Question: After watching "My Mother", there are two voices, competing with myself, and telling the truth.
1 To be honest, I don't like this movie too much. But I have always liked the images of Margherita Bay. The femininity she exudes really fascinates me. Because of this, I patiently watched it. If you don’t like it, it doesn’t mean that the movie is bad. I think Nanni Moretti’s "My Mother" (also translated as "My Mother" 2015) this time is a bit pretentious, with too many useless details. Putting it together, there are very few real touches, which makes me feel indifferent.
Maybe Nanni Moretti took the boss's energy to make such a film, but I just feel that he made movies for the sake of making movies, completely ignoring the nuance and sincerity that he had before. For example, he himself played the role of Giovanni, a "god" brother who gave up his job and devoted himself to taking care of his mother. The question is what information this role wants to provide us, just to enlighten Margaret's instability. Emotions are just to wander around, that's all. The dispensable role weakened Marguerite's personality charm and the tension in the play. She became a passive person, and Giovanni became an eternal wise man. This is a bit bloody. It cannot but make people think that he is acting for acting.
The role of mother is too superficial. It should be a face-to-face mother's role. The chattering during illness lacks the poetry of spring weather and rain. The appearance of Margaret’s daughter Livia was also very blunt, as if it was only related to Latin and learning motorcycles. There were not too many in-depth incidents or even a bit of embarrassment among classmates. It was just hearsay about her. In the school fell in love. And Margaret's husband, who said a few insignificant nonsense, disappeared. The setting of this character is too foolish, it is better not to be, this depends on the director. The arrival of American actor Barry is even more simplistic, rude and funny, which is dry and unappetizing. In a word: This is an image that lacks vividness and persuasiveness.
Some people say that this movie is very similar to Ozu Yasujiro, which is really nonsense. This completely ignores the wit, affection and harmony in Ozu's film. In fact, the style of the whole film is like the old-fashioned atmosphere of the title's translation of "My Mother". Margaret's wandering and thinking, the stream of consciousness that constantly flashes back, is just a little modern seasoning added by the director, and has no practical effect on the main theme of the whole film. Such a lifeless movie is undoubtedly a retrogressive or rigid narrative, so I don't think it is a masterpiece.
2 Of course, in "My Mother", the exquisiteness and heaviness of "Son's Room" and the gag in "Dear Diary" are just the evolution of the film, making the heroine Margaret, who was already a headache, Almost unable to hold on to herself, she touched her forehead when she was troubled, and her wandering emotions all felt inexhaustible.
The seriously ill mother, her daughter’s study and love, of course, the emotions she and the actor Vittorio had brought together, the trivial things, and the shooting of such a noisy strike film, we also have to deal with a moody American actor Barry. . This actor who often said that I acted in Kubrick's films is nothing to say. Once a fight, Margaret will say that you have never worked with Kubrick, you are just a mess. Shit, Barry responded to her that you are a bastard and brought me back to reality. Noisy to noisy, filming has to go on normally.
This rolling field of watermelon and sesame seeds made the busy Margaret at a loss what to do, not hysterical is good. Fortunately, there is another brother, Giovanni, who takes time off to take care of his mother, and excuses her a lot. Daughter Livia came back from skiing with her father and listened to her grandmother's dreamlike illness. The generations can talk about it very well.
There are many inconspicuous details in the film, such as parents watching her daughter learn to ride a motorcycle together, her daughter coming to the set to watch her mother filming, Margaret’s house forgot to turn off the water valve, it was flooded in the middle of the night, so she had to flee to her mother’s house. From this, I thought of the stacks of books that my mother had. If my mother was gone, what would be the use of these books. Before her mother was hospitalized, Margaret saw that she was still driving. She was so angry that she let her mother down. She went up and drove the car into the wall repeatedly, terrifying the mother on one side. These subtle and inconspicuous things that touched the heart were enough to make Margaret on the verge of collapse even more colic.
Turning to thinking, no one in the world has to experience these things. What I did was different, and my experience was basically the same. It is not so much that the director is talking about a director making a film, it is better to talk about all the obstacles and powerlessness of life. In other words, if you don't experience these things in your life, you will go through those things. If you solve the cumbersome reality, you will still have an endless stream of annoying things in the future. Surprisingly, these daily events have allowed the director to wedge into the movie one by one, and then demonstrate a moving story of sorrow and heartbreak.
Margaret's husband Federico was a nameless person, but the brother Giovanni was sympathetic to her. This kind of makes people feel that Nanni Moretti is suspected of robbing the show, of course, this is not objectionable, but it will feel a little bit stiff and sensational.
Margherita Bey, who played Margarita, has played a lot of warm scenes in Italy over the years. It is really difficult for her to play a pungent strong woman for her. This image has always been known for her gentle and brilliant role of women. This time However, it takes a lot of effort to play multiple characters in a avatar style to complete the gorgeous turn of this role. It seemed that she did it, but it didn't seem to be the case, anyway, there was a little aftertaste.
Boss has to lay off employees, workers have to be laid off, conflicts cannot be reconciled, and demonstrations have become daily routines. This is where the pain of the European Union’s economic integration lies. It is a bit difficult to integrate films into national affairs and family affairs. It seems that Nanni Moretti is doing it. When it arrives, it feels bitter and inadequate again. Quiet narrative, daily taste, all patriarchal, without the absurdity of Bruno Dumont's image, and not as decisive as in Marco Belozio's movies. It is an ordinary work that talks about the joys and sorrows of life. Ask for more. Maybe.
2015, 8, 15
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