There's a movie to be told.
Sir watched, stunned by the scale, and now, let's talk about the scale beyond:
"Happening"
The Event
Mother, pregnant with life.
Often extolled as great.
But once "great" becomes a must.
Then the crown is no longer a crown, but a golden shackle.
How does the mutation happen?
"Happening" uses a microscope-like lens to point at the storm that happened in a young girl's body:
She was unexpectedly pregnant.
Winner of the Golden Lion Award at the 78th Venice Film Festival.
Adapted from the autobiographical novel by the famous French female writer Anne Elno.
In France before 1975, abortion and assisted abortion were explicitly prohibited by law, and violators faced jail time.
What can women who are pregnant but have no intention of becoming mothers do?
The scars that are not revealed are always much more frightening than you think.
Take "Happening", for example, during the film festival screening, a reporter directly fainted during the viewing process and was carried away from the scene.
Not daring to look at it is common sense.
But we need to keep our eyes open again
Stop letting it happen.
01
The heroine, Anne, is a college student in the Department of Literature.
Her family is ordinary, her parents open a small shop, and the hard work is just enough for the family to feed.
What the family expected of her was simple
Study well and become a teacher after graduation.
Among the girls in their early twenties on campus, there is always a surge of curiosity and throbbing at this age.
At the beginning of the movie, it is she and two girlfriends who secretly try on sexy underwear in the bedroom.
After dressing up, the three sisters rushed to a party.
Dancing, chatting, singing and laughing, quietly discussing which boy is more handsome.
If there are no accidents, Anne will successfully pass the upcoming graduation in such an ordinary college life.
Unusual signals first appear on menstruation.
The menstrual period, which should have arrived as promised, did not come.
This was followed by constant exhaustion and unspeakable discomfort.
When I got home, my family asked first: Why is your face so pale?
No way, Anne had to go to the doctor.
"You're pregnant, Miss."
And, it's been more than three weeks.
The doctor's verdict was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
Without the slightest hesitation, Anne's first reaction was:
Children can't want it.
But more terrifying facts than pregnancy lay before her eyes:
She couldn't not.
Doctors were the first to warn.
Don't joke about the law
Anyone who helps you is at risk of going to jail
Include yourself
Jail time may not be the worst-case scenario.
Under the high-pressure law, many women are desperate for abortion, and under irregular operations, some people pay the price of their lives.
Anne was confused.
She did not expect that, in her early 20s, such a heavy fate would fall on her head
The law faces heavy sentences and lives are at risk.
But what did she do that deserve to be punished like this?
At the age of the trick, there is a love, a short pleasure in the small hotel at the train station and a long-distance boyfriend.
Everything seemed so ordinary, so careless.
But the consequences were so sudden.
The child in her belly also became a big stone in her heart.
In the past, the honor students were distracted in class, and their test scores plummeted.
The professor asked her, are you going to hang up the subject? Do you still want to be a teacher?
Seeing that her stomach was gradually bulging slightly, Anne took an extreme approach for the first time.
She stole her mother's sweater needle.
The camera is focused on her face, and every frame is a strong physiological pain.
Unfortunately, it still didn't work out.
Time has passed.
The fetus in the stomach acts like a timer:
Five weeks, seven weeks, eight weeks...
The director uses the number of weeks that continue to pass, reminding the audience that danger is approaching step by step.
Once three months old, Anne will lose her last chance of miscarriage.
There was not much time left for her.
02
The 100-minute film focuses on an annie's 12-week pregnancy and three painful abortions.
Centered on the pregnant Anne.
Movies measure the temperature of society as a whole.
You will find:
Pregnancy is both a private matter.
But it has long been ambushed by the whole society to institutionalize the collusion.
First, hospitals.
Because the law explicitly prohibited her, no doctor dared to provide her with abortion.
At Anne's begging, the doctor gave her the medicine and told her to carry it out herself.
But many days have passed, and the pregnancy is still not over.
Later, she learned from another doctor that the medicine was not for abortion, but for fetal preservation.
Then, the opposite sex.
See what happens to Anne's secrets after they are revealed.
She turned to her best male friend for help because he knew a lot of girls.
At first, he was reluctant to take risks.
