The title of the film is "Being a Mother", and indeed there are three different types of mothers mentioned in the film. The first category is the heroine Sarah (to say that Sarah is played by Rose from "Titanic", she is much more beautiful when she plays Rose), she is tired of the life of a housewife and feels uncomfortable with having children. Patient, dissatisfied with the current marriage, and longing for love. The second category is the hero's wife, Kathy. She is emotional, has strong working ability, and loves children very much, but she often ignores her husband and constantly asks her husband to obtain a lawyer's qualification certificate. The last category I think should be the mother of the pedophile Ronnie in the film. She is different from the first two types of mothers in that she is the mother of a pedophile. She is quite representative. She is very old and has always been protecting her children , those who want to hurt her children, she will fight with them, she will always say "be a good boy" to her son.
In addition to three distinct mothers, there are also three distinct males. The first is of course the hero Brad, a man who is forced to take care of children at home. His wife who is mainly responsible for making money often makes him feel lost. He misses and longs for the enthusiasm and excitement of his boyhood. The second one is Larry, the character I hate the most in the whole film. He is reluctant to accept the reality. He always seeks self-satisfaction in the form of hurting Ronnie. And the third one is what I think is the most special presence in this movie - Ronnie the pedophile, he has a pedophile and has been in prison for it, he is excluded from everyone who knows, in fact his essence is not It's not bad, and he has always followed the "be a good boy" taught by his mother, but the desire in his heart still can't be quelled.
Everyone in the film is so contradictory, they keep wandering between reality and ideal, struggling between morality and desire. Sarah and Brad, who have their own families, come together out of their own needs and desires. Sarah thinks they have found love and passion that is not found in marriage and family. Brad thinks it makes him feel like he has returned to the passion years of his boyhood. Larry likes to be a policeman, but because he has killed children by mistake, he is cut off from the police, so he bites Ronnie firmly, which makes him feel satisfied and find a sense of existence. Ronnie's mother arranged a blind date for Ronnie to live an ordinary life, and Ronnie also tried her best to make her mother happy, but it was all an illusion. In the end, Sarah and Brad suddenly woke up before they were about to run away. Sarah found that the most important thing was her daughter. Brad found that he didn't really love Sarah. Like skateboards. Larry finally realized how much he had acted and realized his self-deception, so he went to apologize to Ronnie. The worst is Ronnie, his mother died, the people who loved him were gone, and there were so many people who excluded him and hated him, so he had a nervous breakdown and cut off his genitals.
In addition to the above plot, there are many places in the film that are carefully arranged, such as Sarah's participation in the "book exchange", the expressions of each woman and what Sarah said when discussing "Madame Bovary". There is also the most surprising scene - Ronnie masturbating in the car of the blind date woman. At that time, Ronnie was out of control, "Don't talk about this, or I will kill you." Ronnie said this sentence The movements in his hands kept moving, and his expression was hideous. At that moment, he really felt the perversion of a mental patient. At the end of the movie, everything is put on the same night. Sarah and Brad's awakening, Larry's apology, and Ronnie's collapse always feel like a fairytale-like ending, and of course, the narration at the end of a fairytale is indispensable.
In fact, we are not unfamiliar with the characters and stories in the movie. There seem to be many elements and contents in this movie, but in fact, the starting point is very small. The characters and stories in it are actually the gossip and gossip we often hear in our daily life When we see the news, aren't we always like the bunch of housewives in the movie, "XXX and XXX got together.", "Doesn't XXX have a husband?"...I think this The movie is "the story behind the gossip news in the residential area", and of course it can also be "the big reveal of people's twisted psychology"...
I didn't expect the movie "Being a Mother" to mix so many dark elements. Together, internet porn, extramarital affairs, pedophilia, lewd sexuality, verbal violence, self-harm, and more. The movie revealed the dark side and perversions of many people in today's society, ranging from housewives who only dare to have sex, to pedophiles and mental patients. These have nothing to do with crime. The twisted psychology revealed, when I was watching the movie, I suddenly remembered the words of Wang Xiaojian in "33 Days of Broken Love": "Who doesn't have a quirk now. In this world, this era, if you don't have depression or something, you I'm too embarrassed to talk to my colleagues." As a complex species that can think and have various emotions, humans can't have a dark and careful mind in a big struggle environment? What is perversion, I think it is relative. Since it is relative, there are so-called perverted thoughts, behaviors, and people, so is it? In fact, perversion is the normal state.
The most impressive scene in the movie is that Ronnie finally took off his pants in front of Larry and said, "Now are you satisfied?" Ronnie is the most tragic and abrupt existence in the entire movie. Think about what his words actually contain. How much despair and begging, even though it is today in the 21st century, it is always talking about an open and harmonious society and the world, but in fact there is still not much tolerance. There will always be exclusion of mentally ill people, homosexuals, people with criminal histories, etc., and all kinds of discrimination. But to a certain extent, it is understandable. It can only be said that it is gradually developing in a positive direction, but there is still a long way to go. It is like repeatedly stating that AIDS will not be transmitted by hugging, eating together, and kissing, but it can really People who don't mind, I believe, are in the minority.
"We can't change the future, but there will always be a new story in the future, and it will begin somewhere, somewhere." This is the fairytale ending narration after the film's complicated story ends.
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