The film tells the story of the mother and daughter, who were once nobles but fell into the middle of the family. The two lived in a dilapidated and dirty house for many years. The Messos brothers brought the mother-daughter poor life and eccentric behavior to life in a straight-up film. The two of them have been dependent on each other for many years but are full of contradictions - the daughter complains that her mother has imprisoned her and makes her lose everything, and the mother complains that her daughter does not care about herself. The life of mother and daughter is full of quarrels and contradictions.
Their lives seem to be very bad, but they have been used to this kind of life, who were once nobles. Mother spends most of the time lying on that dirty bed, never tidying or tidying up, but she doesn't think it's dirty, she just always looks back on the past of the noble life on the bed, listens to the radio, sings and shows She sang with pride, then looked at her daughter. My daughter always wants to escape from life here. She yearns for the outside world and love. She likes to dress herself up, and although her tastes are peculiar, this may be her last dignity as a "noble". She is not as inconvenient as her mother, but she does not clean the house even though she is able-bodied, because she has long been paralyzed by this closed life.
Although Little Edie looks lively and funny, it can't hide her strong disappointment with the status quo. At the beginning of the film, there is a conflict between little Edie and her mother. Little Edie said: "I can't leave here until she or I die." And the mother said: "You can't be free because you are being Funded.” This contradiction is the contradiction that runs through the documentary.
After watching the whole film, my biggest feeling is that people must love life, not just to live. Losing interest in life like Mother and Daughter Edie, making a mess of my own life without knowing it, is unacceptable in my view. Even though there are many people who think that this is their way of life, there is no right or wrong, but I think that life should be lived with meaning and value. Even if life is not rich, it can be well-organized, and it can be created with both hands. little beauty.
As a direct film, it will not actively stimulate the generation of contradictions and excavate the content of the story like a real film, but will record what happened as a quiet recorder. This can lead to a lack of storytelling in direct movies. But in the documentary "Grey Garden", I feel that the whole show is full of dramatic conflicts, which makes people interested in watching it. I think this must be due to the fact that the person being photographed is full of contradictions and conflicts. The contradiction between little Edie and his mother, the contradiction between ideal and reality, is enough of a story in itself, which makes it better that the Messos brothers do not need to deliberately create or cause contradictions when shooting. Show people the truest side of mother and daughter.
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