How much helplessness must the mother hide to be separated from the child?
How much guilt does the mother have because of separation from the child?
This play reminds me of a Tang poem:
Tao exhausted the soil in front of the door,
There are no tiles on the house.
The ten fingers don’t stick to the mud,
Linlinju Mansion.
In order to support his children, Val can only grow up with his master’s son Fael, but he has not seen his daughter for ten years. How the repression and guilt of this maternal love entangled this kind, hard-working and honest woman, the film is from beginning to end The performance is very restrained. Except for the airport pick-up, the daughter came out, but she didn't recognize it. She was confused when she saw it, and then embraced and kissed wildly. The daughter's stiff reaction saw the separation that the mother and daughter had not seen for many years.
The first 90 minutes are trivial and lengthy, and those who are not interested in drama may find it difficult to stick to the climax after Val's resignation.
A trivial detail of life, not painful or itchy, but scratching your heart-Fael’s ice cream, breakfast for daughter and hostess Mrs. Barbara, lunch for daughter and hostess, swimming pool for daughter and boy Play, daughter and Val’s restless sleep... One after another scenes of eating and drinking Lazard sleeping, let you feel the relationship and psychology between the characters, a little bit sting your nerves, intentionally or unintentionally brewing your emotions , It’s so calm to the end——
The swimming pool is a place of sorrow and nirvana. When Var received the news that his daughter was admitted to college, he stepped on the splash in the owner's pool for the first time. The moment Varyang exhaled, you also took a deep breath, otherwise too. Depressed, 90 minutes of cautiousness, your heart unconsciously raised to mid-air.
The appearance of George is the biggest scar of Val's separation from her daughter for so many years and unable to accompany her daughter to grow up! He just exaggerated and pushed to the bottom with another stick-this is the biggest price for a mother to leave her child. How should the mother and daughter face it?
Resign! Even the hostess does not believe that the honest Val will make such a wild decision? Resigned from the job, where will the living expenses come from? Her only reason is to be with her daughter. She has missed her growth, and can no longer miss the present of facing the test of life with her.
The child and the mother can't be separated-she missed it, and can't let her daughter miss it again!
Take George here, fly, and I will pay for the ticket!
This is the most proud sentence of Val in the whole film. She is no longer the only maid Val, she is Jessica's courageous mother Val!
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