"Little Children": Should women work hard for their own happy life in the season of Xia Yu
(Wenhuoshenji ) when lust blooms
Woolen cloth. Because all the refutations are based on Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary; therefore, such refutations are obviously futile and powerless.
When a well-known tragic work is projected into a film as a symbolic metaphor, the novel buries a deep and helpless tragic atmosphere to the film.
When the book club started talking about "Madame Bovary," I began to think that the film couldn't have a happy ending. Maybe it's just because I'm neither male nor female; therefore, this movie is just plain pathetic in my opinion. - Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
One idle morning with the kids playing in the community park; idle young mothers sitting together talking about each other's most intimate boudoir secrets, down to how many times a week they had sex with their husbands. How much reverie can such a scene bring us?
On a hot and humid summer afternoon, a lonely woman took an equally lonely man back to her home to take shelter from the rain; wearing wet and somewhat transparent clothes, they stood in the small laundry room and said nothing to each other. How much reverie will this scene bring to us?
The quiet narration with a touch of detachment, just as the American TV series "Desperate Housewives" attracted me, is also the indifferent narration from this perspective beyond the structure of the story. We can always look objective and calm on the sidelines, precisely because the film itself gives us a perspective higher than the story itself.
If "Desperate Housewives" is a dessert for the vast majority of audiences in the hot schedule; then this "Being a Mother" may be like a rational reflection facing the adult audience at midnight, like a cup of light fragrance tea Or strong coffee.
The women and men in this film live in the same middle-class neighborhood, where the men have decent jobs and the women take care of their backyards, their husbands, their children, and their friends. But, unlike Madame Bovary, this film isn't a story about love; it's a story about passion.
Such a long time has passed. The husband is busy with his career, and the children gradually grow up to have their own lives. Maybe he is more like a redundant person outside the husband and children. The lack of identity and belonging may be something everyone in this movie doesn't want to admit; but in my opinion, it's their lack of identity and belonging, and their struggle to get it back, that With such a story.
It's not a happy story; though, we may be happy to see it. If you asked me what I was seeing in this movie, I would say a lot of words that even I can't believe in a dirty context.
Pedophilia, exhibitionism, sexual assault, adultery, Internet pornography, institutionalized life, repressed personalities, fading dreams, and longings that are not yet dead. This is not the happy life in the American dream, it is more like the helpless middle-aged life of all people. Maybe that's why I like this movie too - at least it's telling us the truth and not some kind of whitewashed nonsense.
The film is very much like a survey of the sexual ecology of middle-aged men and women in the United States. Couples who have set a strict schedule, weekly intercourse is never an exception; or a wife who falls asleep halfway through sex with her husband, and a husband who does not realize that his wife is asleep; or indulged in the erotic world of the Internet. A husband and a wife who cheated in anger; or a wife who is still addicted to the surging motherhood and ignores her husband's physical needs, and a husband who fails in his career and is depressed all day long; even more extreme is the one who appeared in the news at the beginning of the movie. A middle-aged single man who was sentenced for child molestation...
Of course, the housewives' sexual thirst is more manifested in the ambiguous reverie of their spirits. A good-looking man in a community park shows up every day with his son in an occasion that is purely composed of women and children; this is already striking in itself. This is what Sarah said to Brad: You have a very important place in the spiritual life of those women.
fantasy. Spiritual worship. The opposite is fear and shyness in the real world. A title like "Prince Charming" can fully express the relationship between Brad and the housewives of these communities.
In terms of character building, the film is extremely full. Each character has its own story behind it, especially a few more important characters.
Sarah, played by Kate Winslet, lives about the same life as every housewife in the neighborhood, except she never fits into it; taking over a well-decorated house from her husband's ex-wife. The house, on the edge of community life, looks down at the people around it with the height that a master of arts should have. Yet she was equally lonely and sad, and judging from the few conversations she had with her husband, her married life was unhappy.
Another example is Brad Adamson, played by Patrick Wilson. His successful wife left him with a young son. Because he had not passed the exam for two consecutive years to qualify as a lawyer, his memories of graduating from law school only remained in the once frivolous and energetic desire.
Sarah's husband and Brad's wife, and their neighbors, a successful advertising planner, a successful documentary filmmaker, a perverted man who couldn't survive without his mother, a middle-aged man who shot and killed a child A policeman, a woman who sticks to her plan and respects women's morality... Every night, men reminisce about their youth on the court; every morning, women fantasize about an impossible love in a community park.
The combination of Sarah and Brad is actually just a despair of being unable to escape from real life, and the most helpless resistance to this despair. From an accidental acquaintance, to mutual ambiguous spiritual exchanges due to dissatisfaction with each other's life, to the two people's complete union, and finally to those childish, impulsive and crazy elopement plans; all of this is not because Love is not because two people love each other, but just the longing for an emotional accident and the comfort of two people snuggling with each other.
Sarah's affection for Brad is not love. It was only because of the poignant point of view that she argued with the vindicators of Madame Bovary that she had the courage, the yearning for joy and happiness, and the despair of real life. Because of her husband's infidelity, she has no guilt for her affair. Brad's feelings for her are also not love. He had longed for Sarah because of his impulsiveness and powerlessness; he had longed for Sarah because he was in front of her, and he could do anything that he could not do normally.
He said he felt a deep sense of guilt, twitching even more frantically as he spoke. What they have in common is only the last reminiscence of an old passion that has passed away. It's no surprise that the impulsive elopement plan didn't come to fruition; because none of them really cared about each other, all they wanted was madness, and an even crazier drive dominated by mad desires. In this way, it will impact their quiet and almost gloomy life like a stagnant pond.
The film captures everything beautifully with a lighthearted shot, generous close-ups, and rambling narrative. On the contrary, the atmosphere has been suppressed since the beginning of the film. The strong desire to break the status quo is thus transformed into abstract thinking directly conveyed to us through the lens. This is perhaps the most successful part of the film.
The end of the movie is a growth similar to transformation, even if such growth requires a great price; however, we should be fortunate that although this movie does not have a happy ending, at least every one in this movie. People, more or less, have been liberated by transformation.
I like this movie. I like this kind of ambiguous smell that fills the air, and I like the freshness similar to that after the rain. The lives of the desperate housewives continued. When the last bit of passion was completely vented, they would still go home, go back to the house they had arranged with their own hands, sit on the sofa with their children in their arms, and talk. Those fairy tales that keep repeating forever.
Beautiful erotic descriptions, beautiful background music, beautiful scenery and beautiful camera language; the so-called perfection does not necessarily have to have a lover to be married. In my opinion, the film at least completes its own right. Who says people who are nearly middle-aged can't have childish madness and a thirst for happiness. Who said that people who are already near middle age can't give up easily like a child. Abandoning a vulgar happy ending is actually a rarer kind of fulfillment for a work of art.
2008-07-09; It is the seventh night of the first month of Gengxu in the sixth month of the Wuzi year.
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■Title: "Little Children"
■Translation: "Being a Mother"
■Director: Todd Field
■Original Book: Tom Perrotta
■Screenwriter: Tom Perrotta ), Todd Field
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly
Genre: Romance, Drama, Crime
■ Duration: 130 minutes
■ Cinematography: Antonio Calvache
■ Editing: Leo Trombetta
■ Original Music: Thomas Newman
■ Country of Production: United States
■ Dialogue: English
■ Production company: New Line Cinema
■ Distribution company: A-Film Distribution
■ Premiere date: October 6, 2006 (US)
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