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Relationship Between Billy And His Mother In Helena Brooks Nothing Special

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The Special Relationship Between Billy and His Mother Remember as a child when your mother would tell anybody who would listen how special, smart, good looking and well behaved you were. Yeah? Now imagine if she went around telling everyone in the town that you’re so special because you are the reincarnation of Jesus. Brutal may be the word to describe what that must’ve felt like. In Helena Brooks’ Nothing Special we see how Billy (Kip Chapman) tries to live a boring and monotonous adult life, to distance himself from his eccentric mother Heather (Alison Routledge) and her insistence of him being Jesus as well as distancing himself from the word “Special”. This hysterically funny film not only will make you thank your mother for not thinking you are that “special” but also remind viewers that you cannot run away from issues, no matter how uncomfortable they may be. …show more content…

She begins with telling people at a market, then proceeds to tell the town by propping Billy on top of her car and screaming into a microphone that her son is special. Wanting to get away from his mother, when Billy is old enough he packs up and leaves home after a humiliating Easter. When leaving his home, he states, “All I wanted more than anything in the world was to be normal, dull, forgettable and blissfully normal”. He moves to a new city, changes his name and finds an office job where he doesn’t interact with coworkers. He limits himself to five words a day, two of them being “Good Morning” and “Goodbye”, to avoid speaking to people and

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