I suspect bad mothers aren't allowed to redeem themselves.
I don't want that to be the answer, but I could believe it.
Mothers protecting their children are more likely to kill the threat themselves, or to take the fall for their kid (especially if the child really did the murder.)
I wondered briefly about Lucia Harper in The Reckless Moment (1949), but her damaged relationship with her children doesn't spring from some inner failing on her part or bad decision-making in her past, it's the direct effect of postwar American nuclear family heteronormativity and much of the film's point is that that's terrible.
Dancer in the Dark (2000) doesn't count, either, and I hated that film.
The best I can come up with is the heroine of Agatha Christie's play "Clarissa Finds a Body," and Clarissa is not herself a fuck-up -- she's a survivor.
This play sounds amazing. Have you seen it staged?
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I don't want that to be the answer, but I could believe it.
Mothers protecting their children are more likely to kill the threat themselves, or to take the fall for their kid (especially if the child really did the murder.)
I wondered briefly about Lucia Harper in The Reckless Moment (1949), but her damaged relationship with her children doesn't spring from some inner failing on her part or bad decision-making in her past, it's the direct effect of postwar American nuclear family heteronormativity and much of the film's point is that that's terrible.
Dancer in the Dark (2000) doesn't count, either, and I hated that film.
The best I can come up with is the heroine of Agatha Christie's play "Clarissa Finds a Body," and Clarissa is not herself a fuck-up -- she's a survivor.
This play sounds amazing. Have you seen it staged?