"Mother!": Not a movie that praises mother's love

"Mother! 》 It is the rare real feminist movie on the market, and it also belongs to the more scarce category in female movies -focusing on the survival situation of middle -aged and elderly women. It turns out that the director Yang Li's choice is bold but correct. Wu Yanyu and Xi Meijuan have contributed the different performances on the big screen, and further expanded the imagination of the elderly narrative.

"Mother! "poster

The film is cut in by Alzheimer's disease (alias "Alzheimer's disease"). Data show that China is the country with the largest number of patients with Alzheimer's disease. It is expected that the number of patients will exceed 40 million by 2050. With the advent of aging society, the problems brought by Alzheimer's disease are becoming more urgent. As a result, more and more film and television works have paid attention to Alzheimer's disease over the years. "Mother! 》 The setting of the character relationship is quite dramatic. The work of this subject is more focused on the relationship between the younger generation and the elders who suffer from diseases, "Mom! "In turn, the 85 -year -old mother took care of the 65 -year -old daughter.

The relationship between mother and daughter has changed mysterious. Before suffering from the disease, the 65 -year -old retired university professor Feng Jizhen (Xi Meijuan) took care of the 85 -year -old mother Jiang Yuzhi (Wu Yanxuan), who was also retired from the university professor. Feng Jizhen's life is simple and regular, and she is also slightly rigid. She is vegetarian, her diet is very monotonous, and she is enthusiastic about doing public welfare. She takes care of her mother's life like taking care of her children, such as her pickles and porridge, but her mother's breakfast is very nutritious. She also changes the dinner for her mother every day. Of course, she loves each other with her mother, but their relationship is not close to each other. For example, they will be angry with each other and the Cold War, although they will reconcile quickly.

Daughter Feng Jizhen (Xi Meijuan)

The mother's personality is completely different from her daughter. If the daughter is restrained and constrained, the mother is outgoing and unrestrained. She is a professor of liberal arts. She has a clear memory and never forgets. She is romantic in her bones and is handy in poetry. She is very lively and even has a little bad taste. Sometimes she will be indifferent to the careful breakfast as children. Go up and find it -do not consider the danger at all; she is even more naive and lovely. In the morning, she was in the cold war with her daughter, and she was coquettish with her daughter in the evening. Come……

Mom (Wu Yanyu)

After her daughter suffered from Alzheimer's disease, the relationship between mother and daughter was reversed in the relationship between her daughter: before she was the daughter's mother -in -law, and now she was a 85 -year -old mother who had to take care of her 65 -year -old daughter; Now that daughter is really any. The amazing power of motherly love has erupted. Mom did not complain, fear, or shrink back. Her first reaction was: I have to work hard to take care of my daughter; she used to feel that she had lived enough, so she was particularly casual and arbitrary. And habit. She ate breakfast with a big mouth and exercised her body — she was supported by tablet support, dumbbells and yoga.

Mom takes care of her daughter

What's even more rare is the determination and peace of mind she gave her daughter. She told her daughter: "Every mother is a mother wolf. Although I am a little old, my endurance is not bad. It is natural to protect the cub. I will protect my own children. One day, you will not read it. If you don't know the way, let me do your eyes and legs and feet. "She did do this too. She cooks for her daughter, helps her daughter take a bath, and she can deal with it calmly when her daughter is on the disease or disrupted or lost her temper ...

This is "Mom! "The first layer of connotation to be passed on to the audience: The daughter who lost her memory reflects the greatness of her mother. It is worth noting that Yang Lyan's singing to her mother, instead of strengthening the "mother post", rather, she wants to show the vastness and toughness of women's lives.

The film also expresses deep humanistic care for Alzheimer's disease groups and their caregivers. In the case of becoming more and more common, people also bear the risks of freedom while embracing freedom -all kinds of accidents and risks may come at any time. Are we fully prepared? Are you ready for society? This is the sharp question given by the movie.

However, "Mom! The first -level narrative also attracted some criticism. It is not the elegance, self -sustainability, and calmness of the mother and daughter, but when the film enhances and highlights it all, it has a "class perspective" in virtue. In the exquisite living space, getting rid of the more cruel world, it also weakens the pain of the disease. For example, how many members of the family are retired professors? What is the window of the window? Live in high -end high -end nursing homes?

