Joyce, the mother played by Streisand, has no longer been in love or marriage since her son Andy lost his father at the age of eight, and her life is full of sons. When he grew up, his chemistry-loving son went to UCLA, and Joyce thought his son wanted to avoid her nagging before going to California. Since Joyce told Andy that she had fallen in love with a man named Andy Maglis in her youth, and named her son Andy in memory of him, the son began to search the old Andy's information online and succeeded. Make an appointment to meet Andy. Holding the good wishes that fulfilled his mother's wish, Andy proposed that his mother take a road trip with him for eight days. And during these eight days, Andy slowly discovered:
Mom is great, but we forgot that
at the beginning of the trip, Mom showed off. Joyce asked his son to ask if coupons were available when renting a car, but because of his face and stubbornness, Andy couldn't say anything. Finally, Joyce came forward decisively and received a 15% discount. Then, on the issue of what car to rent, the mother and son diverged again. Andy insists on SUVs, because GPS is only available on SUVs. Joyce, on the other hand, tends to rent small cars, believing that small cars consume less fuel and also have GPS. After hearing the argument between the mother and the son, the staff pointed out Andy's mistake rather unhappily, explaining the complete configuration of the modern model. So in the first round, Joyce won.
Then, during the trip, Andy went the wrong way. It was Joyce who discovered that the heavy snowfall on the road proved how far-sighted Joyce was with his clothes. In these scattered "little things", the mother who Andy once considered trouble and burden gradually proved her ability.
The most joyful thing is of course the scene of eating steak. Andy stubbornly believes that Joyce will definitely not be able to finish that huge piece of beef, and Joyce, with the attitude that he won’t give up if he doesn’t try, sits in the stands of the small restaurant and begins a special "performance" for an hour. . She completely ignored her image and just completed the task. In the end, under the guidance of Cowboy Ben, she completed the task quite comically, and when she broke up, she got Ben's favor and signal for friendship. At this time, Andy realized that her mother was such a persistent person, and the things she identified would definitely be done.
The most dramatic section was the interview with Andy promoting environmentally friendly cleaning agents. In the face of many different customers, Andy is always full of chemical terminology, completely disregarding the perception of customers, resulting in repeated frustrations. At the end of the film, Andy followed Joyce's advice, started to joke with the customer, talked about the routine, and drank the pure natural cleaning agent developed by himself, which impressed the customer.
And in "Mom, Where Are You?" by Korean writer Shin Kyung-sook. In ", due to the loss of the mother, the children and husband fall into the memory of the absence of the mother. The mother in the novel is illiterate, and after her children grow up and leave home, she donates 450,000 won a month of pocket money given by her children to the orphanage. In such a society where everyone is self-interested, the children who learned of this were shocked. Is the mother that the children in the orphanage love so much and miss all the time really their own mother? Is it the mother they often scold "what do you know"?
It was this mother who forbeared the debauchery of her father when she was young, rejected the love of her beloved man like Francesca in "The Bridge of Last Dream", and contributed everything she had to her children all the time. The little girl said, “I don’t know where the mother’s power comes from. Think about it, I’m afraid that ordinary people can’t do the things that mothers have done. Mothers have done everything that seems powerless.” This process of seeking mothers, children We gradually discovered that they actually don't understand their mothers. Mothers who are useless are very powerful, but they are immersed in their own achievements and underestimated their mothers.
Mother cares about the feelings of her children, but her children are used to it
In "Tangled Journey", Andy initially only cared about his own thoughts. His mother's constant phone calls made him crazy, and his mother's constant nagging made him extremely upset. As the day-to-day travel progressed, the mother and son The gap slowly disappeared, and the Andy who once yelled, "Can't you see that I don't want to talk, don't want to drink, just want to drink, shut up?" Andy heard Joyce and said, "Is it just because I love you? Too much, caring about you too much, am I so stupid?” After that, he began to reflect on his attitude towards his mother.
And "Mom, where are you?" "'S mother is even more like a Virgin. She worked hard, and even slowly accepted the neglect of her children. She began to celebrate her birthday with her wife and children, so that the children would not have to go home to toss once more. She began to visit her children in the city. The feeling of missing her children overcame her fear of unfamiliar and unfamiliar places. She wanted her daughter Wearing bright clothes, because when I was young I didn't have the opportunity to travel with my daughter, but only said to bring her a bunch of rose rosary from the smallest country in the world.
When we were very young, our mothers were on call. They took care of all our needs and feelings carefully. Now that they are getting older, the world is no longer so vast for them, no longer full of possibilities, they are only left with us and the world we describe to them. If even the last window is closed to them, what should they do?
Love is food is a
bit interesting to talk about. The old Joyce is still like a child. The reason for her celibacy is that no one is in bed to eat MM beans before going to bed. When she wakes up in the morning, she often finds that she has finished eating with her hands. pouch. And while she was eating various snacks, she would keep asking Andy whether you want to taste this, try that, are you hungry, this thing tastes great... Once, Andy asked her , Why do you always let me eat? Joyce said the most classic "Love is food".
Similarly, in Shin Kyung-sook's novel, mother is also closely related to food. Mom likes to prepare a lot of kimchi for the children before they come back. In addition to the children's enjoyment at home, they also reserve the amount to take back to the city. The mother's greatest happiness is to feed her children, regardless of her own hunger.
In fact, not all mothers in the world are chefs, but what they bring out in their kitchen is the taste of mothers, the taste of happiness. I love to eat dumplings made by my mother. No matter how many days I go home, how late and how early I arrive and leave home, the first and last meal I eat at home are definitely dumplings. The taste of the dumplings made by my mother is something that no restaurant outside can replicate.
"Tangled Journey" is a comedy, and people laugh with tears when they watch it; Joyce is an American mother who is more open. "Mom, where are you?" "It is filled with the self-blame memories of the children, full of the bitterness of regret; this is a Korean novel, and the mother is an Oriental woman, who is more reserved and bears the burden of humiliation. Regardless of what it is, I think that in all those seemingly ordinary little things, there is mothers’ unswerving love for us, and it’s like Joyce said to Andy, "Don’t you see, Andy ? It was always you. You're the love of my life baby".
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