The "little" in the body-"Little Children"

Nina 2021-12-14 08:01:10



Seeing the poster, it is estimated that someone started yelling "You are watching an erotic movie again...". Before, I said in my blog that I really like R-rated films such as "Summer Palace", "Quiet Pen", "Readings of Life and Death", and moreover, as a single young unmarried young woman. It's really embarrassing!

But why, when I see those so-called "erotic scenes", I only feel "artistic" and not "fornication"? It seems that either my personality is distorted or others have bad intentions.

Kate Winslet’s 2006 old work "Little Children" brought me as shocking as the new work "Road to Revolution". It also expounds the ordinary family life of the middle class in the United States. It is about the marriage crisis, ideals and reality. Disconnected between the two, longing for change and having to succumb to the real world...

Little Children clearly means "little children", why should our country translate as "being a mother"? Limit the information you want to express in the film to the framework of being a parent. Although the male and female protagonists in the film are married and married, each has its own children, but it is not about the warm love between husband and wife, children’s family life, not "the prince and the princess from now on After living a happy and happy life", I will be happy forever-so much so that after watching movies of this kind of theme, such as "American Beauty" and "Road to Revolution", I am a person who has not entered the siege. Somewhat panic about the "siege".

And this kind of panic is exactly what "Little Children" wants to express, about adults who grow up, dare not face the reality, and still think of themselves as "children" in their hearts. As a result, facing the almost unchanging backwaters of family life, the material life is relatively stable, but the spiritual level has produced great emptiness and blankness. The heroine Sarah and the hero Brad begin to derail their bodies, Sarah’s husband Watching pornographic websites while masturbating, several other housewives in the residential area gathered up a bunch of parents to gossip, and carried out casual lust with their good-looking neighbors... There is also a perverted pedophile who has just been released and has molested children. And a retired policeman who mistakenly killed innocent children while on duty...

Life is not all good, right?

The well-dressed middle class lives in high-end residential areas and has a decent job or career. Husband and wife once fell in love and have the crystallization of love. On the surface everything is fine, right? Who knows, after analyzing all of this, everyone's xinxing is distorted and sick!

However, this movie is a step further in ideology, unlike the heroine in "Road to Revolution" who has a miserable abortion suicide because her ideals cannot come true. "Little Children" finally allowed those people with distorted minds to return to their normal lives-the heroine who met to escape together finally returned home with her daughter, and the hero wanted to notify the person immediately after a fall It was his wife, who was self-harmed by pedophilia, and the police officer saved him...

OK, everyone is happy.

People always grow up. Facing the unfavorable reality, let the "little" in our body grow up quickly, we are no longer children! Is no longer! Never again!



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  • Kasey 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Little Children, not children but adults, in fact, we are all Little Children.

  • Alessandro 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    It's not good enough, the emotional baggage is not released at the end, the expectations are not reached, the theme is not sublimated, there are wonderful moments, but there is no coherent control, the ending is instantly decadent, and the best is a pedophile drama. Let's all be good people, right or wrong.

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!