A pair of middle-aged lesbians, Nic and Jules, have two children, an 18-year-old daughter who just graduated from high school and a 15-year-old son. Both children are half-siblings who benefit from sperm donors, through artificial conception. The daughter is an adult and can make a request to contact the sperm donor under the law. Without informing the "double mother", the daughter took her brother to meet the person they had known since childhood, Paul. This move is the beginning of all suspense, and it also opens the Pandora's treasure box of the whole film.
Paul is a sexy middle-aged man, a little "greasy", but attractive, casual, running his own restaurant, living a free life. After learning of this, the two mothers decided to see Paul and planned to "kill him without leaving a piece of armor".
Although Nic always considers Paul to be a threat to the family, paul is easy-going, low-key, and a small personal charm, and gets along well with the whole family.
Nic is a strong woman and the pillar of the whole family, and she has provided for the family almost single-handedly. Jules, on the other hand, plays the role of a traditional woman, staying at home full-time, and her skills and talents in gardening have never been put to use. Paul decided to let Jules help her plan the garden of her new home, so that she could use her strengths to promote her relationship with this special family. Jules accepts the task and revels in it, and often harks at Paul's merits in front of Nic due to his own little excitement, but instead of exchanging Nic's approval, he resents it, and a crack in his feelings appears. And Jules and Paul? Long-term love - sleep. Jules was both sexes!
After the matter was revealed, Nic broke out, and the siblings could not tolerate the cheater's behavior. Paul is also despised and questioned, and although he wants to be close to these children who "belong" to him and "do not belong" to him, he cannot escape the guilt of a third party. The stability and harmony of the family needs to be defended, and the feelings of the family cannot be hurt, just as Nic turned Paul away and left it to his final harsh words—"This is my home, not yours." "
The third party died down, and Jules owed everyone an apology. In the end, she said a hidden feeling: when people reach middle age, Shaohua has passed away, and what has faded is not only a beautiful face, but also the passion for life, the difficulty of married life, and being ignored by the lover, and finally she herself is moth to the fire in the confusion.
The ending of the movie is still happy, the love buried in each other's hearts saves the family (JLN, Jules Love Nic), and everything is solved. On the way home after sending their daughter to the university campus, a pair of lovers clasped their hands together again. In this way, nothing can tear us apart!
Gay marriage has been legalized in some states in the United States, and it is still unknown in China, and even homosexuality cannot be accepted by the public, and I still remember a stupid famous actor in China who denounced homosexuality on the TV screen. Although his attitude towards homosexuality is still rational and enlightened, he seems to be psychologically unprepared for a gay family. It may be the inertia of thinking, in the process of watching the film, seeing the heroine's derailment, did not even think that this is a betrayal of the family and marriage, but looked forward to the male and female protagonists together, and even dirty thought about whether the director would come to some "3P" shots.
It was Nic and Jules's conversation that woke me up: Jules inadvertently said something like "He's not an outsider" when asking for forgiveness. "Then who is he?" He's just a sperm donor. "Yes, he was just a sperm donor, it was his sperm who helped the family, but he did not raise these two children, nor did he have any special rights to the family, he was a complete outsider, and he was not fundamentally different from all third parties.
The film does touch on a lot of new social issues, whether homosexuals can have a married life, whether they can have children, how to get along with children, how will children know their parents, how to define the parents of children through artificial insemination through sperm donation, just like Paul in the film Is he the father of the child, should he be known by all the parties, what should be done after everyone meets, and how should family interests be protected? Of course, the film cannot give answers to all these questions, it only shows a possibility, an attitude, and even just tells the ordinary things that happen on American soil. But to be able to give such details of the story is already a landscape for us. Similarly, this film, like all excellent films, tells the story of people, the true story of ordinary people, and touches us.
This "Children Are All Right" is a 2010 film, and recently I looked back at the movie and the text I recorded at that time, and I felt very different. At that time, my focus was entirely on the discussion of homosexuality, including the status of the gay family; how the relationship between mother and child, how to deal with the relationship between sperm donors and families, and so on. If you look back today, these do not seem to be the focus of the film, those are just the shell of the story, and many of the problems I pay attention to are my own imaginations, and the film does not explore. In the setting of the relationship between the characters, although it is two lesbians, it still reflects the family relationship and status within the traditional male and female protagonists, and does not escape the masculinity. The film only explores the mid-life crisis again in the name of homosexuality, and once again sells the mainstream values of a harmonious family that is inviolable and suppresses all "little three". Of course, none of this prevents this from being a good movie and a good story.