| It gets me every time. When the little boys start singing "shh! Mama sleepin, she work all day, don't wake mama, let her sleep" and then Emmie starts proudly (finally proud) "I'm the daughter... of a maid" it moves me so deeply. And it's even more impactful to me because Caroline isn't physically in the scene with her kids who are saying what she's love to know they think. And the last time we saw her was her having a fantasy conversation with the little white boy she works for who almost destroyed her. That section kills me too, when she says "you bet I do, Noah. You bet." and the "you bet" rhymes with his previous line "do you miss sharing a cigarette", giving him what he so desperately wants, some validation on her side of their little relationship, even though they aren't actually having the conversation! Oh and also "weren't never friends"... and "someday we'll talk again, but there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you, it inside me too and it never go away" and "so it's calm, calm, calm, and there's never any money, so it's very very calm"... that whole "Underwater" section between Noah and Caroline, oh it gets me every time too. |
