldn't wake up again.
Dorothea was curious about the reason for Jamie's adventure.
Jamie said, this is just a game, and everyone is playing it.
The son is just following the crowd, he takes his life as a trifling matter.
03
This incident caused Dorothea to question her way of educating Jamie.
She wanted Jamie to be a different person from her, to make him happier than her, and to make him less lonely like her.
So she invited Jamie's friend Julie and guest Abby to join the plan to educate Jamie.
Dorothea invited the two girls to share their lives with Jamie, and she hoped that Jamie's life would extend to more possibilities.
However, the plan went well. It went well beyond her expectations, and went well beyond what she could bear.
04
In many cases, family stories are like waves, one after another, one after another.
A peaceful life is always broken by an accident, followed by disputes. But the problem will definitely be resolved, and the dispute will surely subside.
Then there was a brief calm before the next wave.
The dispute in "Women of the Twentieth Century" belongs to Dorothea and Jamie.
When the climax of the dispute comes, the problem is no longer reconcilable, and it can no longer be passed through vaguely.
People in disputes have only two choices, open and fair or part ways.
The love between mother and child makes them choose to be open and honest.
At this moment, Dorothea realized that it was her mother who should share her life with Jamie.
05
We are used to seeing movies made up of events. Events are like beads and movies are like beads.
We fumbled for the outline of the beads, one by one, and the movie revolved in our hands until we found the apex of the bead.
The outline of the event in "The Woman of the Twentieth Century" is vague, it is more like a hard core of a fruit.
The fruit core falls into the pond, causing ripples, which are the emotions and opinions of the characters.
The emotions and opinions of the characters are born from the event, and then wrap the core like a pulp to become a fruit.
The soft fruits are strung into the beaded "Woman of the Twentieth Century".
We are accustomed to angular events, so when we played this movie, we were not sure about its shape.
It is precisely because the characters have so many emotions and opinions that the characters are always chatting, and even each character has a large narration.
06
In the movie "Woman of the Twentieth Century".
The character's past is like singing and dancing in Indian movies, appearing without warning.
In fact, when the character's background story appears, it is the key point of the character's influence on the main story.
We need to know who they are, where they came from, and what they have experienced.
Only in this way can we accept their choices when facing events, feel their emotions due to events, and understand their opinions.
All this makes up their lives and makes them complete.
This is Dorothea, this is her life, so she questioned her ability to be a mother, so she asked the two girls to educate Jamie together. She established the starting point of the film, an opportunity for disputes.
This is Jamie, this is his life, so he is puzzled by his mother's alienation, resisting his mother's plan to teach children in the neighborhood, and the disputes begin to appear.
This is Julie, Abby and William, and this is their life.
Because they shared their lives with the mother and son, and at the same time shared the lives of the mother and son.
They paved the way. Disputes rushed to the apex along this one-way street.
Because of their company. In the end the dispute was settled.
07
The climax of the story brings us intoxicated, and we hope it will dissipate slowly.
As a result, we began to care about the future of each character.
Where will they go, whether they have been happy.
In order to satisfy our curiosity, at the end of the movie, each character tells their future in a prophetic way.
In this way, the beads in our hearts stop turning comfortably, and softly fall into our memory.
The movies here are more honest than life!
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