I have a lot of thoughts from watching this episode. First of all, the black mother tries to avoid the identity branding of race. I don’t know if there is a problem with my understanding. After all, my son went to a black university, but she refused to take her son back to his hometown to see his uncle and his family. The painful memories left here later mentioned all reflect the mother's avoidance, and avoidance means fear. The video recorder that can go back in time seems to give her the opportunity to avoid problems, but in fact it forces her to face her fear again and again, which makes me Thinking of the story of the female writer in the lunatic asylum, because of guilt and fear, she has created an insurmountable high temperature circle for herself. So face the fear before it grows, otherwise every escape is nourishing it.
Secondly, has the mother really conquered her fear? The video recorder has become a talisman-like existence in the past ten years, so when the granddaughter accidentally smashed the video recorder, the mother's psychological defense line collapsed instantly. The sound of the police car at the end of the film does not necessarily mean that the problem has reappeared. But the mother may have to face her fears all over again for the rest of her life.
Finally, there is a very mysterious idea. In the play, the son once said that he believes that everything happens is inevitable. Since the Big Bang, all particle motions have their own laws, so does this indicate that even if you have magic tools, you can Looking back in time, even if you know the nodes of every event in the future, and even if you keep revising the direction of events, you are just creating a few forks on the road to the same destination, and your life is already doomed. It can't be fixed, it's terrible.
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