This 1983 American movie "Mother and Daughter Love", which won multiple Oscars in 1983, tells the lives of Aurora and her daughter Emma. Aurora is a rich and beautiful woman. After her husband passed away, she pulled her daughter Emma up by herself. After growing up, Emma hurriedly married Flip, a poor teacher in order to escape her autocratic and fussy mother. After marriage, the two moved around in order to make a living, quarreling constantly, Emma gave birth to three children before and after. During the days of living alone, Aurora became interested in the neighbor "Playboy" Garrett. After many times you came and I had feelings, both of them began to shrink back. At this time, Emma was diagnosed with a serious illness and will die soon. Aurora pretended to be strong to accompany Emma to the treatment, and Garrett returned to Aurora at this time. After Emma's death, Aurora raised Emma's two children.
The first 100 minutes of the film tells about the trivial life of the mother and daughter, while also showing everyone's plight and contradictions. Aurora and Emma are diametrically opposed, one is cautious and indifferent, the other is simple. Aurora has been suppressing herself over the years, and her eccentric and arrogant personality has become more apparent. She despised her son-in-law Flap, who did his own way and lacked respect for her mother-in-law. Flap has difficulty supporting a family and has a lover. Emma, who brought her baby at home, went crazy for money and complained all day long. This also directly caused the elder son's hatred and indifference. In the last twenty minutes of the film, their reaction to the bad news is the essence of the film.
After watching "Mother and Daughter Love", you will be moved by its casual reality, admiring the actors' meticulous acting skills, and admiring the author's observation and restraint. It tells the audience: this is life. The screenwriter lets each character do its own thing, defending their own actions. Emma was enthusiastic and strong, hysterical, and shamelessly cheating. Flap is selfish and lazy, but he is too poor to be sympathetic, which of course does not prevent him from seduce female students with sweet words. Aurora removed her arrogant and formal face, took the initiative to date her neighbor, admitting she was empty and lonely. Garrett used his aura as an astronaut to attract young girls. Also, Emma's eldest son, he was fed up with his mother's yelling and thought she was both hateful and annoying. Basically every character is confined to his own opinion, believing that life is so bad that others are losing to me, the voices are noisy, everyone can only hear the voice in their own heart.
They were trapped in life, hurried and confused. After Emma got sick, Flip's first reaction was like a naughty child who didn't believe his mother would fall ill. Then he was irritable, because his self-sufficient life balance was broken. Wandering, hitting a wall, and living a life of stubbornness made him very numb. So, when Emma stopped breathing, he was awakened by the nurse and stood up with a dazed expression. Similarly, Emma called her two sons to the bed before she died, as if she had a lot to say. The younger son cried very sadly, but the older son was indifferent and just bored. Without a sense of ritual, without sublimation, Emma left hastily like this. Some people drew life strength from her death, and some people just experienced one more thing.
The lives of Aurora and Emma are like two parallel train tracks, always accompanied but unable to merge into one. Suddenly remembered Long Yingtai's words: The so-called father-daughter mother-child game only means that your fate with him is that you are constantly watching him drift away in this life. Aurora repeatedly admonished her daughter against her, but couldn't pull her out of the quagmire. I love you, but I can't replace you. The road has to be walked by oneself, the sin has to be suffered by oneself, parents can only worry and bless behind them.
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