The 1905 Movie Network News The film "Stranger's Kindness", written and directed by Basil Shafi, starring Zoe Kazan, Andrea Riceborough, Jay Baruchel, Bill Nye and others, was launched on the video platform. Adapted from Tennessee Williams' famous play "Desire StreetCar", the film is based on a young mother who has long suffered domestic violence, telling the spark of humanity between the mother and son three people after fleeing and the stranger with a kind heart, which has been called "a fairy tale for urban people and adults in a cruel life".
Starting from the social issue of domestic violence, the film portrays the image of a brave and tenacious young mother in a plain and powerful way, and through the intertwined life situations of the low-level characters, it stimulates the tolerance and friendship between people, and receives praise from the audience for "delicate warmth" and "unique and novel content arrangement". The film was the opening film of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019 and was nominated for best film at the Golden Bear Award.
He was abused by domestic violence and wandered with his second son
Fate intertwines the truth of the world
According to statistics, more than 1/3 of women in the world have suffered domestic violence. What's even more distressing is that only about 1% of the people who were called to the police the first time they were beaten, and when a woman called the police for help, she had previously suffered an average of 35 times of domestic violence. The movie "Stranger's Kindness" takes domestic violence as the cause and tells the story of a mother who can't bear domestic violence and takes two children alone to start a wandering journey, and is saved by strangers along the way.
Clara, a housewife in Buffalo, New York, has long been violently abused by her police husband, Richard. Until one day Clara found out that her husband was also beating her two sons, because of her background, the police may not solve the problem, and will encounter more serious violence. Unable to bear it, she fled to New York City with her two sons. The mother and son have a difficult wandering life in New York, they are penniless, and they have to avoid Richard's pursuit at all times. Luckily, here they met Alice, an emergency nurse, Jeff, an unemployed young man, Mark, a chef, and Peter, a lawyer. The fates of a group of strangers are accidentally intertwined, shining a moving spark of the goodness of human nature...
The full strength of the team sent Together to play the acting skills
Delicate group portraits highlight the brilliance of human nature
The warm story is inseparable from the heartfelt interpretation of the creators, and Zoe Kazan, who has a good performance in works such as "The Man in the Love Book" and "The Great Illness", singled out the heroine in this film, portraying the image of a tough mother to the fullest. In addition, the film also brings together many powerful movie stars: the highly recognizable British actress Andrea Riceborough, and the French actor Taha Raheem, who won the European Film Award for Best Actor for "The Prophet". It is worth mentioning that the british veteran actor Bill Ney ("True Love Supreme", "Pirates of the Caribbean") made a cameo appearance in this film as a rather funny Russian restaurant owner, adding a lot of comedy to the slightly heavy story of the film.
Although the movie "Stranger's Kindness" is a film starting from domestic violence, the whole film does not portray the violence at a large scale, but wraps the sadness in a piece of warmth. Mother Clara describes escape as travel, eating leftovers as eating a big meal, bravely starting a new life to raise children alone, and letting the audience see the strength and independence of a woman. In those strangers who are married by charity, the beauty and warmth of human nature are reflected. As the film says, "Some people have no one to rely on, but they can rely on strangers, why can't they be more friendly?" "I hope that this "Stranger's Kindness" can bring you a little comfort in the spring blossoms.