Dreams, past and present lives are mentioned in the film, and the revelation Carole got from the psychic is very similar to the relationship between D. H. Lawrence's "Son and Lover". A boy grows up from birth, and his mother is the first woman he falls in love with. This feeling is based on the endogenous emotion of common flesh and blood, without doubt. Lauren was a child (and a child with Down syndrome, the most innocent state of being), and Anthony was only a child when he fell in love with Carole. It is only when another woman appears that this relationship is challenged, on the one hand, the child's desire for the other woman, and at the same time, the nostalgia for the mother; on the other hand, the mother's reluctance to let go of the child. Teenage Anthony hopes to be with Carole until his death, but when he is with Rose, he hopes that Rose will love each other in the rest of his life. Children can't contain their emotions, Anthony can't, Lauren can't either. The psychic told Carole that maybe the person she always thought should be with her was not her other half at all. Carole's motherhood rose to a high point because she saw that her stubbornness and persistence in her previous life led to the tragedy of three people, and finally woke up.
Whether Carole's so-called past life exists, we don't know, but Carole convinces herself that it exists, so as a mother, she should fulfill her son Anthony and his little lover.
Just seeing the young Carole and Anthony from falling in love to marrying and having children for 20 years to finally letting go, I still feel the sadness of being a mother.
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