Wasps was a disturbing film about a woman who continuously neglects her four children, including one infant boy. The beginning of the movie immediately gave me insight into the type of influence the mother was on her children. She walks barefoot to a neighbors house with her children to start a fight and once the fight has died down, she orders her children to give their neighbors the finger.
Later in the film, we see the woman feeding her children flour, because all the food in her house has gone bad. She is clearly a lower class woman, jobless and poor, with no intention of being a better mother.
At the end of the film, she takes her children to a bar with her so she can spend the night with an old fling, Dave. I was appalled to see that she used the little change she had on her to buy a beer for the guy she was with and only crisps and soda for her children. It’s bad enough that crisps can hardly be considered a real meal, but the infant boy seemed to young to even be eating anything other than milk and baby food.
After being in the bar for hours, the mother goes outside, not to attend to her children, but to make out in a car with Dave. The children are desperate for food and after sitting outside for hours, the older sister finds some spare ribs on the floor to feed her baby brother.
Not long after, a wasp flies onto the boys face, and only after hearing screams from her children does the mother stop making out to run to her son. The film made me upset to think that there are actually mothers like that and children that are suffering around the world.
