![]() ![]() It wasn’t his fault-he didn’t know what was about to happen. That will likely be a scar he unfortunately carries. Though Frank does express regret that he wasn’t there when Diane needed him the most, which is understandable. He knew what Diane wanted for her daughter, and he did his best to fulfill her wishes. He knew Diane and could see her pain, even when Evelyn couldn’t-or refused to. It appears that he was closer to his sister than he was with his mother, which makes sense. He knew Evelyn had her own agenda and couldn’t help herself, and that Diane was swept into their mother’s dire need for success in the academic world. Frank was likely ignored often and pushed aside amazingly enough, he doesn’t appear to hold resentment towards his mother or even his sister. Evelyn took advantage of that and put all her time and energy into Diane. His sister chose him for a reason, and he has to go through a hell of a lot to remember why she did so, and why it was so important for Mary to be with him.ĭiane was the math prodigy in their household when she and Frank were growing up. Frank is a good guardian for Mary, exactly what Diane would have wanted. Frank knows his mother well, but she doesn’t know him-and she underestimates him. They clearly don’t trust one another, especially when it comes to Mary. In any case, Frank and Evelyn, while they hold something akin to the respect of one another, aren’t particularly close. Evelyn ripped apart their little family for her own selfish desires, and even then, she continued pushing Mary in math, hoping that math would be Mary’s entire life-just like she did with Diane. He doesn’t have the money and resources that she does, and he becomes convinced that he’s bad for Mary, which is how Mary briefly ends up in foster care, breaking both Frank and Mary’s hearts. She didn’t seem to want much to do with Mary until Mary was shown to be a child prodigy in mathematics, just as her mother was.Įvelyn, thinking she has a second chance to make it big in the mathematics world through her granddaughter, puts up a vicious fight for custody against Frank. That’s not to say he doesn’t ever let his mother get to him-he does. It’s hard to do-it’s his mother, after all-but clearly he’s been subjected to years of this kind of verbal abuse, and Frank has, sadly, grown used to it. He’s learned to just let it go and not take what his mother says personally, at least in that regard. Even by the film’s conclusion, she’s still failed to learn that lesson.įrank’s heard her express her regret before it doesn’t even seem to faze him. It’s as though she doesn’t know what she’s doing or the damage she’s inflicting with her words-she may be a genius with numbers, but she knows nothing about the power of words. It’s quite sad, but it’s their normal.Įvelyn isn’t shy about expressing her regret that she left England and her mathematician life behind to marry Frank and Diane’s father and move with him to America. Frank only refers to his mother by her first name, and she doesn’t seem to care about that. It shows several kinds of dysfunction in just one family, but it also shows how each member overcame that dysfunction in their own ways. However, his overbearing mother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), still hasn’t learned her lesson and tries desperately to drive Mary in the same direction Evelyn once steered her daughter toward.ĭysfunction emerges from a multitude of reasons and sources Gifted is an example of the importance of learning from past mistakes. In 2017’s Gifted, Frank (Chris Evans) tries desperately to stop history from repeating itself to spare his niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) the same pain, and the same fate, as her late mother Diane, who committed suicide when Mary was just a baby. This action ultimately cures the dysfunctional elements, and changes the course of the family, sparing future generations and helping reverse damage already placed upon the present members of the family. The cycle will continue until someone in the family (or even multiple family members) consciously makes the decision to stop the behavior, and get to the bottom of the source of the dysfunction. Family dysfunction is similar to history: it repeats itself. ![]()
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