I watched a successful movie that shows how a small and harmless lie can negatively affect a life together with other factors around it.
The name of the movie; God's Creatures
First of all, instead of focusing on past-future relationships in a fictional or fantasy world, the movie focuses on the present in the real world. Emotional turmoil in real life, mental exhaustion, efforts to cope with one's inner world are combined and portrayed in a beautiful story, adding to the pleasure of watching. In this alone, I found the movie very successful.
A strong mother character is created who is willing to risk everything to protect her son. Aileen (played by Emily Watson), a mother who does everything for her son in action, mentally questions everything she does. Her regrets are perfectly portrayed throughout the movie and you can tell just from the image that she is questioning herself.
My favorite character, apart from the main character, was Sarah Murphy (played by Aisling Franciosi). I liked the way she portrayed the physical and mental breakdown of a woman who is isolated by her environment after the rape she suffered. Her resistance to injustice and her strong stance right afterwards were the moments when she showed her peak in her role.
At one point I even thought that she should be the main character, but the elements of keeping the family together would suit a mother the best. Compromises made for the sake of not pining for her son mean giving evil a second or even many chances. Emily Watson did justice to being the mother and the main character with the way she staged what happened in return for the compromises she made.
The Teaching of the Movie;
If you want the world to change, you must first change yourself and start with your environment in the way you want it to change. Every good touch will create a domino effect with a chain reaction and contribute to the lives we don't know and don't recognize. Just like the effect of a small lie in a small town, the only difference is the detail that determines good and bad.
If we are lucky, we manage to erase the traces of evil, but nothing will ever be the same. If not, the traces of badness last a lifetime and affect even those who were not there that day. Just as the wars of decades ago affect today's generations; friendship or enmity lasts. It is the mistakes of the past that are decisive, but it is our future that is affected.
God's Creatures has a strange effect. I mean this in a positive way, you know there are some movies or some scenes in movies that touch your heart. This is one of them, but it touches the heart and makes you feel pain and compassion at the same time. In order to experience this effect, I suggest you watch the movie without thinking. Experiencing the pain and compassion of real life at the same time; it can help us to calculate that the actions we see small can have big consequences.