Charlotte is a tough old woman. But her toughness ignores her part of being an incompetent mother. Therefore, when she appeared at the dinner table in a fiery red dress, it seemed like a cover up. Helena's presence made her feel defeated. This sick child, she has almost forgotten her existence. It's a cover-up, like calling her "darling" when she hates her husband, like she's angry with a smile on her face. Charlotte cannot find her true self in family life.
Charlotte, sitting at the piano, became another person. A Chopin Overture already illustrates the problem. Those black and white piano keys emit different sighs under the caress of different people. Eva's playing is sentimental, but Charlotte's understanding is "pain, but don't show it." This secretly matches their different spiritual worlds.
"Chopin is proud, passionate and melancholy, very masculine. In other words, he is not a sentimental old woman." And Charlotte is also a proud and sentimental old woman. Is there even an emotional presence in her?
A long time ago, Charlotte built her own personal world by leaving again and again. For Eva, a childhood without a mother's love was a nightmare. So that when she grows up, she has to make sure that she is completely loved before she can truly face herself.
The film culminates in Eva's accusations of her mother. However, in the second half of the film, I think I can understand Charlotte. I can understand that although Eva's accusation is accurate, it is only her personal position after all, the position of the abandoned daughter, however, , she couldn't cut into Charlotte's heart. Nor can she represent a full point of view, because, let's not forget, Charlotte is a woman at the same time as a mother. If motherhood stands for love and giving, then, are these at the cost of the loss of an independent person?
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