"Pain" is the thread that runs through the film. It hasn't disappeared since my son just got sick. For a woman who has just been released from prison on parole, it seems natural that the future of life is bleak, whether it is being criticized by thousands of people, or being excluded because of an unbearable past. But the pain doesn't stop there. 15 years of prison life is no match for the pain of burying his son's life with his own hands. There is one scene that is very impressive. After Juliet slowly withdraws from the crowd, she curls up in a corner, grabs her hair with both hands, closes her eyes but can't squeeze a single tear, and opens her mouth on her back, but she can't cry out the grief in her chest. Such a state must have become a normal state, tearing his heart to pieces over and over again.
Facing the request of her sick son: "If you have to die one day, please come after me." She made a choice beyond the scope of maternal love. Continuing her son's dying life may be able to exchange a little comfort for her, but she used her life's guilt to bear her son's pain, so that he could find peace while his life was still dignified. In my opinion, it's a respect for a higher level of life. After being imprisoned for 15 years, she was released on parole, her parents denied her existence, and the man who interviewed her coldly scolded her to get out after learning about her past. Compared to killing her own son, these were just superficial loneliness. As she said herself: "The death of a loved one is the biggest prison, and you will be imprisoned here forever."
She is a truly strong and forbidding woman. Bear the external and internal pain alone. Also because there is no explanation. "There are some things in the world that can't be solved, pain, how to explain it to others?" Suffering that can be said is not real suffering.
At the end of the film, Juliet begins to dress up elegantly and beautifully, even wearing a charming smile sometimes, and walks with the professor. Everything seems to be starting to become clear. But I felt that the pain in Juliet's life will always be carried through. The pain was already crumpled with her love for her son when she ended her son's life.
The yoke of this love will be tied around her neck for a long time. This is a real life sentence.
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