If it wasn't for Pa, I wouldn't have known about this little film that had a bad box office in 2006.
Sarah has a master's degree in literature, but she has no choice but to be a housewife, enduring a husband who cheats in disguise, and is also out of tune with other housewives in the neighborhood who are always chatting about household chores.
A group of housewives (mostly elderly) discuss Madame Bovary at a small book club. A young housewife said that Madame Bovary cheated, she was a slut, what kind of morality is this, and this book has no value (as expected, there are people in any era and background who will judge literature by "moral value"), Sarah is very gentle. retorted:
She marries the wrong man, makes one foolishest mistake after another. But she's trapped, she can either accept the life of misery or she can struggle against it. She chooses to struggle. She fails in the end, but there's something beautiful, and even heroic in her rebellion. It's not cheating, it's the hunger. The hunger for alternative, and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness.
Like Madame Bovary, Sarah is trapped by her identity as a "housewife", and when she wants to escape but has no way out, she meets Brad.
I really didn't find much good in the role of Brad. She has a strong and capable working wife, but she failed to get her lawyer's license repeatedly. In the end, she simply gave up on her own and did not review it. She watched the teenagers skateboard at the skatepark for a few hours. Brad is good to children, and it's not bad to be a family cook, but under the pressure of his wife, he lives very hard. Like Sarah, he had a desire to run away from everything and do something out of the ordinary.
On the night of his elopement appointment with Sarah, Brad passed by the skatepark, and the teenagers recognized him and suggested that he come twice. Brad accepts, but it falls hard. This fall made him sober, and Brad realized that he didn't really want to do anything out of the ordinary, but the dull and depressing life made him unable to get rid of such "ideas".
When talking about Brad in the interview, Pa said that he is not that kind of person at all, but he has Brad by his side. It seems that good actors can empathize.
The film's best character is Ronnie, a pedophile criminal. After parole, he returned to the neighborhood of Sarah and Brad, and lived in his mother's house, where he was not seen by anyone but his mother. This character runs through the whole film, taking the tone of the whole story out of the "derailment". After learning that Ronnie had moved in, the housewives sneered at him and were more careful to protect their children; the men hated him deeply, and even a radical man went to his house to shout and harass him when he had nothing to do.
One day, in the hot weather, Ronnie went to swim in the swimming pool in the block. As a result, a mother's scream caused all the adults and children in the pool to escape. Within a few seconds, only Ronnie was left in the entire pool. Soon, Ronnie was taken away by the police who came, and when he left, he turned around and said:
I was only trying to cool off.
At the end, Ronnie's mother quarreled with the man who came looking for trouble and died unexpectedly. Ronnie almost collapsed after finding her mother's message: " be a good boy ", and his nature prevented him from being a good boy. He only hoped not to be evil, so he made a clear wish from the palace, and then ran to the children's playground in the block in the middle of the night to cry.
At this time, Sarah and Brad, who was waiting for her daughter to elope, saw Ronnie and went to ask, but the younger daughter ran away alone at this moment. Sarah searched frantically, and immediately realized that she had always cared about her little daughter, not Brad. The idea of running away is just a "thought".
In the end, the troublemaker finally found out after knowing what happened to Ronnie and sent Ronnie to the hospital.
They were all little children .
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