Today is my Mother's birthday! So I thought today's post should be one that features a badass movie mom.
In The Orphanage Belen Rueda plays Laura, a woman who moves back to the orphanage that she grew up in with hopes of reopening it. With her are her husband Carlos and her adopted son Simon. However, Laura finds out that the orphanage has some other inhabitants, ones that she must try to understand, especially when Simon goes missing.
What makes Laura such a badass mom is that she both A) adopts a son that is HIV positive, and B) stops at nothing to find him, even if that means putting her marriage and life in jepardy. She is a tough character who rises up to every challenge rather than wilt away with sorrow like so many other movie characters with missing children.
The Orphanage is a film that is filled with both suspense and heart. It is a ghost story that doesn't just go for cheap thrills, but rather builds up suspense by giving us a character that we care about and that we root for. Aided by strong images filled with high contrast lighting and a beautifully mixed haunting sound design.
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