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Aurelia 2022-02-07 14:53:07

The film starts with a beautiful teenage girl and the four boxes she owns, each box represents a story she has experienced, the story begins with a hot summer in California... Astrid is a 12-year-old girl, her mother Ingrid (Michelle Felix) is a talented, beautiful and sophisticated artist and poet, Astrid adores her mother and they share extraordinary years until one day a man breaks into their world. Later, unable to bear the man's change of heart, Ingrid killed the heartless sweat with the most beautiful and poisonous white oleander. Astrid begins a long sojourn life... The

first stop is a gaudy woman who lives with a married man and has two children, who believes in Christ and baptizes Astrid, but life is not So calm, as Astrid's relationship with the master becomes very delicate, the woman shoots and wounds Astrid... Astrid is sent to an orphanage school.

The days at the special school were not pleasant, Astrid liked to be alone because the girls there thought she was acting weird and called her gay. She likes to sit there alone, quietly, painting a woman. She doesn't know when or where she has seen this woman. Her hair is black and curly, and there are little freckles on her face. She just smiled... In Astrid's memory, the woman was called Annie. Later, Astrid met a boy there and was her only friend in school. The boy was very talented, but Astrid's mother in prison told her that no matter when and where, she had to rely on herself, not a man. To fill the void of loneliness, ordinary people can only dim their own light... Soon after, Astrid is adopted by a female star (Renee Zellweger)...

The actress and her husband are in the process of getting divorced. She once committed suicide. She adopted a 12-year-old Astrid who suffered a gunshot wound to make up for her lack of children and her family to prevent her from committing suicide. Astrid and her time It was happy, they were lying on the bed and chatting together, running on the beach together... But, Astrid's mother thought she was just a graceful but incompetent grumpy woman, her mother told Astrid, with such a person, the final result, She can only make herself as ordinary as they are, she would rather hope that Astrid is adopted by hell than this woman... Later, the female star committed suicide, Astrid broke down this time, she decided to break with her mother, in Astrid's heart, her mother never May she be happy, mom is jealous of the joy she has. No one hurts us, and if anyone is a nuisance, it's us, Mom. She left this sentence and walked away without looking back...

Astrid returned to school for the second time, as long as she was alone, she felt that she was a poisonous white oleander that would only hurt kind people, Her only friend is leaving school at 18 and going to New York, the boy wants Astrid to go with him, but Astrid decides not to implicate anyone, she decides to keep silent... There are many people asking to adopt her, a kind couple with good conditions, but Astrid chose a Russian businesswoman who sold second-hand famous brands. She hurt herself. In order to retaliate against her mother...

Mom decided to file a new complaint. The lawyer found Astrid in the grocery market. At this time, Astrid had graduated and lost his innocent eyes. Putting on a punk outfit, with smoky eyes, black and red lips, a pale face, she was smoking a cigarette, and her speech became very sophisticated... She saw her mother again, but this time in a big situation The difference is that they have become a deal is a deal. From her mother's mouth, she knows her father's story and the mysterious woman Annie. She has tears, are you willing to use the rest of your life in exchange for the original me? How much she hoped that Ingrid could give her a positive answer, Ingrid hesitated, this time, and the last time, Astrid was completely desperate for her mother, she decided to testify for her mother in court according to the agreement between the two before...

I didn't think of the later story, but when Astrid looked at Ingrid's back and said she let me go with tears in his eyes, I couldn't help it...

Ingrid is a beautiful, arrogant, strong woman, yes A poisonous white oleander. After going through a lot, I realized that my mother loves me... Astrid fiddled with his box, the movie ended...

I watched this movie many times, because the seasoned acting of Astrid's rookie Alison Lohman really left me I was very impressed. In addition, Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Ingrid, portrayed a cruel and beautiful woman very well. Later I remembered that she also played a successful female lawyer in "I am Sam". , but maybe I didn't notice her too much, maybe because Sean Penn who played Sam and the little girl who played her daughter did so well...

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White Oleander quotes

  • Astrid: How long were you gone?

    Ingrid: About a year, give or take a few months.

    Astrid: My God.

    Ingrid: You're not asking the right question. Don't ask me why I left. Ask me why I came back.

    Astrid: You should have been sterilized.

    Ingrid: I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing! When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along.

    Astrid: I was always waiting for you, mother. That's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back? Will you forget that you tied me in front of a store or left me on a bus?

    Ingrid: Are you still waiting?

    Astrid: No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think, that I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, mother. What'd you think? We'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?

    Ingrid: I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind.

    Astrid: You were in love with him.

    Ingrid: YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap!

    Astrid: Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him?

    Ingrid: I didn't leave him! He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.

    Astrid: He came to see me?

    Ingrid: Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?

    Astrid: Because it wasn't about you! It was about me, and I wanted to see him! My whole life, I've wanted to see him. That decision was MINE, not yours. Everything's always been about you, never about me. I knew you were gonna kill Barry, but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me. I'll say whatever Susan wants me to say, but I gotta get outta here.

    Ingrid: No! No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go!

    Astrid: Then let me go. You look at me and you don't like what you see, but this is the price, mother. The price of belonging to you.

    Ingrid: If I could, I'd take it all back. I would.

    Astrid: Then tell me you don't want me to testify. Tell me you don't want me like this. Tell me you would sacrifice the rest of your life to have me back the way I was.

  • [last lines]

    Astrid: No matter how much she damaged me... no matter how flawed she is... I know my mother loves me.