Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)
Director: Ken Loach
Now, how often have we seen of individuals, in our day to day lives, who are obviously leading themselves into situations of self-destruction and hopelessness? The clear and present dangers of their moves are apparent to everyone except themselves. They stare into abyss and abyss becomes a part of them. They plunge into acts which self-destructive in nature. They go astray, but there is nothing you can do about it. Your pleas and words of advice just fall on deaf ears. Just how often you have heard them say, " I know what I am doing!", "I am in control here!", "Just leave me alone!", "It is my life!" actually and "Don't control my life!"
In the era of self-empowerment and individualism, nobody can put them in order especially if they are no longer minors. These people not only spiral into self-destruction but pull others into the whirlpool of the same.
The authority takes charge of their lives, but these people do not take it lying down. They resist and retaliate, using emotional blackmail as their shield and tears as lubricants. Lest they forget that the affected parties of their actions also need to lead lives of their own in an emotionally comforting and stable environment. Forget man-made secular legislations, and ancient men used the fear of the watchful 'eyes' of an unknown Being and the repercussions of their worldly acts in an eternal after-life. Our ancestors tried to put law and order into society and put the responsibility of parenting, to take care of the after-effects of our innate biological need to sow our seeds.
This disturbing film is supposedly based on a real story. I suppose we have to be wary of this precept 'based on'. With artistic licence, the sequence of actual events could have been spiced up to arouse our fancy.
It starts in a karaoke bar. Maggie, a single mother with four children from four different fathers, gets cosy with a Paraguayan political refugee, Jorge. The tell their past lives to each other and like a flip of a coin, they start living together. Jorge is a mild-mannered man, but Maggie is a fire-brand woman who has anger management issues and has had repeated relationships with abusive partners. Because her four children were partially burnt in a trapped burning council apartment, the Social Services decide to send her kids to foster homes. She had locked them in when she had gone to work.
The title of the film refers to a silly nursery rhyme of a mother whose children were trapped in a burning house!
Jorge and Maggie go on to have a baby. Unfortunately, Maggie's past came haunting her. The social services' officers caught up with her and took her newborn, not once but twice.
The filmmaker tries to highlight the problems of single-parenting and the society's seemingly careless attitude towards carefree lifestyles.
Director: Ken Loach
Now, how often have we seen of individuals, in our day to day lives, who are obviously leading themselves into situations of self-destruction and hopelessness? The clear and present dangers of their moves are apparent to everyone except themselves. They stare into abyss and abyss becomes a part of them. They plunge into acts which self-destructive in nature. They go astray, but there is nothing you can do about it. Your pleas and words of advice just fall on deaf ears. Just how often you have heard them say, " I know what I am doing!", "I am in control here!", "Just leave me alone!", "It is my life!" actually and "Don't control my life!"In the era of self-empowerment and individualism, nobody can put them in order especially if they are no longer minors. These people not only spiral into self-destruction but pull others into the whirlpool of the same.
The authority takes charge of their lives, but these people do not take it lying down. They resist and retaliate, using emotional blackmail as their shield and tears as lubricants. Lest they forget that the affected parties of their actions also need to lead lives of their own in an emotionally comforting and stable environment. Forget man-made secular legislations, and ancient men used the fear of the watchful 'eyes' of an unknown Being and the repercussions of their worldly acts in an eternal after-life. Our ancestors tried to put law and order into society and put the responsibility of parenting, to take care of the after-effects of our innate biological need to sow our seeds.
This disturbing film is supposedly based on a real story. I suppose we have to be wary of this precept 'based on'. With artistic licence, the sequence of actual events could have been spiced up to arouse our fancy.
It starts in a karaoke bar. Maggie, a single mother with four children from four different fathers, gets cosy with a Paraguayan political refugee, Jorge. The tell their past lives to each other and like a flip of a coin, they start living together. Jorge is a mild-mannered man, but Maggie is a fire-brand woman who has anger management issues and has had repeated relationships with abusive partners. Because her four children were partially burnt in a trapped burning council apartment, the Social Services decide to send her kids to foster homes. She had locked them in when she had gone to work.
The title of the film refers to a silly nursery rhyme of a mother whose children were trapped in a burning house!
Jorge and Maggie go on to have a baby. Unfortunately, Maggie's past came haunting her. The social services' officers caught up with her and took her newborn, not once but twice.
The filmmaker tries to highlight the problems of single-parenting and the society's seemingly careless attitude towards carefree lifestyles.
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