Yellow is a movie about Mary Holmes, a young, beautiful woman who lives in Los Angeles and teaches at a private elementary school. She also has four lovely children. As perfect as her life may seem to be, it actually is not. Mary has difficulties feeling things, and the copious amounts of Vicodin which she takes every day doesn't help her at all. She visits a psychiatrist and talks about her disconnected daydreams which keep on happening, her sister with Tourettes hates her and when she loses her job for sleeping with one of the fathers on parent's night she decides to go home. Her daydreams, which seemed to be random, start to take a shape and the audience figures out parts of her past. From drug dealing, over questions of love and incest and her father's painful death to her sister's descent into insanity. The audience slowly learns the secret that destroyed her family and Mary's responsibility for it. Yellow gives a realistic look at how childhood abuse impacts people through the innocence of youth and through an inside look at Mary's life. Yellow shows how a girl who grew in a deeply dysfunctional family struggles with her inner self and learns how to cope with it. The movie is painful and complex, it tells a gripping, compassionate story which should definitely noticed by more people.
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