The latest developments of the movie "Stepping into Life" are receiving great attention from audiences when directly exploiting the conflict between mother and girlfriend. Not stopping at preventing her son's feelings, Ms. Dung (Quan's mother) accused Thuong's younger brother of being a "thief" and using the label of "gangster family" to insult her.
In Mrs. Dung's eyes, poverty goes hand in hand with inferiority, and a mistake of an individual (Minh - Thuong's younger brother) naturally becomes the nature and imborrable black mark of an entire family.
The peak of the conflict was when Ms. Dung voluntarily returned to her hometown to meet Thuong's grandmother. Here, instead of a civilized conversation, Ms. Dung uttered harsh words, insulting Thuong's family's poor circumstances. The insult aimed directly at the self-esteem of the elderly when Ms. Dung claimed that Thuong was plotting to take advantage of her son to find a support to change her life.
Dialogues like "rebuilt house", "gangster lineage" have turned Quan and Thuong's love into a war between two opposing social classes.
The behavior of the character Mrs. Dung represents a part of parents who are still heavily burdened with subjective thinking. In their eyes, children's love is not as important as the correspondence in status and economy.
When seeing a son in love with someone with a complicated family background, the mother's first reaction is not to understand the other person's personality, but to use authority to prevent, even use wealth to lower the honor of others. This harshness has pushed the relationship of the young couple into a deadlock, turning child love into a harmful imposition.
Looking from the screen to reality, the story of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law or the prohibition from the family due to differences in circumstances is still a problem for many couples.
Many young people today, despite self-effort, still cannot overcome the barriers from old prejudices of adults. Excessive interference in children's emotional lives, accompanied by a disdainful attitude towards the future in-laws' family background, unintentionally creates psychological wounds that are difficult to heal.
Protection in the name of love is sometimes the deepest hurt if there is no respect and understanding.
