The film introduced to you today is "Walking with Grandma", which although it revolves around the theme of women, it is not a feminism in the narrow sense, but about a larger theme. Like the quote at the beginning of the film: "Time passes. That's for sure.” ——Eileen Myles。 For this, we can only say: "It's ture. It's so ture！ ”
As the saying goes, three women are one drama, and the three protagonists of this film: Grandma - Ellie, Mother - Judy, granddaughter - Sage, just put together a family ethics drama of three generations. It's just that in this year of sensitive topics, the story is bound to take place in less ordinary families. The problem of same-sex couples, the problem of same-sex couples raising children, and the problem of women's independent abortion correspond to the film's grandmother, mother, granddaughter, three cute women with very different personalities and "communication problems".
The story of the film is divided into six sub-sections, each of which is represented by fairy tale-like terms. However, the story of the film is not dreamy at all, but the actual teenage girl accidentally pregnant, can only ask her grandmother to raise money for abortion journey, behind each chapter, are some unimaginable, awkward and joyful bridges.
1. Ending
Early in the morning, the poetess broke up with her young girlfriend, and life seemed to have reached the end of her life. With the death of her girlfriend who has been with her for 38 years, she has feelings for love but no longer dares to release her passion easily. Her poetry has gone unnoticed, and life seems to her that only memories are left to show off. At this moment, her granddaughter Saiqi, who was in high school, suddenly appeared, and she also came for an ending. Sai Qi was unexpectedly pregnant, scheduled a miscarriage but did not have enough money, afraid of her mother, she could only ask her grandmother for help. But Grandma is not an ordinary grandmother, she has a poetic temperament attack, just cut off the credit card and broke with the material world. However, such a grandmother is not an easy person to admit defeat, she immediately took SaiQi to the free abortion center in her memory, but unfortunately, there is already no one there, and grandma's era has indeed ended.
2.ink
In this chapter, Grandma's personality begins to be thickly inked, she teaches Sai qi's waste wood "boyfriend", forcing him to take out all the cash irresponsibly, but she does not embarrass the big boy too much. Later, they ran to the tattoo shop and tried to get a loan from a friend, although they ended up with nothing. Grandma was sometimes irritable and irritable, and sometimes she was very talkative, she was black and white, she was not polite to people and things she hated, and she was very reasonable in some people who were not deliberately wrong. Grandma is like a special pen and ink drawn by this world, the appearance is uninhibited and wild, but in the bones is an authentic temperament. Grandma asked her friend to tattoo her with the letter "O" while gossiping. Also teach the cowardly Saiqi that to live in this world, you need a little madness, and sometimes, you must scold a bitter word - "screw you"!
3. apes (orangutans)
Saiqi pointed to a café called bonobo and asked grandma, what is a bonobo? To raise money, Grandma was preparing to sell her out-of-print books, which she had treasured for years, to the lady of the restaurant. Grandma told her that it was a high-class ape, a matrilineal community, unlike humans and orangutans, who had never been at war with each other. Grandma and my girlfriend, who happened to be working here, continued the war. They angrily scolded each other with the words between acid literati, one was just trying to know if the other party had a young girl of their own in their hearts, and the other was an old man who had experienced vicissitudes and did not dare to easily awaken his passion. A relationship, a lot of times like a war, who really gives more, who cares more about each other, whether I really have you completely, has become a bigger question.
4. The ogre (Monster)
After a big fight in the restaurant and the books were not sold, Grandma took SaiQi to a mysterious place. Her most secret affair also surfaced. It turned out that Grandma had a marriage before becoming Lace Edge, and the other party lived in the beautiful house in front of her, a handsome old man. Together, they smoked a cannabis and reminisced about the warm past. Then Grandma spoke softly and asked him if the promised help still counted. The handsome old man took out the cash without acid, after all, the ex did not come to talk about his feelings, after all, he was still a little sad. As a result, when he learned that the money was used to give Sai Qi an abortion, he immediately went mad and went into a state of madness, suddenly turning into a lace edge for his grandmother, and all dissatisfaction with his grandmother who had secretly beaten his child, and all dissatisfaction with the child that his grandmother had given birth to a strange man exploded. And we sit in front of the screen, we see that the depth of love, but not a kind of human couple, no matter how suppressed, hidden their feelings, or can be in the inadvertent details, instantly turn each other into monsters.
5. Kids
Saiqi's mother is a workaholic, and as soon as she appears, she works on the computer on the treadmill, and her person can be imagined. Unlike her grandmother, who has been up and down in her relationship all her life, she is very rational, and Saiqi is the result of her choosing a gene from the sperm bank in her busy work. In front of her, Grandma became uninhabited, skimming her lips and admitting: "Since she was five years old, I have been afraid of her. What this paragraph wants to express is the endless contradiction between parents and children, and even so, the indelible love. In the end, the contradiction and love became a sentence from Saiqi's mother: About the child, we are so powerless. No matter how much you love them, they will embark on their own path in life and stumble. You know that something will hurt them, but you can't stop it from happening in their lives, from watching her repeat her mistakes. Maybe this is life, a life that is constantly reincarnated. The mistakes we have made are also their lives.
6. Dragonfly
"You bite my wings, Attackmy midflight, Evolution's knife Pressed on my throat" (You bite my wings, break my soaring, evolutionary blades on my throat) This is a poem by a poet who has been by the poet — Dragonfly, Grandma's little girlfriend, and her mother who studies women, obviously admire Grandma's talent. We don't have the opportunity to see the whole picture of the whole poem, but these three short sentences are already quite meaningful. It is completely in line with Grandma's wild and delicate personality. She cried and laughed in the taxi, she walked home alone in the night, she and the people she loved, the people who were still loving her, and the awkward self, and all the hurt, loss, helplessness, reconciliation, that moment, life is really good.
The film is divided into six fragmented parts, but it is a complete story of the life of a grandmother. Although in some parts it seems to be a bit eye-catching and low-handed, and the use of point-to-point techniques is not thorough enough, but in the shaping of the character of grandma, it is successful enough. Lily Thompson's performance is also light and in place. In recent years, gay films have emerged in an endless stream, and many of them have lost their intentions. Maybe it's because Lily herself is a lace edge, maybe it's because she honed her acting skills for half a lifetime, maybe it's the female atmosphere that the whole film doesn't explicitly show, but it's full of feminin atmosphere, the gay grandmother in this film, wearing an old denim coat, slightly hunched over, behaving with a free personality, looking real and cute. She herself was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Comedy for this film. If you are also interested in this film, you don't have to bother searching for it, pay attention to the WeChat public account: the magical blush lake, reply: Walk with grandma, the movies you want to see are here.