there is a kind of love that will never change, unforgettable, eternal memory, once lost, it will be eternally mourned and unforgettable. This love is the relationship between mother and child.
I admit that the film "Mother and Son" is a heart-warming film. It doesn't have the vulgar scenes of Hollywood commercial films, but it relies on a first-class director, a first-class cast, and several moving themes. . But this is not a movie entirely about love, like the Chinese translation of the movie "Love is around you".
This is a film about the choices, relationships, and love-hate complex emotional connections between women and their children, and the impact this life has on mothers and children, changing their life paths and emotional paths. . What the film is trying to say is that if mothers and daughters are unable to deal with an interdependent relationship, the entanglement and conflict can have lifelong consequences, changing their perceptions of life, as well as their perceptions of men, sex and marriage. recognition and understanding.
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The film revolves around three women, one is a single physiotherapist A in her 50s, who has been living in the shadow of being forced to give up her daughter to be raised by others when she was pregnant at the age of 14; the other is a 37-year-old blonde beauty B, young There is a lawyer who lives with emotional anger and imbalance because he was abandoned by his biological mother at birth; a young married but infertile female boss C, who would rather lose his marriage than give up because he desperately wants to adopt a child Black women with adoption ideas. These three independent stories of women are bound together by fate.
Just like the title of the film "Mother and Child", this is a touching story dedicated to the relationship between mother and child, and other stories are branched with green leaves made around this theme. Most importantly, it brings together several important topics that women have to face in their entire lives, such as early pregnancy, abandonment, adoption, the relationship between mother and daughter, and the resulting sexual and emotional relationship between women and men. Together, weaved into a touching film.
All of these questions alone can be made into a movie, because the problems and choices a woman faces in her life are so important, the decisions made because of these choices, and even the turning points that change a woman's life produced by these decisions are all Unexpected. And dare to put all these major themes related to the turning point of a woman's life into a movie, and you can see the courage and skill of the director.
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Early pregnancy and abandonment: Many women may encounter the tangle of early pregnancy and abandonment in their lives. The problem is how to make a choice, and whether this choice will affect your life is one of the themes that this movie tries to tell you. The film explores the psychology of two early-pregnant women and the choices they have to make.
Single physiotherapist A gave birth to a daughter at the age of 14, but was forced to abandon her because her mother made a decision for her, and this decision will directly affect their mother and daughter's life and how they treat each other in the years to come. Attitude. In the film, there is another black girl who was pregnant at an early age. Although her early pregnancy at the age of 20 repeated the same mistakes in her life when her mother was also pregnant at the age of 20, because of the different times and her mother's love and understanding for her, she finally gave up. Abandonment options. Her mother told her, I didn't want you back then, but looking back, I couldn't survive without my love for you now. In the end, the girl chose not to give up the child because she did not know whether she would regret it later. When it comes to regret, what this movie repeatedly states is that regret is a bitter fruit that you will taste for a lifetime. If you don’t want to regret your life, you should make the decision to change your regret now, no matter what the decision is, whether it is to change the idea of abandonment, or to renew it. Find lost children.
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Mother-daughter relationship: Another focus of this film is to tell the mother-daughter relationship, the most experienced, most difficult, most difficult, emotional tangle that annoys all women in the world. Most mothers and daughters actually love each other deeply, but they don't know how to deal with each other's delicate emotional relationship, because many things done in the name of love may hurt each other's feelings and cause lifelong misunderstandings.
The two most sad and tearful mother-daughter relationships are the emotional entanglements between A and her mother, who has been with her all her life, and her daughter, B, whom she met. A has been living in the shadow of early pregnancy and forced to lose her daughter, unable to extricate herself and unhappy all her life. Her mother felt very guilty because she saw her daughter was unhappy all her life, but was unable to communicate with her, so she did not happy. Two unhappy mothers and daughters spend their lives together but cannot open up the plot 36 years ago that pushed both of them on a lifelong regrettable journey. It was not until the death of the single physiotherapist's mother that she learned from the mouths of others that her mother felt sorry for her all her life, because her decision made her daughter live in the shadow of feelings all her life. After listening to this, A burst into tears and felt that her mother should tell her personally, let her unload this emotional burden, and understand that her mother actually understands her inner world. In fact, before A's mother died, she looked at her daughter with tears in her eyes, but in the end she was hesitant to say anything. This is a meaningful shot, a touching moment.
The daughter of a single physiotherapist, B, a 37-year-old young and promising lawyer, was abandoned by her biological mother since she was a child and lived in the confusion and pain of her own feelings. She resented her mother's decision back then, and also resented her not coming to find her own behavior. This resentment made her psychologically depressed and distorted, and she decided not to marry or have children for the rest of her life. This decision made her emotionally distrust and never invest in men. Sex is her means of using men, and once this means achieves its purpose, she doesn't care about the morality of her actions or the withdrawal of men. It is such a woman who is indifferent in love and independent in her career. Once she becomes pregnant unexpectedly, her feelings for her biological mother have undergone tremendous changes. As she said, all resentment towards her biological mother will follow the pregnancy And the smoke disappeared, resulting in the belief to find the biological mother.
