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     Where to begin with this movie? I found this movie to be extremely moving but also aggravating. I absolutely loved this movie. At the beginning I was expecting this to be a boring uneventful movie that a teacher would show the class as a gap filler. When I originally saw the feather and the women talking at the beginning I remember whispering to Lex, "is there a point to this?" She told me I had to give it a chance. As the movie continued into the first scene, it immediately began to catch my attention. The names to the characters is definitely not my strong suit when it comes to the movie. I found the woman at the beginning to be extremely moving. I know that she's the mother of the young girl that did not want to play chess anymore so that her mother could gloat about her amazing daughter. That mother had an amazing story. She had this great ability to create this strangely believable story. The woman's ability to create this quick lie that would only work for her benefit. Also in her later years, she was able to hold her ground. Her daughter quit chess just to spite her mother and her mother pretended as though it didn't bother her. She held her ground. And as her daughter grew older, she felt as though her daughter did not care enough to prove herself worthy of her mother's affection. This entire movie about mother daughter relationships is all so realistic. There are some mothers that love their children unconditionally, which are the circumstances most frequently heard of. But no one knows what goes on behind closed doors. Any one that you meet could be the happiest person you know but they could go home and be constantly fighting with their alcoholic parents. This movie was a little insight on what goes on behind closed doors. For example, her daughter also fell for an American and her mother did not seem okay with it but she actually was. There was also the case of the woman and her husband who had a perfect marriage. They all seemed perfect and happy together when in reality the husband treated her so poorly. He would make her split the bills and was always fighting with her. The moral of this movie was that you can never know what goes on behind closed doors.