It's a horror movie, but it's not about an ostensible murder. Only after watching the last few seconds of the whole play will you realize that the most terrifying is hidden in the most beautiful.
It's just that, for the climax of the last few seconds, the foreshadowing in front seems to be too long, and the first few episodes are full of confusion, almost giving up the show in the middle, and it is easy to lose the audience. In fact, looking back now, I still don't understand many things, such as the title of the film "Sharp Objects", what does it mean? For example, for the heroine's self-mutilation, how are the words on the back engraved? There is also the female boss. It seems that he is also sick, so his wife is always by his side to take care of him, right? What is the meaning here?
Writing a drama review requires a lot of knowledge and is incompetent. I can only write about my own associations while watching the film.
I once heard Wu Zhihong say, "The ability to love is something you need to learn the day after tomorrow". The nights are long and the days are boring. Let’s have a baby and come out to play. When the baby grows up, it’s no longer fun to be obedient, so there are various ways of deterring. In Chinese culture, ghost stories are told to children, or the police are coming, or the bitterness "parents are all for you", or the classic 24 filial piety stories are brought out: the drama is about entertaining the relatives, and the children are buried in the mother. And then give all these actions the name of love.
The way the mother expresses her love in the play is to keep her daughter childish and sick so that she can always look after and nurture her daughter. She looked so beautiful, gentle and graceful, and then she opened her mouth and said to her eldest daughter, "You're ruined." (You are all ruined), "I never loved you."
Love, what is it? I agree with a definition that says: Love is being able to feel what the other person feels. So this is indeed a kind of ability. Many people are suffocated in their own feelings, and they really have no energy to empathize with others. So how do you know if it's love? In my opinion, the premise of love is to accept the other party, and the starting point of love is to hope that the other party is good. If these two points are in the right direction, it should be love. In this way, the mother in the play really doesn't love her daughter, because she can't accept the real daughter, and she doesn't care whether her daughter is doing well or not. All she needs is whether her daughter can fill the emotional black hole in her heart.
I remember that Bojack, a horse man, also has a mother who is incapable of love, so Bojack has various addictions, is cynical, and has a dark feeling about life. But I think daughters are still different. There is a symbiotic relationship between daughters and mothers. The starting point of the same gender makes it difficult for them to distinguish each other's boundaries. If the mother does not accept the daughter, the daughter cannot accept herself; the daughter does not dare and does not want to hate her mother, and this hatred is transferred to herself or her daughter. Like the characters in the play, the eldest daughter resists her mother and has to be broken physically and mentally; the younger daughter agrees with her mother and becomes a more terrifying "monster" without knowing it; and the second daughter, who never doubts and obeys her mother, results in an early life. died. Of course, in the end, in order to protect the little daughter, the mother can also make sacrifices in prison, and is this love? I think this is really a mix of unexpressed love and unhealthy ways, plus narcissism and all kinds of deformed emotions, I can't tell what it is.
After all, as the hero (the detective) in the film said, bad things happen to you, but you can't blame it for the rest of your life. People must find the strength to save themselves, think beyond the victim's mind, and be responsible for their own lives.
Easier said than done, really difficult. Look at so many beautiful people in small towns in the United States, wealthy and well-dressed, (the mother's pajamas and the embroidered skirts for the festival are so beautiful!), but in the quiet life under the bright sunshine, it is impossible to hide Extremely cold.
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