The son with intellectual disability can't remember things clearly. A mother who works hard, thinks hard about being a child. The son was arrested and imprisoned as a suspect in the murder case. There was no help around, and only the mother went to fight to the death. Tears behind bars, love between mother and child, such themes in China will surely give birth to a sad version of deeds. When I was in Japan, there happened to be a "Even So I Didn't Do It" the year before last. My son was caught by mistake. My mother tried hard to fight for him and asked a responsible lawyer for help. In "Mother", the mother didn't want to take the risk from the beginning and couldn't look back. To her, such an approach is too unconventional and does not conform to ordinary people's logical thinking. She also found a lawyer, but it was a pity that the other party was greedy and irresponsible. She used her instinct to judge, and it turned out to be an illusion. She was misled and made a false alarm. In the end, it was close to the truth, and it collapsed immediately, causing a tragedy.
The film didn’t spend a lot of time on the relationship between mother and child. To be more precise, "Mother" is not to pursue dependence and trust based on the relationship between mother and child. On the contrary, you can’t choose a normal angle when you look at the relationship between mother and child. , Then the director was led away by the nose smoothly. In the same scene, the mother is busy with the things at hand, her eyes are always inseparable from her son. Although the son is not far away, he is a handsome adult, but in front of his mother, he is still a child who can get into trouble if he is not careful. However, others say that her son is a fool, but this little brother is not without IQ. He knows a lot of things, he will resist the appearance of his mother all the time and everywhere, and will prove to his mother that he has the ability of a normal person. The biggest question left to the audience from "Mother" is whether the son is stupid, how stupid he is, and how many things are hidden.
The character setting of the orphan and the widow is sympathetic, the son is in jail, and the mother is grief and speechless. This is totally unfair and the law is not right. After the opening prologue, "Mother" entered the murderer search time, a topical passage that almost all audiences would be interested in. The reason is that most people hold the conclusion that good and evil are different in nature, and the murderer must be brought to justice, and good people must not be wronged. What's more, the film uses some black techniques to show unused police and insatiable lawyers. These disgusting and nauseous faces have become the root cause of the tragedy.
You can pay attention to the order of appearance of the characters in the film. The golf course incident brought out the police, and the poor impression of his son’s friend caused the mother to be suspicious. They are all interlocking and there are no errors or omissions. Then to the old trash man and wretched students at the back, their appearances were also completely carefully set up. The old man was in the foreground of the scene, and his mother asked him to take a broken umbrella on the road. The two male students appeared as background characters at the beginning, and then showed positive performance later. Even a certain case in the mouth of a policeman and a nosebleed from a female student became the key details in the end.
Feng Junhao is also good at directing group dramas, the scene of the crime in "Memories of Murder", the chaotic funeral in "Monster", and the similar drama in "Mother". The funeral is just as wonderful and unique after the identification of the scene. There are spoof details, like the head of the mannequin fell off. There were ambiguous details, the son took off his mask and the girl student beckoned. With the necessary details for the film, my mother distributed leaflets on the spot to win public support. Switching to the funeral, the family members pretended to be sad, the appearance of the crazy old lady, and the two sides fought each other, which intensified the conflict. When it comes to the scenes that can be separated separately, the mother's two visits to the cabin are quite representative. The accidental visit by a friend and the interrogation in the amusement park use different shooting methods. The front is cold and weird, and the back is bloody and violent. Feng Junhao has mastered such a technique, and there is no suspicion of piled up at all. In dealing with the flashbacks of past time and space, the film is like traversing randomly on a sliding door, jumping back and forth in different parts of the story. The appearance of the deceased adds to the suspense of the movie.
"Mother" can easily compare ordinary murder and crime movies because it has always encouraged the hunt for murderers and clearly told the audience that there is a murderer. In the end, the audience discovered that the murderer was there, and it was because they had lost their ability to judge. However, "Mother" is not a reasoning film. It uses the packaging technique of family ethics films. The existence of mother-child love makes many people lose the basis for analysis and makes reflection more difficult. How to break out of the quagmire of mother and child, the film does not seem to give an answer. When the mother used acupuncture to make herself forget the pain for a while, as the people in the car sang and danced, it was obviously a troublesome question whether the memory would follow. In his son, the memory appeared without warning and disappeared without warning. He would remember from time to time and forget it from time to time. That fire, that night, the memory of mother and child is here. They cannot leave each other, and there is no harm. From the inner blood to the outer identity, from beginning to end, they are one body, and fate binds them tightly. 【……】
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