Then there was the aspect of Lada stealing Elena's doll. This, I felt, is her way of, first of all, punishing her because in the previous scene, Leda watched Elena chew on the doll's face something that may have reminded her of how her own doll was wrecked by her daughter Bianca. There's another layer to this because Lada herself had a troubled relationship with her mother. So it can indicate that the doll meant a lot to her during that troubling time
Esha Prakash
@Paradox_Knight · 2:08
This again, I feel, is another social commentary on how sometimes father figures have the option of taking breaks for parenting and doing their own thing, then returning when they wish to, whereas mothers are usually not. Given that sort of leeway. There is surely a lot of intergenerational trauma that we see in the way lady still has a bad relationship with her mother and she somehow became like her mother regardless
Taha Abbas
@taha_oracle · 3:56
Hiesha. That was a great review of The Lost Daughter. I've watched it and I really liked it and it was interesting to see how you interpreted, rotated it. And one learns something new whenever you watch such films because there are so many layers in the narrative. And there's another film called The Father. I think it has Olivia Coleman in it as well, and Anthony Hopkins
Esha Prakash
@Paradox_Knight · 1:55
But also, it had a great message that I honestly did not understand when I watched it the first time. I had to google it. But, yeah, it's one of those movies that really fascinated me the same way as The Lost Daughter did. It was a very interesting movie. And of course, this one was easier to understand than Mother. But, yeah, actually, it hit me really deep at a few points. And, yeah, it had a lot of symbolism going on
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 4:41
And also there's always this guilt, right, that is almost inculcated in mothers because the society puts the mother on a pedestal, the mother figure on a pedestal. And, yeah, like you said, it's always the mother who is supposed to, according to social norms, sacrifice stuff, sacrifice her career, her happiness in order to provide for the child and subsequently the family
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 4:46
Because of course, when you grow up amidst such beliefs, this social conditioning always affects you too, even if you think that it isn't affecting you. It does. To an extent, it does. And we hear so many women struggling with this and questioning themselves whether they are a good mother or not. But this concept of, quote unquote, good mother, I think this needs to be revisited. This needs to be rephrased or redefined, rather not rephrased, redefined
Esha Prakash
@Paradox_Knight · 0:37
Shani, I'm so sorry for getting back to you with this late, but I completely agree with everything that you mentioned here. It's a very complex movie, and I feel like they're trying to sort of reverse the rules and show it back to you in an extreme way. Sort of like telling you, do you like it now? So, yes, it was a great watch. And thank you so much for this recommendation