I originally watched this film under the title of Kate Winslet's Best Actress, but from the first minute I felt that this film would be very special because it came from the title "Little Children" at the beginning of the film. "Children", combined with the Chinese translation of "As a Mother", it is expected that this will be a film about how a mother struggles to grow up a child and shoulder her responsibility as a mother. Soon, this hypothesis was verified in the first shot. Kate's mother Sarah played in the park and the neighborhood. Three mothers took their children to play in the park. The absent-minded Sarah let her daughter play alone, and she While reading, it was completely different from the other three mothers who took care of their children in every possible way. Even Madaha even forgot to get alms from other children for her daughter’s lunch. And the subsequent extraordinary behavior towards the handsome male protagonist made the other three mothers even more embarrassed. Seeing this, I have strengthened my judgment on this film. A mother who is irresponsible will definitely experience all kinds of hardships later to realize the importance of her daughter and the responsibility of being a mother. This expectation is basically in line with the development of the plot, more temptation, greater life depression, these foreshadowing are very sufficient, but with the passage of the film, more and more things are found to be wrong, and the dramatic scenes of mother-daughter affection that I have been looking forward to. And the touching plot has never appeared, is this too long? Not only that, but the plot is also very scattered. The family life of the handsome male protagonist, the life of a child molester who has been released from prison, and the life of the male protagonist’s good friend and retired policeman. These ancillary factors have forced me to re-adjust my views on this film.
Fortunately, the derailed plot of the male and female protagonists has always been a main line to keep people concerned about the development of the plot. As the passion for the affair between the hero and the heroine gradually heats up, the plot becomes more and more clear. In the middle, the hero has been suspected, set up, lied, and calmed down by his wife. Everything seems to be shocking. In the end, passion defeats reason. The protagonist BRAD lied to his wife to take the bar exam, but after spending two days of passionate honeymoon with Sarah, he decided to give up his wife and children and elope with Sarah. Sarah also hated the hypocritical husband who masturbated on porn sites and decided to take her daughter. Go with BRAD to pursue her Madame Bovary's dream.
However, on the night of the final elopement, the plot was ups and downs. First of all, after BRAD secretly kissed his sleeping son goodbye, he sneaked out from behind and ran to the park where Sarah was scheduled to meet, but was attracted by the skater boy. At a critical moment, she was injured when she tried to jump on a skateboard; Sarah was waiting for BRAD in the park for a long time, but she met the gangster who had just died of her mother and ran to the park crying with a knife. When Sarah heard the sound, she went to check on the gangster Ronnie, her daughter ran away, and when she finally found her daughter under the street light, she cried and said, "We are not going anywhere, we are going home", and at the same time , The first sentence of BRAD, who woke up from a fall, was "Call my wife". At this point, the film ended and everything returned to peace.
And the final sentence at the end of the film reminds me not only of the whole plot. You couldn't change the past, but the future could be a diferent story,and it has start somewhere...
The four characters with the most length in the film, Sarah, a housewife with a Master of Arts degree, and a housewife who graduated from law university but did not get admitted to a lawyer but married a beautiful and strong woman, BRAD, who was just released, and only the old mother loves him. Larry, the former policeman who retired from the army and formed the anti-Ronnie organization, was mad at Ronnie, who killed children by mistake. Each of these four adults has an unbearable past, a strong dissatisfaction with reality, and a longing for relief. They experienced a redemption throughout the film, and this redemption might make them from Little Children to adults. Why is the title of the film called "Children", because when children face difficulties, the first reaction of conditioned reflex is to escape. In the film, these four people all chose to escape when facing the plight of life, and did not dare to face the existence of reality.
Sarah is a master of arts, but she can only be a housewife for her husband and family. She can neither get comfort from her wretched husband, nor can she resonate with the housewives around her. For this, she highly praised Madame Bovary for her brave struggle against life. In her derailed love affair with BRAD, she also imagined that she was Madame Bovary, and finally decided to elope. She herself explained that in order to resist the cruel reality, she made the bravest and greatest act. However, in the end, when her daughter cried, when BRAD's contract was broken, and when RONNIE's self-mutilation struck in the night at the same time, she finally returned to reality, and she said "Let's go home".
BRAD is a handsome guy. He married a beautiful female anchor. He was studying law and had to stay at home with children in order to support his wife’s career. Because he had no financial rights, he had not been approved to ask for a mobile phone many times. On the one hand, his wife and her The wealthy family in China has high hopes for him to be admitted to a lawyer. On the other hand, the feeling that he can only be energetic on the football field makes him feel the depression of reality. In this seemingly calm but repressive life, he struggled to find another breakthrough. Joining Larry’s team playing every night is the same, and having an affair with Sarah is also the same. Both things let him. Feel relaxed. With the victory of the rugby match, only Sarah was present on the empty stadium to celebrate him. He felt that this was the life he wanted, so he decided to elope with her. But on the way to the appointment, the young skater invited him to try it. He had the long-lost vitality of recalling his youth, so he eloped to the appointment and was thrown into his mind. It turns out that it's not true love, it's just an excuse to escape the pressure of reality.
The retired policeman Larry has always been very just and awe-inspiring. He launched an "anti-pervert organization" to send leaflets to the community and continue to provoke Ronnie. Knowing that Ronnie's old mother, May, sternly retorted him, "No matter how bad my son is, he will never kill a child", and he completely collapsed. After he accidentally killed a child with a toy gun a few years ago, he could no longer bear this reality. He has been avoiding it. He has always hoped to use the image of a justice guard to make people forget the reality that he accidentally killed a child, and more importantly, he Let yourself forget that painful history. He was also avoiding it, until his extreme actions towards Ronnie caused Ronnie's mother to die of a heart attack, he returned to reality, finally faced himself, and rescued the self-harming Ronnie at the most critical moment.
Ronnie has always been regarded as a monster. Only his mother loves him. He cannot escape from his pathological self. He has been released from prison and is harmless. He should be a good child of a mother, but others don’t think so. he. Only his mother was kind to him and introduced him to a date with a girlfriend. After dating a girlfriend who was also mentally ill, he just recovered a bit of himself, but his mother passed away. The mother's only last word was "be a good boy", so he obeyed his mother's words, and he swung his knife from the palace. He finally stopped escaping, and he finally became a good boy.
"Children", how many people can face life and truly grow up? We think we are grown up, are we still looking for excuses for ourselves for the unsatisfactory in life, are we still escaping like children, are we still weaving beautiful reasons and auras for our escape? "The past cannot be changed, and there will always be new stories happening somewhere in the future..." The film does not have a final preaching, but it metaphors that "the past is over. If today we are still like children who cannot face the past and reality, Then we are not the creators of the story of tomorrow."
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