When the two heroines face accidents, the conditions are relatively elegant and calmly responded

In this regard, it is necessary to argue for the director. The film is "delicate", but the director specially chooses senior intellectuals as the protagonist, and has a deeper intention. On the one hand, the typical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are comprehensive dementia, such as memory disorders, dismissal, misconduct, dislocation, dysfunction, and character and behavior changes. When elegant and wise intellectuals, this gap is particularly strong and sighing, which can also bring a great impact on the audience.

On the other hand, the identity setting of intellectuals can allow the director to use the theme of "memory" to go back to the depths of history. This is the second layer of the movie. It is also upward, the movie shows its depth of thought and shooting skills -to return to collective memory through the loss of individual memory, and pack historical scars in a very real issue, so that the movie can be released smoothly, the public Can be discussed very frankly. At the beginning of the audience, they slowly answered: Why did the daughter live so stereotyped, and even with such a little self -punishment and self -atonement? Why did the daughter want to sort out her father's archeological diary before the memory dissipates? Why is my daughter repeatedly seeing my father's phantom? When she suffered from Alzheimer's disease, when she was lost in memory, those hidden and closed in her heart, and usually did not dare to think or not mention the memory, and then ran out.

Audiences who know the historical process of contemporary China can easily make up the history through the memory of the daughter. The background of the movie was 2014, her daughter was 65 years old and her mother was 85 years old. When her daughter was 8 years old in 1957, her father had archeologically archeological ... In the memory of her daughter, a family of three had a time to be happy. However, historical storms are changing, and intellectuals have once encountered a huge impact. The daughter trapped in memory sometimes suddenly returned to the girlhood. At this time, she was only frightened, tight, and rejected. It seemed like a knock on the door outside the door. She pulled her mother to hide under the bed, as if People outside are bad guys, and she has a shotgun in her hands ...

Although the father in the phantom has been white hair, but in fact his father was not old, and he committed himself. "Mom is sea, I am a drop of water, Dad is a whale that can't swim," and the stranded whale is a martyr. When her daughter really understands what happened in history and truly understands her father's love, she has regretted it. She regards all this as her sin. psychology.

At this time, Alzheimer's disease in the movie is both a real and specific disease. For her daughter, this is also a metaphor for historical memory. She wants to erase this memory, which is too depressing this memory, maybe this leads to the occurrence of the disease; after the disease, when she can really speak this memory, she can be able to Really liberated.

But this is finally sighing: Why can she dare to mention the past in the past in the state of memory loss and obscure dementia? The archeological industry that his father is engaged in, "Archeological work can let us see the past and remember the present." Can we live well at the moment, and be frank and history?

"Mother! "It is not an ordinary praise for maternal love, or a social problem movie depicting Alzheimer's disease, through the double connotation of memory," Mom! "The depths of the collective memory fully show the keen, courage and profound direction of Yang Li's sodium. Wu Yanyu and Xi Meijuan's precise, delicate, wonderful, and moving acting skills add points to all the expressions of the director.

The ending of relief and dignity

It is just that we must also admit that the movie has its problem. Zhou Xia played by Wen Qi, the functional meaning is too strong, and the symbol attribute is greater than the logic of the movie, but it has become a vine that the movie can be deleted. The whole half of the movie looks slightly longer and long. Of course, the audience should not think that the ending of the movie is tender and sensational, and don't think it is pessimistic and sad. It is just about interpretation and dignity. When her mother suffered from Parkinson's disease, she put on the gorgeous cheongsam she had prepared for a long time, pushed her daughter out of the door of the nursing home, and the aunt who distributed chocolate said to them, "Don't come back if you leave. "The people who came back from the sea told them that the tide is dangerous now ... The mother and daughter embraced each other in the waves, wept each other, and expressed their love for each other.

"Mom is the sea, I am a drop of water, Dad is a whale that can't swim." The waves will eventually flood everything, but don't worry, "When these sentences grow up, they will come out by themselves."

Source: Surging News

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