Scary movie!
Yeah I did like this movie when I was a kid. And Sissy Spacek does a really good job in being so versatile. The kid's are good actors too. But, when I was a kid, there was something about this movie that scared me!
shareme too!!
I was always scared that I would end up on the street one day without a mom like these kids!!!
the mommy market was scaryyyy. especially when they were running out of choices ... i was so afraid they'd never get their mom back.
shareWhy was the mommy market behind a dark alley?
shareI wasn't very scared but I did worry about them, poor kids!
shareMagical places are usually found in dark allies, in attics, under the stairs, behind cabinets/wardrobes/cupboards, under the bed, or the middle of the woods because it's the unknown. Those are the places that ordinary people may not ever venture to. If these places were typically ventured to, than everyone would know magic exists, and it wouldn't seem special and possibly even real.
Of course it's all just fiction, but that's how these stories seem at all possible to kids.
What I find interesting is how the kids in this story never seem that pumped up leaving the market with a mommy, but other kids seem so excited and loved by their chosen mom. Did they find their real moms? They appear so ordinary.
Are the strange moms that nobody would want planted there to teach kids a lesson? Why do we never see the ordinary looking moms in their own showcase? Why are the moms that seems so popular always there? Like the outdoorsy mom seemed so wanted that one sunday, but nobody else seems to take her home. And the baking mom always has a crowd of kids around her, but she never leaves with a set of children.
Maybe it just can't make sense because the concept is silly, but it's a very curious place, the mommy market.
I think it's because kids wouldn't want an "ordinary/normal" mom...at least not on the surface. That was the one they wished away their original one in the first place, so why would we see any of those in the market? These are little kids in the market, so the moms you see are going to showcase one of the many things that a child dreams about in a parent: someone who always cooks, someone who always cleans, someone who plays video games (and thus doesn't get mad if you're up all night playing them), a mom that's an astronaut they can brag about at school for career day, a mom that's rich that can buy them stuff, etc...
I don't think Mama, Mom, and Natasha were terrible parents...they just weren't what the MCs were looking for. Imagine if they went for the fighting mom that the other kid had already claimed. Any of the moms there would have worn out their welcome very quickly...but that's not the same story for other kids that go there. Some kids will learn the lesson that the mom they had is the perfect mom...but some will fall in love with the newly packaged mom.
If Mama, Mom, or Natasha had gone to kids that truly wanted them, and not because they looked interesting on the surface (kids who actually knew that their whole life would be about the circus, the outdoors, etc....), they wouldn't have been met with, for lack of a better word, hostility in the first place.