Mommy
Watching this last night I didn't remember who's nomination this was and, today, seeing that this was @
cricket, made perfect sense.
From the movies I've seen in these HoFs, for Cricket, there is something inherently "real" in his nominations. That is, regarding the people portrayed within these films. They are not characters, roles or personifications, but brutally, unabashedly real. You didn't see a performance by an actor, you see the person, warts and all, as they say.
And Mommy is another of those films. That raw, unflinching truth of those in the film where they are human beings for good or bad, and not some ideology of any given characteristic. They are incredibly flawed, there is no glamorized imagery or stoic presentation in a positive light.
Which, very easily, can go either way. You can flat out hate them or appreciate the fact they are the bare bones of human nature and run with it and find some beautiful within the darkness.
For my own personal reactions I think it may be tossed into that old man syndrome.
Ya see, when I was a young punk/trouble maker, a number of the people I hung out with WERE, pretty much, give or take, Steve. Of course we didn't have doctors labeling them with a disorder, we simply called them for what they were: crazy, psycho f@cks and I had the most fun seeing how far they would go and what dangerous scenario played out from me instigating them.
That younger me would have loved Steve. Seeing him punch the male nurses that tried to grab him, spinning shopping carts around in happy, destructive abandon and so forth -- Except when it came to the violence toward his mom. I remember some of that ***** in similar scenarios back then and at the time I was too much of a runt to stop it.
I could TRY to claim that as a reason, but I can't. I actually cheered the male nurse that swung back and ACTUALLY said, when Die complained about them hitting him, "Really? After how many times he hit several of them? Really? Kick that lil punk's @ss."
So, yeah, it is a case of old man syndrome.
Regardless of that, it is a positive thing when any movie gets you to react strongly. And Mommy definitely gets that done. Or rather, maybe, to its credit, it makes us think about the "whys" of how we react.
I mean, when they pulled up to the sanitarium, I completely understood and agreed with what Die was doing. It truly had come to that. And I did sympathize, but I didn't feel sad or brokenhearted about it either. Which is a first. Seen that scene play out in countless movies and this this was the very first time I didn't feel for the one being locked up. Hmmm. . . strange, that.
Still, while it was a rough movie to sit through it was still, very much, a very well done movie. So, thank you @
cricket for that.
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Arizona Dream, Time of the Gypsies and Underground. I should track down more as I like what I have seen a great deal.
