Movie Review: Solas

I was deeply touched by this movie. How amazing a mother’s love could be showed with non-verbal language and how lonely a senior citizen was when he had no wife and grandchildren accompanied him. As Maria was still a young girl, his drunken father gambled and beaten his family members. She could not withstand what his rude father had done so she left her parent’s house in the countryside and move to the city, working as a cleaner. One time, her father was sick and hospitalized. Rosa, Maria’s mother came to live with her but only for temporally, trying to build a bridge to communicate with her lovely daughter. Maria gradually quit smoking and drinking alcohol, treasuring the time she spent with her mother. A new born baby was her determination to be a responsible and respected mother for her own children. Though the children did not have a father who cared him but there were an adopted grandfather whose love would weight much more than anyone had ever thought.

Rosa quietly cared about her daughter as she hurt herself and even as she was pregnant. Basically, while I made mistakes, my mother would scold me first that made my mood went down to worse. At that moment, what I appreciated was a gentle and careful mother just as Rosa who without saying any words calmed her daughter by healing her broken heart. One time, Rosa glimpsed her daughter kissed by a man at the bar through the window. Maria was conscious of her mother who turned around and left without rushing into it. At that moment, Maria was guilt about what she had done－drinking alcohol and smoking. Additionally, in the movie, while there were leisure times, Rosa would sit down and knitted. Without any second thought, I guessed that she just knitted it for fun with no purpose. But, to my astonishment, a red sleeveless woolen vest and a pink baby cloth filled with a mother’s love was for her daughter－Maria. A person’s love could be express through words but the most impressive way was through action toward the one I cared about.

This was such a touching movie that I would like to recommend to three group of people. The first one was the teenagers who may ignore and misunderstand their parent’s care and than may do things that had already broken their parent’s heart. Another group was the offspring who had to share the senior citizen’s feelings and be patient about them. The last group was the single mother who should be brave to confront the difficulties even when her boyfriend was not willing to shoulder the burden of bringing up the baby. Solas was such an aspiring movie that it caught my attention thoroughly and every scene beat my heart violently.