Watched 'Flora and Son' (Spoilers included)

The meeting was the worst

It was a very refreshing movie that gives you the worst impression at the beginning, but recovers brilliantly by the end.

Have you ever had the experience where someone of the opposite sex, whom you didn't think much of when you first met, gradually changed your impression of them as you met and talked a few times, and you ended up liking them?

The protagonist of this movie, Flora, reminded me of such memories.

In the end, you want to root for her

From the beginning of the movie, her impression was the worst. Suddenly, she has a one-night stand with a man she met at a bar (and with someone she had initially rejected, saying, 'No way with you!'). She has a child who is quite old, despite her wild activities.

Nevertheless, her job is a babysitter, which is quite unstable for raising a child.

Even so, she has been raising her son desperately since giving birth at 17, but her husband left, leaving her as a single mother. Furthermore, her son has bad behavior and has been taken into custody many times, and the police have told her that if he is taken into custody again, he will be sent to a correctional facility. You might think there is some room for sympathy for her, but the first impression is so bad that it is not easy to change the image.

However, she starts learning music online, triggered by a guitar she got as a gift for her son's birthday, but even here, she makes a fool of herself by making mentally deranged remarks, such as telling the teacher to take off his shirt and play the guitar, causing the teacher to cut the connection. But through music, she starts to show a motherly side and an image of a decent woman by making music with her son and cheekily giving advice on a song the teacher wrote a long time ago.

Around this point, I started to have a very slight feeling of 'Oh?'

And when the upgraded version of the song the teacher wrote in the past is completed, and they play it together, the roughness from the beginning completely disappears, and Flora becomes like a maiden with sparkling eyes. I wonder if there is anyone who wouldn't end up on her side after seeing her in this scene. At this point, I became 100% on Flora's side.

Furthermore, I was completely hooked when Flora finally gave up on going to Los Angeles to see the teacher and decided to live with her son.

An orthodox development, but well expressed

The way the story is told might be a fairly orthodox method, but throughout the film, it succeeds in skillfully expressing her change through events involving music, such as lessons and creating music with her son.