I Want My Mommy Too: The Unforgettable Scene in The Father That Will Rip Your Soul Out

We have a movie scene that we enjoyed, the one we cheerish and the one that rips our soul and stays forever. For a moment, when I was watching the movie The Father and its about an elderly man who is losing his sense of time and space and we follow through his footsteps during the whole running time, until the end that Anthony Hopkins character starts to sob and now confused saying:

I want my mommy! 

I didn‘t expect that all. I was crying, I‘m still crying and it‘s one of those scenes that will wreck you completely. It‘s not the dialogue what destroys you, its the leading to that whole scene and how the script constructs very well the character to give you a punch in the feels. What‘s great about this movie is that we can see and feel how dementia really is, and Hopkin‘s performance is truly incredible. There‘s a lot of shifts in reality and we experience that through him and we get more and more, until they pull us out for an incredible and sad scene.

The scene shows how Anthony‘s confusion and dementia, now he breaks down and he thinks he is the young boy who misses his mother. It shows you what really dementia and aging. The line broke me because it hit me when my grandma in his final stages of his life, he started to lose sense of reality and by one of the last days, she told my family that he saw his husband, mom and dad in his room. I really sticks with me, because of that and because I used to volunteer to take care of elderly people and engage with them and talk to them, and that was a reality that I couldn‘t bear and how well was transitioned into a film, it‘s something that is so difficult to achieve. 

Hearing Anthony Hopkins doing that line, reminded me of my grandma and it cuts deep into my heart, because his death was incredible difficult to accept. This scene shows us the side we all have, the little inner child that never left us. We all want to have someone beside us, where nothing makes sense anymore. And it doesn‘t matter how old we are, we want our mothers to come and fix our lives. 

But also, this scene represents how important our mothers are, no matter if were distant, close or we have a profound bond, our mothers will still be the most important thing in our lives, and this moment in film captures it perfectly. 

Hug your moms, because you never know when it will be the last time. Call them, embrace them and let it feel. This moment in The Father challenges you in an unexpected way and that‘s how powerful this scene and the movie in general really it is.

Call your mom‘s

Hug them

Talk

Because eventually you will never know when life is going to make some changes. That‘s why this scene is a one to remember for the books.