If you're gonna reopen a character's deepest wound, at least have the guts to treat it like one! The tone of this scene genuinely disgusted me. But the author went for a cruel reality and didn't bother building any real redemption around it, and we're the ones left suffering through it. And the ending made it worse. We're not seeing a remorseful mother looking at the sky thinking 'when will I see him again?' it's just shifted back to her desire, not her son's pain. If this was real remorse, it wouldn't be about when she gets to see him. It would be 'how do I fix what I did?' or 'what did he go through?' or 'I don't even have the right to ask anything from him anymore.'
If you're gonna reopen a character's deepest wound, at least have the guts to treat it like one! The tone of this scene genuinely disgusted me.
But the author went for a cruel reality and didn't bother building any real redemption around it, and we're the ones left suffering through it.
And the ending made it worse. We're not seeing a remorseful mother looking at the sky thinking 'when will I see him again?' it's just shifted back to her desire, not her son's pain.
If this was real remorse, it wouldn't be about when she gets to see him. It would be 'how do I fix what I did?' or 'what did he go through?' or 'I don't even have the right to ask anything from him anymore.'