In the film, 4-year-old Paulette learned from her father that her mother had died in a car accident. She was so sad that she cried, and because of her father's work, she needed to live at her aunt's house. Paulette refused to admit that her mother had left her. She believed that God would bring her back to her. She often avoided everyone by herself and continued to hope for her mother to appear. No matter how her father, aunt, and cousin comforted her, she still insisted on her belief.
Many times we are not weeping for the dead, but sad for the selves left behind. The four-year-old girl couldn't understand the concept of death. In her understanding, her mother just went to a place called heaven and could come back to see her at any time. She said, mother is in the sky, surrounded by colorful cows and sheep, mother has a castle with golden tiles and red walls, I live there with my mother at night, only here during the day, I prefer night (she hopes to see her mother in a dream ).
After going to boarding school, classmates told Paulette that God could help her and that Paulette Jr. was trying to be God's daughter because she wanted to talk to God and tell God to give her mother back.
Little Paulette could not always be happy, she missed her mother day and night. When she was young, she came to her mother's tomb alone. She didn't expect her mother to reappear in front of her. Her mother gently taught her to face her own life. Even though she was reluctant to leave her mother, when her father came to pick her up, she said to her father that my mother wanted me to learn to be happy... Of course, this is just a little girl's dream. The mother-daughter reunion at the end of the movie is full of romantic fantasies. , adults use this method to tell the bereaved children that the best memory for the deceased is to live bravely and healthily.
In the world of children, people can always see innocence, and in the world of children, people can always see persistence. In this film, it is this kind of innocence and perseverance that touches our hearts, allowing us to experience a pure world in just an hour and a half, and then reminisce about our childhood. Children's innocence and perseverance are beyond the reach of adults. Children's innocent words and virgin thinking are unexpected. They have their own feelings about the world and their own way of dealing with things.
The film was filmed in 1996, and the young actress Victoria Siweso, who played the little girl, won the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her role. Such a good performance by such a four or five year old girl, a director I have never heard of, a group of young actors, a simple but heartbreaking story, deeply imprinted in my mind ...
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