Imagine for a moment if your own mother would make you believe you were suffering from an incurable illness, would buy a wheelchair for you, and your hair would be cut off. Above all, imagine manipulating you so much as to believe all this and live like that for years. Isolated from the world and just under her tutelage!
This true story comes in the form of a web series called The Act. The most rumored serial of the moment in America starts broadcasting on the Hulu platform today.
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In June 2015, Dee Dee (mother) was found dead inside the home. No one believed that the woman's murder could have her "sick" daughter, called Gypsy. Gypsy, played by actress Joey King at "The Act," believed that he was born with a mental capacity of a 7-year-old and had been suffering from many serious illness since her childbirth.
In fact, it was her mother, Dee Dee, played by actress Patricia Arquette who was suffering from Munchausen syndrome syndrome, which makes you believe (yourself or others) about illnesses you do not have. After revealing all his mother's lies, Gypsy decides with her boyfriend (who is currently sentenced to 10 years in prison) to plan her mother's killing.
The shocking story of a mother-in-law mother who manipulated people to keep Gypsy in the prison she called home was the subject of The Act.
The screenwriter, Laure de Clermon-Tonnere, introduces the viewer with a horror house in the first two series. There was a murder there and Gypsy is the center of attention from all the neighbors around. Everything starts when her daughter teaches her mother's scams, doctors, or authorities.
Each episode keeps even more suspended when Gypsy starts linking up all the data. She finds out that she was not as old as her mother had thought, she learned that there were no terrible illnesses that were embedded in her head.
As for the actors, to say about Patricia Arquette acting fantastically, it's like snow is cold, but in the role of Dee Dee, the actress turns into a different character. A monstrous mother with a hypnotizing voice.
The beauty of this series is the space that leaves the audience to understand how a mother can catch up to here. An old wound from her childhood? Fear that it would remain alone or greed that exceeds any limit? This is the moment that makes "The Act" magical!
