People will have wonderful fantasies about passion in ordinary life. Sarah, played by Kate Winslet, is a master of arts who has been married and had children. The daily life of a housewife makes her tired of everything around her. Because of her highly educated background, she didn't communicate much with her housewife, and she seemed out of sync. Brad, played by Patrick Wilson, had never experienced the feeling of being noticed in his youth. He was unemployed at home. He failed to obtain his lawyer's qualification after two years. The main task is to take care of the children at home. His pressure is conceivable. On the one hand, he must continue to rely on his wife to support his family. On the one hand, he must continue to take exams. At the same time, he must endure a life without intimate behavior between husband and wife for a long time. Sarah's husband is also a person worthy of scrutiny. As a department manager of a large company, he accidentally fell in love with pornographic websites. He has been out of control since then, masturbating on the computer all day, and the worst part is being discovered by his wife. I don't want to go into the personality characteristics of this person, but what he did is understandable. The pressure in life and work will indeed make a person "perverted". In such a situation, the hero and heroine began to fall in love against morals, or there was no love but only love. They found what they needed in each other, whether it was passion or resistance, or it was pure desire.
One of the most impressive parts of the film is that Sarah was invited to participate in a literary discussion club that is probably a community. The discussion of "Mrs. Bovary" is the finishing touch of the film. While Sarah believed that Madame Bovary was affirmative, while worried about her future, images of lingering with Brad repeatedly appeared in her mind. At this time, her heart was disturbed, and she was worried about whether she would be like Madame Bovary in the end.
Another clue of the film is about a pedophile in the community. By the way, American film and television dramas have always paid more attention to this topic, but our country rarely mentions it in film and television works. I think we Shouldn't we also pay attention to this aspect of the problem, don't always avoid it. This pedophile named Ronald is a cross-street rat in the community. One day in the summer, people chose to escape the heat in the open-air swimming pool, and Ronald’s arrival broke everything. When everyone found out that he was also in the swimming pool, almost Everyone fled ashore at the same time, the parents were protecting the children, and the children were at a loss in horror~~ Suddenly, the bustling and noisy swimming pool became extremely quiet. At this time, the security came in and asked Ronald to leave. Before Ronald left, he said a classic saying "I just want to cool off."
And Ronald's mother, I have to say, this is a great mother, even if her son is so bad, she still did not give up on him, but always hoped and expected him to change. I also hope that he can change, but some things are difficult to change once they become a habit. In a blind date arranged for him by his mother, he was incorrigible "returning to his old profession", and the final result can be imagined. The mother had a heart attack while protecting him, and she wrote a letter to Ronald before she died, in which there was only a short sentence "Be a good boy".
The ending of the film is both reasonable and unexpected. What is reasonable is that Sarah and Brad’s planned elopement finally went bankrupt under the condition of rational occupation of emotion by both sides. What is unexpected is Ronald in order to promise his mother to be a good child. And castrated himself.
Regarding performance, I’m not a professional. But Kate Winslet, an actress who has been nominated for four Oscars before the age of 30, is really good enough. There is no sculpting element, everything is natural. The character descriptions of the other leading actors are also very full, and each character is enough for you to analyze for a while. Good scripts are also an important reason. Scripts adapted from best-selling novels generally get good results. I personally think that this film is similar to the best Oscar film "American Beauty" of that year. They both reflect the contradictions within the American middle-class family, the complicated social issues, and people's ordinary life after passion.
Little Children, we translate as "as a mother", which is also a subtitle. At the end of the film, it was the short disappearance of her daughter that made Sarah fully aware of her mistake. Adults need passion, and children only need a warm and stable home.
On February 22
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