Re-watching it after half a year, it is still the first in the history of personal movie viewing. This is a masterpiece that shines light on this woman and mother.
We want to live alone just because we think that's right. We've always stood our ground - and on this basis, that's why Dorothy can only spend her life fighting against the entire world, against the entire world dominated by patriarchy and squeezed by selfishness. Dorothy has never had a self, because she has been serving others all her life, and because of this, her subject has become the identity of a mother and a woman. In this sense, she has achieved a full and fiery self.
She represents countless mothers who have been coerced by power, domestic violence, and mistreated by the whole society, but they have tried their best to fight. Even if her own daughter defected, she still lives with Vera—an independent woman who is only controlled by her own rules—this is the sympathy between women, and Dorothy wants to keep Vera alive , as she has done for the past two decades; Vera wants to fulfill herself, while also "preserving" Dorothy - with that huge inheritance. And when Dorothy really understood what Vera wanted—death, because aging is always the deadliest and most vicious curse—the two women fit together like never before, beyond the past twenty years of employment, or even beyond At this moment, the moment Dorothy raised her rolling pin, the rift between her and the whole world was mercilessly torn open again.
Eighteen years ago, when her husband-killing case was brought up again, people wouldn't care about this woman's experience, they wouldn't understand her struggle, and they wouldn't even try to understand—this already hypocritical behavior— They stand proudly on the side of the so-called "justice" with their own opinions, and maintain the so-called order of the so-called law. They never try to experience the love that white paper can never carry, a kind of love that is hidden deep in a mother's heart. Love that bursts out beautifully.
Selena's last line of defense was the past that she was trying to forget when she was sexually assaulted by her biological father, and Dorothy's last line of defense was also defeated by this - not her suffering marriage life, not even intended to use it. The savings to help her daughter escape this hell are stolen by demons. A blasphemy against her beloved was a blasphemy against her own God, and in Dorothy it was a blasphemy against herself. Dorothy refuses to run away. Facing the ridicule of others, facing her husband, bank manager, and sheriff who represents patriarchy, she is always resisting, she resists for her daughter, and for all women. She won.
Did she win?
Nothing can break a woman - except aging, and only aging.
The cool colors of reality alternate with the warm colors of memories. During the solar eclipse, the entire sky turns blood red, which fully renders the emotions; thanks to Kathy Bates for her superb acting skills; the wonderful and ingenious transitions are also a highlight. .
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