The impression of Ellen Page still remains in the persevering and witty little loli in "Fruit Hard Candy", who drove the pedophile uncle to a dead end without mercy. A beautiful girl who was brutally tortured to death by the crowd. Kathryn Keener, who plays single mother Gertrude, is the seductive woman in "Puppet Life" and now a heinous murderer. The indifference and cruelty under the weak appearance of a single mother, the despair and fear of an innocent girl, these two people can hold up the whole film, and after watching it, I felt a sense of powerlessness that I wanted to shout out loud but couldn't say.
Sylvia's parents' jobs have them running around, but that's no excuse for entrusting their daughter to the care of a strange woman. The father was obviously addicted to the two-person world, and even said "if there were no children, there would not be so many contradictions". The mother seems to love her children more, but that's it, she won't turn down her husband's offer to travel, nor does she object to entrusting her daughter to someone else for $20 a week. From September to November, for 3 months, I only got news of my daughter from other people's mouths, oh, and my sister lied that everything was normal. After the eldest daughter was tortured to death, it is absurd to continue to entrust the younger daughter to others to continue traveling!
Sister Jenny has a disabled leg due to polio, and is timid and taciturn, but she watched her relatives for 3 months. My sister was pushed to hell step by step, she said, I am afraid, I am afraid to be treated like my sister. Yes, then she should understand that her own sister is rolling in hell day and night, and she knows the pain and despair. But she said that she was afraid, so she stood on the sidelines, and was even forced to hurt Sylvia, watching that everything was irreversible.
Gertrude's sons and daughters also had a happy and wanton fight with Sylvia in the room, how could they cruelly abuse, kick, and abuse her in the basement in such a cold-blooded way? They said, I don't know.
Gertrude's neighbors heard Sylvia's cry and just turned around and said don't bother.
Gertrude was a girl who was pregnant out of wedlock, had a lot of children, and a little concubine from time to time to ask for a living allowance that was not much. At first, she listened to the lies of her eldest daughter, thinking that it was Sylvia who spread her daughter. , so she punished Sylvia, and when she later found out that her daughter was pregnant, she punished Sylvia, thinking that her arrival had destroyed her family. This single mother seems to have reason to be sympathetic, but I don't think so. Her chaotic life should only belong to her, and she has no right to impose such frustration on an innocent girl. Sylvia hadn't done anything wrong from start to finish, but only she had been scorched, kicked, and even branded that shame.
The fictitious escape scene in the film is really beautiful, how I hope the sun, even a little bit, will shine on that dark and dirty basement! But the reality is that Sylvia could not bear the humiliation and died in a devastated manner, and the life of the 16-year-old girl was thus deprived.
How do you sleep peacefully when you kill innocent people? Sinful people, no one can forgive you.
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