Want to make life have a story? then you have to have character

Wilburn 2022-03-24 09:03:28

The main thread that runs through the film is family in concrete terms, and betrayal in abstract terms (in the opinion of director Hunter himself).


I have to say that several of the main characters in the movie are representative of character machines. It is natural to promote the development of contradictions in the play.

Starting from the heroine April, she is a typical middle-aged female teacher in elementary school. She likes children very much. She is upright, disciplined, never cheating, and takes principled issues very seriously. And her special identity in this film is an orphan who was abandoned by a foster family when she was a child. This is directly causally linked to the paradoxical boost in her desire to have a child herself rather than adopt a child.

The heroine's mother, Bernice, yearns for a world of material fame and fortune. She has rich experience but loves romance. As an up-and-coming local talk show hostess, she wants to put some thought into her family (even though her family consists only of herself and her abandoned daughter).

The heroine's divorced husband, Ben. Also a primary school teacher, but because of his young age, it is obvious that a big boy's immaturity is seen. For a woman who desperately aspires to be a good mother, such a man is clearly the wrong choice. (Suddenly thinks of the divorced Wen'Ma group) He is attracted by April's dignified and sometimes sexy personality, but the two people's hearts are fundamentally different, and I'm afraid Ben hasn't even thought about what family means. He was just curious about everything like the novelty he showed when he first saw the moving image of the fetus in April's womb appearing on the fetal monitor.

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Then She Found Me quotes

  • April Epner: Your wife was seeing someone else?

    Frank: Pretty much everyone else. I was too much for her.

    April Epner: Your wife? I'm sure she didn't feel that way.

    Frank: She told me.

    April Epner: What did she say?

    Frank: 'You're too much for me.'

    April Epner: Ugh.

  • April Epner: There is a Jewish story, an ordinary Jewish joke. A father was teaching his little son to be less afraid, to have more courage, by having him jump down the stairs. He put his son on the second stair and said, "Jump, and I'll catch you," and then on the third stair and said, "Jump, and I'll catch you." And the little boy was afraid, but he trusted his father and did what he was told and jumped into his arms. The father put him on the next step, and then the next, each time telling him, "Jump, and I'll catch you." Then the boy jumped from a very high step, but this time the father stepped back, and the boy fell flat on his face. He picked himself up, bleeding and crying, and the father said to him, "That'll teach you."