Therefore, what I see in this movie is also the power of relationship, the relationship between mother and boy, and the salvation and destruction that this relationship brings to the mother.
In the latter part of the film, when Joy was interviewed by the TV station, she said: With Jack, everything is different. This is the beginning, it represents salvation, and it is also the content described in the beginning of the film: in the cramped and narrow space, because of the existence of Jake, joy handles everything with patience, occasionally conflicts break out, she will endure, and can't help but break out , The mother and son depend so much on each other that Joy can't even tolerate letting the predator see or touch Jake. This relationship was also confirmed in a later interview. Joy said that Jake belonged to her alone.
And this unhealthy relationship formed in extreme environments finally brought destruction to Joy.
When the radio host asked Joy if he ever wanted to send Jake away and let him have a normal childhood, Joy was completely stunned. She reflexively asked: Why should I do this? Then the camera switched to the whole family sitting silently at the dinner table. In this scene, the director’s control and the actors’ acting skills were greatly brought into play. Joy looked like a “heart as gray” and “willing to die”. This day In the evening, she chose to end her life and made a choice that she hadn't made in the seven years of being imprisoned in a small room.
Later in the film, Jake rescued Joy again.
One of the scenes that touched me the most in the whole film was that grandma helped Jack cut his hair. Jake said: I love you, grandma. At that moment, I felt the whole person melted from the inside to the outside, and tears were streaming down my eyes. And at the end of the film, Joy cried and said: I am not a good mother, and Jake said: But, mother is mother. It's hard to say whether a little angel like jake is born or nurtured, but he wants to transfer energy to his mother. Grandma also said that people transfer energy to each other.
To extend it further, when Joy was abducted, her parents also chose a different approach. My mother has a new boyfriend. From the moment when he interacted with Jake, he was undoubtedly a warm man with high EQ, which undoubtedly brought healing to Joy's mother. On the other hand, Joy's father walked away alone, and he didn't even want to look at Jake at the dinner table, showing a reaction of incompetent control over his own emotions. Obviously, after the original relationship was destroyed, he did not succeed in establishing a new relationship, and he could not be saved.
From this perspective, the entire film is actually talking about the reshaping of relationships. When in a small room, there is a relationship between mother and child. When the balance is broken and the relationship is broken, the imbalance shown by adults is more obvious than that of innocent children, so it is up to the little angel to save. If we go even further, following the TV host’s questioning, Joy sent the baby away five years ago. Since then, this child has nothing to do with her. He is no longer called Jack. Maybe he will live well and grow up to be completely different. Look like. What about joy? What will joy become?
Perhaps this is also the reason why Joy chose to self-destruct. If she made sacrifices five years ago to save her son, her own destruction would be almost inevitable. Therefore, Joy almost instinctively made the opposite choice. Although this choice did save the two of them five years later, after getting out of the predicament, when a mother woke up and faced the suffering of her son because of her own selfishness. Among them, her collapse is also understandable.
It's just that joy's torture of conscience has hurt Jake again, so Jake said angrily on the phone: This time it is up to me to make the decision!
This probably shows that the relationship is two-way, unilateral thinking about right or wrong or making a decision can easily cause harm to the other side of the relationship. Human nature's instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, as well as acquired morals and emotions, make it very difficult to maintain a healthy relationship. Among all living beings, most people are like joy and her father, who often show powerless cynicism towards their environment. A small number of people are like grandma and her boyfriend. The higher emotional intelligence shows more tolerance, and they can truly be like little angel jake. There are too few people who are purely naive, gentle and loving.
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