In the article "Half Life", the original works that have been filmed and television mainly tell the love story between Gu Manzhen and Shen Shijun, Xu Shuhui and Shi Cuizhi, four young men and women.
What I want to focus on today is the mothers of each of the four young men and women in the article. Mothers often play a pivotal role in their children's marriages and lives. Their attitudes and preferences also indirectly or directly influence their children's life choices.
My favorite in the article is Mrs. Xu, the mother of Xu Shuhui, who is the most reasonable and enlightened mother who is the most considerate of her son's feelings compared to the other three mothers.
She warmly entertained her son's classmates, but her family background was ordinary but helpful, and she couldn't bother to let her son's classmates live in her own home.
He is polite to his son's male or female friends, and he never dislikes the poor and loves the rich, or has other thoughts.
Respecting his son's wishes, in that war-torn era, he also allowed his son to study abroad, accepted his son's marriage and divorce abroad, and did not interfere too much in his son's private life.
Her open-mindedness and attitude towards life without nagging, complaining or demanding also made her son Xu Shuhui sunny and cheerful, able to live according to his own wishes as much as possible and realize his ideals.
As a qualified mother, Mrs. Xu gave her son too much love, so Xu Shuhui did not become depressed and unhappy after losing love, nor was she depressed and angry when Mrs. Shi looked down on her, but had a more optimistic and positive attitude, and shifted her attention to her career ideals and pursued a new life. I have to say that a mother like Mrs. Xu is the son who really loves her.
What touched me the most in the article was Shen Shijun's mother, Mrs. Shen, a lonely and lonely woman who endured the humiliation of her aunt and her husband's indifference all the year round.
Like most mothers, she loves to worry about her heart, her nagging, and her thoughts, whether she can change her worries or the mind of the person being talked about. This is her obsession, and it is also her routine. She felt that only by doing so could she find a trace of comfort and meaning in life, and that she could prove that she loved her children.
She will also complain to her son when she is vulnerable, count her husband's ruthlessness and injustice, resent her aunt for taking away the happiness that belongs to her, and urge her son to find a good match and start a family as soon as possible.
Mrs. Shen is a traditional mother, but she understands from the bottom of her heart that only when the two are happy can she be happy, she hopes that her son will be happy in marriage and will not suffer from her own suffering, and she also respects her son's mind very much in choosing a mate, which shows how much she loves her son.
In the face of her husband's betrayal and her aunt's bullying, she can ignore their existence and not go to her husband's home outside all the year round. She has her pride, her dignity, her bottom line.
But in order to fight for the family property for his son, when her husband was dying, she was ready to go to the house of her rival, and she was kind and pleasant, pretending to be calm, serving her husband diligently, and finally fighting for her son's family property.
Shen Shijun's mother, who had always been weak and easy to bully, became so strong and brave that she became a righteous and awe-inspiring hero, charging into battle for her beloved son.
Such mothers undoubtedly love their children the most. She would rather be hurt herself and bear all the pain for the benefit of her children.
The most vulgar in the article is Shi Cuizhi's mother, Mrs. Shi, who was born in a big family and enjoys glory and wealth. Mrs. Kuo, who plays mahjong and eats afternoon tea every day, naturally hopes that her daughter can also enjoy a rich life.
She looks down on Shen Shijun, who is from a poor family, and even dislikes the poor Xu Shuhui, who has a face that dislikes the poor and loves the rich, which is vividly portrayed by the author.
But she responded to the sentence "Parents love their children, and they have far-reaching plans for it". She has been planning since her daughter Shi Cuizhi was very young, so that she can only play and socialize with the children of rich and noble families.
When my daughter grows up, pay attention to those men who have a solid family background, good conduct, and are of the same age, and check their daughter's marriage events and strictly guard against it. It can be said that he loves his daughter with deep affection and a lot of effort.
