This is a very gloomy movie. The rain, the dilapidated seaside cottage, the vicissitudes of the old woman, the rebellious daughter, and the bad things that happened in their lives. But after reading it, the feeling it gives is not negativity, but warmth and hope.
I was puzzled at first, but now I figure it out. Life can't always be so glamorous. Behind the quiet years, someone is carrying the burden for you. Whitewashing peace cannot save the pale reality.
I have read many stories, but this one can make me sit down and have a good talk with myself, and give me the courage to recall my broken past, wet my clothes with tears, and then feel that everything is not there So bad, I feel like I still have the courage and strength to live well.
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The characters are not too complicated, nor too grand in structure and background.
Dorothy, a servant in a seaside town, and her daughter Selena, who has been away from home for many years, an old policeman who wants to bring the old woman to justice, and a few words of justice at a critical moment. In addition, there are two people who have passed away, the old woman's husband, the old woman's master, or her friend Vera, and the rich woman who finally gave all her savings to her.
Selena is an excellent reporter, she is dedicated, sharp and intelligent, and she even sleeps with her boss for her career, which is common to her.
There is a classic line from beginning to end in the movie, which rich woman Vera once said to Dorothy: "Sometimes, the only way for a woman to survive is to be a bitch."
Selena hadn't heard that, but she'd been doing it, otherwise she wouldn't be able to be a good reporter on her own. She even held a grudge against her parents. After her father died unexpectedly, she doubted her mother, so she stayed away. It's just that she escaped not only from her mother, but also from her own broken memories.
Towards the end of the film, she finally remembered the memory of being blocked by herself. Her father had molested her, and she had escaped for so long. It was herself and her past, not her mother, who had been escaping.
She was short-tempered and determined, like the angry youths around us who always spoke out, and we always risked getting stabbed when dealing with such people. Like hedgehogs, they can pull out a thorn that has been cultivated for a long time and stab us at any time. But such people have a dead end, and ordinary people cannot easily approach them.
If everyone has an energy field, this kind of person may always be like a black hole, or a turbulent sea, but occasionally when you find his beautiful side, you will feel that the black hole is just an illusion, the sea is calm, beautiful and magnificent. is their essence.
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Kathy Bates, who played Dorothy, won an Oscar for best actress for her role in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel.
And this time, she is again starring in a film based on Stephen King's novel. This time, she played a woman who has been living at the bottom. She used to live a simple and peaceful life. She was a servant, her husband was an alcoholic, and her daughter was well-behaved and lovely. But her husband was disgusted because of her fat body, and the domestic violence scene was staged, but she was not willing to let it go, and started to fight back the first time, and warned him that if there was another time, the consequences would be disastrous.
Maybe she is more tenacious than the average woman, so that she can get rid of the crisis of domestic violence, but she never thought that her husband did not restrain, but stretched the devil's palm to his daughter. When she made up her mind to take her daughter away, she found that her husband had taken part of the money she had worked so hard to store in the bank, and even lied to the bank that she had lost her passbook and secretly transferred the small amount of money.
She was in a state of despair and despair.
At this time, the hostess, who has been bossing her, gave her an idea. There will be a solar eclipse soon. There will be various accidents on the day of the solar eclipse. way to resolve her confusion.
So she took the opportunity to solve her husband, who was lured by her into the grass in front of the door, and a well that had been dry for many years took him away from this world completely.
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After that, what we saw was the scene that appeared at the beginning of the film. The daughter heard that her mother was suspected of killing her mistress, and rushed back to collect material.
Vera, a rich woman, also lived an unfortunate life. Even though she was once rich, she also faced her husband's derailment, and she personally solved her husband on the way to a secret meeting with a lover.
Especially in her later years, her health deteriorated, she became incontinent, and had difficulty moving. This grief made her lose her patience with life, so she begged Dorothy to kill herself. In the end she died by suicide. While Dorothy was hesitant to carry out the master's order, she happened to be encountered by the postman, so she became a suspect.
She is not afraid of going to prison. In the face of fate, she is ready to "go to hell if I don't go to hell", so from the beginning, we have seen her so confident and calm, only when facing herself When she is a daughter, she will soften and show her warm side.
The most exciting part of the film is that daughter Selena uses a reporter's keenness and reasoning logic to persuade the judge and the police to prove her mother's innocence.
After walking for many years, she finally completed the reconciliation with herself, the understanding of her mother and the forgiveness of herself.
At that moment, I felt very happy and warm.
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This is a film about maternal love, a film about the friendship between women, and a film that can make people reconcile with themselves.
Don't run away from the truth of life, don't run away from yourself, even if you can't face the bleak life like a warrior, please stay awake, don't be confused, don't be sluggish, don't back down, life has slapped you on the left cheek, you can put the right I stretched out my face and let it pump again. There is no awakening that is not painful, and there is no realization that is not because of scars.
"Hot Tears Scar" seems to be telling me to laugh and cry and never give up.
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