'What Mom Didn't Tell': Short film produced for the first time in Thai Hoa town causes a stir in the online community

On the first day of its release, the film received tens of thousands of views and shares from the online community. This number has continued to increase in recent days.

Contentmovierevolves around the relationship between Yen - a successful young woman with a lot of work to make a living in the mountain town and her mother-in-law. The story's development is pushed to its climax when Yen's mother-in-law decides to move in with her son's family when her grandson is about to enter first grade.

Because of their busy lives, Yen and her husband did not realize that their mother's health was getting worse, along with her loneliness when she did not receive sharing and care from her children. Suppressing those sadness, she still devoted all the tolerance and love of a mother to take care of and worry about every meal and sleep for her children. Until one day, when little Tho - Yen's daughter was injured while playing, Yen angrily asked her husband to take her mother back to the countryside.

The plot twist is only resolved when Yen loses her watch and decides to check the family's camera. From there, she realizes the silent sacrifices of her mother-in-law, even though she has never received any attention or thanks from her children. The ending of the film continues with a series of lingering emotions, starting from the child's tears of regret until the moment of bursting into tears when she returns to her mother's arms to clear up all misunderstandings.

It seems that "What Mom Didn't Tell" has a motif that is not new at all, but what moves viewers is the realistic acting of the non-professional cast, the plot touches on very common painful things that people often encounter somewhere in Vietnamese families today.

After the first day of being posted on social media, the film attracted more than 45,000 views, nearly 500 shares and more than 70,000 hits. This number has continued to increase sharply in recent days.

The film received many positive reviews from the online community.

A special thing about the film is that the production crew is very young. The person who came up with the production idea is a doctor from the mountainous region of Nghe An:Doctor La Van Khoi (born in 1989, Head of Traditional Medicine Department, Nghe An Northwest Regional General Hospital (Thai Hoa town)According to him, during his time working at the hospital, he witnessed many touching stories about maternal love. There were happy memories but also many sad stories that made him feel uneasy.

Therefore, before Vu Lan festival this year, he and his friend Nguyen Quang Hao (born in 1995) came up with the idea of ​​making a short film with the hope of conveying many profound messages about motherly love.

Even Dr. La Van Khoi and his friends did not expect the above work to receive so much attention from viewers. That achievement gave him and his friends more motivation to continue producing meaningful short films in the future.