Beautiful that can't stay

Larissa 2022-03-21 09:02:09

What's special in the film is that this slum is around Disneyland. It's a stark and ironic contrast where tourists splurge on pleasure, as if in paradise, and poor people live in cheap motels and work to make ends meet. The main characters in the film are the slum children headed by Moni, the parents of the children headed by Moni's mother Hayley, and Bobby, the manager who works in the hotel "Pink Castle". Moni is a single mother. Judging from her dress and behavior, this is the role of a troubled youth. Moni is also a by-product of the problem; Jianxi lives with her grandmother and has a younger sister, Jianxi. 's parents do not appear in the film; Dickie's family also has only a father; Scout should have a father, but the role of the father only has a voice, and the whole film has been the mother Ashley educating the child. Therefore, it can be roughly said that the people who live here hardly have a complete family, or that these children may be "left behind". In the supposedly glorious childhood, it is difficult to satisfy even the most basic family environment. I feel it is the most A place to think. The relationship between the characters of these families is "absent" and incomplete. In such a deformed family environment and a messy living environment, they are "dirty" and have no control over them, but they cannot be overwhelmed. Many accusations, they also need to survive. Moni sat on a crooked tree and said to Jianxi that it was her favorite tree, because the tree fell down, but it grew up. In fact, this sentence can be regarded as a metaphor for Moni or such individuals. They are not ordinary people, but more precisely "marginal people". Their income, life, education... The same protection as ordinary people, their state is struggling, confused or down. The director's shrewdness is that this thought-provoking sentence came from the mouth of a little girl - two friends who had just met, holding the bread they just received, dipping them in jam, sitting on a crooked On the big tree, although life is worrying in the hot summer, they are content and happy now. We are dazzled by the blue sky and white clouds, and we have no guesses. Of course, we lament the cruelty and uncertainty of the reality behind this beauty.

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The Florida Project quotes

  • Moonee: You know why this is my favorite tree?

    Jancey: Why?

    Moonee: 'Cause it's tipped over, and it's still growing.

  • Moonee: [Moonee and Scooty, sitting on a sofa, eating ice-cream cones] Mmm.

    Bobby: [Ice cream drips on floor] Ok, I warned you: one drip and you're out.

    Moonee: Oh, come on!

    Bobby: 'Out now.

    Scooty: It's gonna melt outside.

    Bobby: It's melting' inside too.

    Moonee: But Bobby!

    Bobby: Out.

    Bobby: [Moonee and Scooty walk out] Thank you very much!

    Moonee: You're not welcome!