Director: Todfield
The corner of this black poster is the natural body of both sexes, and both men and women show tired faces, just like the film's theme - the alienation of modern marriage and free humanity. "Being a Mother" is more like a mixture of the Oscar film "American Beauty" and the popular American drama "Desperate Housewives", which belongs to a small-scale ethical drama.
The film uses unchanging ideas to guide the hopeless but common dead ends in modern marriages, but whenever the right breakthrough that symbolizes beauty comes, everything returns to reality. This kind of detour has brought back, step by step, the true disposition that a free individual has lost. However, the fate that was so cruel that it could not be changed still maintained their respective trajectories, in vain and in vain.
The pressure on Brad was almost invisible and invincible. His departure from mainstream cognition completely reduces the soul of the individual to zero. The family life of taking care of the kids is all there is to this typical loser of modern society, so he can sit all night watching the kids skateboard. This kind of behavior is actually a kind of struggle in the inner world, and it is a matter of worry. Met Sarah, everything happened, and the two lonely bodies and souls finally found a trust to get rid of their misery. However, why can't fate make the encounter eternal?
Sarah can't take care of children, and has a room where her past youth is placed. She couldn't look directly at the gap between herself and reality. Facing those housewives who had come over, she could kiss Brad, who had never been before, intuitively. What Brad gave her was complete liberation. She could reorganize her soul, which had been lost for a long time, in front of her eyes. Being able to get rid of the shackles of the family was paramount. So, she can let go more than Brad. The sparks of the two people finally collided and became the outbreak of passion. However, the innate sensibility of women is ultimately different from the innate rationality of men. She and her sustenance are still unable to fulfill their wishes, even if it is a risky behavior.
The film seems to remind young married people that the spiritual struggle they face is not the attraction of the body, nor the entrustment of the soul, but is ultimately the responsibility of the self and the growth of human nature. The original title of the film "Little Children" sincerely pours out all kinds of melancholy bodies, and a person's maturity is hard-won.
"Being a Mother" interprets the whole picture of family life with numerous group dramas. Everything outside of Brad & Sara is on duty to root out Brad Sara's "good life". These real-life characters, talking about the same things, carefully balanced, out of sync with Brad and Sarah. However, these people are the masses recognized by mainstream society.
These people belong to the middle class, they have no worries about food and clothing, but their spiritual world is abnormally empty. In these bottomless pit-like nothingness, everyone is still continuing the shrewdness and desire of the middle class. The housewives are talking about "Lady Bovary", and they are still accusing themselves of deep criticism. In fact, all kinds of remarks are not important, the important thing is to maintain the arch of chastity that you keep, and slander the beauty and courage in human nature. This status quo is typical of these middle classes, where the private is above all else.
Brad and Sarah are kind people, no doubt about that. Life is full of flavors, there is no doubt about that. As Brad relieved his mind through expanding communication, Sarah seemed to be the medicine that even a psychiatrist could not give. So, on his way to elope, he will try what he has been focusing on and miss the chance to change. And Sarah, in the nightmare of the child's loss, found the power of motherhood and miraculously returned to the home she was willing to escape from. As a result, everything returned to the starting point, and what this pair of mandarin ducks got was emotional release and life tempering.
Of course, Brad and Sarah would love to go home. Because, the theme of the film is to describe the alienation in modern life. This film maintains the artistic conception of black emotions. There is no inspiration to motivate people, and there is no despair of compassion. Some only show the social status quo of interpersonal relationships and ethical love. Such films cannot be concluded with various distinct doctrines, such as the fate of women concerned by feminists, and the social status of patriarchal society. In essence, Being a Mother focuses on the alienation and emotional void of modern society.
People are always understanding and discussing the word redemption, and the redemption suggested by "Being a Mother" ultimately lies in the growth and maturity of the self. The scary thing is that the price of maturity is to abandon the world that the true self has created. Therefore, this dark emotional story can also tell us what kind of mentality and emotion the process between reality and ideal is reduced to zero. In the final analysis, the road that Brad and Sarah must take in the end is still to be independent, or to form an independent self, which can stand upright in the fate without falling down.
A realist work is like this, so that the ideal is finally disillusioned into reality; this is also the case with a black-themed work, so that fate has never been defined.
The translation of the title of this film was really ineffective and failed.
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