Mommy : Kyla's Story

I don't speak French, and I sometimes miss things in the subtitles, so maybe I have the facts wrong. Did Kyla say that her stammer came on a few years earlier, rather than a lifelong issue? That, and the fact that she was either on some kind of mystery sabbatical (or was she just covering up some embarrassment about not having a job) and that we rarely see her husband and kids leads me to wonder if there was a story that was left out in editing. I kept expecting clues to Kyla's actions (like why she put Steve on the floor), but her story didn't get covered.

You also see near the end of the movie when she is packing her stuff in her home that she is holding that picture of her boy in her hands and wrapping it in bubble wrap. I think lots of people missed those two pieces

I loved the movie but I watched the whole film expecting to know what Kyla's story was. I didnt see the pic of the young boy, I totally missed it. But I wish Dolan had covered her story more, like why her husband or young daughter never go to Die's house even though they live across the street. Or how they feel about Kyla spending so much time with them. That was kind of disappointing to me.

Kyla's story is never explained fully but Steve sees a photo of a little boy in Kyla's house. Since we never see this boy, we can suppose that it's her little son who had died. The boy was blonde like Steve. So it is reasonable to assume that Steve reminded Kyla of her own son.

Clearly we're meant to notice that, and I think we're supposed to think that the son died two years ago, and that her speech difficulties date from that event. I rather liked that this was not spelled out; Kyla's not going to talk about it, and it would have required a shift in POV to get that info in explicitly.

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I don't think her story was ever explained fully. I don't remember hearing about it, anyway.

Kyla's story wasn't fully explained, but explained enough to understand that she had lost her son and felt a connection with Steve because of the death of her own son.

She hasn't moved on (that's the reason she stutters, she doesn't speak with her family) and Steve is her second chance as a mother of a (troubled) boy.

I wish she had adopted Steve in the end, to give him a second chance with a different mother.

Yes, I was crying with "what might have happened if", when Steve showed Kyla the Julliard's letter in the middle of the street and they were so happy, I was so happy but as the frame was still small I knew something was wrong :( It was Kyla who did good to Steve, and Steve's charisma and their connection was helping her, they were setting each other free. I thought that when when they were outside the mental institution and Kyla got off the car she was going to scream and say, get your hands off of Steve!, and that she was going to say she was going to take care of him. At her last scene it was so obvious that she was so upset because she knew that Steve was getting better and had potential and Die gave up on him :(

Kyla was not real. Just a projection of the Mother and Son's mental illness.