Over the years, many actresses in Taiwan entertainment have frequently transformed.
From Alyssa Jia and Ruby Lin in the 70s to Ariel Lin in the 80s......
They have successively played mother-type roles with different styles and images, and they have all received varying degrees of praise.
Recently, another post-80s actress has successfully transformed.
She is the goddess of many people's first love, Chen Yihan.
And the role of "mother" she brought is even more explosive.
Crazy and "evil", beautiful and violent.
However, although she has made great breakthroughs in image and performance.
But the most popular thing in the whole film is another talented actress.
Recently, the film finally went live.
Uncle Yu will talk about this new film with very explosive mother-daughter performances today-
Xiao Xiao
The two actresses in this film were both nominated for last year's Golden Horse Awards.
Chen Yihan was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but unfortunately did not win the award in the end.
But she won another important award: actress at the 5th Taiwan Film Critics Association Awards.
Surprisingly, 12-year-old Lin Pintong became the youngest actress in the history of the Golden Horse Awards with this movie.
Previously, the youngest winner of the Taiwan Golden Horse Award has always been 17-year-old Li Xiaolu in "Heavenly Bath".
It wasn't until last year that it was refreshed.
After watching this film, many people were shocked by Lin Pintong's performance.
There have always been children's actresses and actors.
As early as 1994, 4-year-old Vidor Siwiso won the Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for "Little Lone Star".
Last year's Berlin Film Festival also awarded the youngest award for Best Leading Role in history -
9-year-old Spanish actress, Sofia Otero.
There is also the youngest actor in Cannes who can't be mentioned, Yumi Liule, who won the award at the age of 14.
Although these children are still young, their performance in the movie is really extraordinary.
So where is Lin Pintong's genius?
The role she plays is not ordinary-
Children with ADHD.
Hyperactivity disorder, also known as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
The disease is characterized by the fact that they do not stay focused for longer than their peers and are easily distracted.
For others, such a child is a very headache.
Xiaoxiao's (played by Lin Pintong) teachers and classmates have a deep understanding.
During class, Xiao Xiao is either always playing games loudly, or unconsciously shaking the chair to make noise.
made a mistake and was called to the office by the teacher, and Xiao Xiao couldn't stop for a moment.
Flipping books excessively and turning chairs constantly.
Amiko in the Japanese movie "This is Amiko" recommended by Uncle Yu and everyone last year is also a child with ADHD.
Kazuna Osawa, an 11-year-old actor who plays Amiko, was also nominated for Best New Actress at the Japan Mainichi Film Awards.
However, compared to Amiko's restless performance.
Xiaoxiao shows more of the aggressive side of children with ADHD.
Many researchers have shown that children with ADHD often have impulsive behaviors, which is actually a form of stress for them to be uneasy about the outside world.
Needless to say, Xiao Xiao's abnormality will definitely cause hostility from others.
She was bullied by her classmates at school.
Faced with this situation, Xiao Xiao's choice is to fight back.
Pushing, screaming, stabbing others with the tip of a pen...
In addition, Xiao Xiao will also have stress in the face of feelings that she can't understand and can't handle.
The biggest victim is her mother Wei Fang (played by Chen Yihan).
Because she has to deal with a series of troubles brought by Xiao Xiao all year round, Wei Fang is exhausted.
Not only did she give up her job as a piano teacher so that she could devote herself to taking care of Xiaoxiao, but she also had to face the exclusion and questioning of other parents.
Wei Fang has been trying to communicate with Xiao Xiao.
It's just that for Xiao Xiao, she can't handle this feeling.
Every time something goes wrong at school, Xiaoxiao actually feels guilty in her heart.
But in the face of her mother, she doesn't know how to behave, so she screams, growls, and refuses to communicate.
In addition, Xiao Xiao also feels guilty about her mother giving up her job to take care of her, and she also doesn't know how to express it.
I kept hearing my mother's complaints, but I didn't know how to deal with my inner emotions.
Xiao Xiao began to stir up the overloaded emotions in her heart by stirring the cake in front of her.
But in Weifang's view, this is just a manifestation of illness.
Xiao Xiao is like a bomb that will detonate at any time, blowing Wei Fang's life into ruins.
It must be said that Lin Pintong's interpretation of children with ADHD is really powerful.
It's not just her physical reactions, but also the complex flow of emotions.
In fact, the story of the whole movie begins with a "rape catch".
Xiao Xiao, who was rejected by others, has always been very lonely.
But the homeroom teacher Paul (played by Liu Junqian) can enter Xiaoxiao's heart.
He doesn't care about Xiaoxiao's difference, being regarded as a "monster", but showing the greatest tolerance and love.
Coupled with Paul's young and handsome appearance, it also made Xiaoxiao, a girl who had just entered puberty, feel close.
It's just that he didn't expect that Paul had an improper relationship with his mother.
One day after school, Xiao Xiao saw Paul and Weifang behaving intimately.
So she called a taxi to follow the two.
While waiting downstairs, Xiao Xiao kept banging her head against the car window, staring directly at the closed apartment door through the glass and the rain curtain.
Although he looked much calmer than his usual restless appearance, Xiao Xiao's body bluntly emitted a "backstabbing feeling".
Xiao Xiao finally went "crazy".
Unlike children of the same age, who will subconsciously avoid or panic when they bump into such a scandal.
Xiao Xiao went directly to the door to "catch the rapist".
And Xiaoxiao's "madness" also pulled another "crazy woman" into the audience's field of vision.
