Greg Araki’s "White Birds in a Snowstorm" (2014), starring Kate Winslet-like Shailene Woodley as the heroine Kate, whose mother role is played by the charming Eva Green. The so-called white bird in the blizzard is just a fantasy scene of Kate's dream and her mother, not a real situation, no doubt this is the bitter and sadness that has been generated in her heart that is inexplicable. This is not all from grief, on the contrary, Kate has many grievances against her mother since she was a child.
The mother, who is too stunning and beautiful, is unwilling to be locked in the boring daily disturbances of the family, but she has to repeat the trivial life day after day, so she can't solve it. Especially in the face of her husband who she doesn't love deeply, the married life has always been nameless, and she is bored with all this. These were all seen by Kate from childhood, as if her mother had never been happy.
When Kate reached the age of seventeen, one day in the late fall and early winter of 1988, her mother suddenly left without saying goodbye, leaving her and her father behind. They called the police, made inquiries, and tracked down, all without a word and disappeared. This has been bothering Kate. As a daughter, she loves her mother, of course, she also complains. She confided to the female psychologist, reminiscing about the life with her mother. She told her friends Beth and Mickey that she had to ask her boyfriend Phil more.
Yes, the reason for inquiring is that since Phil entered her life, her mother seemed to have changed a lot, dressing up to be gorgeous and sexy. The strange thing is that on the one hand, the mother welcomed Phil's arrival, and even made her daughter feel that her mother was always teasing Phil. On the other hand, she often scolded Kate for being passionate about his bed. This made her daughter really confused. A mother is real. Now, my mother ran away. The answer is never known. She found detective Theo and went on a blind date through skin, hoping to learn more. But the journey to find the mother is still far away.
Time is like a dream. I didn't realize that by the spring of 1991, Kate was no longer the young female high school student. She had come to Berkeley University from a small town and her new boyfriend was unhappy. When she returned to her hometown again, everything in the town continued to evoke all kinds of echoes from her to her mother. Sadness is always with you. When Detective Theo told her that her father was suspected of committing the crime, she ran away angrily. When the two friends nodded with the same answer, she quickly came to Phil's house. Phil's blind mother was as polite as ever, but Phil didn't see her. Everything seems to be unknown, she is going to fly back to school tomorrow. She held a farewell party with Beth and Mickey. When she was about to open the Shenfeng freezer, she was scolded by her father suddenly, and the party broke up unhappy.
She wandered outside the door alone, waiting for Phil, he said you don't ask me any more, only your father knows about your mother. This useless ghost who was always drunk by his father, turned around and drove away. When she returned to the house, she saw her drunk father lying on the bed, accompanied by an empty wine bottle. The next day, her father drove her to the airport and said affectionately, "You will always be my baby girl, I love you!" When the plane took off, nothing happened behind her. Kate sounded outside the picture: This was the last time I saw my father. After he got drunk that night, he told the police the fact that he had killed his wife.
It turned out that on the day when Kate’s mother went missing, she came back from outside and walked into the room. She happened to see the affair between her husband and Phil on the bed. She was suddenly at a loss and shocked, making her laugh, Phil. Escape early, and the agitated husband is ashamed and embarrassed, but also full of hatred. All the half-life resentment is vented out of the old. He tightly pinched her throat, and soon she was out of breath. Stop, even though I yelled "how much I love you", but it was too late to regret. He picked her up and put it in the freezer, locked it, and kept it in it. As time passed, it turned into rotten water as soon as it was opened.
The film is adapted from a novel by a female writer, and it has a certain leisurely and breath-taking characteristic of the novel, which echoes back and forth. Although the ending is unbearable, it is similar to Kate's dream. The results may be important. For me, what is intriguing is how secret, delicate and melancholy Kate has been exploring the journey of her birth mother from beginning to end.
Seeing myself from the amazing mother, seeing the life of my parents from my inexperience in the world, people can't help but sigh. What is happy. Many seemingly enviable lives, such as white birds in the snow, look very beautiful, but in fact they are just phantoms or dead wood, and illusions are always full of our real lives. We are following every step, not knowing what is going on, but unwilling to do so. In this sense, this is a film that is worth pondering and appetizing.
2014, October, 30
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