Everyone is an orphan

Morton 2022-03-18 09:01:03

The title of Orphan is full of mystery. It does not use the specific The Orphan, or directly uses the name of Esther to match the poster; is an orphan.

Let’s start with the first wife Kate: Materially, she has a perfect life: she once coached Yale, has a pair of beautiful and lovely children, a successful and dashing husband, and a mansion with a backing. And behind all of this is her alcoholic past, the painful memories of accidentally hurting her children, her mother-in-law who is always sarcastic and sarcastic to her, and the experience she just experienced an accidental miscarriage. The latter are the indelible damage in her life, and compared with the material "happiness", the spiritual damage is irreversible. The unprudent decision to adopt Esther seems stupid but has deep roots. Kate expects Esther the most, because she believes that Esther is the antidote that can make up for her lack on a spiritual level, which is why when Esther began to expose When it comes to nature, Kate is also the most violent/irrational one. Esther's wickedness proves once again that her life is a failure, and when her life is full of "remedy" expectations, it's not a big blow.

Kate was "damaged" from the start, and Esther's arrival made it all the more serious. The former betrayal of husband John has always alienated the two of them. In the film, it can be seen that the deliberately arranged love scenes are full of "redemption" rather than love from the heart. The son Daniel is in a period of reversal of youth, and he refuses to communicate with his mother when he speaks rudely; although the daughter Max is cute, she cannot really understand her mother's pain due to age restrictions. The most classic is her own psychiatrist. This profession is generally regarded as a savior by Americans. In the film, she is simply a bucket of rice (from appearance to mind). Faced with being her own psychiatrist, she no longer trusts her Kate, in her heart. The loneliness can be imagined. After Esther murdered Daniel in the hospital, the moment Kate madly attacked Esther regardless of the society's vision, can be described as the total outbreak of her mental loneliness; and sadly, in that scene, the husband/mother-in-law/daughter all scattered. , leaving her alone in the center of the hospital and being forcibly anesthetized by the doctor, how is that abandoned situation different from an orphan?

Husband John is a successful designer who supports the whole family. I don't really like this self-righteous guy from a female perspective, and I suddenly feel sympathy for Esther at the end of the credit when he seduces him and expresses his inner pain. . The tit-for-tat between his wife and his mother-in-law made him a dilemma, and Kate, who used his past infidelity to be aggressive, made him feel untrusted by his wife all the time. To deal with his son's rebelliousness, he could only use reluctant punishment to make the father-son relationship more indifferent, and his sense of guilt for his younger daughter made him choose to spoil his sins. Many fans have complained that John's stupidity caused the tragedy of the film, but looking back, in the entire big family, only Esther was willing and continued to communicate with John. Although it was premeditated warmth, for John who didn't know it, this small, continuous affection was enough to move him deeply. That would also explain why he was on Esther's side over and over again. After all, he is a typical middle-aged American man, who seems to be a strong man in the family and is actually very fragile; and Esther's "rich" experience with middle-aged men made her successful in gaining John's goodwill all at once. Get the upper hand at home. John, who was abandoned by his family in terms of emotional communication, saw his own shadow in the orphan Esther.

Two children in a complete family also have a situation similar to orphans. Son Daniel is very passive on Esther's issue: the aborted mother brought Esther as her "sister" without ever consulting with him because she wanted to make up for her lack of spirit. In the film, Daniel doesn't recognize Esther's identity in school. It looks like a bastard, but it's reasonable. If my mother just brought back a sister, I guess I'll be an asshole too. His utopia is his tree house, a small space completely suspended in the air, where he gathers with friends and enjoys a private paradise, and even this place is also locked up by his father to punish him. In the film, he often wanders around with nowhere to go (and because of this), facing Esther, he is timid and lacks self-confidence, and his parents' disappointment in himself forced him to take a risk and decide to find a way to deal with Esther alone (many people commented on it) He is so stupid that Esther should have been reported to his parents to avoid so many tragedies. But just imagine, if his parents trusted him, how could a sane teenager take such a risk?) In a hospital ward with eyes wide open and unable to speak Daniel, there is no one by his side, and he has to bear the pain of his body and mind alone, so why is he not an orphan?

The cutest Max is a deaf child who uses hearing aids to communicate with the world. She is the closest partner to Esther in the family. Although she was young, she felt that everyone's doting on her was due to her disability; her mother was overprotective of her, and she was shocked everywhere. Although this relationship is beautiful, it is built on an unequal foundation. Like all American teenagers, her brother is addicted to video games and adult magazines, rarely communicates with her, and can't even read her simple "want butter and bread" sign language at the dinner table. I remember a scene where my brother Daniel played Rock Band with a soprano beside her like no one else. Although it was only a flash, the expression of the silent scene in Max's eyes was still full of intentions and made people feel lonely. In the film, she sheltered/helped Esther's sinful behavior many times, no doubt because of the sense of belonging "I am your sister" instilled in her by the latter (see the dialogue between the two after the nun incident in the treehouse).

Finally, let's talk about Esther, the protagonist played by the super talented Isabelle Fuhrman. Her role can be a prequel and a movie, very profound! She was an orphan all her life, although in the doctor's mouth she was "playing a poor little girl" to get a chance to be adopted. But in fact life left her no choice. Her birth, her illness made her live with only one identity in her life, and her family's abandonment of her made her suffer in the medical research institute; after escaping, her desire for love as an adult was normal and beautiful for human beings However, due to the pressure of the disease, he could not get out. The perverted paintings on her wall, in fact, from an adult perspective, are the same as modern oil paintings created with eroticism. The reason why people feel disgusted/perverted is because the eyes they look at her are still the eyes of a 9-year-old child. . As she yelled at John at the end: "Stop treating me like a child!" The disappointment and anger, being an orphan was not her choice, it was the only answer God gave her.

On the other hand, a woman who prays before meals, has a talent for music and painting, and looks dignified, should have what she wants in society. Esther, who was destined to be deprived of this right from birth, is also normal to be perverted; and I analyzed that her revenge was completely caused by what medicine caused her. Compared with the consequences of medical malpractice in Mirrors, Esther is not It's a weapon of small mass destruction.

If this film is a little careless, it will become a typical B-grade film in the summer vacation. The production team with Hollywood geniuses such as Leonardo DiCapro has pushed the film to a level of depth. It is worth mentioning that this is Leonardo's production debut~ (I just watched it for this...heheheeee) The

last quote is Isabelle Fuhrman, an actor who played Esther, who was born in 1997. Girl's interview concludes: "I love Esther, I don't find her hateful. Is it right that a family, to make up for the regret of an unborn baby, uses Esther as a solution to a problem? After all, Esther All I want is love."

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  • Damien 2022-03-21 09:01:34

    The story makes people tremble, and the strange girl is deeply terrified.

  • Violette 2021-11-11 08:01:16

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I really like the last point, who is your mother who goes to your mother!

Orphan quotes

  • [pointing a revolver at Max's head]

    Esther: Do you want to play?

  • Saarne Institute Orderly: Hello?

    Kate Coleman: Is this the Saarne Institute?

    Saarne Institute Orderly: Yes.

    Kate Coleman: Yes, I, I need to talk to somebody about, uh, one of your children. She was adopted by an American family. It's a girl.

    Saarne Institute Orderly: She is not come from here...

    Kate Coleman: Well, I haven't even told you her name yet.

    Saarne Institute Orderly: You do not understand. Saarne Institute is not an orphanage, it is a mental hospital.