This movie talks about a relatively common topic, namely the relationship between parents and children. This is one of the common creative themes in movies. If "I Killed My Mother" is new, it is because It is from the perspective of children of this age group. Their unreasonable resistance, conflict and reconciliation to their parents all come from introspection and self-discovery, rather than using stories deliberately designed by adults to complete this transformation.
The director of the film, Xavier Dolan, completed the script of the film at the age of sixteen, which is a critical period for children to grow up. They not only hope to rely on adults to communicate with adults, but also continue to use resistance and rebellion to prove their own. Growing up, the name of the film is "I Killed My Mother", which looks a bit contrived, but in fact represents a two-generation order. Parents are not always on opposite sides and become the middle resistance and obstacle to the growth of children. In the film, Anthony The relationship with his mother is a pair of correspondence between Hubert and his mother. They are also single mothers and sons. This family is a reference that Hubel envies, and it also aggravates Hubel's disgust for his mother. We can't choose parents, Hubel The same, so he chose to obliterate her at the conscious level. She told the teacher that her mother had passed away, and he imagined her mother lying in the coffin. The possibility of "killing", we must allow appropriate collisions and conflicts as one of the ways of de-escalation, because simple explanation and communication sometimes do not always bear fruit.
The opening shots show how ingrained this prejudice is. The way mom eats, the cream on her mouth, the little movements she makes while driving, the color of her coat and even the wrinkles, these are ordinary events that Yu Bell sees. It was all magnified, becoming dazzling and intolerable. His resistance to his mother may have had a reason before, but once this behavior became a fixed mindset, it became a "resistance without a reason", that is, no matter how you look at it. It is pleasing to the eye, so this kind of relationship cannot be solved by communication. In the film, Hubert tries to talk about certain things with his mother calmly. In the end, his mother's fickleness and forgetfulness destroy this communication and further intensify the conflict.
But even so, throughout the whole film, the film does not tend to be morally inclined. The mother is not an annoying mother, and her attitude towards her son actually represents their own set of communication methods as parents. She often appears casual, and even deliberately angers Bell, which can be seen as a deliberate act by her mother. She is trying to break the traditional order of parents and children and make the dialogue between each other smoother, but the final result But it was the ending of the scene in the car in the film. The two argued to themselves. In the end, Yu Bell stabbed his mother with harsh words. The mother returned to the status of "parent" and ended the conversation with a slap.
It is worth pondering that the same family structure breaks the order because Bell's boyfriend Anthony and his mother appear very harmonious. This contrast is not in the study of the cause, but in order to highlight the lack of the cause. Most of the time, all the Parents all treat their children with the same love, but the results are very different, even further and further.
The conflict between Hubert and his mother was further intensified after the boarding school and his homosexuality was discovered, but the greatest degree of intensification was the beginning of reconciliation. It is revealed that at this time, the real communication has begun. Communication is not a verbal talk or even a debate, but even if you don't speak, you can feel the love for each other flowing between each other, and the relationship between the two generations. Stumbling and stumbling, it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong, so communication requires more self-examination rather than mutual shirk. The moment in the movie, when Hubert pointed the camera at himself, represents the beginning of self-examination as a generation of children, and the little warmth at the end. The passage isn't actually the first time in the film, so it's inconclusive whether it's the end of the paradox, but in any case, maximum self-reflection as a child is a good and invaluable start.
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