Another tough family

The main character Nick said at the end of the day "what a tough day", indeed, Nick's house is another kind of family in a tough situation, different from the ones I've known before: poverty and hardship, low income or family bedridden or something like that , Nick's family's biggest confusion lies in his wife, Meb, a woman who is not very neurotic. In the words of his son's evaluation of his mother, "Mom, you are very smart and beautiful, but you are a little nervous." From the beginning of the movie, Meb sent three kids away with her mother-in-law, and it made me feel like something was wrong, but I couldn't tell, and then her terrible one-night stand, entertaining Nick's co-workers, picking up the kids from school and asking the time until Nick was caught In the crazy carnival and other episodes, it is very specific and real to let you feel the various words and deeds of an abnormal woman. She is sometimes normal and sometimes lost in her own will. The acting skills of the actors are really superb, reminds me of "Rain Man" Hoffman in "My Left Foot" and Louis and the simple and honest Forrest Gump.
What is touching is that what sustains such a difficult family is the deep love between each of them. Although Nick finally got rough with Meb, his inner anxiety and unspeakable pain were etched on his face like a knife. At the beginning of the movie, he refused to work overtime in order to spend the holiday with Meb, and tried his best to correct the worker's misunderstanding. His wife was crazy, to the disappointment and painful admission that his wife was crazy, and later to invite many relatives and friends to hold a PARTY just to surprise his wife who was going home. He loves Meb. There are three children, and she is the protector of her mother. At the end of the movie, Nick wanted to quiet Meb alone and carried the children upstairs. The children were afraid that their father would hurt their mother, so they stopped Nick, ran downstairs over and over again, and drove Nick away from Meb.
The movie is lengthy, it's all about life details, there's a lot of dialogue, but everyone does a great job. I think that one or two people in a movie perform well because of a great actor. If a group of people perform well, then thanks to the director.
Also, I don’t know if the director has another meaning in it. When I watched the part where my mother-in-law was going to kick Meib out and the doctor wanted to give her an injection, I seemed to feel a kind of fear. Looking at her mother-in-law's ruthless eyes, a kind of ruthlessness that normal people attack abnormal people. Who can say that he is normal.

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