now lets discuss pran’s conversation with his mother. (everyone is talking about the balcony scene and pat’s dad so im not gonna re-invent the wheel with those)
tumblr has a limit for photos so i’ll have to use a lot of text-explanation
when pran first gets home he genuinely does not want to talk to his mom. he just doesnt. but his mom pushes and pushes and says smth like “you’ve become friends with the neighbour again, haven’t you?” and pran just:
the way he says this just shows how exhausted he is. for his entire life he has been exhausted. he’s showing some of that here. tired of his family, tired of trying to live up to other people’s expectations, tired of always blaming himself for things he rly doesnt need to blame himself for, tired of carrying the weight that his mother dropped onto his shoulders since he was a child.
“pran dont walk away from me, we must talk things out”
and here is where the hidden rage starts to leak out of pran. talk things out? you want to talk? sure ill fucking talk.
mommy is not happy and starts to yell, only to be cut off by pran.
mommy starts to pull out every excuse she has within her but pran has heard this all too many times. “i know they are disgusting, theyre cheaters, they did this and that to us, i know all of that...”
pran is finally starting to verbalise what he’s been wanting to tell his mother his whole life. after doing all he could to keep everything inside, this is when his walls start to break.
“have you forgotten to save my reputatio—”
“mom” an interruption like none other
he’s been wanting to say that for a while now. pictures dont do nanon’s facial expressions justice, his acting is so precise and accurate. truly remarkable.
mommy is shocked, “i never raised to you talk to me like this”
and we all know what pran says in response. “it’s because you raised me this way, that im not like other kids. ”
pran was raised on a controlled environment with an inability to express himself and a severe lack of freedom. heavy responsibility and feelings of obligation further crumble his already broken sense of self. i could rant for hours about how pran’s tendencies to conceal and guard himself stem directly from how he was raised. but i wont, since im sure you all know already.
physical touch can ground a person. pran realised what he said. he realises his mom isnt happy. we can here him sniffling when he walks away and his mom is calling out to him. he has returned to his shell, despite the crack within it.
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