"Mummy" was my first foray into Dolan's work. For a typical Canadian style film, it gives people a different climax. Perhaps it is because of the place where the background of the story takes place, or perhaps it is the feeling that the film itself brings to the viewers.
Regarding the background of the film, it is the same as the director. The background of the story takes place in Quebec, Canada. The oldest city in North America has produced many small-scale but big-impact films. Perhaps because Quebec is the only French-speaking region in Canada, the intermingling of cultures can produce a unique flavor, and the actors are the same as the film.
About the movie itself. The large length of the film is presented to the viewers in a 1:1 picture. This slightly considered screen effect is not used as a means to promote the film, but only reflects the emotional changes of the characters in the film.
The first time the screen was opened was in the action of my son's skateboarding. In the film, the mother and teacher followed behind the son, the son slid forward desperately, and the two behind him also shouted with excitement. Can we consider this the son's first break free. From the point of view of the son's violent rage alone, the conflicting mother-son relationship has always been the main line of the film. In the voices of more understanding mothers, should we also understand the sons in the film. The son is not an adult, and maybe he longs to be an adult to protect his mother, but his mind is still a child. As a child, he didn't have the right way to vent, and he couldn't better control his feelings. As adults, we have been suppressing our various feelings, we have been trying our best to protect the people around us, but one day we will be tired too, right? When we finally get tired of fighting against this hypocritical world, when we have compromised to this world, the screen will end, break free and disappear.
In exchange, the screen and life are suppressed again.
The second opening is not the director's main emotional catharsis point, but the end of the film. When the mother in the film wants to send her son away, the change of the screen still cannot express a deeper meaning, and the character's lines may be our breakthrough. The more conflicted mother-son relationship is actually a huge reversal. The two who were supposed to depend on each other and cared about each other became more and more serious in the end when their mother escaped. In the end, there is a contrast between the mother's silence and the son's hysteria. The mother-son relationship that is dependent but isolated cannot be maintained. The end of the second screen opening, followed by the end of the mother-son relationship.
And what I really don't understand is whether mother loves us more or less...
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