Perhaps Frank's presence,
In response to the single mother Adele, or the adolescent, slightly withdrawn son Henry, who had countless dreams about love in the middle of the night.
The whole movie is soaked in the warmth of the sun. It seems to be an intoxicating dream. The director tells the story that happened on a labor holiday with a narration that seems to be real.
The time was an early morning in 1987. The film is based on Joyce Maynard's novel "Labor Day," which was released in 2009. Most of the stories in the film take place in such a "home" space. Home is the original universe of human beings, which nurtures, carries and protects dreams. And "home" appears in the close-up and becomes the center of the film's narrative.
The music is pure guitar tone, the rhythm is upbeat, and everything doesn't seem so bad.
I really love this kind of beginning full of details and breath of life! In the early morning sun, the light fluff on the boy's arms and hands can be seen facing the sun, which is a metaphor for growth, age, youth and hormones.
From many details, we can feel that Adele, as a mother, is actually still the "little woman" who needs to be taken care of and loved, with a bit of shyness and cuteness. It can be said that it is sexy, plump and cute and shy coexist.
The relationship between a son and a mother should be one of mutual care. In fact, the boy's precocious puberty has a lot to do with the mother's personality.
Compared with the lively situation of having children after her ex-husband's remarriage, Adele, who is a single mother, and her son depend on each other for life, which is particularly deserted and lonely. Although Henry had the opportunity to travel with his new family formed by his father, he was still unavoidably lonely and hurt like an "outsider". A sentence of "never mentioned" and a sentence of "mental evaluation", we can gain insight into the breakdown of the previous marriage between the two. During the father-son conversation, we learned that Adele had suffered from depression.
Is "Longing for Love" really that important to a woman? For some women who have little desire for intimacy and can live well alone, they may lose their marriage and find the value and meaning of their own existence, and they can quickly find the joy of life. But Adele is obviously not such a woman.
The mother's fragility and pain are exchanged for the sensible and precocious son of the mother who loves her dearly.
"Oedipus"? I thought no, it should be some kind of expression of loving mother. He hopes to fill his mother's lonely heart through his own efforts. Perhaps when he was young, he was afraid of losing his mother and hoped to return to the once bright smile on his mother's face.
At this time, I probably understood that the music played in the morning should be what the boy did with his heart to make his mother have a good mood for the day. Those music, cheerful and bright, did not mean that the beginning of the story was full of hope, but a boy I hope that my mother will have a good mood from the morning.
Then, in such a context, Frank appeared.
Let Henry and Adele's choice begin to make sense.
I love that man picking daisies for women from the grass in the backyard. I liked the time he taught children to do carpentry and repair cars. Love the atmosphere when the three of them make peach pie together, sweet, warm, and the temperature of the sun and air is just right.
This kind of film is not noisy at all, but it has the power surging in the deep sea. You can spy on it, the warm and pure longing in the heart of an abandoned woman. Like a flower, in front of the nourishment of love, from withering to blooming. A woman in full bloom, plump and full, is precisely because she met the right person. And when the child grows up, every bit of growth is marked with the memories of those days. In a sense, the man has become the boy's father, the mentor of growth. In just a few days, what a man teaches a boy benefits the child for a lifetime. In every boy's life, he needs a male role model who can be forgiven, accepted, recognized and affirmed...
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