"Compassion" lies in moderation

Al 2022-04-10 09:01:09

I originally wanted to write a short review, but the word count was exceeded, so it could only be turned into a movie review. . Let's just talk about a small moment, that is, at the thirty-ninth minute, the heroine's child talked to her about the drug problem. She had a bad attitude towards the child. There was a negative emotion because she was waiting for her husband to come back. bad mood. And the child was leaving and stopped talking to her. She immediately realized this, apologized immediately, and admitted that her mood tonight was indeed abnormal. At this point, it is difficult for many parents to turn their emotions around in just a second and immediately admit what happened to them. As for her child, who also acted "restrained", neither side was hysterical: when her child realized that she was angry with him, instead of saying "I hate you" or "I hate you!" When asked, the child replied, "I don't know, I just said I don't want to be by your side." This subtle habit shows that the child has been infected by her and has been taught well by her words and deeds.
Sometimes we are angry because we are powerless in our hearts, but after anger, it may bring greater powerlessness and hurt innocent people. The mother has her mother's troubles, and the child has the child's troubles, but this "mature habit" is very good. When he finds his mother in a bad mood, he doesn't argue with her, walks away, and when pressed, he only says "I don't know. I don't want to be around you" so euphemistically, so restrained.
To say more, it is necessary for a boy to become a mature man, gentle motherly love, continuous and sufficient, and then he can do the same to others, until he can bear a lot of things, can give love alone, just graduated.

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  • Dandre 2022-04-15 09:01:07

    The film is gentle, delicate and touching, like a stream of clear spring flowing into the hearts of the audience. The just-right blank space and simple narrative are fundamentally different from those sensational and cliche big bad films. The film does not show how the protagonist quit drinking and regained his career. The success of these things that the audience is interested in, but to express his daily life, ordinary, sincere and touching, such a script is really excellent and touching.

  • Christiana 2022-04-22 07:01:58

    7.9 Sweet country music, small town life as calm as running water. Although the male protagonist is the center of the film's characterization, perhaps what the film really wants to show is the gentle and compassionate female protagonist that comes from religion, a return to traditional values.

Tender Mercies quotes

  • Sue Anne: There was a song you used to sing to me when I was little, I think. It was somethin' about a dove. Mama said she never heard you sing it to me, but - I think it went somethin' about a "on the wings of a snow-white dove, he sends his somethin'-somethin' love."

    Mac Sledge: I don't remember that. I don't.

  • Mac Sledge: [singing] When Jesus went down, To the waters that day, He was baptized, In the usual way, When it was done, God blessed his soul, He sent him his love, On the wings of a dove, On the wings of a snow-white dove, He sends his pure sweet love, A sign from above, On the wings of a dove...