Four-year-old Bright lost her mother in a car accident, but she doesn't want to believe it. She thinks everyone around her is deceiving her by telling her that her mother has gone to a place called "heaven", so she begins to have her own Faith, she waits every night, looking forward to meeting her mother, she shuts herself up, waits alone, calls her mother alone in the long deserted field: "Mom, come on, there is no one here, you can come, Come for me." The
film focused on Bright from the very beginning, followed every detail of her life, and presented the wounds on the young heart of a child who lost her mother in a straightforward way. . This film examines life, death and religion from a child's perspective. The little girl got up alone at night and knelt down in the "God's room" to pray, asking to see her mother. In order to become God's daughter and to prove her bravery, she was even willing to put herself in a trash can. If God were truly efficacious, he would not be indifferent. All poor Bright's hopes were spent in disappointment day after day.
This film reminds me of "Bicycle Boy", which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. It is also told from the perspective of a child, but the difference is that Cyril is attached to his father who abandoned him. In contrast, I would think that Brett is much happier than Cyril. Bright has a father who loves him and relatives (cousins, aunts) who take good care of him, while Cyril lives in an orphanage, of course. There is a father who is not worth mentioning; even though Brett lost his mother, the appearance of his mother at the end of the film undoubtedly gave Bright a comfort and let everyone know that her mother loved her deeply, and Cyril, Where is his mother? He doesn't know. As comforted as Bright was at the end, Cyril has a good adopter, and he sees it as his own. Perhaps it also confirms a sentence: when God closes a door for you, he also opens a window for you.
Bright has his own beliefs in the film, one is his beloved rag doll, and the other is God who can let him see his mother. She hugged her rag doll tightly, just like her mother once hugged her tightly, she kissed it and waited for her mother with it, when the cousin said you really don't play with me? She answered with certainty, "No, I only play with my rag doll." In another place, when she went to boarding school, a little girl hugged her and said, let me be your good friend, and she also answered : "You have to ask my rag doll." She regarded the rag doll as a support, and maybe at some point she could imagine the rag doll as her own mother.
God. It's a way to meet mom, she goes to teach Ada (she is said to be the daughter of God), prays to be a daughter of god to see mom, she goes to pray, to prove herself. Seeing the little girl wait so innocently and stubbornly, it has to make people feel distressed.
The world of children is innocent and lovely, but sometimes the world of children is just as cruel as the world of adults. A little boy who likes to play pranks told Bright that the death of a person's mother means that the child is too bad. This made Brett's fragile heart completely collapse at the moment, "If my mother was still here, you wouldn't say that, you're so bad." At this time, she was like a wounded bird, whining mournfully .
Bright also began to wonder if her mother died because she was not obedient enough, so she secretly came to her cousin's house at night and said to her cousin, "Kill me, I want to die, I want to disappear, I want to go Mom's there..."
This realistic film, which suddenly becomes surreal at the end, is unexpectedly dramatic.
Everyone kept telling her over and over again, Mommy won't come back, Mommy is dead, you'll never see her again and so on, the setbacks again and again failed to make Bright give up, because only by believing can There's hope so Brett didn't seem to be doing nothing before, God seemed to hear her prayers, Brett met her mom, and mom told her, maybe the director was using this to tell a child or an adult who was grieving like Brett , Don't be sad, don't cry, live bravely and healthily, "To live is to try all kinds of life, to care about life."
In the end, Bright wore the red sweater given by her mother, a red sweater that symbolizes happiness, and said goodbye to her mother. In the future, her mother will not appear in her life, but her mother said to her: "Don't forget my love, Bright, want to Happy."
Bright got into his father's car, and that innocent smile, the sincere smile undoubtedly told us that she was relieved, and as the ending said, "Mom told me to be happy"
We have seen Bright's strength , after waiting alone, there will inevitably be a new horizon......
View more about Ponette reviews
