The power of motherhood

What is the greatest power in the world? The power of motherhood. It is the mother who shapes child’s perception of the world and attitude towards life. It is the mother who has the most special, the strongest tie with the child.
 

However, sometimes that tie is weaker. There are different reasons, the problem may lie in mother’s or child’s behaviour. It depends from both mother and child how this influence will shape child’s life. The cinema likes hard and controversial topics. That is why much more movies depict stories about difficulties of this relations rather than presenting everyday life of loving family. I found 3 movies dealing with this topic: 3 stories, 3 kinds of relations, 3 problems to be considered. 3 different mothers and 3 different children.
 

“We need to talk about Kevin”(2011), “Real women have curves”(2002) and “Girl in progress”(2012) show, how important is mother-child relation and present 3 different manners in which child’s life is influenced by the parent. Although the movies may seem different at first sight, there is something that connects them: there are not happy stories depicted there. This films show how that special tie can be destroyed and even never built. It is not a gap generation that is the problem, the cause lies in the psychology. The child may feel unwanted (“We need to talk about Kevin”), neglected (“Girl in Progress”) and oppressed by mother’s forceful personality ("Real women have cuves").
 

In the following posts I will try to analyse this motives in the movies listed above.

The power of the Internet

Almost 900 millions of population has a Facebook account. It means that all that people can have a connection witch each other. Is it good or bad? Facebook has as many supporters as opponents. The supporters claim that this website is a bridge joining people from different nations and continents. However, according to the opponents, it ruins interpersonal relations and make the populations even less sociable than they are now. 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network

“The Social Network”, directed by David Fincher, tells the story about the creator of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg. But it is not the story of beginning of the website that is the main topic of the movie. It shows, how great influence has the Internet on our life, relationships and job. There are many motives presenting that what happens in the Internet does not stay in the Internet, and words that we said through this medium hurts as much as those said face to face.

There is one very powerful scene in the film: drunk and hurt Mark comes back home after a break-up with his girlfriend and abuses her on his blog. That story is kind of frame of the movie: we meet Mark as a bitter, abandoned boy and say good bye to him, when after many turbulences he becomes bitter and abandoned man, waiting for the act of forgiveness of his girlfriend. But we do not know if she finally did forgive him. 
 

And that is a true power of the Internet: you can change your life in a second.
Without leaving your house.
And usually having no idea what the consequences would be.