This was the day after Michelle was raped.
Of course, she wasn't always so calm. She also went to the hospital for an examination, bought an anti-wolf spray and a small hammer, and fantasized about the scene where she could kill the rapist when she was raped. She was obviously scared but she was very calm, this must be a woman with a story.
This woman's midlife crisis comes from her ex-husband's little girlfriend, her son's little girlfriend, her Botox mother, her serial killer father, and Anna's husband, who is her boyfriend. Everyone does not let her worry, these people affect her life. So she cheated on a man. This man was the man from the opposite family. He was strong and strong, and he had a devout Christian wife.
The heroine has a serial killer father who is also a devout Christian. The heroine was regarded as an accomplice by the police when she was young, which brought great psychological trauma to Michelle and never believed in the police again. All the love for his family is hidden, in fact, it can be said that he is a very wanton person. Will directly tell the son that the child his girlfriend gave birth to is not his flesh and blood, and will throw the mother's ashes at will because of anger, will say to the father's body "Knowing I'm coming, so you are dead", will tell the best friend her husband The cheating object is her.
A person who lives recklessly and can contact his male neighbor when he knows that he is a pervert. Living like this must be very stressful, because he is strong and fragile inside. She said herself that she just wanted to have sex. When I saw this, I thought, isn't this the French version of "London Living"? ? ? Because of loneliness and loneliness in the heart, the man who entrusts this sense of emptiness to sex and has a girlfriend has troubles from his family. Sex is the most primitive desire, and it is the quickest way to relax when there are many problems that cannot be solved.
In fact, Michelle has been avoiding many problems, and these problems have been piled up to form a mid-life crisis. For example, the relationship between her and her ex-husband, the two of them clearly still have feelings, but they have to find a good friend; the problem between her and the serial killer father has always been avoided and unwilling to face, like the "accomplice" that her father brought her when she was a child. Under the same pressure, she never ran away. She didn't go to see her father until her mother died, and her father also chose to escape and committed suicide early; everyone knew that her relationship with Anna's husband should not have started, and it should have ended long ago; The childish problem of her son, she has always chosen to indulge.
In the two hours of the film, these problems show the "growth" of the heroine, that is, the heroine begins to solve these problems and begins to face them. Like when she first faced the rape case, "It's over, it's all right." When she took the initiative to solve the problem of the perverted male neighbor, it all showed the "growth" of the heroine. A film must have such a process to be complete. , and the director expresses this process very clearly.
The Christmas party scene can be called the climax of the film. Everyone's performance at the dinner table reflects their relationship with others, eye movements and expressions, on the surface and in the dark, the audience is simply overwhelmed.
Because of the trauma, and the heart built a wall, the heroine's mid-life crisis also came to an end. Every time I see the heroine's kind veneer ceremony with others, I always feel a chill. It's hard to face it, but it's not impossible.
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