Analyzing The Film 'Mommy'

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Mommy also sounds interesting to me because it is about mommy. If I found this film in the list of Best International film, I would pick the film. I think I am not too late to look about it. Filmmakers uses montage to edit the film. Travis Hopson comments that “Dolan uses them to tremendous effect here, not as a time-saving plot device but in a way that captures real emotional growth.” Besides, the story of the film that happens between a mom, a boy, and a neighborhood seems to never be heard before. “The entire film is full of surprises, with characters we've grown comfortable with revealing new layers as the story progresses, keeping us gleefully on our toes”, Travis acclaim the film for its story. A.O. Scott wrote a comment, “Though not a musical, “Mommy” often feels like one as it swells and ebbs on the melodramatic currents of love, pain and frustration...The cramped images can barely hold two people at once, and restrict our sense of the characters’ movements, turning each performance into a solo”. I can’t wait to watch the film. I like to watch movies about crime and thriller sometimes because those films make me feel Later, I guess if the film was sentimental, the title of the film would just be “A Girl Walks Home Alone”; however, “a girl walks home alone ‘at night’” feels like it must be a horror. A black-and-white, I think, would give audience a different sense of horror because the film, unlike colorful films, couldn’t show the audience bloody scenes. Sheila O'Malley wrote a review on rogerebert.com, saying that “the film launches itself into a dreamspace of its own that has a unique power and pull. The images are suggestive and symbolic... Some of the images sit there unmoving for too long, but that very same stasis also helps create and enforce the underlying tension.” I think that how the film expresses its horror in a different

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