This good, superbly observed comedy is a joy to watch throughout. The Second Mom's narrative works on so many ranges, reflected within the movie's ambiguous title, and the characterisation is flawless. The script is executed with sufficient naturalism to push back complaints of contrivance all the best way as much as a tidy, however fairly satisfying, denouement. As we switch sympathies from scene to scene, Muylaert forces us to think large concerning the conflict between idealism and acceptance, a philosophical struggle that spills past the partitions of this small story into every nook of our own lives. Touching, funny, perceptive and easy enough to carry massive audiences, The Second Mother is carried throughout by a hilarious, clever and soulful performance from veteran Brazilian actress, comic and TV host Regina Case, surrounded by a strong supporting cast.
Regina Case Val plays a housekeeper for more than 10 years living away from his family in Rio de Janeiro. Fabinho, the couple's son, has always been in their care. The tranquility within the dwelling might be fully altered in the time when their organic daughter Jessica, which has smallish care from a friend, decides to visit his mom and supposed submitted to the selectivity to access among the finest schools of architecture within the country. Whereas laborious discovering a place to dwell both have to share their days beneath the identical roof, calling into query all the rules imposed by his own mom to deal with the gentlemen.
The viewer enters the house through which focuses the story, walking between the partitions undisturbed and free to information him maintain your hand. Invisible, you may gradually understand the traces, let masterfully in the smallest particulars, from a dictatorship perpetrated silently into the housing of a contemporary and civilized world. Writing, characterized by a lightness that can solely be the result of a hard, punctual and meticulous work, does not betray smudges, succeeding in not being presumptuous and then placing the complete service of the film.
The lifetime of an inner employee of a high bourgeois residence, is disrupted by the visit of his daughter to review for the doorway examination to college. So simple as might be summarized the plot of a second mom, a narrative very effectively portrayed on how usually the service is who takes care of our family and never us. This is the toughest a part of the tape, the one where it looks just like the household doesn't look after their own, but in the event you take note of outsiders. The story, despite having comic particulars, tends a lot drama, and sometimes stunning situations as not to fall into the straightforward morbidity are handled. This relationship between the top of the household and the daughter of the maid is treated with impeccable respect, bordering the agony and unhappiness that comedy that provides rise to the situation.