Mother A and Woman B have been concerned about each other and miss each other all their lives, but they have missed each other all their lives because of their own pains. Until the last B's children intertwined their concern and longing. The life turning point brought about by the mutual mental pain and torture of the two of them is the highlight of the film, and it is also the most touching point.
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Relationships between men and women: The physiology that women can have children is where men can never really understand women, and is what ultimately changes women's perceptions of men. Between men and women, in fact, there is always a distant ocean of understanding. Only a few men who are willing to make an effort to go by ferry can finally enter a woman's heart.
For A, if her first love was not destroyed by the early pregnancy, she might end up marrying the boy who will never forget each other in her whole life. However, it backfired. She gave birth to a child at an early pregnancy and abandoned the child to a stranger, which caused her almost a lifetime of pain and suffering. The most important thing is that if A's mother did not intervene in this and made such a choice for A, A might not regret it so much, which seriously affected the relationship between A and her mother, and also caused A's mother to witness her daughter's life. Anxiety caused by pain. If A's child changed her life, then her relationship with her mother also determined that she could not be happy in her life.
Fortunately, A's mother finally passed away, so that A finally had a chance to face life alone and make a new choice. And the man who helped her make this choice was a man who was willing to cross the ocean of her soul and walk with her. Such a man's understanding allows A to choose peace in the end, and this inner peace leads her to unload the emotional burden that she has carried on her shoulders for almost a lifetime.
A's daughter B, whom A cares about all her life but has no chance to meet, was abandoned by her biological mother since she was a child. Later, the inner pain caused by the discord with her adoptive parents prompted her to be disappointed with men, children and marriage. At the age of 17, she made the decision not to have children forever . It is such a woman with a beautiful appearance but a broken heart that becomes a man's killer. While hurting others emotionally, she may not be happy. B is not as lucky as her biological mother, A, to meet a man who is willing to understand her. But in the end, what changed her opinion was her unintended pregnancy. This child changed her resentment towards her biological mother and filled her heart with tenderness. B is the character that makes my heart hurt the most, a woman who is emotionally lonely and stubborn. A woman whom I most sympathize with and wish that she could find her mother and finally find peace and happiness in her heart.
The mutual concern and longing between A and B is touching, and it is truly heartbreaking to see the two of them struggling in a city with their own emotional burdens. Although A got a man who understood her in the second half of her life, her concern and longing for her daughter B remained in her heart all her life.
This is a film that confronts the inner world of all women, about the pain, pervading and loss of women, about the lifelong interaction of mothers on daughters. Whether you are a mother or a daughter, whether you are single or married, whether you have children or not, you should watch this movie because it makes you understand that many emotional entanglements in a woman's life are for a reason, whether emotional or not No matter how painful your heart is, as long as you are finally willing to understand each other, release your heart, and release your feelings, you can still make a new choice in life, no matter how late the choice is.
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"Mother and Son" is the latest touching novel written and directed by Rodrigo García, the director of the films "Tower of Babel" and "21 Grams". Through the three stories of three women, he finally connects them together, forming a film that touches the deepest emotions of women. The writing and director of this film made me admire him with admiration. It is a rare talent for a man to understand the inner hesitation and despair of a woman so much. The film stars excellent mother actresses Annette Bening and Naomi Watts. The two of them interpret the pain, confusion, loss and grief between mother and daughter on the road of life and relationship extremely well. tears.
The film, with a budget of seven million, has only made a profit of more than one million since its release in May 2010. It can be said to be a box office fiasco. In addition to the fact that this film is an independent film with a small production, it cannot be selected and promoted by Hollywood blockbusters, and the emotional disappointment generated by the structure of the film has to be said to be a failure of the film.
I agree with many of the director's views and the director's intentions, but because of the ambition to finally connect the three stories, he lost the most moving main line of the story, that is, the emotional echo between A and B. If this film only shoots the love-hate clutch between A and B, then the moving effect of this film is very strong. After all, the human heart is full of flesh, it is impossible to bear too much pain and loss, and there is no way out for the audience's feelings, which is disappointing. There are too many pains and losses in life. When the audience watches the movie, no matter what, they hope that the movie will surpass the hardships in life and make people feel glorious. But if such a moving movie ends like this with A and B, then the audience's inner emotional bearing point is too great. If this film allows A and B to finally find each other's feelings for reunion and reunion, then the effect of this film will be greater and more heartwarming.
The film actually uses one of my favorite '60s blockbuster American singer and poet Paul Simon's famous song "Mother and Son Reunited" as the title.
"No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine.
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again."
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