Amy Adams did not play the role of a beautiful woman this time, but played Rose, a single mother who was struggling in her life. This beautiful girl who was envied by everyone in middle school and was dating the most handsome quarter guard is now just an ordinary cleaner with her son Oscar by herself. There is nothing more embarrassing than Rose. When you were a cleaning worker, the hostess of the mansion recognized everyone as high school classmates and recalled your enviable past, but you had to report the cleaning arrangements to the hostess, your high school classmates. But life goes on like this. The splendor of the past does not mean eternity. Everyone has highs and lows.
Rose's sister Norah is unemployed, her son Oscar is considered mentally ill by average teachers, Rose needs money to pay for her son to attend a private school, and she maintains an affair with her ex-boyfriend Mac, who is married. Such a life can only be encouraged by yelling "I am powerful. I am strong." in the mirror after taking a shower, but Rose will say "I am a loser" in tears when she is vulnerable. Life forces us to find strength to support ourselves. Mac may be a strength of Rose. When this external strength disappears, we are still as fragile as before, and the inner strength can really make us strong.
In order to make a living Rose had to accept a very lucrative post-mortem cleaning job (I can't think of a more professional term), and called her sister Norah together. Rose and Norah slowly accepted this special job and named themselves "Sunshine Cleaning" to make people feel more sunny. With the support and help of a one-armed store owner specializing in cleaning supplies in Winston, the business has picked up, and Rose seems to be slowly finding strength, but she is still fanciful and dependent on the Mac. When Norah told Rose directly that Mac's wife was pregnant again, "He's not going to leave her", Rose began to sober up, and finally she had the courage to say "That's it" to Mac. I believe that at that moment, she used all her strength to say it, and used all her reason to restrain herself from catching up with the Mac, and slowly she found that she could live a life without a Mac. In fact, our hearts have the strength to support, but we are used to deceiving ourselves and finding excuses for our indulgence.
In the work of the two sisters to clean up the site, between life and death so close, they also gradually came to an understanding, especially when sister Norah was searching for her daughter for a deceased old woman with her belongings. In the matter handed over to her, Norah's memory box about her mother was slowly opened. After little Rose and little Norah played happily by the fountain, they ran into the house to find their mother, but saw that their mother had committed suicide in the house, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground... Norah thought he was too young I was not impressed, but in fact, it was deeply embedded in every part of her body. It was not until the memory was opened again in the process of handing over the relics that she completely released her sadness. We often think we have the power to control and ignore anger and sadness, not knowing that they are just hidden deep within us and expressed in some way. Norah burst into tears when she saw her mother's past videos, and I think at that moment she had released her unexpressed grief as a child and her mother's suicide. Rose also spoke to her mother for a long time on the walkie-talkie that her son regarded as a connection to heaven, "I am not sure whether you are at heaven or not, but you are not here with us"..."You missed a lot some very great stuff"...
Sunshine Cleaning has a lot to like. For example, when Rose thought she started to have her own business, a sudden disaster not only left her Sunshine Cleaning without her own, but also became heavily in debt. God just loves to joke like this. When people have seen hope, set fire to hope. It seems that you have to work hard to get you something. And their father, who has never complained about being a parent since childhood, even if the daughter is down and out, the father doesn't say anything as long as they did their best, and finally sold their house, supporting Rose to start her life again. Purging her career, and Norah finally began to realize her dream, no longer living in the shadow of her mother's suicide in the past.
This is life, there are laughter and tears, ups and downs, and even more times than when it falls, but it is a wonderful experience no matter what. As Rose said in a conversation with her mother in heaven, "You missed a lot some very great stuff", Rose's life was so unsatisfactory, but it didn't prevent these experiences from becoming her great stuff. If you choose to escape, you will only miss these rare experiences.
Postscript: The title line of the movie is Rose's Sunshine Cleaning Company, but the dark line is their spiritual cleansing. Having faced the suicide of my mother, this emotional grief has been hidden in my heart. When they went through many different departures, "come into people's life when they have experience of something profound and sad", they also cleaned the garbage in their hearts for themselves. Also, I saw this movie for Amy Adams, who played the pretty air force girl in "Night at the Museum 2" and the heady 1930s London in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" The singer, playing a frustrated single mother this time will not hinder her acting skills.
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