The prize winner of Defiance,
Julian Moore from Ohio and Nicolas Cage from Wheather Man are two of the characters that have moved me the most in over a year.
Evelyn Ryan is an ordinary housewife, busy all day in a family of 12 children. Despite her hard work, her family was often so poor that she couldn't pay for milk. In stark contrast to Evelyn's painstaking efforts to maintain the family, it is her husband who gets drunk every day and comes back smashing things and howling like crazy.
Evelyn is what we often call "hopelessly optimistic". Relying on her natural sensitivity to words, she participated in one after another advertising word collection competition, and won prizes ranging from two dollars to refrigerators, washing machines, and trips to Europe. She maintained the whole family with such wisdom without leaving home. livelihood. When her husband was drunk, she was very rational and calm and focused all the children's attention on her own happiness, or on the advertising competition broadcast on TV. On the other hand, even though this man made almost no contribution to the family, she still put herself in the shoes of him to find the reason for his irritability when drinking alcohol: he who loves music lost his beautiful throat because of a traffic accident and can only do ordinary mechanical operations. work.
And the harder Evelyn worked to win prizes for the whole family, the more frustrated and self-respecting she felt as a husband. Busy and happy to raise her children, Evelyn accepted everything in life, until her husband mortgaged the house he bought with the bonus he had won. It was the only time Evelyn cried from start to finish, and she refused her husband's comfort.
－All I want in this world is to make you happy.
－I don't need you to make me happy, I just need you to leave me alone when I am.
She is so calm and sincere about the guilt after sobering up said the husband.
In the end, it was still a competition prize that Evelyn won to solve the family's crisis of losing their home. When the award-winning phone call came, her daughter Tuff was crying, and she finally realized that her father would be this useless and unchangeable for the rest of his life.
-He's never gonna change.
-You're absolutely right. He is not...Do you know what the man just said on the phone? He said that I beat 250,000 other entries. And do you know what else? It wasn't t even my best won!....Honey, you have your own life in front of you, and you can make it whatever you want. You have a marvelous mind, and a beatiful heart, and you can accomplish anything. Everything is possible, do you know that?.....Forgive him, Tuff, forgive him so that you can embrace this truly remarkable day.
-I love you, Mum.
These words make Tuff finally smile at his father . Evelyn raised her 12 children one by one. As an adult, Tuff became a writer, chronicling the life of such a great and legendary mother.
The film also renders the story with the naive optimism characteristic of that era. So despite having such a bad father, it doesn't seem that the family has reached the point where it can no longer be sustained. And Woody Harrison, who plays the father, is actually very good, portraying a man whose self-esteem is severely frustrated and addicted to alcohol, especially when he pulls out a few bottles of wine and the children have no milk. The look of walking away is very well done. At the end of the film, the prototype of the story appeared, the 13 children who have grown up to be old people, and Evelyn Ryan, a mother and a happy family photo.
I don't know when Julian Moore fell in love with playing the role of a mother in the 5's and 60's (the hours, far from heaven, The prize winner...) and I don't know when I fell in love with watching There are stories of her time. Floral skirts, curly beautiful half-length blonde hair, returning to the traditional family model of outside the male lead and inside the female lead, and Julian is always the one standing in front of the wooden house, smiling slightly, ordinary but not ordinary woman.
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