Three mothers and three children

Shirley 2022-05-30 21:33:14

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This is a story about three mothers and three children.
The three mothers are the givers of love. Their ways are different and they cannot replace each other. The
three children are the feeling bodies of love. They have different responses to the love of the three mothers.

Three mothers.

Love should never be limited to a kind of will, love is actually a kind of ability. Love is a kind of ability, but it is not simply the ability to give, but the ability to truly meet the needs of the other person.

There are three images of mothers in the movie (listening, if there are any mistakes, please correct me!):

My first mother was a good woman-hard working, generous, affectionate. We talked, we shared, we laughed...but then it stopped . She couldn't talk to us anymore, about men, about her dreams, about her pain...My first mother loved me and I loved my first mother
. Blood is thicker than water, there is no doubt that they love children. However, due to economic decline and changes in their living environment, they are no longer able to provide their children with the best material life. At the same time, the hardships of life have slowly changed themselves and penetrated into their minds, making them unable to communicate with their children, who are in extreme deprivation of material and spirituality. She loves her children, and her children love her, but this love is sometimes pale and weak.

My second mother only mothered me for a short time, I'm often thinking about her. I tried to imagine the moment she had in the tunnel, giving one last kid to her husband. Did he implore her to run away with him? Or did they both know someone has to stay, be the monster, pay the price and protect their secret. Whether she is a good person or not? I am still not sure. But my second mother loved me and I loved my second mother.
第Two mothers, a woman who sent her children to foster care. Although she is not a mother, she has a mother's heart (she tried her best to rescue newborn babies, help African children with her husband, and appease autistic girls), and she knows what kind of life the children need. Therefore, she took away those young children and gave them to better care of others. Her word touched me very much. She cried and said: There are too many children, I can't keep them all. She has taken care of many children, whether they were in their own home (she is a nurse) or when they were taken away by her, but she also realized that her abilities were too limited, so she chose to send the children out. Until the last moment, she interrupted all clues at the cost of her life, completely protecting the children who were sent out.

My third mother is teaching me about the big world, she says knowledge is the key to open all my doors. So I stay focus, I observe and I work hard. I listen to what she says. I want to please her. My third mother loves me and I loves her. The
third mother, the woman who adopted the child. Given the good growth environment for the children, it is hard to say that this is not a life that the first mother and the second mother wanted to give but were unable to give.
The

first child of three children , an ignorant child. He only loves his first mother. He doesn't know how the current environment will affect him, and he can't choose for himself. But his destiny will have the most essential change. Because his memory is so easy to be tampered with, the doubts of his life will gradually disappear with the passage of time. He loved his third mother just as he loved his first mother.

The second child, the grown-up child. Age gave her a sense of choice. She knew that if she survived here, she would become like the people around her. She longed for a new life, so she chose to leave her biological mother and choose to live the life she wanted. She can understand the three mothers, so she loves them. But she was not mature enough to face all the results of the choice, so she said to herself: I wanted this life. I wanted it and made it happen. I guess it is better this way, right? Right? Right?

The third child, I look forward to, when the years pass, when the girl grows up, when she becomes the third child who did not appear but is destined to appear, will she be able to answer the question she once asked...

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The Tall Man quotes

  • Lieutenant Dodd: Hang in there, Tracy.

    Tracy: Yeah, I've been doing that for 35 years.

  • [last lines]

    Jenny: My world has changed. I try to follow its rules. It's a beautiful world, my new mother says. She tells me to hang on. That I'm doing well. That I'll get used to it with time. I'm not like the others. I guess they've forgotten. I can't.

    Jenny: Every morning I wake up to the same thought of giving it all up and running back home. But I remind myself I wanted this life. I wanted it. I made it happen. I guess it's better this way, right? Right? Right?