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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too much of everything

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There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Dependent on what criteria one uses, rating movies is naturally subjective yet I am hard pushed to understand why this scores as it does as I think it is essentially flawless.My guess is that films that make people cerebrally and emotionally uncomfortable score less, purely because society likes to predominantly relax and enjoy the "movie going experience".If a film challenges that convention then to my mind it shouldn't impinge on the score and in the case of The Mother I suspect that the stark, emotive content and depiction of the film is precisely what's gone awry here.If you've reached this comment then you'll know the story by now so I need not elaborate too much other than with some of my own observations.The cast are absolutely superb...seeing a melding of stock British theatre and TV actors given the forum to show their stuff is refreshing and almost a lesson in humility as the whole film becomes so immersive without you realising it that even with the credits rolling you have to snap yourself out of the experience and consciously avoid pontificating too much over coming days about the fictional characters that you feel you have got to know.Two highlights ( and bearing in mind the bar is exceptionally high ) are Anne Reid and Daniel Craig.Mrs Reid has typically occupied my thoughts and point of reference (I am 36) as a BBC t.v staple. Familiar face..Highly capable..Midsommer Murders type.. but her ownership of the titular role here is utterly compelling and heartbreaking.Her conveyance of loneliness and desperation yet passion is brilliant and she is sexually vibrant, yet vulnerable too.I now rate her as one of the best female actresses alive....how she is able to instill such poignancy just with her eyes is incredible.As for Mr Craig it can be no wonder that he is key to the success of the revised Bond franchise. Here we have a guy who takes his craft VERY seriously indeed and his input into this film as the outwardly bohemian yet "drowning" Darren is superb.This is a master piece in film making. Poignant, sad, compelling and highly credible....nice to see first rate actors bringing to life a superb story.x

What a moving film. I have a dear friend who is in her sixties and for the past 15 years has told me that people don't see her anymore, and she longs for companionship. Being in my late 40s I am beginning to see what she has been complaining about. You are no longer youthful, beautiful or touchable. When May says "...this lump of a body..." wow. How our bodies change and how we are told it is no longer beautiful. I love when she begins to change what she wears...the colorful scarf...no longer the frumpy wife.It is a sad and wonderful picture at the same time. Sad in that May betrays her daughter's trust...beautiful in that she finds herself through the difficulty of the affair, and chooses to move on and finally have her own life. I love the character's daring to even initiate the love affair.Mostly I love the movie because finally it is a picture that shows the intricate nature of relationships, be they familial or not. We see Paula's vulnerability, yet she will have what she wants at all costs...(when she tells her mum that she will have a baby for Darren whether he wants one or not after her mother asks if Darren even wants a child). The movie hits the mark on the how relationships can change, and yet reveals what has been there all along, dormant. May has stifled her own creativity to raise a family. A family that she didn't really want, but was "something you just did when she was young". I love the scene when Darren calls her an old tart, and she smiles and says "I was never called that before". It was truly a gem of a movie.And Daniel Craig. Well, i just love him. I was pleasantly surprised. Not only is he pleasant on the eyes, he is a real talent. What a neat role. He is much more than any 007 that is for sure and I look forward to seeing him in more roles of this nature. The scene where he is pleasuring May and the look he gives her is sort of a look of wonder that he has such control over this woman, and also one of pleasure of being able to give this to her. He is actually enjoying giving her pleasure. A wonderful scene. The contrast is the love scene with Bruce. Bruce is totally absorbed with his own pleasure...two completely different men.Alas...I wonder where is my Darren?

"The Mother" is basically Mildred Pierce in the reverse without the shooting.When mama and papa go to visit their children and grandchildren, grandfather drops dead and grandmother decides to stay with her daughter.To make a long story short, the old woman has an affair with a carpenter who is also sleeping with her daughter. This is disgusting at best.The old girl (Ann Reid) has been quite a naughty lady. She admits that she has done this before her husband's untimely death.While I realize that the message of the film is not to put our old seniors right out to pasture, we don't have to go to this extreme.All men, young and old in this film, are depicted as either being too busy or that they readily jump in bed as soon as there is one available.Grandfather was lucky to get away from all this. This is certainly no way to treat an elderly lady. When the daughter finds out that mother has been unfaithful, she socks the old girl. Sock the director and writer of this trash as well.

While movie titles contains the word 'Mother', the first thing that comes to our mind will be a mother's love for her children.However, The Mother tells a different story.The Mother do not discuss the love between a mother and her child, or how she sacrifice herself for the benefit of her child. Here, Notting Hill director Roger Michell tells us how a mother's love for a man about half of her age hurts the people around her.Before Daniel Craig takes on the role of James Bond, here, he plays Darren, a man who is helping to renovate the house of the son of the mother, and sleeping with her daughter as well. Anne Reid, who was a familiar face on TV series, takes up the challenging role of the leading character, May.The story begins with May coping with the sudden loss of her husband, Toots, in a family visit to her son, Bobby. While she befriends Darren, a handyman who is doing some renovation in Bobby's house, she was shocked to found out that her daughter, Paula, was sleeping with Darren. At the same time, May was coping with life after the death of Toots. Fearing that Harry and Paula do not wanted her, May starts to find her life going off track, until she spends her afternoon with Darren.Darren was nice and friendly to May, and May soon finds some affection on Darren. Instead of treating him like a friend, she treated the man who was about half her age with love of a couple. Later, May found sexual pleasure from Darren, where he gave her the pleasure she could never find on anyone else. And this is the beginning of the disaster that could lead to the break down of a family.The Mother explores the inner world of a widow who wanted to try something she never had in her life, and solace on someone who is there for her to shoulder on. This can be told from May buying tea time snacks for Darren to fulfilling sexual needs from a man younger than her, where it eventually gave her more than she bargained for.Anne Reid has made a breakthrough for her role of May, as she was previously best well known for her various role on TV series. As she do not have much movies in her career resume, The Mother has put her on the critic's attention. Daniel Craig, on the other hand, had took on a similar role in his movie career, such as Sylvia (2003) and Enduring Love (2004). If his reprising role of James Bond fails, film reviewers should not forget that he has a better performance in small productions in his years of movie career, and The Mother is one of them.The Mother may not be everyone's favorite, but it is definitely not your usual matinée show to go along with tea and scones, accompanied by butter and jam.