Canadian film "Mommy" is written and directed by the highly personal style director Xavier Dolan, who is only 25 years old. This film is his fifth feature film, and it is gratifying to see his maturity and progress. Compared with the aggressive film "I Killed My Mom" that he shot when he was 19 years old, which also reflected the relationship between mother and child, this time in "Mommy", he seemed to have a much more generous and gentle mood in telling the story. It also has some depth.
The film is full of emotions, both tangled and agitated, and the characterization is full of explosive force, presenting the special relationship between mother and child in a single parent family that is dependent and torturing each other heartily. The film uses a 1:1 square picture to highlight this bipolar-like family relationship, manic and worried, straightforward and profound.
This time, Dolan got rid of his middle-class posture mentioned by the industry. From a plain perspective, full of talented video images, the life of the mother and child at the bottom is expressed, the straightforward mother Di An, and the history of the son with psychological problems. Tiff and the shy neighbor Keira who has a stuttering disorder form a special family relationship, like a kind of mutual aid group, as if they have reached an indescribable delicate balance, but this balance is fragile, especially when it is not. When the pressure of resistance hits.
The film’s story background takes place in Quebec, Canada. The sparsely populated sense of loneliness and remoteness set off the emotional relationship between the mother and child. Dolan also expresses this emotion with explosive power. The same With violent tempers, the same passions, the same unscrupulous words, and the same lack of control and restraint, the relationship between the mother and child is like holding a gunpowder keg and leaning against a gas can while lighting up a cigarette. The lethality is extremely strong, and it will spread to others.
Dolan seems to be a person with a peculiar Oedipus complex. He once said bluntly that for a long time "mother" was the only theme that could bring him creative inspiration, "I would like to see her win the battle, and I would create difficulties for her." Let her display her talent for resolution. I challenge myself through her. I am willing to give her the right to speak up when everyone is silent. I am willing to keep her right forever when we all make mistakes. No matter what happens, she will Have the ultimate right to speak.” So, in this obscure and warm intertwined film, the immature teenager’s extreme thirst for maternal love, with a taste of absolute dominance and subjectivity, as if Dolan wanted to do his best. An emotion expressed.
In the film, the dependent mother and son often give the audience a feeling of an extraordinary mother-child relationship. The son’s extreme attachment to the mother is not only manifested in speech, but also in physical contact. This is probably due to psychological shortcomings. His son’s feelings towards his mother are exclusive and exclusive, with strong selfishness and exclusivity. When any other man tries to approach his charming mother, his son will become a little wolf ready to fight at any time. The exception is Keira, the female neighbor who has a short-lived actual "father attribute" in this relationship. Her appearance just eases the tense relationship between the "hedgehog" mother and son, who are both extreme in love and hatred.
Perhaps due to the bursting personality of the people in the film, the film has always been moving in an exhilarating tone, even when there is a subtle triangular balance, this exaggerated tone still exists, as if it combines joy and warmth with The violent storm was densely packed in one place and pulled away other unnecessary components. Pleasure and rage, these two emotions seem to have been competing in this relationship, severely hurting and giving a sweet candy, this kind of bridge continues to go hand in hand. When watching the movie, the audience can guess that perhaps at the next node, the next time period, this relationship will come to an end and cease to exist, just like a day when a full balloon will eventually burst or deflate. However, Dolan has a way to let the audience keep this expectation to the most appropriate, most appropriate and tightest place.
Although the mother in the film is dressed in fancy clothes and poorly talked, her understanding of life is often amazing. For example, she said: "Life is like a poker card. If you can't catch a good card, you will be nothing." Then again, " There are not so many hopes in the world, but I just believe that there are still a lot of hopeful people who are hoping all day long.” Perhaps because of the existence of such a little hope, people’s destined to end things continue to develop...
Film selection A large number of songs as the soundtrack, such as Oasis, Celine Dion, Andre Bocelli, etc., played an important role in promoting the mood and plot of the characters, and at the same time brought abundance to the film. Audiovisual effects.
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