妈妈的男人

《妈妈的男人》和同类“成年子女回归家庭”的题材相比，特别在它几乎是一部纪录片式的家庭录像。这片子拍得特别生活化，就像偷窥对面邻居家过日子。适合那些能忍受大量固定镜头、愿意从主角拨弄电话线的手指动作里读取孤独的观众。Matt Boren演得很“钝”，像你身边那个总说“下周就找工作”却一直赖在沙发上的表哥；而他真正的父母Ken Jacobs和Florence Jacobs出镜时，妈妈轻轻整理他衣领、爸爸沉默地修台灯，那种熟稔又陌生的互动，会让你想起自己过年回家时突然不知该跟父母说什么的瞬间。没有激烈的情节转折，全靠琐碎的日常和沉默的眼神推动情绪。这部电影适合那些过年回家待三天就开始烦躁、走的时候又偷偷回头看一眼的人——它不说教，只是把你的矛盾放在一个纽约公寓里，让你自己认出来。

After a holiday visit with his parents, Mikey is headed to the airport to return to his wife and newborn baby. Except he doesn’t board the plane. Instead he returns to his parents’ loft in lower Manhattan, back to his childhood room that has since been converted to storage. Unsure of his own motivations, he makes up excuses about why he’s staying – his flight is delayed, his flight is cancelled. A day passes, and then another, and he calls home and work to say he can’t return just yet – his parents are getting old, his parents are ill, time is too short. His doting mother is more than happy to enable his procrastination, while his artist father is suspicious. From afar, his confused wife grows increasingly unsettled. Meanwhile Mikey moves back into his room, digging out notebooks and mementos, calling on old friends. As the days go on he becomes more and more entrenched in his adolescent sanctuary, and comes to a point where he must choose between life as it is and life as it was. --© Official Site