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The audience will have to compare the two. In my opinion, the former has a high degree of generalization of the whole film, and it is an overlooked perspective, while the latter looks at issues from a female perspective, which is obviously different in perspective. However, throughout the film, there is always a strong baritone speaking in a slow and unhurried tone, quite like a window frame, as if hiding in Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and watching all this intently .
The whole story has quite dramatic elements. A little thing that happened in a small town is not a big deal. It is neither murder nor rape and robbery. "After the infidelity to examine their marriage and inner world. The means it can use is a man known to suffer from "pedophilia" to induce chaos in the town. In this small town that seems to be so obsessed with virtue that it causes panic, only "calm", "Comfortable" and other words can be used to describe. But is this really the case?
Sarah is just one of many housewives, with a mediocre appearance, who leads her daughter in the park and watches her chatting about family affairs. I didn't want to but I ran into the handsome Brad who brought his son to the park alone. The other half of the two are career-oriented people. Sarah's husband would rather be obsessed with Internet porn than have sex with his wife; Brad's wife is obviously too busy with her career and neglects her family. In this way, the two have the same secret - although the director did not replay their pre-marriage, but told us that in the case of having children, their current situation is very helpless. Sarah longs for someone to help her with the kids and to have her own time, while Brad is clearly childish and obsessed with teenage skating entertainment. His dream is not to get a lawyer's certificate as his wife added, but to skateboard happily and realize his dream of not competing in his youth. Only Sarah can understand him and give him shrill applause when he plays handball - a big boy with a childlike innocence. Although this infatuation makes him feel quite irresponsible to his family, it can also be seen as his love for marriage. A fragile struggle for post-life. He's not the kind of man who cares about the future, so Sarah's plaudits clearly inspired his brief sense of success as a man. From this point of view, his wife, Casey, is quite feminist, which makes him lose his arrogance as a man. His outing with Sarah on the day of the bar exam was an act of provocation. Sarah attended a literary party and talked about "Madame Bovary", and she had her own unique opinion. It was entirely because of her experience that she devoted herself to this role. Demonstrating patriarchy with physical infidelity. She and Brad both have shadows of the character, just with a gender difference. When she talks about her point of view, she inserts scenes of her making love with Brad from time to time, and in the eyes of such a group of sensitive literary women, she dodges, hides, and methodically, so that people can really feel the scene in detail.
"Pedophile" patient Ronald had been imprisoned for pedophilia before, so the townspeople were afraid to avoid it. They avoided him like a monster, and in the swimming pool scene, when people recognized him and took the child away and the police took him out of the pool, he yelled at them, "I just want to cool off!" Very sad to hear. And it is such a "monster" that he also has his own mother. The mother, Mei, doted on the son very much, and filed a marriage proposal for him. In the end, when she died after arguing with Larry, a member of the monitoring team, there was only one sentence in a letter left to her son: You must be a good boy! Ronald burst into tears and smashed everything in the house - through the life of a psychopath, we feel the most common mother-son relationship. If the director only confines us to feel his bondage and feelings from marginalized people, it will appear to be parallel to the entire film, not intersecting or connected, and it will become two stories. So, he used a character like Larry, Brad's former colleague who worked in the police business, but he has always felt guilty for causing a child to die in front of his eyes because of his negligence. He hated Ronald, but in the end, because the other's mother fell to the ground and died in his quarrel, he went to apologize to Ronald, but unexpectedly found that the other party had castrated himself in order to "be a good boy", and in an emergency , he went back to the original once again, this time he can no longer let a "child" die in front of his eyes... The setting of Larry's character, from paranoia to self-deprecation, to the final self-redemption, it should be said that there is a transformation Process——From his guilt for his past mistakes, he can see his inner fragility, and he understands why he apologized for Ronald's mother's death, and in the end, he saved his soul from the act of saving Ronald. baptism. He made a series of Brad and Ronald's stories throughout the film, making the two have similarities and differences.
Obviously, the director's intention and the English title are a composite. Although the film shows the adult world, it allows us to see the image of the "child" hidden in the hearts of adults. Brad longed to skateboard with the teenagers, and finally forgot his elopement agreement with Sarah, and fell to the ground; Ronald was attached to his mother and relied on her care in everything. Putting on plastic gloves to wash the dishes by yourself, and fleeing to the park crying like a child is like a lonely child. But as a "mother" Sarah, in her heart, only lust burns. Withered roses in the pages of her book that Brad opened, the underlined words were: The love in my heart is like fire! The moment of naked embrace in the laundry room may be their craving that finally erupts after a long period of repression. This may be a kind of stimulation for them to seek a boring life, but after the physical rebellion, the spirit also derails. It's weird that the director makes both of them wake up quickly at the end. Brad threw away the farewell letter to his wife after realizing his skateboarding dream, and Sarah quickly returned home with her daughter, pretending to be nothing. The director seems to let us realize a truth at the end, everything has its two sides, you will write your own future life while realizing the dream of unmatched. Therefore, the voice at the end said: No matter what happened in the past, the future will always change, and it is also brewing...
This ending is a bit ironic, but it seems that the two have played a "play house" once, what will happen in the end? Neither count. After all, they are worldly people, trapped in family responsibilities and social responsibilities. They are smooth to each other, and finally not carried away by fleeting lust, and smile professionally like a prostitute when she sees a regular customer, maybe they are not happy inside. But they can only do so!
At the same time, they are no longer children...
(I have seen Kate Winslet's "Titanic" and Patrick Wilson's "Buckfruit" before, and they are also in this film. Nudity is accustomed to)
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