The beginning of the film creates an illusion for us: the wealthy and old landlady, Vera, has a heated argument with her maid, and is pushed downstairs by the maid Dolores. Seeing that she is still moving, Dolores rushes to the kitchen to find the deadly weapon , After some searching, I poured out a bunch of knives in the drawer, but I didn't take any of them (I wondered why I didn't use knives at the time), but continued to look for a rolling pin and raised it to look like I was going to hammer someone. , was stopped in time by the intrusion of a third party.
Of course, the truth emerged in subsequent memories.
Dolores' criminal history.
Stage 1: Forbearance. At home, her husband, Joe, was an alcoholic and repeatedly committed domestic violence. Dolores endured it silently. Finally, he broke out. He pushed him with an axe. Outside, in order for her daughter to go to school, she became the maid of the mean rich woman Vera.
Stage Two: Anger. Dolores discovered that her daughter Selina, when she was 13 years old, suddenly behaved abnormally and her grades plummeted. There were often hysterical shouting in the room, and her father's ancestral ornaments were on her neck. Dolores was out of anger and planned to take out all his savings and take his daughter away to another country, even though he had never left the island 20 kilometers before. When she went to the bank, she found out that her husband Joe had set up a new account with the bank and transferred all her savings of $3,000.
Stage Three: Murder. Seeing Dolores dejected and unwilling to work, Vera still did not change her bossy attitude until Dolores told her painful experience in tears. Vera said, "Sometimes, a woman can only survive if she becomes bad," which her daughter said to her later when she came back. In order to save her daughter, with Vera's encouragement, she finally made up her mind to kill her husband. Of course, you can also say that Joe accidentally fell into the well himself.
After her father's death, a traumatized Selina left for 15 years, until she received an anonymous fax saying her mother had been arrested for a murder that Dolores didn't recognize when she saw her again.
When her daughter is by her side, it is the whole meaning of her life. After her daughter left, there is also the old landlord Vera who cherishes each other.
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