Birthright
...ike this. He finds some of his mother’s old pictures and goes into a state of melancholy. His brother shows up, and the conversation ends up with Donald realizing that he doesn’t know much about his mother. -”She never told us much, did she” “We never asked” I think that he search slowly begin to help Donald with his way of handling his own flesh and blood. He haven’t thought of his mom as a normal person with problems before, he have just ignored this having a kind of superficial relationship to her. His conscience is maybe giving him a hard time, because he starts to think that maybe he owns something to his mom. She took care of him in all these years and she never complained. The scene changes and we now follow the grandmother again. She is searching for a stone in a graveyard; the name on the stone says Brandy. Later on we get to know why she is bound to this particular horse name. In this scene we get to see that sometimes, anyway, she is very rational in her thoughts and beliefs. She seems very normal at this moment. Then we meet Carly who is Donald’s daughter. Her relationship to the grandmother is very good and they both like each others company. Carly doesn’t share the same views on having grandmother at a nursing home. She doesn’t believe she is senile, and you sense that Carly treat her with respect not being “descending” to her. She knows how she is feeling about certain things, and you clearly see that her attention against her grandmother has paid off. Their relationship is very intimate. The scene changes again and we know get some very important information about her background and especially her past. I think that she was in love with the laird’s son and his accident, falling down from the tree –“It was your own fault your fell, you know”, made her feel that boys have a bad instinct they can’t get rid of. They are just born with testosterone in their blood, their primal needs for being masculine and somehow primitive. That’s why she likes Carly so much. She feel sorry for the boys, they can’t understand women. They aren’t able to reach the same emotional stages as women are. And maybe she is also a little mad at them because they are both successful and that makes her think of the laird who used to roll pennies down the ...