when we learn to love

I think if the parents are not around, whether it is divorced or deceased children, they will feel more emotional when watching the film itself. Many subtle scenes seem to be recounting their own lives. For example, my parents divorced when I was in kindergarten. Afterwards, even my grandparents didn’t know when they broke up, so I only remember seeing my mother very rarely, and I improved when I went to elementary school. Maybe there is one weekend in a month. Being able to coexist with them, whether it is an amusement park or going to a meal, is also extremely short-lived. As for Hallam, I seem lucky again. He has a deep affection and deep memory for his mother. He lost his mother's love all of a sudden and never had a chance to meet again. As a minor child, he had to close himself up. I can understand the sudden feeling that the world is so unfamiliar because of the departure of our dearest person.

Of course, maybe enough fatherly love can also make this gray life easier, but when one day there is a woman next to your father who you want to call "mother", no matter whether the father loves you more or loves her more It doesn't matter much, because her appearance has separated us from being loved so much, so I also fully understand Hallam's hatred for his stepmother, and making love may be regarded as an extreme revenge. But that was more of a provocation from the stepmother, and the moment she got up to leave, I noticed a flash of despair in Hallam's eyes, curled up on the floor.

Therefore, running away has become an inevitable choice, and staying away from the crowd or hiding in the shadows to peep has also become a way of Hallam's life - a safe way of living. And throughout the film Hallam peeks at a lot of people, and there are sexual scenes on several important people without exception, his friends, his parents, Kate and the married manager. Coincidence? Or the director wants to deliberately highlight the desire for the opposite sex in his teenage years, and his curiosity about sexuality. I think what Hallam said later in the film when he was naked and "interrogated" by Kate could give the answer "I know you won't believe it, but I really It's not because of that to spy on others." Yes, he just wanted to rely on this physical intimacy to find traces of love, to find ways to love, with his stepmother, with Kate, especially with Kate. I could see the satisfaction on Hallam's face when they first slept together, and at that moment I knew he had found that happiness again, not love, not sex, not the curiosity of an unfamiliar body, but maternal love, a A precious feeling of being loved.

It can be said that the search for maternal love runs through the film, and when the director arranged a baptism for Hallam at the age of 18, it also foreshadowed Hallam's upcoming growth. So, when Hallam rescued his stepmother at the end of the film, and really gave up revenge and accepted the fact that his beloved mother had left, he really grew up, and he understood that love is not a selfish force, so he has a relationship with him. Kate's "I'll catch up with you" line and the confident smile that followed.

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