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If she didn't slap her feet, what happened later would not have happened.
This is a line in the play. It seems to be an inadvertent sentence. It is not until you watch the entire American drama that you understand how ironic it is.
If Madeline, played by Witherspoon, hadn't had her feet wobbly, she wouldn't have met Jane, another single mother who had just arrived in town, and if the single mother's son hadn't been involved in school bullying, there wouldn't have been The impact of the plot.
The main body of this drama unfolds among several families in a town, and each of them hides their own secrets. Whether it is school bullying and domestic violence, they are the most heart-wrenching parts of the family. When trivial secrets are constantly revealed, when someone can't bear it, big events come as expected...
Timeline Mashup
The first episode whetted the audience's appetite. At a party organized by the school, someone died, but it was unknown who it was.
The protagonists appear one after another, and you will understand that this is from before the incident, telling people that a tragedy has happened. In the past timeline, interspersed with the testimony of various witnesses in the interrogation room after the incident. You don't know who those people are, and you don't know their names until the end. But one thing is certain, they basically all appeared at the school party, and they were all people around the protagonist of the story, most of them were parents of children or people who worked in the school. In short, they became witnesses naturally. those people.
School bullying and domestic violence
In the first episode, a contradiction was buried. Jane's son became the focus of the school bullying incident. Renata's daughter was almost strangled to death and accused Jane's son of doing it. The latter denied that he did it. There must be someone lying here, but Renata's daughter has always been reluctant to tell the truth, including the fact that she was bitten afterward. Strangely, Jane's son didn't want to tell either, although he knew who it was. The feud between Renata and Jane continues to escalate.
Jane has been exhausted by this matter, and he can't let the child carry this heavy black cauldron. So the plot was arranged in the last episode, and the child said that the child who really abused was one of Celeste's two sons. After the truth was revealed, Celeste's domestic violence by her husband was also corroborated. The father's bad behavior has affected his son. What's more interesting is that this violent incident is also linked to Jane's nightmare.
Two women's nightmares come together
At the end, we find out that Jane's nightmare is so similar to Celeste's, because the protagonist of the nightmare is the same man. Jane was abandoned by a man who vented her sexual desires and had violent tendencies. In order to say goodbye to the past and start anew, she brought her son to this strange town to start a new life. But the nightmares of the past still haunt her, and the slander of her son makes her devastated; and Celeste's husband has always been violent to his wife, and they always end the conflict with intense sex. But to no avail, they went to see a psychiatrist together. The doctor saw the seriousness of domestic violence and gradually guided Celeste out of the cage of life.
This American drama is good at fast interspersed editing, such as finding a new place for herself in Celeste, when she is thinking in the mirror, all the most tragic domestic violence scenes appear in her mind, which have not appeared in the previous episodes. Seeing that the level of domestic violence Celeste was subjected to was very high, she had to get rid of it in time. The two children were afraid to tell the truth about bullying at school because the son Celeste had abused had threatened them. Like father like son, this is a terrible continuation.
Complete release after collective violent crime
The most exciting thing about this American drama is that in the final "one blow", the audience is looking forward to the end. The most exciting moment of watching the movie was when Jane saw Celeste's husband, the terrified expression on her face, and the person who used to flash back often had a specific image. God, people exclaimed, never thought that the protagonist of Jane's nightmare was Celeste's abusive husband.
The time lines are intertwined, and several heroines of the film are in the interrogation room to tell their own stories. The black policewoman opposite the glass in the interrogation room was sensitively aware that they were all lies, because the "lines" they said were all too similar, as if they had been rehearsed. Indeed, a domestic violence demon died, and he deserved it. The scene at that time was chaotic. The domestic abuser beat Celeste violently in front of several women. Several other women stopped it. At the critical moment, Bonnie, who had no direct relationship with the matter, arrived in time, taking advantage of Celeste's husband not paying attention. , pushed the demon down the stairs to his death. No matter who it was, the women present wanted to push the man down. This is a crime committed by several women collectively, but they know that it is not worth going to prison for this man, they have to lie again, tell a lie or two like they usually do, call it an accident, and they can get it once chance of rebirth.
Finally, a digression, the scale of HBO will not be small, although a family drama like this cannot be made as violent as "Game of Thrones". However, the 50-year-old Nicole Kidman is still not old. In the play, she once again showed her attractive figure. Although she did not have the beauty in "Eyes-Opening" 18 years ago, she still has a charm.
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