This week in the Deep Hurting Project is a collaboration between Lifetime and The Asylum with the rather confusing title of Mother. This is not to be confused with the Darren Aronofsky film of more or less the same name, which is merely polarising and I love it, or any of the other couple dozen films of the same name. When it originally aired, it was given the name Social Nightmare, but by the time it went to DVD, it was given the title Mother. Why? You know how the whole "Mr. Hyde being Dr. Jekyll" conceit of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was actually meant to be a twist, but it was so memorable that it became the one thing everyone knew about it? I think something similar ended up happening, because, frankly, the mother (played by Daryl "Elle Driver" Hannah") is so obviously a villain they must have decided to change the title for the DVD release.
For the record, this and Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny are the only films in the Project I actually bought specifically for it (Battlefield Earth and Bratz don't count since I already had them long before I decided to embark on the Project).
For the record, this and Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny are the only films in the Project I actually bought specifically for it (Battlefield Earth and Bratz don't count since I already had them long before I decided to embark on the Project).
- Well, that title scene is obnoxious. Good thing it only lasts for about a minute.
- You ever get so lonely that you're calling your teddy bear sexy?
- Wow, Mother's watching her daughter leave for school while sporting a Kubrick stare. Either she's one of those people who just does that for photos (to be fair, I am), or she's being clearly the bad guy. Even though she's not even doing anything yet.
- Is there a reason the black guy's shaved a line in his head to make it look like he's parting his hair, even though he's got the natural look otherwise?
- If only schools in real life actually reacted this properly towards bullying. To be fair, shit may have changed since I was in grade school.
- Why do I think that trying to write a letter of appeal to an Ivy League school trying to get her friend in without her won't actually work anyway?
- So, the plot finally starts about 20 minutes in: someone's hacking into this girl's Facebook Buddyme and talking shit about her friends.
- Wow. I wonder who posted that slut-shaming email? Could it be the girl who had the Yearbook camera or the mother who shares her house and seems to be unstable.
- Wait, was this black guy who's just been outed as gay the same one who was making out with the main character in the opening scenes?
- Being flexible either means "be a stay-at-home daughter" or "go to an Ivy League college and start your own business."
- I'm not very familiar with catfishing, but I have to ask: how much does just having your face being used in connection with this false identity (not even your name) put you at risk?
- Man, Elliot Alderson really let himself go. And somehow fixed what is clearly his Graves' Disease.
- And that guy got really rapey really fast. And the other kid was in on it. No fucking wonder the catfishing story makes no sense.
- Wow. This principal really does not fuck around when it comes to bullying.
- Joan likes to do something I think is "fuck", which is apparently not true, and is also not adopted and why is anything happening?
- This girl got tossed around the bathroom and apparently curb-stomped multiple times and ONLY got a gash on her forehead for her trouble?
- And the doctor's just plying her with antidepressants (including Xanax, which isn't exactly an antidepressant) after dealing with her pain, and nobody seems to be mentioning that there's circumstances that explained why she was feeling so down? Is this what Franz Fanon's practice was like before he realised that his Algerian patients weren't going to get any better as long as they were still under French oppression?
- And some random guy's trying to randomly fuck her friend? Why is that escalating so randomly?
- I don't know what's worse about HoneyDaddies, that they allow underaged girls to make profiles asking to fuck much older men, or the fact that they think "Daddie" is a valid spelling.
- And now that profile's been sent to Yale, which causes them to revoke their acceptance?
- Okay, this may be a stupid question, but did the principal just change genders and age about 20 years in between sequences? At least when Tommy Wiseau randomly changed out Peter for that other guy who discovered Mark and Lisa's affair in The Room, he at least got someone who looked vaguely like him... if you had prosopagnosia, anyway.
- And now the gay black kid is becoming an accomplice to this horseshit now? And the main character's calling her friend jealous?
- Teens in lingerie who are close to graduating high school=/=CP.
- Okay, so the black male principal and the woman I thought was the principal were different characters.
- We are going to sue... the district, and we are going to sue... the bullies, and we are going to sue... their parents, and we are going to sue... the teacher, and we are going to sue... the city, and we are going to sue... whoever thought making an overly long gag based on Beavis and Butthead into this movie review a good idea.
- You know, I don't know where this takes place, but I'm starting to think if they just applied for a sufficiently prestigious college close to home, like Stanford or Northwestern, this plot would be pointless.
- "I'll make you feel like a real man" and "maybe you can teach me a few things" on the same datnig profile. Why do I get the impression that these two statements are trying to say two very different things?
- And she figures it out solely on the basis of spelling "proceed" as "precede," which the mother did an hour of movie ago. You know, maybe it would have made sense if the main character figured out her mother was responsible for all this horseshit, y'know, what with her college acceptance being put into jeopardy at the same time she keeps saying she'd prefer she go to community college, or the fact that her response to all of this is to ply her with drugs.
- And she's apparently dumb enough to KEEP THE FILE FOR THE LETTER FROM BROWN OPEN ON HER DESKTOP LONG AFTER IT'S SERVED ITS PURPOSE.
- And all this horseshit could have been avoided if Mom could properly spawn another kid? Seriously?
- So, Mom's in a prison where she can Skype with her daughter? Is she as rich as Pablo Escobar?
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.