
In the prologue the little old woman, wandering through deadwood, stopped on the hill and begins to gently sway, bringing the movement in the dance, relaxed and unhurried rush of emotion. Not clearly only, whether joy, sadness or release. An intriguing observation of audience beginning can be interpreted in different ways, but only events of the next two hours will bring clarity and give an answer that a woman feels, how she came where it is going. A while her son is accused of murder because it is forced to hold an independent investigation, because the police are short-sighted, lazy lawyers, and powerful friends never had. And although at first the characters and circumstances simple, it soon becomes clear that no not be this story is nothing unique. With every turn of the plot, with each new detail, the story becomes more and more difficult and contradictory, characters are revealed otherwise, showing no best quality. Approaching the house of the peddler, mother is very dirty well-maintained shoes. No one clean all angels dirt.
Director PON Joon-Ho offers a controversial history, gradually adding to the story important details, how did before, the movie "memories of murder", a story in which is similar to plot "Mother". But early in its creation, the Director relied on the social problems of the clever detective story and a close connection between the characters. Here prism through which it looks at the picture is the main character. The world around it. — only the scenery, wild and inhospitable, which need to break, they are pale boring, filled with autumn colours. Korean leaves the heroine alone, defenceless in the face of difficulties, forcing bristle and opening in combat the injustice of the hidden potential. Well-meaning elderly woman, if armed with a battering RAM, with the combat cynicism breaks through the crowd of enemies, pushes them, pushes, because knows somewhere ahead of her son. In the range of feelings to him merged and wine the sins of the distant past, and crazy love of responsibility for this is a dependent fool. Difficulties make the mother's love to open up with the other, ugly and even irrational, but truly natural side, inherited from ancestors stored up to the pores somewhere deep in the subconscious. This, however, and not love even: rather animal instinct, the chain of feelings and reactions that mobilizes the human body for entirely, it would seem that achievements. It is the voice of mother nature crying out in that would any began to protect offspring, to kill for it security or not hesitate to die. But Director exploits the postulate of the all-conquering maternal love, he is not trampled on location and goes further, exposing the nerve of the story and the essence of human psychology. He very interesting character and her inner world, which is going through fatal changes, so happy confronts the main character of the next obstacle, tunic long needles in the most vulnerable places, provokes her mental anguish.
In moments of confusion, fear and anger, in the camera seemed to dwell uncontrollably bubbling to the surface consciousness of the mother. The viewer is experiencing difficult times, not from not her eyes, and her thoughts. Confused, shaky visuals, deliberately not trying to concentrate and breathe. Sharp, not focused traffic in the rhythm of the palpitations. The viewer is invited to experience all that is going through heroine: the operator shares it burst out in despair on the border of madness. It often leaves the mother in visual alone, and puts her in the center of the frame, and to the side or even angle, providing space to dominate in the composition. So it gets through tests: small, thrown to curb nobody is needed, contrasting with the empty and indifferent surroundings.
Despite all ruthless ambiguity, when close examination the story is familiar to everyone. It is not Korean or Oriental generally the Saga of a mother's love, unique in his incarnation. It is a universal story that happens everywhere in the world don't depend on the mentality or social structure. Eastern environment and hand Korean Director just make it a unique flavor. But, it is worth noting, the ending for tape in good East. In not him was no morality nor the conclusions or the answers. Only one only catharsis — a significant, odd dance — found. This illogical, clumsy, sincere and a cleansing dance. The rest remains deep in the soul of the unhappy woman, who did everything possible to make her child their freedom.