Precisely because they lost for no reason, the world of order can only grant them the right to pardon. This movie is basically told in this way: because this is a disease, the son's profanity, aggressiveness, stealing and strange behavior are all normal, the convenience store grandma, black taxi driver and lawyer uncle can only admit to cannon fodder (with him Although the "similar" aphasia female teacher is an exception, the first half of the relationship is full of ambiguous scenes, giving the illusion of being in an incestuous love at any time). When a person is deprived of reason by God, everyone must endure his irrationality (his mother can only talk about more irrational maternal love), and civilization will regard this tolerance as a kind of moral correctness, Although Nietzsche thought it was a "tyranny of the weak" - that was because he believed that God was dead.
Such disability-themed films can only be built on the premise of this kindness. If Steve is like Faulkner's Benjy, unbuttoning his pants at any time and jumping at the girls on the side of the road, or suddenly slashing at passers-by, how can he be matched with the background of the backlit slow-motion and oasis under the blue sky music? And Diane's mother image, although it has various arrogant and alternative symbolic shells, the dramatic conflict inside is not more profound and tense than Feng Junhao's "Mother"-because that is the serious person who wants to discuss social issues. Movie. Of course, Feng Junhao didn't go further that time: in order to balance the mother's motive for concealing the murder of the disabled son, he had to presuppose the reason why the son was disabled because of his mother.
So, in order to express the mother-son complex that he only cares about, Dolan would rather let Diane slowly be forced to admit the truth by the predicament of making a living and the emotional distress during these two hours of grinding, rather than let her and the audience admit the truth. Confronting the consequences of his son's arson in a restaurant. While the letter mentions that the victim suffered severe burns, its main function is to provide an astronomical compensation figure to create a dramatic twist that brings the mother-son duo back from their "screen-picking" respite back into the fuss. the cramped rhythm. The scene where the son is teased and mad at the bar, together with the atmosphere of the whole movie, blurs this sense of responsibility: How can you be serious with a patient? Needless to say, there won't be a musical instrument store owner who will come out and say: other people's children are children too.
Perhaps this is the difference between the handsome young man and the ugly uncle who has played a supporting role all his life when he sees the world (including parent-child relationship). The former can cut down and simplify everything into their own version, and the latter will consider the issue of reality. And the 1:1 screen of the whole film and then widened this, reminds me of songs like Vitas that sing for the sake of slamming, how have a kind of explicit clumsiness. There are so many movies with normal screen width, which can make the audience immerse and resonate. Why do you have to say good things like this?
Every time I see this subject, it compulsively reminds me of a teacher's son, who was born with cerebral palsy. I don't know if it is because of poor treatment, this young man of my age has hardly any recovery, can't walk, and has no language function. He just lies on the bed every day and uses various calls to express his needs. His mother was divorced from her father by then and never showed up. I accidentally learned from an old classmate a few years ago that the teacher had passed away, but no one knew the whereabouts of Benji. But no matter where he is, he must continue to lie down and shout until he dies.
No one wants to make this into a movie, at least not a single actor who wants to lose a few pounds and then lie on the bed for the whole movie just twitching and yelling. The use of such a heavy reality as an eternal mother-son battle in a rebellious complex just exposes Dolan's age and his shallowness - he has not yet acquired the insight and control to understand and express the truly brutal. Sound and fury, and that's not something that can be replaced with emotional SB and provocative swearing.
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