Elizabeth. Lowry (Mrs. Lowry) died in 1939, the same year L.S. Lowry (full name Lawrence Stephen Lowry) made his first exhibition in London, and L.S. Lowry became one of the most well-known and beloved British painters, and today his paintings are worth millions of pounds, and in 1968 he was supposed to be awarded a medal and knighted, but he refused both. In L.S. Lowry's mind, "after her mother's death, it all seemed meaningless."
The film chooses the last years of his life with his mother, when L.S. Lowry was still a small, precarious little person with a meager income, and every day after his bedridden mother went to bed, he went to the attic to secretly paint, and his mother never liked his paintings or approved of his paintings.
The film begins with the trivialities of the life of the mother and son, and in the bits and pieces of life, it is constantly shown that the mother Elizabeth is a woman with a strong desire to control, and every time the son returns home and enters the door, the mother who is sick in bed has to ask who is back? Constantly asking his son what you are doing, he has always taken his son's whereabouts into his own hands, even if he comes back 10 minutes late, he will not stop asking.
If the son is only a few years old or even a teenager or twenty-something, the mother's problems can be seen as a kind of nagging maternal love, which is now placed on a middle-aged single man, and these questions are undoubtedly controlling the son's life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 The neighbor woman is just a mother's fantasy</h1>
The mother always looks at this society with a malicious eye, in the eyes of the mother this society is not safe, so she is always afraid of others breaking into her home, she will also feel that everyone will have a purpose to deceive herself, so she wants to know who comes back, who bought the sausage at whose house, the mother will watch the downstairs neighbor woman come home every day, always praise the woman's good taste, she always shows an envious look.
The neighbor woman is just another of Mrs. Lowry's fantasies, she says that the neighbor woman has come to the house as a guest, and she complains that life is miserable, that the husband, the husband cannot meet the needs of the family's life, that they like their son's painting is "Sailing Ship", and that they hate "Back from the Factory" together, and these are the true portrayals of Mrs. Lotz's self.
Mrs. Lowry has always complained about the misfortune of her marriage, she believes that the rain on the day of marriage is the beginning of misfortune, that her husband will not do business to make family life bad, even if life is not rich, she will insist on inviting relatives and friends to eat expensive food.
Although she has always disliked her son's painting, "Sailing Ship" is to witness the happiest and happy times of her son and mother, so in her later years, when her mother recalls the past, she suddenly understands the meaning of her son's painting.
From the mother's insistence on inviting relatives and friends to eat expensive food, it can be seen that the mother does not want to be looked down upon by others, she tries to hide her shortcomings, does not want to be mentioned by others, thinks that she should live a good life, and pretends to live a good life, but the painting of her son "Back from the Factory" is completely stinging his heart, as if humiliating himself, always prompting himself to come from a humble origin.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 02 sons also rebelled</h1>
Talking to his mother about meeting a bearded woman, setting up tables at different times is a kind of resistance for him, trying to escape his mother's desire to control.
The son has never seen a woman with a beard, in the mother's world, everything has a normality, if you are born into the nobility, you should naturally be worshipped, women should have a beautiful appearance, and the bearded woman is just out of the mother's cognition, in fact, the fantasy of growing a beard is just a symbol of the son wanting to get out of the mother's control.
The son set all the watches in the house at different times, at eight o'clock in the evening, all the alarm clocks sounded at the same time, and the tables of different times sounded at the same time, forming a very beautiful melody in the house, these irregular watches can be said to be the son who wants the freedom of time, and does not like the mother to know what he is doing all the time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 "Everything I do is for love"</h1>
The son's rebellion is actually very metaphorical, he will not clash with his mother head-on, in his heart, everything he does is because of love.
All of the mother's desire for control comes from her special love, because she prefers her son to become a very successful businessman rather than a meager "artist", which comes from the mother's extremely special love for her son, and also from the mother's selfish love.
All the memories of the son's mother were painted in the attic late at night, and he hoped that the mother could realize the truth of the world, face life, and let go of that noble pride.
His aggressive control-freak mother became one of britain's greatest painters of the twentieth century.
The final stage of the film is very warm, and the mother finally understands the connotation of her son's painting.
Everyone's life will eventually disappear, the son captures all this in the painting, forever preserved, the son's painting retains all the memories of the mother, all for love, so that the beauty that the mother has seen will remain in this world forever.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 excellent acting skills</h1>
Vanessa Redgrave, who is over eighty years old, plays Mrs. Lori, such an elderly actor can also accurately grasp the acting skills, the trembling hands during meals, almost mad-like nagging, the red halo of pale skin due to excitement, and the extreme control desire of the dying mother is very precise, and the smell of control quietly floats out of the screen.
Throughout the movie, you can feel this mother suppressing her son's self-esteem, trying to firmly control him by her side and accompany her forever, never thinking about her son's feelings
Lori, played by Timothy Spoo, is bound by his mother all the time, middle-aged men have no love, no normal social interaction, he suppresses all his emotions in his paintings, and at the same time he hopes to be with his mother all the time, he will enjoy every moment of life with his mother.
After the death of his mother, he was able to realize his dream without hesitation and achieved great success. But he didn't feel happy because his beloved mother had died: "It all seemed pointless".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >05 is written at the end</h1>
"Mrs. Lowry and her son" is a very good biographical film, we can not deny that the extreme maternal love must be wrong, she just wants her son to accompany her, just forgot that her son also needs her own life, to this day, I believe that many people also hope that their parents can still accompany them, even if it is to beat themselves, even if it is a nagging, I hope that all people can reflect on the past, do a good job in the present, accompany their parents more, do not wait until they lose to know to cherish, Don't let the money and honor you earn become an empty shell without the blessings of family affection.