Emotional Mother

Yesterday, we went to my parents' house since it was a holiday. With the two kids bugging their Gonggong, I went down to do my work on the computer. The television was on, but I wasn't following any of the movies shown in particular...till this 'horror' movie.


I didn't watch from the beginning, just managed to fix the story together through the bits that I had watched. It showed Shu Qi as a mother who moved into a new apartment with her hubby and toddler son.

Somehow, her son was taken away by a 'monster', who turned out to be a mad woman who lived on scraps and hid in unknown parts of the estate. This scary-looking mad woman, played by Lin Jia Xin, lost her hubby and was left alone with her son. Being unable to support themselves financially after her husband died, they wandered on streets. While she hasn't lost her sanity, she still looked after her son though they could not make ends meet. However, her son died... I didn't get to watch how he died. (so I managed to save up some tears)

Somehow, when I watched again, it seemed that Shu Qi was left alone to deal with the 'kidnap' of her son. However, according to Roy, the son was slowly being 'transformed' ??? Shu Qi tried to find out more about the mad woman and approached police for help, but didn't know what the police did. Anyway, she managed to lure the mad woman into her apartment using her 'already dead son' as a 'bait' (well..the mad woman had lost her sanity and maybe her memory got mixed up so she couldn't remember that her son had died).

When the mad woman left the boy alone to find Shu Qi, I thought it was a good chance for the boy to follow her route and escape to find his mother. While the 2 women were fighting in the apartment, the boy appeared at the doorstep of his own house and cried. During the fight, the 2 women were pushed by each other to different corners of the house (shortly after the boy appeared), the boy slowly moved forward, crying sadly... but what made me BURST INTO TEARS WAS to see the son walking towards to MAD WOMAN !!!!!!! He was saying to her ,"Why did you leave me alone?" and went to hug her !!! I COULDN'T TAKE IT AT ALL!!!!

Whenever I watch shows with small children suffering from mishaps, it always makes me very emotional because I would easily think about what it will be like if that child is my own. I couldn't believe it...so immediately, the thought that flew to me was... like my own child forsake me for a MAD and dirty woman who kept him away from his own mother!

The mad woman took the boy away, leaving the devastated Shu Qi alone. She brought the boy up to the rooftop... foreseeing what may come... I walked away and refused to continue to watch that HORRIBLE show! I knew my tap would not stop if she really jumped down from the building with that innocent and cute boy.

I know I was the type to cry easily (from watching sad love stories/ dramas) but I think I have 'levelled up' after I became a mother myself. I wonder if other mothers are like me... or.... was it JUST ME ???