It is precisely out of the mentality of loving his daughter that he dislikes the poor and loves the rich, is picky everywhere, looks down on the poor Xu Shuhui, and prevents his daughter from having close contact with him; will also retreat to the next best thing when there is no suitable candidate, choose Shen Shijun, a good young man with good character, and find a good marriage for his daughter.
Although Mrs. Shi never took into account her daughter Shi Cuizhi's true thoughts, she started from the practical level of the right person to find her daughter a good family and a good character, which shows how much she loves her daughter.
The one who made me most resentful in the article was Gu Manzhen's mother, Mrs. Gu. This woman who lost her husband in her early years, with a large family, both old and young, lived in that stormy era, which is really pitiful and pathetic. But in response to the saying that "the poor must have something to hate", what she did only made people resentful, and also made her daughters full of hatred for her.
Mrs. Gu threw the burden of a large family to Gu Manlu, a girl in the flower season, and she transferred her due responsibility to her eldest daughter, kidnapped her daughter's lifelong happiness with weak tears, and forced her daughter to embark on the road of no return.
In that era of paying attention to fame and festivals, her daughter already had a good marriage, but Mrs. Gu didn't think about her daughter, and forced her daughter to be a dancer. Manlu, who knew that she was not worthy of her sweetheart, tearfully divorced her beloved fiancé. Since then, Manlu's innocent love has been gone, and some are acting on the scene and trading money. This also doomed Manlu to marry the despicable and shameless Zhu Hongcai's tragic life. It is precisely because of this that it indirectly poisoned the life of the second daughter Manjiao.
In this family, her two daughters are desperately trying to make money, thinking about the studies of their younger brothers, but Mrs. Gu is like an outsider, living in a big house that her daughter exchanged for her body, using servants and holding shelves, as if she is still a big family wife.
When her daughter took her gold owner man home, Mrs. Gu hated her daughter from the bottom of her heart, disgusted her daughter's disgraceful career, and persuaded her daughter to find a good family to marry.
When Manji reached the age of talking about marriage, he wanted to marry his daughter to a rich man, completely ignoring that this man was the sweetheart of his eldest daughter Manlu.
In Mrs. Gu's heart, she only thinks about whether the person her daughter marries can support her family, and never considers whether her daughter is happy or not.
When Man Frame was kidnapped by Zhu Hongcai, he accepted Zhu Hongcai's money and helped his eldest daughter hide this absurd thing, which eventually led to the tragedy of Man Frame's life. But when her daughter Manjiao questioned her, she said with a clear conscience, "I'm just for your good."
Such a selfish mother is stupid, she knows how her daughter can be happy, but she always says "I'm just for your good" against her will, and this kind of love seems pale and powerless.
The sentence "It's all for your good" can turn back time, Manlu doesn't be a dancer, and goes back to the era of first love to marry her fiancé?
The sentence "It's all for your good" can allow Man Frame to escape from Zhu Hongcai's kidnapping and live a good life with his beloved?
This sentence is a naked threat. Mrs. Gu used her self-righteous love to kidnap Manlu and Manjiao's lives, and let her two daughters bury their youth and happiness. It was she, the mother, who buried her daughter's lifelong happiness with her own hands, and she was the culprit, because she never put herself in her daughter's shoes.
As long as she has a little consideration for her daughter, she will not let Manlu become a dancer to support her family, she would rather be tired and tired, live in a house in the countryside, farm or go out to make a living by herself, and will never let her daughter show up.
As long as she has a little self-esteem, she won't always think about letting her daughter and son-in-law raise her a large family, and live a life of reaching out for money and looking at people's faces.
As long as she had a little brain, she wouldn't agree with Manlu's stupid idea of wanting to have a child through Man's belly. She is selfish, stupid, and hedonistic, and she doesn't want to work hard and always wants to rely on others to live.
Such a mother is a schistosomiasis who will one day drain her daughter's blood. In the name of love, kidnapping is committed. It's the worst of a crime!
At the end of the article, the fates of the four young people are also diametrically opposed because of the difference in their mothers.
Sure enough, the mother is the hole card for the happiness of the child's life.