071 - Son-Mother

So let's dive into a plot summary of Pesare Mother so we can discuss all of its intricacies and details.

Son Mother is split into two distinct chapters that follow a young widow named Layla.

After losing her factory job, she's forced to weigh a marriage proposal from a bus driver who wants to provide for her and her infant daughter.

However, patriarchal traditions dictate that he cannot let her 12-year-old son, Amir, live in his home.

Chapter one follows Layla as she navigates excruciating social pressures and difficult compromises she must make to provide for her children, ultimately making the devastating choice to send Amir away to a strict boarding school.

Now, that's only halfway through the film because chapter two of this film shifts the perspective entirely to Amir, highlighting the trauma, isolation, and eventual awakening he experiences as he is separated from his mother and tries to adjust to his new life living inside a, a, an educational system for, um, deaf children within Iran.

This has-

I mean-

... 100% Rotten Tomato score.

What's that?

We- you missed one very important thing in the, in the plot summary.

That he-

They pretend like the boy is deaf-

Yes

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so that he can go to a school for children who are hard of hearing.

Um-

Yeah, I figured that would-

Because that is paid for by the-

I was gonna come to the conversation

... by the state.

Yeah, I guess.

Sorry.

This has 100% Rotten Tomato score and does not have an audience score yet.

When you have, um, an audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, is it...