Poison is beautiful

Shirley 2022-03-21 09:03:17

Oleander oleander
flower, terminal at the end of the branch, cymes, single or double petals, fragrant, may be yellow, white or pink, very poisonous, even the smoke from burning branches and leaves is also highly poisonous

-----I find It's been a long time. I finally found it, in an autumn rainy evening.
It's a play about the relationship between mother and daughter. But the sword goes too far, and the description is not an ordinary mother-daughter play.

Alison Lohman ---Daughter Astrid
Michelle Pfeiffer--Mom Igrid (acting, amazing)
Renee Zellweger--Claire's past movie star

Astrid and artist mother Igrid live happily together.
Free time to paint watercolors.
However, life is not always like this .
Igrid met a man. Their lives have changed as a result.
Men meet other women. Igrid is very possessive and she cannot accept this reality.
One day, she and Astrid drove to find him. Igrid went into the house alone. Astrid waited a long time before Igrid came out. Igrid
said bitterly, He has a date. He made love to me, and then said i had to leave.....
Because he has a date.

. I kept watching and still don't know how Igrid killed her sweetheart boyfriend. In between shots,
Igrid is soaking a large bunch of white oleanders in milk. I don't think that's the way to poison a glass of milk, right?
I am too curious to look up some information about oleander.

The whole plant of oleander is poisonous, and the leaves, bark, and roots are poisonous. The toxicity of fresh bark is stronger than that of leaves, and the toxicity is weakened after drying.
The flowers are single or double, fragrant, and may be yellow, white or pink
.
Symptoms of poisoning: Burning pain and numbness in the tongue, followed by dry and
tingling throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,
lethargy, dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, slow and irregular
heartbeat , followed by heart blockage .

Toxicity directly stimulates the myocardium, increasing contractility, causing additional ventricular contraction or ventricular fibrillation, and atrioventricular block.

Excite the medulla oblongata center, make the vagus nerve hyperactive, thereby slowing down the heartbeat, increasing myocardial tension, leading to sinus arrhythmia,
forming incomplete or complete heart block, and cardiac arrest.
Stimulate the smooth muscle contraction of intestine, stomach and sub-organ, causing nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and miscarriage.
Enhance vasoconstriction, make small capillaries congested and even hemorrhage, especially internal organs, which are often dark red.

In this way, Huaxin's boyfriend is definitely not drinking poisoned milk to die. The director deliberately made the murder method ambiguous.
After reading it, I still don't understand how she used oleander to kill people.

Igrid was arrested, she said to her daughter before leaving, I will be back soon, I will be back in an hour.
Astrid looked at her back. However, Igrid was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Astrid is an orphan. She started her foster care career as a minor. While crying, she hurriedly packed her luggage, including her picture album.
Since then, Astrid has been constantly moving, multiple shots of packing up, her wandering childhood.

The first adoptive mother was Cong Liang's stripper Starr, who adopted three children with her boyfriend.
Astrid quickly became acquainted, even though it was different from his previous home.
Influenced by Starr, she was even baptized. Wearing that tawdry pink dress that Starr had picked for her, didn't even bother.
Astrid went to visit Igrid in prison, and Igrid in prison was as graceful as ever, as if he was not in prison.


Astrid said: You are still so beautiful.
Igrid answered conceitedly: sure, the prison agree with me.
Astrid asked: They hurt you?
Igrid said: Not as much as I hurt them.
She also comforted her daughter by saying, I won't be in here forever. I promise you that one day you look at your window, I will be there.

Igrid is really strong, no one can change her, what is a prison? She has always been the only one who changed others. In prison, Igrid also wants to control everything about her daughter.

She was very displeased to find the cross on Astrid's neck. Desperately instilling his own point of view into his daughter.
---I raised you to think for yourself.
---The evil is tricky, just when you think you know what it is, it changes its form. Learning its nature takes a life time of study.
Word by word Say, I will not lose you, not to them. These people are the enemy, Astrid.
I am the only person you know who can keep your honesty. Don't forget who you are, Astrid.
You are my daughter and you are perfect, remember...
Astrid threw the cross from Starr when he left . That's the magic of mom.

