(Written by Zhi Ning on August 4, 2014)
Rather than talking about the Romanian film Pozitia copilului, which tells the story of a Romanian family's unbalanced child rearing and immorality in the face of difficult problems, it would be better to say This is a global common problem, and it is of special significance to our country today.
There are many parents in the world who are overly caring and over-controlling their children. They control the life and dynamics of their children for the rest of their lives, and they refuse to let go of the invisible umbilical cord until they die, which directly prevents their children from truly growing, like plants in a greenhouse. They are squeamish and self-possessed. They lack responsibility and sense of responsibility. They rarely care about people other than themselves. Many of them have not even been "weaned" when they are not confused. Once they encounter difficult problems, they will shrink behind their parents. , not even the courage and ability to speak for themselves. As for their parents, once their children are in trouble, they will protect them like a calf, no matter how big a mistake they make, even if it is a matter of life and death, in their hearts the most real and most immoral steel scale Yes - only my own child is a child, other people's are irrelevant to me, they are all like a must.
This "Children's Pose" has presented the audience with the leisure of a so-called upper-class intellectual from the very beginning. Cornelia, a mother in her 60s, appeared in the theater with expensive clothes, admiring the elegant art, and her literary and artistic itinerary. But she was interrupted by her son, Babu, who didn't make people feel relieved, and she didn't want to worry about it. Babu's car accident kills the child, an incident like this gives the powerful and well-connected mother room to use her energy, and she starts doing everything she can to save her son from serious charges, and on another level, the mother Yan, this is the opportunity to win back his son from his girlfriend.
The completion of the film is very high, the plot dialogue, character performance and emotional direction are very appropriate, and the details are handled patiently and meticulously, which is beneficial to the shaping of characters and images. For example, when an elderly son has moved out to live, the mother has to use the part-time worker shared by the two families to know her son's life like the back of her hand, and even give advice on what books the son reads. Another example is that when a mother goes to her son's house, she has a special "ownership" as if she were in her own home. She used the bathroom with the door open, spying on her son and his girlfriend's bed brother, and even locked the woman out of the door. The scene where family members gather to discuss countermeasures seems to be a one-man show for her mother. She keeps speaking, as if she has seen the inside and outside of the incident, and treats her with great fists. At the same time, the play shows the audience the characteristics of other characters in this family, the cowardly and inexistent father, the son who is dissatisfied with complaints about everything, and the girlfriend who looks on the inside like a mirror.
The film also shows that kind of omnipresent control through some metaphors, such as when the theater is rehearsing the repertoire, two young actors are performing, and their mentor, known as the country's greatest contemporary actress, is surrounded by two disciples. In the middle, he narrates and guides by example, it seems to be a kind of counseling, a kind of help, a kind of selfless dedication, but it vaguely reveals a kind of superior control, a mentality of unwilling to let go, and a kind of lingering. An indulgence in a relationship.
The downright desire for control will make the younger generation feel endless pain throughout their lives. Even if there is an occasional emotional rebound, it is temporary. Unsurprisingly, Cornelia, in the name of love, created a son who lacked responsibility in a childlike manner. Babu has the shadow of his mother when dealing with people and things. He has two standards for others and himself. For example, he asks his girlfriend to do a full-body examination, but he doesn't. After a car accident, when blood tests are needed, he repeatedly asks the nurse to be in front of him. face to disassemble disposable medical supplies. It's not without his disgust at his mother's control. For example, he found a girlfriend who was older than himself and was not in the right household. This really drove his mother crazy and was full of hostility to his girlfriend, but this relationship has gradually revealed that it is deadly. Injury, his girlfriend is about to become an ex. Another example is that Babu is picky about the medicine his mother bought, and has a bad attitude towards his mother. But these rebounds are all skins. Deep down, Babu is still a small child who needs to rely on a strong mother, and the reason for his speeding is full of the breath of a certain second generation - there is a Mercedes Benz in front of him. he……
The scene of the meeting between the two parties in the accident presented at the end of the film is concise and clear and has sufficient tension, as if the words are concise and meaningful, covering multiple levels of things. When they arrived at the village, the son refused to get out of the car, and the mother and girlfriend went to see the family of the victimized child. In front of the family who had lost her child, the mother recounted what a good boy Babu was, and expressed her gratitude to him. The family in tears said things like "you still have a child". From this narrative of Cornelia, the audience can be sure that her focus is still on herself and her son.
At the end of the film, the film gives a little bit of hope in a long shot - the mother who returned to the car cried, but it was obviously not for the dead child. At this time, the son asked the mother to "unlock" the door of the car. Finally got out of the car, the audience didn't know what he said to the victim's father, but saw from the car mirror that the other party finally reached out and shook his hand... The son sat back in the car with tears Neelia stopped crying, she started the car and was about to go back, she was still the one who went his own way and felt that events would develop according to their own control.
After watching the whole film, the audience will be amazed by the acting skills of Luminita Gergiu who plays the mother. She shows the ups and downs of the character's heart when she is not in a hurry and not in a hurry. Her urgency and unease, and her seemingly easy-going manner, is not so flamboyant but always shows the aura of this powerful woman.
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