Several adults in Little Children are standing in such a long gray line. Although their living environments are worlds apart, they are all people with pursuits and dreams, but they live in compromise and despair. Throughout the film, they struggle, trying to get out of their lives that have repressed them, but the film's very unexpected ending leaves the audience without giving the audience any good hypotheses, but instead puts the characters back in this grey line again. In long lines, everyone is given just one chance to see themselves clearly.
The key to solving life's predicaments is not to find an answer from scratch, but to ask the right question. Extramarital affairs, elopement, violent venting, and self-castration cannot change a person's inherent inertia and fear of change. Literature and film will always celebrate the uncompromising activists, but only offer heartbreaking sympathy to these sensitive and dreaming children.
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