That's Wei Fang.
Chen Yihan's interpretation of Wei Fang is an imperfect but very fierce mother figure.
Weifang is not a single mother.
It's just that her husband is working abroad and takes Xiaoxiao alone.
But she never felt anything wrong with cheating on Paul.
Xiao Xiao "caught the traitor" and came to the door, but Wei Fang didn't care at all.
What to hide? What is there to hide?
After that, Paul simply let him live in his own home.
took Xiaoxiao to form a temporary family of three.
But even so, Wei Fang will eat Xiaoxiao and Paul's vinegar.
While swimming, Paul and Xiaoxiao were having fun excitedly, while Wei Fang was sullen on the side.
She will also feel unhappy when she sees the two twisting together and playing excitedly.
Afterwards, I kept asking Xiao Xiao what she was happy about just now.
also said that it is rare to see her daughter so happy with her.
This jealousy reveals a hint of ambiguity.
Faced with Xiaoxiao's question, Weifang was also "unreasonable".
Internally, she never hides her impatience and boredom with Xiaoxiao.
Not to mention the care from motherly love, she will even "fight violence with violence".
Xiaoxiao made a mistake and was suspended from school for three days at home, so she wanted to play for three days and three nights.
Wei Fang not only did not persuade her daughter to be so bad, but accompanied her to make trouble.
Xiao Xiao was sleepy and wanted to sleep, so she slapped her daughter awake and ordered her not to sleep.
Who do you think you are?
Why does the whole world have to play with you like this?
Externally, she stands unconditionally with her daughter.
Even if Xiao Xiao is the one who hurts people.
Is it necessary for the group to be so exaggerated?
She's killing someone now, or whatever.
But sometimes, Wei Fang still goes a little too far.
When Xiaoxiao's condition became serious and she had a physical stress reaction, she took her to attend the parent-teacher meeting, so that Xiaoxiao could face the complaints of other parents.
It seems that she doesn't care at all, and her daughter will have more radical behaviors and deeper psychological damage because of this.
Such an imperfect but extremely vivid mother figure is indeed rare in Chinese movies.
An abnormal daughter, a "crazy" and "evil" mother.
It's a story full of twists.
Moreover, the male character of Paul also seems to be an abrupt presence.
There is no antecedent for the beginning of his relationship with Wei Fang, only the present continuous tense of entanglement.
The attitude towards Xiaoxiao who is too "virgin" and his comfortable appearance among female parents make him look fake "plastic".
However, if we look at it from another angle, we will find that:
Paul is not actually a specific man, but a projection of Xiaoxiao and Weifang's inner pain and longing.
In fact, the twisted mother-daughter relationship is the core theme of this film, and it is also the biggest highlight.
Past works about the mental illness community have basically produced a perspective of empathy for one of the parties.
However, this film "blackens" the image of the mother and daughter, and uses the role of Paul to objectively explore the reasons for the predicament of the mother and daughter.
First of all, in the world of Wei Fang and Xiao Xiao, there are almost only indifferent and selfish others.
Needless to say, Xiaoxiao's classmates.
A child's malice can come from a place where there is no reason.
Just knowing that Xiao Xiao is sick, they can exaggerate all their unbearable imagination and throw it at her.
Call her stinky and say she's a pig.
Beating her and laughing at her seemed to be a matter of course.
Xiao Xiao is like the owl raised by the school she likes, locked in a cage and bullied and unable to escape.
And what about Weifang?
Although it seems that she doesn't care about her daughter at all, she actually does nothing for her.
It's just that the lack of good conditions and the attitude of parents beating her to death with a stick made her more and more numb and tired.
It's like the thing that made Xiaoxiao suspended from class.
Everyone only saw that it was Xiao Xiao who pushed her classmates.
didn't know that this classmate was bullying a child with intellectual problems outside.
Xiao Xiao just wants the other party to stop bullying others.
Of course, Xiao Xiao's behavior was too radical.
But no one has ever wanted to go the extra mile to try to understand why Xiao Xiao is the way she is.
Instead, all the anger and resentment were smashed on the mother and daughter.
Only Paul treats them with kindness and tolerance.
Secondly, the lack of men makes the life of the mother and daughter very abnormal.
For Wei Fang.
The husband is away from home all year round, and neither family support nor the needs of the woman are met.
Paul's presence makes up for these deficiencies of Weifang.
For Xiaoxiao, Paul is also the existence of filling the father's love.
Finally, in this society that pursues "normality", Weifang and Xiaoxiao are always outliers.
In any case, because of Xiao Xiao's speciality, all the predicaments mentioned above are realities that they cannot escape.
Just like Paul, no matter how much he favored them, he finally chose to leave after the ill relationship was exposed.
Life, for Xiao Xiao and Wei Fang, is an unsolvable problem.
At the end of the movie, Xiaoxiao puts Paul, who symbolizes the desire of the mother and daughter, into a birdcage in the storm.
It's like trying to break free from the injustice that life brings to them.
But when the wind calmed down, everything went back to the way nothing changed.
The mother and daughter can only return to the life of entangled and tormented each other day after day.
Think about it.
Even if there is no special factor such as ADHD.
Many women also face unnecessary malice and provocation in their lives.
For them, the pain and suffocation caused by the "everyday" hidden in all corners of life is no less abnormal than Xiaoxiao's mother and daughter.
But they can only be like Xiao Xiao and Wei Fang.
Self-reconciliation, self-repression, and moving on......