"As a Mother (Little Children)": Life is not good

Michel 2021-12-14 08:01:10

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Little Children (2006)

watching this movie is just for watching what I like Actress Kate Winslet, but did not expect the movie itself to be very special.

The film tells the story of an American community. The male and female protagonists are full-time parents, the male protagonist is a failure who achieves nothing, and the female protagonist is a fantasy woman. The marriages of the heroes and heroines are boring and full of crisis. In a park, the hero and heroine met, developed a good impression of each other, and kissed each other. A few days later, both of them were thinking about their encounter, so the heroine took the child to the swimming pool to find the hero. In this way, the protagonist and heroine take their children to play in the swimming pool every day, and the relationship between the two becomes close. After a day of heavy rain, the two had a relationship. At the same time, the actor joins a team where the police retired because of manslaughter, and gradually regains the sense of success. The retired police also pulled the male protagonist into a parent protection organization to prevent the released sexual harassers from assaulting children in the community, and the retired police often went to the harasser’s home to make trouble. After some time, the actor's wife discovered that her husband and the heroine were in an abnormal relationship, but after several investigations, they did not get a handle. After a game, the hero and heroine finally had time to be together, without worrying about the investigation of the hero's wife, and at the same time the two agreed to elope. The retired police found that the male protagonist and the female protagonist were affectionate and missed their appointment, so they came to harass the criminal's house and make trouble. The retired policeman would harass the offender's mother so that she had a heart attack and died soon in the hospital. At this time, the heroes and heroines are ready to elope and go to the agreed meeting place-the park. The heroine arrived first with the child, but found the harasser crying in the park. After that, the heroine lost her child again. The actor was seriously injured while skateboarding on the way to the park. At the same time, the regretful retired policeman prepared to apologize to the harasser, but found that he had castrated himself, and the retired police rushed him to the hospital. In this way, the male protagonist was sent away by the ambulance, and the female protagonist was crying in the car holding the child, everything returned to peace.

I just said that this film is very special because it is a very absurd satire film. The film’s playful tone tells about the life of the American middle class, shows the contradictions in ordinary American family life, and shows the bad side of life. It can be said that this film is a very regular work reflecting reality in Hollywood movies, and its uniqueness lies in its weird and exaggerated way of expression.

The unique way of expression of the film is vividly shown in the film: first, the low voice-over in the film makes the film have a heavy feeling, but the plot of the film is just an ordinary family trivial matter, which makes the film give people a weird style; secondly , The characters’ deep and solemn expressions make the movie look very serious, but the plot is not like that, just some trivial things, which also makes the movie look weird; third, the close-ups, slow-motion, and The location of the characters in the scene makes the movie itself exaggeratedly heavy, as if the characters in the movie are suffering and making choices, which in turn makes the overall style of the movie even more weird. From the above, we can know that the choreographer used extremely exaggerated methods to enlarge the inner world of ordinary characters, and through the use of this way of expression to show the contradictions and conflicts of American middle-class families, as well as the inner pain of the characters. This is what makes this film special. In short, this film uses anti-traditional methods to show the real society, while bringing new experiences to the audience-I kept laughing during the viewing process, and also allowed the film to dig deeper into the essence of life- —Life is not good.

The characters created by the movie live in various pains. The actor is a loser and has a strong wife. The heroine lives alone and has a husband who is almost abnormal. Harassers are always affected by psychological abnormalities, not only making themselves painful, but also worrying about their mothers. Retired police officers regret their mistakes all the time and rely on attacking others to comfort themselves. None of the above four characters are truly happy, they are all immersed in more or less pain. Therefore, they derailed, lost their mother, and were arrested and imprisoned. This is the real society in the United States, and it is also the focus of the film. However, the shortcomings of the film also come from this. The film only shows the bad things in life, but it does not show the resolution of pain in a deeper level. The film just ended the story of the film with two short accidents. It seems to give people a feeling of redemption. In fact, it just temporarily stopped sadness, and there is no reasonable ending. In short, the content of the film is very real and rich, but nothing more, nothing more.

In addition to the picture, lens and style mentioned above, the filming aspect of the film is relatively ordinary. The settings, costumes, props, etc. are all conventional styles of American film and television dramas, which are exactly the same as "Desperate Housewives". It seems that the American middle-class life is like this. But I still like the bright colors of the movie, especially the light shining on Kate Winslet's skin, which looks good.

In addition, "Mrs. Bovary" is mentioned in the film, which seems to be a very bold novel.

Patrick Wilson, the lead actor in this film, is a very familiar person. Many people praise him for his excellent acting skills, but in my opinion, he is very average and does not have a deep performance. The heroine Kate Winslet is different. She performed well. She showed the heroine's lonely and hesitant character very well. Of course, her dew point performance in this film is amazing. It can be seen that she is a big breasted woman, not only has big breasts, but also big nipples and areolas. However, she was born in 1975, she looked so old in this 2006 movie, with a lot of wrinkles, and her years are gone! Everyone else is just a trick, not to mention it.

in conclusion. This is a slightly dull but surprising movie. The dullness lies in the slow plot, and the surprise lies in the grotesque irony. However, the film is generally not a good movie, because it has laid out a lot of content, but it does not have a perfect ending. It can only be regarded as a half-good movie.

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2012-02-15

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  • Einar 2021-12-14 08:01:10

    In the end it was the pedophile that made me shed tears

Little Children quotes

  • May McGorvey: You're a miracle, Ronnie. We're all miracles. Know why? Because as humans, every day we go about our business, and all that time we know... we all know... that the things we love... the people we love, at any time now can all be taken away. We live knowing that and we keep going anyway. Animals don't do that.

  • Ronald James McGorvey: I just wanted to cool off!