Before watching, I prepared a pack of tissues. I thought it was a tearjerker movie. I have suppressed my emotions for a long time and want to vent through a movie. But I miscalculated, but luckily I wasn't disappointed. This movie uses the trick of turning bones and soft palms to resolve the chaos of my mind. There is a little sadness, a little joy, and a little anger in the film, but like the water of a river, it flows slowly and silently.
Philomena's Time to Seek Children
The film opens with a dialogue between the protagonist Martin and a psychiatrist. Martin's resignation from the BBC left behind the storm in the political arena, but took away the frustration of frustration. After leaving the job, Martin intends to write a history of Russia, but accidentally meets Philomena's daughter at a party and hears an emotional story from fifty years ago.
At that time, Philomena, who was still a minor, became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent to a monastery for punishment, while her son was adopted by a family in the United States. Fifty years later, Philomena could no longer restrain her thoughts of her son, and was unwilling to accept the so-called punishment silently, and was determined to find her fifty-year-old son. Her reasoning is, is silence also a punishment, so which one is more serious?
It's like Philomena's indecisive faith.
As a bystander, I wondered if Martin could be Philomena's son. It's obviously not that simple, but it's not that complicated either, and less than halfway through, the movie has the end of Philomena's son -- he's dead. Yes, dead and eight years away.
Philomena, who has gone through vicissitudes of life, did not perform irresistibly in front of the camera. A joke: For an elderly lady, I have to say that Philomena's psychological quality is really good. But Martin called the editor-in-chief and said that Philomena's heart was broken. When she turned around, Philomena stared blankly at the billboard at the airport. Only then did I realize that Philomena's silent acceptance was more difficult to accept than to cry.
She played the old woman's appearance in exchange for a love, and also used the identity of the old woman to speculate on her son's unknown love for her.
It's just that her signal hasn't come yet, it's still early.
Love is a circle that always returns to the starting point
Love is a circle. Once, the mother waited for the crying child, and finally, the child cried and sent the mother away, letting the Buddha go back to the starting point. For Philomena, whose white hair failed to send her son, she lost such a link, so she was uneasy and reluctant to leave before waiting for the signal.
Compared with Philomena, who just came to the United States, she no longer praised the one-in-a-million waiter, no longer told long stories, but went straight to the theme, for an unknown child, even if she leaves, even if It is good to know a little. This release of Buddha is a wonderful combination of motherly love and human curiosity. She looks for the signal and the past at the same time.
The son's cause of death, sexual orientation, work, and ability are not the point. The point is that Philomena knocked on the door of her son Michael's gay sex and saw the full video interspersed in the film. I finally found that for myself, love is complete.
The deceased son found his biological mother at the last moment and was buried in the monastery where he was born. Philomena came all the way and found her son right where she started.
Religion teaches tolerance, but is more stubborn than anyone
As Martin says, Philomena and her lost son are part of an emotional story. It's just that behind the emotion, there is a hideous truth.
I have seen many stories of amnesia before, and amnesiacs always struggle to find their lost memories. But the truth is always unsatisfactory. While following the development of the story, I condemned the persistence of the protagonist.
And when the truth about Philomena was revealed, I felt like Martin possessed, dug up the content behind the lie, and wished to use the lying old nun as an arrow target to resolve the irrepressible anger, together with the irreversible past. The helplessness turned anger on her.
Philomena, however, said lightly, "I forgive her."
The complexity of the story lies in the fact that it is not purely human or self-interest, but supplemented by indistinguishable religion. For the devout old nun, the sin of having a child out of wedlock is far greater than a lifelong lie. She used the lies of dismantling a mother and son to comfort her beliefs all her life, used the lives of young mothers and children to pay homage to the so-called merciful Lord, and used hundreds of years of punishment before and after death to treat those believers who betrayed the religion.
This is far more cruel than what religion teaches. Faith teaches tolerance and kindness, but it also makes people more stubborn.
Philomena, although she is also a believer, spent her whole life reflecting on her past, and even gave up custody of her son permanently, and even tied her memories to shackles. But from the moment she enjoys the pleasure of sex, from the moment she doubts the importance of silence and speaking in the process of punishment, she has transcended the shackles of religion. In the face of faith and morality, she finally chose morality. At first, she did not want her son's story to be released to the public, but in the face of the old nun's actions, she used "news effect" and "consumption of privacy" to condemn the conservative and decadent monastery. Forgiveness replaces endless revenge, but it hits the enemy better than revenge.
When Filomena tightened her collar and looked at her son's tombstone, she knew that she still guarded her faith, but she was better able to distinguish right from wrong. This scene was as bright as when she said "I forgive you".
As atheists, we have a hard time understanding and discerning the impact of religion on people. Faith or truth, which is more important? Not only us, but the filmmakers are also careful about religious content, for fear of touching the forbidden area of religious believers. But mother's love is much simpler, because mother's love will always be more devout to her son than religious belief.
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