The most moving thing is...

Melany 2021-12-27 08:01:31

reality.

What Dolan photographed this time is a life that everyone is experiencing firsthand.

"Mommy", although the simple movie name does not sound like the first film "I Killed My Mom", it has a more real temperature.

This strong and stubborn mom is a collection of every mother. Behind her love for Steve, there is the shadow of the greatest sincere emotion in the world.

You and I are not necessarily Steve, but I must be like him, a child who is not good enough. We will annoy mommy, make them irritable, out of control, nervous, and disappointed. We always hurt them by accident. Heart.

Our mom will stubbornly hold back her tears, cry, complain, and occasionally fantasize about the ultimate happiness of being a mother.

In my opinion, the climax of the movie should be the period when Steve resisted the medical staff. He resisted and yelled. At that moment, Mommy's heart was twisted together, tearing like a pain, but helpless.

I cried without suspense.

Sure enough, true destiny will not deliberately fulfill love.

People cannot be resurrected from the dead, and the broken mirror cannot be reconciled.

There are not a few domestic film and television dramas that talk about love, especially the love between men and women. Costume battles, fairy tales, fantasy, urban workplaces, no matter what the environment, there will always be handsome and dedicated male protagonists, beautiful and kind-hearted female protagonists, infatuated male counterparts, jealous and mean female counterparts, each with facial makeup. The transformed characters are entangled in love and piercing the heart, exaggerating the so-called sadomasochism.

But these so-called "tortures" are too deliberate and too unreal, thrown into the deep pool of life, can't irritate even a splash, let alone touch people's hearts.

If you don’t believe me, compare it. The heroes and heroines in the domestic romantic dramas are sadly sad three thousand times, which is not worth the tears that mommy desperately held towards the end.

This is true.

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I really appreciate the adjustment of the screen ratio in the movie. The moment Steve pushes the screen with his hand, it seems that the whole day is bright.

I don't want to admit that I thought it was a problem with the film source when I looked at the small screen at the beginning.

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The following is a summary of the story and the links, all spoilers.

The main thing is to train yourself to summarize the plot after reading it, and to learn the plot arrangement of Dolan Little Angel.

Please quit silently for children's shoes that you haven't seen!

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The protagonist of the story is a single mother and her son who suffers from ADHD and bipolar disorder.

The opening scene was when the mother received a call from the detention center after she was in a car accident on the street and told her to take her son home. It turned out that her son Steve set fire to another child in a café and suffered severe burns.

It can be seen that the relationship between the two is very good. The son loves his mother, and the mother loves his son very much. On the way home, the mother meets the wretched lawyer uncle. After moving into the new home, my mother greeted another woman, Kayla, who was opposite.

One day, my son went to the supermarket and brought home a lot of things, including a necklace with a Mommy pattern. Mother thought that his habit of petty theft had committed again, and persuaded him to return the things. The son refused to obey and emphasized that "These are all yours", which caused a dispute. Steve injured his leg, Keira bandaged the wound with tools, and the three of them formed a friendship.

My mother was fired and needed to find a new job, so she asked Kaila to take care of her son, and Kaila agreed. When Steve and Kayla were in the same room, Steve suddenly fell ill. He pulled off Kayla’s earrings and still belittled her in action. Kayla became furious, threatened Steve with scolding, and scared Steve to pee. Later, Steve took the initiative to apologize to Kayla, and the two prepared a surprise meal for their mother who had returned from job hunting.

With Kayla's help, my mother got her ideal job as she wished.

However, my mother suddenly received a letter from the lawyer of the family of the child who had been burned in the cafe and asked them for compensation.

My mother didn’t have money to hire a lawyer and didn’t want to send her son to the hospital, so she had to ask the old wretched lawyer uncle for help. The three ate fast food and went to a karaoke bar to chat. This time provoked, and when they sang because the punks teased and scuffled with them, the three went home in embarrassment. During the period, Steve bluntly said that the lawyer was just trying to "fuck his mother". The lawyer slapped him and his mother also slapped him. The lawyer slapped him, and the lawyer left. Mom told her pain in the dark and told Steve how much trouble he had caused her.

Steve fell into a gloomy mood, and finally attempted suicide by cutting his wrists while the mother and son were visiting the supermarket with Kayla.

The three drove together.

The mother imagined that they were very happy on this journey. After the son was cured, he was successfully admitted to university, graduated, found a girlfriend, worked, and got married, so that she could enjoy the greatest happiness of being a mother.

But when Steve did not get better, his mother brought him out this time to send him to a nursing home. Steve couldn't follow, and was electrocuted during the scuffle with the security guard. His mother regretted it, but it was too late to break the contract.

Steve left a message to his mother's mobile phone in the nursing home, saying that he had realized the mistake, "You deserve a better son, not rubbish like me." At this moment, Steve has lost hope for himself.

Before the family moved, Kayla said goodbye to her mother and expressed her dissatisfaction with her mother's abandonment of Steve. Her mother said that she still had hope for Steve and it was the best way to send him to the hospital. After Kayla left, her mother desperately resisted the desire to cry loudly, she always looked so strong.

Steve rushed to the French windows of the hospital as soon as he took off his medical clothes, with a smile on his face and a yearning for freedom.

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Extended Reading
  • Ignatius 2022-03-20 09:02:10

    Dolan constructs this Oedipus-inspired drama of social issues with a personal audio-visual language that runs at high speed, almost baroque. The frame changes four times: This image reflexes not only reminds the audience and the characters of the existence of the screen boundary, but also gives the director the prerogative to “predict the crisis” a priori. The emphasis is not on "expanding" but on the severe confinement of "squeezing". Ending: The irony of "Four Hundred Blows", the transcendental "expansion" did not come with slow motion.

  • Syble 2022-03-30 09:01:05

    This was the first movie I saw in the cinema in Montreal. The life of two crazy women and a neurotic boy was made into a MV, probably like this. It's also huge and long, and I want to rush out of the theater countless times. It turns out that by the end of the movie, the Canadian woman in front of me was in tears.

Mommy quotes

  • Steve Després: [Waiting to surprise his mother] I had to piss so I tied a knot in my dick!

  • Diane 'Die' Després: Stop being so racist.

    Steve Després: But he's black, anyway.