Background of MOTHER

I’ll help you sort this un-Google-able movie-title hell. The new 2020 Netflix film Mother is Japanese director Tatsushi Ohmori’s story about a young boy’s loyalty to his delinquent, abusive mother. Darren Aronofsky’s wildly, wonderfully disorienting mother! (2017), identifiable by that exclamation point, puts poor Jennifer Lawrence at the center of a hurricane of her husband’s — and the world’s? — madness. And Bong Joon Ho’s grossly overlooked Mother (2009) is a flipped-script version of Ohmori’s film; it’s about a mother’s loyalty being tested when her son is accused of murder. Are they all worth watching? For sure. Are they all extraordinary? REVIEW SPOILER ALERT: Yes! Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) who is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei makes a shocking decision. Shuhei's erratic mother feels threatened when he starts to awaken to a world beyond her distorted control, sending the family hurtling toward tragedy.

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