Astrid is very different from Igrid, she always goes with the flow, what life gives her, she accepts and adapts to it. The only constant is the interest in painting.

Igrid was always dissatisfied with Astrid's foster mothers. She felt like they were enemies, giving Astrid the wrong influence.
The second adoptive mother is former star Claire, played by Renee from "BJ Diaries." Renee is very good at playing, and she plays the star of the past.
In fact, the female characters in this play are very good. Alison who plays Astrid is very malleable, pure and rebellious. I haven't seen her other dramas, it seems that she is a newcomer.
Claire is nice to Astrid. There was nothing to talk about between them. One day, they went to the beach to play and sat down to drink. Claire asked: What was the best day of your life?
Astrid answered: today. She started a new life.

There are a lot of great dialogues in this show, and I like them all.
Claire and Astrid visit Igrid in prison,
Claire says to Igrid: It must be difficult for you to work here.
Igrid A: It is, I spend so much time fighting off sexual advance.... I hardly have time to think.
When Claire thought he was really being sexually harassed, Igrid smiled and said, That was a joke.

Igrid couldn't see how close Claire was with her daughter. She was jealous and, in private, deliberately exposed Claire's scars.
And she said to Astrid privately, God, how can you stand to live with Poor Claire. I'll rather see you in the worst kind of foster hell than living with that woman. What can you possibly learn from her. Keep your bag packed !!
Astrid disgusted Igrid saying that to Claire.

Claire committed suicide. Igrid's words were the trigger. Astrid is utterly disappointed with his mother. She no longer goes to visit Igrid in prison.
Igrid's tone of voice is domineering, exclusive and often damage fun. It reminds me of a person, HE. Sometimes disgusted, but reluctantly accepted.

Until the end, Igrid finally released Astrid. She forgave her mother.

Haha, finally, I just found out how Igrid killed her boyfriend.
There is a segment in the film where Astrid recalls going to Mexico with his mother to buy DMSO.
What is DMSO? ? DMSO is a type of anesthetic that makes other medicines more easily absorbed through the skin.
Mix the boiled oleander with DMSO. Fill his room with this mixture. If touched, it will be poisoned.
Ho, what a poisonous woman. But killing people this way is tricky.

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Extended Reading

White Oleander quotes

  • Astrid: How long were you gone?

    Ingrid: About a year, give or take a few months.

    Astrid: My God.

    Ingrid: You're not asking the right question. Don't ask me why I left. Ask me why I came back.

    Astrid: You should have been sterilized.

    Ingrid: I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing! When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along.

    Astrid: I was always waiting for you, mother. That's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back? Will you forget that you tied me in front of a store or left me on a bus?

    Ingrid: Are you still waiting?

    Astrid: No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think, that I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, mother. What'd you think? We'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?

    Ingrid: I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind.

    Astrid: You were in love with him.

    Ingrid: YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap!

    Astrid: Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him?

    Ingrid: I didn't leave him! He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.

    Astrid: He came to see me?

    Ingrid: Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?

    Astrid: Because it wasn't about you! It was about me, and I wanted to see him! My whole life, I've wanted to see him. That decision was MINE, not yours. Everything's always been about you, never about me. I knew you were gonna kill Barry, but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me. I'll say whatever Susan wants me to say, but I gotta get outta here.

    Ingrid: No! No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go!

    Astrid: Then let me go. You look at me and you don't like what you see, but this is the price, mother. The price of belonging to you.

    Ingrid: If I could, I'd take it all back. I would.

    Astrid: Then tell me you don't want me to testify. Tell me you don't want me like this. Tell me you would sacrifice the rest of your life to have me back the way I was.

  • [last lines]

    Astrid: No matter how much she damaged me... no matter how flawed she is... I know my mother loves me.