and putting them in order in his room, awaiting his release from prison. That date seems to be approaching quickly due to the fact that Eva’s son was a minor at the time of the crime, therefore a life sentence does not await him. Kevin’s destructive behaviour climaxing with his mass murder is then a “desperate attempt to provoke hate in his mother in order to trust that one day he will have love” (Valdrè, 2014, p. 158). That path that at first seems impossible to achieve, can be then advocated by Kevin and Eva hugging each other in prison, perhaps showing their real affection towards each other for the first time ever. There may not be an open window of interpreting that the film has a happy ending when it comes to Mommy, though. Die is left
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The French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter (2010) explains that in the recent years the western society presents woman as ideally fulfilling herself and achieving career goals, but on the other hand being a perfect mother, which is often not achievable for many women. That presents a woman with an idea that it is her choice to have a child, which often leads to women claiming that are not as good at motherhood as they would like to be. The choice they see as given to them is imposed on them by the patriarchal society that still claims that woman’s role is to bear children and raise them, which seems to be more important than their career and up to this day celebrates the “maternal sublime” (Badinter, 2010, p. 52). The often impossible to achieve role model for women becomes then a problem as under the cover of false illusion of having a child, women still feel like they need to fulfil their role in society and often feel almost forced to have a child. Nowadays there is a new type of motherhood, however, that needs to be recognized and that refuses the thought that “women are simply mothers (or mothers-to-be) who depend exclusively on their children.” (Bordeau, 2015, p. 83). Dolan’s films praise mothers who are women first and who do not try to fit in the standards set by the society. Understanding their weaknesses instead of hiding them and trying to become the ideal
The French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter (2010) explains that in the recent years the western society presents woman as ideally fulfilling herself and achieving career goals, but on the other hand being a perfect mother, which is often not achievable for many women. That presents a woman with an idea that it is her choice to have a child, which often leads to women claiming that are not as good at motherhood as they would like to be. The choice they see as given to them is imposed on them by the patriarchal society that still claims that woman’s role is to bear children and raise them, which seems to be more important than their career and up to this day celebrates the “maternal sublime” (Badinter, 2010, p. 52). The often impossible to achieve role model for women becomes then a problem as under the cover of false illusion of having a child, women still feel like they need to fulfil their role in society and often feel almost forced to have a child. Nowadays there is a new type of motherhood, however, that needs to be recognized and that refuses the thought that “women are simply mothers (or mothers-to-be) who depend exclusively on their children.” (Bordeau, 2015, p. 83). Dolan’s films praise mothers who are women first and who do not try to fit in the standards set by the society. Understanding their weaknesses instead of hiding them and trying to become the ideal