Mommy Reflection

I have never heard Xavier Dolan before until I watched "Mommy". I really touched with tears and moved by the movie both emotionally and physically. The film tells a story takes place in Canada as well as in the near future, the government promulgated a new law: all parents must be responsible for the psychological problems of the child, or send them to detention center. This seems to come from David Conanberg those anti-utopian science fiction thriller's opening remarks. In fact, Dolan set a slightly awkward background for those family's psychological drama. The protagonist of the film is middle-aged widow Dean, and her son suffering from attention deficit disorder Steve. Dorval's performance is full of explosive power. At the same time, young actor Antoine Olivier Pilon is also a bright spot, he played Steve is full of charm, control want strong, very unstable, and very fragile. Diana and Steve have their own character flaws, they are not simply victims or negative characters. Their conversation is full of gunpowder, occasionally for the escalation of physical contact, while faint people feel a transcendent intimate, but the script did not start on this point. The protagonist of the film is no longer the middle class Bohemian hippie in the previous works of Dolan, but the working class that is in a stable life, struggling with hope, and the vitality and vulgarity of the characters at the same time gives the film a natural reveal. "Mommy" appears in the spoken words, may be more than the top four Dolan fun game works add up to more. But it is valuable that he neither vulgarize the characters, nor condescending look at these poverty, the edge of the characters.