Mom is a controlling woman, in her world, husband is "my husband", Ben is "my son", Mr Finchman is "my caregiver", and the church show is "my drama" ", that lover is also "my John". At the beginning of the film, Ben delivers lunch boxes to the old people in the community, and the old people always mention how good the mother is. Ben wanted a real driving instructor, but she refused; Ben said that if he had a mobile phone, he could contact her at any time, but she insisted that "mobile phones cause cancer". She has never discussed Mr Finchman's strange behavior and intentions, but has always subjectively believed that her concern was playing a positive role in him.
As the administrator of the jurisdiction sent by God to the world, the husband must of course show the theme of "love" well. His love for his wife is shown as unconditional obedience, so that his son Ben cannot understand and despise his father who cannot be on the same front as him.
The son is a filial son, and because he grew up in a submissive environment, he never disobeyed his mother's wishes, even though he knew the real reason why his mother took him out every time in the name of teaching him how to drive. So, when he complied with his mother's request to take a job to help the family, and met Dame Evie, his world was turned upside down.
What an old woman Evie is! She's married three times but lives alone in a big house, and she's so rude that everyone who sees her rightly wants everyone who sees her to know that she's a famous actress, a Dame of the Queen. She only saw Ben as a boy who helped her with the housework at first, until she discovered that Ben also had the heart of a poet.
Through rehearsals with Evie in the garden, Ben learns how lame the love poems he's written before, and the true beauty of literature. Evie also realized the love and sympathy between the two of them beyond their age, so she kidnapped Ben on the first journey in his life against his mother's wishes.
It was a journey that changed his life. The first time he drank, the first time he went to the bar, the first time he had sex, the first time he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and the first time he unintentionally breached the contract. He was deceived, but learned to be tolerant; he forgave and discovered his own mistakes; he carefully drove illegally, and at the same time felt the vastness of the world and the helplessness and fragility at the end of life.
Back in Edinburgh, Ben is not the same as when he left. He walked out of the well where he had been staring blankly at the sky, and saw a microcosm of thousands of worlds. He found that his mother, who had been dogmatic to him, had been suppressing and restraining him, and when he breathed the air of comfort, would he return to a bubble again?
The eucalyptus in the children's play was his last obedience to his mother, and he went to Evie from the stage without hesitation, followed her away, and exposed his mother's cheating behavior in public. It was his action to break free from this control freak. At this time, Ben is no longer "my mother's son", but "I", a Ben who has free will, dares to express himself, and has a clear attitude. And this new Ben changed the family and changed himself: his father filed for divorce from his mother, while Ben chose to go to Edinburgh to study at university and study English.
Watching this movie has been involuntarily comparing "Hallam Foe". The conception, editing and acting skills of the latter are of course higher than one grade, but also about the experience of growing up as a boy, Hallam Foe is inevitably too depressed, the hero is too lonely, and there is too much hatred to let go, he is his own It is only when people experience the pain of rebirth that they find a "forgiveness". And Ben, he was lucky enough to meet Evie, a character who is also a teacher and a friend. In addition to friendship, he also has the support of his father. If you think about it further, maybe these two films are two branches of growth, Ben's version on the "helped" road, and Hallam cutting the thorns on the "no one to help" road. After all, the power of young people is powerful, and these two divergent paths will also lead to the same goal.
Very irrelevant, I still recommend Hallam Foe, it's really well done.
Another: Edinburgh in these two films is very flavorful and often arouses my thoughts.
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