In order to reduce the emotional expression, I did not write this film review when I watched it for the first time, and then dragged it for nearly ten years to watch it for the second time, and I did not find any obvious social engineering perspective to intervene. But in a way, this film taught me another lesson, that Western parents are emotionally involved with their adult children just like us Easterners, and that a mother's love knows no borders and cultures; and more Even more than our expression, when the director expresses these delicate emotions, the right soundtrack seems to be more in line with any local cultural music we have come into contact with. Yes, compared to the prose-like narrative method, what impressed me most about this movie was the soundtrack of several specific scenes in it. It was pleasant, comfortable and directly touching my heart. Maybe it was at the same frequency as the sound of my heartbeat, which made my heart sway. a feeling of. It is probably the kind worthy of the recitation of Zhu Ziqing's "Back View". After writing this, I should look for it.
I saw this movie by coincidence, probably because of Youku Big Data based on my browsing records and related actors. The key words are family affection and the actor who plays the black woman who is about to adopt a child in the film. "Half the Sky" plays a person who is in charge of child domestic violence work in the Welfare Department. "Half the Sky" is a representative of social work services such as "colored people, women, domestic violence, children" and is recommended by social workers. watch. Since the film is in pure English and has no subtitles, it is difficult to watch it, and it is worth discussing it in detail after watching it again.
Speaking of this film, my first impression was not touching, but more of a feeling. The process of watching the film is like being in a quiet flowing water. Most of the time it is very calm but the plot is attractive. People watch it, and when those beautiful music are played, it will make people feel a touch of sadness. This sadness should come from the resonance brought by the deepest emotions in the world, and the regret for a mother who lost her life for her child. And the empathy that arises when feeling pain with a mother who has lost a child, and the openness of mind that is finally relieved by a daughter who has lost a mother. When I waited the second time, some receptive things were fading, and I couldn't help but pay attention to the places that attracted me, and began to wonder where those attractions came from? And why?
Although it is a drama, the only emotional explosion scene in the film is still very shocking to people. Suddenly facing the loss of a child who should have been raised by her, also meant that her dream of becoming a mother was instantly shattered. The woman's collapse in the hospital seemed incomprehensible, but the above two reasons seemed to be in the past, that's all. It conveys to us a woman's desire to become a mother and her loss of inability, allowing people to intuitively see the huge energy hidden in a woman's body, which is more in line with the main theme of the film, that is, a woman's love for mother-child relationship based on " The desire for the role of mother". This latent energy is the tension of the film, not just in her, but in the body of the white woman, and of course in the body of every woman in this film, the mother, and we'll be on different occasions , experience their release in different ways.
In a film about mothers, each mother has different personalities, but their life trajectories are almost similar. As we all agree, a mother is not born, first someone else's daughter, then someone else's wife, and finally a mother. Therefore, from the very beginning, when Elizabeth appeared on the stage, she used a neat, powerful and indifferent attitude to disguise herself. She refused to be a mother without getting enough maternal love, but gradually accepted her destiny as a mother after an unexpected pregnancy. It is her energy that her little life forgets the tragedy that fate has imposed on her. The 51-year-old Jialan punished herself for the mistakes she made when she was young. At the same time, she also had a estrangement in her love for her mother. The interweaving of the two made her have a natural cold and violent confrontation with the surrounding, rational effort and inability to deal with everything between people. warmth. However, the death of her mother made her re-examine her own life, and after unraveling the knot in her heart through the bridge built by her, the energy in her body was released, and she finally learned to accept the care and expression of her people. Then there is Jialan's nanny, her maternal energy is the love for her young children, she is still not humble or arrogant to maintain her own self-esteem and her children's self-esteem in the face of the employer's censure, which interprets the equality of a mother. The female college student who was pregnant out of wedlock did not understand her mother and was unwilling to accept the unexpected arrival of her child. She expressed her independence and ruthlessness by sending her to be raised, but in the end, she betrayed a confident person and declared her right as a mother. , it must be her mother who made her change her mind overnight, and the awkward and inseparable blood connection between the two was finally resolved and restarted through the dramatic burst scene. Of course, there is also Jialan's mother, the mother of black women...the unique energy that belongs to them all tells everyone: as a woman, a mother, while interfering with her children, from the beginning to the end, she carries an infinite amount of energy from the beginning to the end. Love, try to make up for the mistakes made or use death to make up the gaps that cannot be filled in the middle, because it is impossible for every mother and child to be happy, so you can see joys and sorrows.
A film about mothers and children seems to express all possible joys and sorrows in the world, whether heavy or light. Everyone may lose a mother or face losing a child. Losing a mother's child is of course a tragedy, but it may also unexpectedly gain another kind of implication between people. She may encounter a warm-hearted colleague, When a blind child who has not yet experienced the world meets an adoptive mother who has long been regarded as his own, or even a stranger who is just a nanny at home, one kind of misfortune will not be connected to another kind of misfortune. So in the film, we see some helplessness (Careen didn't see her daughter and didn't get rid of those pimples before her mother died) and established reality (Lisa didn't want to get pregnant but unexpectedly got pregnant and died because of pregnancy), we are not ugly. To the shining points that belong to the ties between people, such as Kate's kindness, the sincerity of the male care worker and her daughter's sincere care and love for Careen, as well as the understanding and support of the black boss in the office.
In addition to these flashes of human warmth, many of the moving details that make up this film are also worthy of our aftertaste after watching, which brings the feeling of sudden realization, so as to understand the director's clear revelation, a little " Attempt" is happy. For example, the 14-year-old blind girl Elizabeth met. The communication between the two mirrored the communication between her and her mother who had just given birth to her. Watching the blind girl's worries about the future, full of desire and indifferent attitude towards sex, but In fact, she only has a small body that can't bear anything. As the heroine, Elizabeth begins to truly understand the reality of the 14-year-old mother abandoning herself. And in the end, the last time the two met in the elevator, so close, the blind girl was unaware of her existence, as if a mother and daughter couldn't recognize each other in fate. At this time, the girl's expression in the camera was always blurred. , only the complex facial expressions of Elizabeth, the psychological activity behind it may be pity, wanting to give that young mother a hug across the river of time, maybe those former expectations and resentments will finally be put down and become a new life extension expectations and a sense of responsibility to be a mother. Another scene also touched me, and I seemed to see my own shadow, which was the push between Careen and her stepdaughter at the moment of distributing food at a picnic. The shadow of the rebellion of the 14-year-old mother who turned out later, on the other hand, insisted that everything should be done by herself and did not accept the help of others, so she always misunderstood the goodwill of others. It seems to be the sequelae of that incident, or perhaps the original character Part of us, like most of us today, behind every time we face the kindness of others, we always wonder if there is a loss that we haven't expected, so we are overstressed?
In the long river of time, we will always be affected by past events. In the relationship between mother and child, it has never been as intimate and complete as always, always mixed with various pains and regrets, but the mother's love is deep and does not need too much explanation. , and there is no need for praise and excessive praise, it is an instinctive female potential. It's just that there are many crystal clear things called "Legacy Pearls" around this deepest feeling, which must coexist with heart, affection, and empathy.
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