This is a niche movie, and many people will feel drowsy within half an hour. The middle-aged couple lost their children, and the whole family was in sorrow. Therefore, this is a movie that never gets up.
Let's talk about mother Becca first, Nicole really interpreted it extremely well, and it might really be related to being a mother. The anxiety, restlessness, and emotional emptiness after the bereavement were all just right. Becca has almost no crying scenes. Unlike the bitter mass-produced Korean dramas, the director is a very objective person. He did not use crying scenes extensively in the film. He even paid attention to the impact of the camera on the audience. Let Becca's lens be exposed in a sunny park, or in a spacious and bright kitchen. Becca's outburst was in the car. After watching the "murderer" Jason go to the prom, she couldn't cry. Before this, I was depressed, Becca just didn't open his gate, and my son was dead. I'm not sad. This is how she has been awkward all the time, you feel all the emotional weight that should have been smashed on the cotton. I even waited to pinch her collar and shout, cry, cry, your son is dead, cry, is it interesting for you to be so awkward and pretending to be calm, you fucking cry! Until that moment, Becca seemed to have found something, crying so hard, letting go of her delicate handling, and crying, I seemed to know what she was whispering: "Jason, I forgive you, but what's the use, who Can forgive me, who can forgive me, my son is dead, can't go to the prom anymore, can't go again, your mother put a bow tie on you, what about me, what should I do, my son died You drove him to death."
It’s not difficult to see why Becca is awkward. Everyone has different ways of comfort. We can’t accept the pain when the pain is too great. It’s okay to avoid it or pretend to be positive. We I just want to let this blow die out on us slowly, and let me slowly accept this painful existence in the process of evading.
Speaking of pretending to be positive is what my dad Howie does. He actively maintains an aggressive life on weekdays, works hard, and comforts his wife with excitement, looking for solutions everywhere, and participating in mutual aid associations. But at night, I slumped on the sofa and watched his son's video on the phone. It was this video that triggered a big conflict between the husband and wife, which is the climax of the whole movie. Aaron Eckhart felt like an actor from Tecoban, and the intense emotional outburst was also full of tension, quite a drama. Some people will say that Aaron's performance was a bit too much, but I think it's OK. It may be that everyone has been affected by the secular "father's love is deep". The father has to accept the fact that his son is gone, he has to work to support his family, and he has to suffer from his wife's abnormal attitude. Therefore, it is normal for the accumulated anger to explode at this moment.
At the end, someone said that it was not handled well, but I think it's quite appropriate. Because the ending of this kind of story cannot be said good or bad, two people can sit together holding hands is already a kind of progress, this is not a happy ending in Hollywood, jump into the plot again and say, the son is dead, this family is destined to go to the next level The haze, and it is a haze that is difficult to get rid of in a lifetime, what we can do is to face it positively and minimize the pain of this memory, not to mention the most beautiful memory, this is a bereavement, not a happy breakup. Now I think about the title Rabbit Hole. It is very useful. After the two lost their children, they all got into the Rabbit Hole and used their own methods to get rid of them. Later, they came out of the Rabbit Hole with scars to face each other. The same is true for us when we are alive. When we are sad, we can go into our own rabbit hole, leave our sadness, helplessness, and anger in it, and then try to re-examine ourselves when we come out. This is also a kind of courage to live. I have heard a sentence before, when people pray for blessings, they don’t need to ask too much, as long as they have courage and wisdom, use wisdom to overcome difficulties, and if they really can’t overcome them, use courage to face them bravely.
To borrow a sentence from Spencer Johnson to help us relieve all the pain, incomprehension and confusion-"Use our excellent minds to forgive, and then forget."
Rabbit hole, I only allow myself to go in for ten minutes.
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