Compared with other adaptations, this adaptation of Stephen King’s "Tears and Scars" is much more low-key. Casey Bates played a perverted crazy fan "Annie" in "Ten Days in Crisis", which is also adapted from the second young master of the Jin family. And this time, she played the role of Dolores Claiborne, a resolute mother of poison tongue.
The movie begins in a lonely house on a small island in Maine. An old woman, Vera, falls off the stairs. Dorothy ran to the kitchen in a panic to look for the weapon. When she raised the marble rolling pin above her head, the messenger walked in to stop her behavior. He touched the carotid artery of the old woman on the stairs and announced that Dorothy had killed Vera. The trembling Dorothy let go of her hand, and the rolling pin just rolled along the floor. Within three and a half minutes, the murders were immediately laid out. The panic caused a mess in the kitchen. The kettle whistling on the stove was knocked over directly on the ground, and the knives in the drawer were scattered all over the place with excessive force... What the audience was thinking at this moment was: What happened? Why kill?
Follow the rolling pin, and then the venue arrives in New York. A newspaper reporter Shalena (played by Jennifer Jason Lee) is chatting with the editor-in-chief about the new interview she wants to do-her close relationship with the editor-in-chief and her character are revealed. A fax disturbed her life. The fax of the murder case at the beginning of the film was handed over, "Is it really your mother?" written on a piece of paper.
In the two scenes, the events, characters and locations of the film were clearly explained. So how is the relationship between characters presented? When Shalena arrived at the Maine police station to take her mother home. Through the conversation with the old police officer John McGee, I learned that McGee met when Salena was 13 or 14 years old and was responsible for the death of her father. The "eclipse" specifically mentioned by McGee since then paved the way for it. The next mother-daughter meeting, cleverly designed to tell the mother-daughter relationship all at once. When Shalena was led to take away her mother Dorothy, the latter thought it was a lawyer arranged by the police-it seemed that they had not seen each other for many years, which caused Dorothy to not even recognize her own daughter. . When told that the girl opposite was her own daughter, Dorothy was emotionally complicated and she couldn't understand her words. Two police officers sent the mother and daughter out of the police station, and the young police officer told Shalena to take care of her mother for at least 4 days. The children, the neighborhood and the attitude towards Dorothy, it can be seen that the neighbors in the neighborhood had already convicted her, but she looked disapproving and refused to hire a lawyer and talked with the police officer like a vicious tongue. Following the conversation between the mother and daughter in the car, Dorothy gave a seemingly philosophical rhetoric about her attitude towards others like a shrew: "Sometimes a woman can't live if she is not bad." This line has appeared twice since then, once by the old woman Vera who fell to her death at the beginning of the film, and once by Shalena. As mentioned above, the screenwriter’s story is cleverly composed and full of suspense. At the same time, the script's lines are powerful, which makes people feel "cool" in the process of watching. This not only comes from Dorothy's "unreasonable rough words", but also comes from the ingenious dialogue between her and her daughter. For example, Dorothy asked Salina: "Did you rent a car by the day or by the week?" Salina replied, "You are asking me how long I will stay, right?" Another example, when I just entered the house, Shalena picked up the phone, but the phone didn't respond. She said disappointedly: "The phone doesn't work." Dorothy said, "It has been broken for three years." (Salena hasn't called home for three years.)
Attention and sympathy for women's living conditions are the viewpoints of this work. Many years ago, Dorothy lived with a family of three. A seemingly happy family, Dorothy was domestically abused by her alcoholic husband. After rebelling, her husband did not dare to be rude to her, but stole all the money from their joint account. Dorothy had to work as a servant in a demanding rich woman's house for a very low salary-she just wanted to save a sum of money for her daughter. At this time, she noticed the abnormality of her daughter in the rebellious period. She ran away angrily before the solar eclipse. In the process of chasing her daughter, she accidentally found a dry well covered with weeds on the small mound in front of her house. The daughter's accessories make Dorothy more worried: her daughter may be molested by her husband. After Vera knew her worries, she let her go home and her husband to enjoy the eclipse before the eclipse day. His husband fell into a dry well that day.
After that, her daughter Shalena got a scholarship, went to university, left the island, and never returned. Until the beginning of the film. Dorothy, who speaks extremely viciously and has a great suspicion of killing her husband, is also a lively and cheerful woman who loves life. She likes to tease her husband and also shows tenacity after being abused by her husband; loves her daughter and needs to protect her. My daughter, I want to take her away, and reunited again many years later. I saw the medicine jar in my daughter's bag. Her eyes were filled with sadness, guilt, and worry. She complained about Vera, but she stayed there for more than 20 years. Not abandoning, taking care of company, all these make this role three-dimensional and rich, with the flexibility of life. In Dorothy’s mouth, Vera is a poisonous woman, a bitter bitch, a stingy and clean-hearted rich woman who likes to "abusive" people. She is rich, but she does not seem to be happy, and her husband rarely meets with her every year. After the death of her husband, she became more radiant and settled on this small island. Dorothy has been taking care of her for 22 years. Until the beginning of the movie Vera died. Although this "bitch" has an inhumane cleanliness and harshness, facing Dorothy whose husband had stolen money, she gave her sympathetic comfort and gave her a holiday during the solar eclipse. She died eight years before her death. A will has been made to leave all the property to Dorothy, and Dorothy is not aware of this.
And Dorothy's daughter Salena has forgotten a lot of the past, and she has doubts about whether her mother was the murderer of her father. She even thought that her mother was the murderer. In the mother's new case, she approached the truth bit by bit, recalling the unpleasant memory of being blocked by her on the leaving ferry. She returned to the island, reconciled with her mother, and reconciled with herself. This is the core of the story: reconciliation. Reconciliation in this situation is the greatest support and sympathy given to women by the screenwriter.
A very clever approach in this movie is that the director quietly separates "the past" with a change of tones and "this moment" inadvertently. The first time was when the mother and daughter drove back to the old house, Dorothy looked at a small soil slope in the distance, and the sounds and scenes in the memories spread out in sequence. The color of life in "this moment" is cold blue, while the "past" is bright and warm. Since then, in the process of communication between Dorothy and Salena, we followed Dorothy's thoughts and went back to the past time and time again and watched what happened at that time. See how she fought for herself and planned for her daughter in the past.
It is not only the transformation of time and space, but the color has changed. The director also took great pains with the use of colors. The use of a large area of red not only increases the sense of suspense, the bloody atmosphere rushes toward you, but also creates a kind of fear, a lingering fear.
Many people may not have read his books, but have been obsessed with his movies. The most famous ones are "Shawshank's Redemption", "The Shining", "Ten Days in Danger", "Witch Carrie" (School Horror The originator of the film), "Under the Sky" (TV series), "The Mist" (TV series, not the one in Korea), "The Clown" and so on. Almost every novel of Stephen King has appeared on the screen. It is said that Stephen King ranks second in terms of the ratio of the original works being adapted into film and television dramas, and Shakespeare is the first. Stephen King, who is famous for writing horror novels, is the most tender one in my opinion. Focusing on women is the biggest reason I recommend.
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