Later, he took Anne home to eat and then began to ask her:
Didn't expect you to be like this
Do you enjoy doing it with your boyfriend?
Cool or not?
Then he wanted to "that" with Anne.
Anne refused, but he was right:
What are you afraid of, anyway, you don't need contraception now
One last look.
"Father".
Anne also went to find her long-distance boyfriend who made her pregnant.
The boyfriend asked her:
What the hell do you want me to do? I'm not a doctor
Little lovers of that thing, in those days.
It seems extremely ordinary and relaxed.
But it is extremely dangerous and terrible.
How do these two sides of the contradiction appear on the same thing?
Probably because the former is for men and the latter for women...
The first time Anne went to the hospital for a check-up, the doctor repeatedly asked her if she had ever had sex.
She denied it.
Taking a bath in the bathhouse, Anne was bullied by the other girls.
Sex, for young unmarried girls at that time, was still an ugly thing, not to mention pregnant.
This means that when girls suffer, because of moral concepts, they can't shout for help.
But desire, and the results it brings, does not exist because it is suppressed, it is covered up.
Anne's two girlfriends.
One was in the dormitory, demonstrating to the sisters the skills he had learned from his brother's little magazine.
She said she was the most dated virgin in the world.
She wanted to have fun with the boy, but was afraid that she would be left alone to bear the price.
The other, always the most conservative, is not even willing to try sexy lingerie.
Then one day she couldn't resist telling Anne that she had a boyfriend and that they had secretly had it many times.
She was different from Anne except that she was luckier than Anne.
As she said.
I'm ashamed of it, but desire trumps everything
Under the director's large number of back-up footage, Anne is like a helpless martyr.
Alone with pain and blood and tears, against a powerful, collective silence.
03
As for "Happening", the famous French cultural weekly "Télérama" commented that it was "very politicized." ”
The film vividly depicts Anne's emotions.
The focus has always been on social issues.
This "politicization" is not a neglect of the narrative, but perhaps the story itself.
Because women are never women in the pure sense.
She could not help but be transformed into another form by society, morality, and law.
Here, it is necessary to mention the most classic work in this genre, Chabrol's "Women's Rhymes" in 1988.
The name sounds very romantic.
But it was unusually sharp.
The story is set earlier than Happening, during World War II when France was occupied by Germany.
The identity of the heroine Mary is very special, she is an underground abortion practitioner.
She has helped more than two dozen women with unwanted pregnancies abort and earn money from them.
A poor, illiterate housewife who becomes the breadwinner of her family and boldly pursues the ideals of love and singing by herself.
Eventually, because of her cheating, Mary is reported for an illegal abortion by her angry husband.
She did not expect that what she was waiting for was an unprecedented and severe punishment - beheading.
The reason, as the high-ranking official said.
France, which was devastated after the defeat in the war, urgently needed to "rebuild the moral system."
And Mary, a woman from a low-class background, is the negative example used by officials, a victim of national prestige.
In court, the judge said Mary was hurting "the future mother of the motherland."
In the discourse of these official ways, the woman is the hope of a defeated France, a great mother.
And what about the mother's situation in fact?
Of the women who sought Mary's abortion, one had been married for seven years and had already had six children.
The family is surrounded by walls and life is difficult.
Because her husband could not "hold back", she could only keep getting pregnant and giving birth all the time.
For nine months of the year, I was bloated
Exactly six years
Little things bite me every day
I felt like a cow
I hate myself
She cried that she couldn't tell that she didn't love her children at all.
I gave birth to them
But I never loved them
In "Happening", the heroine Anne also said similar things.
Can you imagine that I would even resent him
I don't even know if I can love him
When the whole society's cognition, they feel that women cannot have abortions, they should naturally have more children and love their flesh and bones.
Mary and Anne became the first rebels.
They are all using weak bodies to fight against certain grand goals and rationalize the harm done to individuals.
For the sake of the "moral system".
For the "mother of the nation".
For the "future of the nation".
These meanings are very good in themselves.
But the means to achieve these meanings are rarely from the perspective of protecting women, but use these meanings as a flag to rightfully require them to accept more restraints and sacrifices.
On the one hand, the mother was praised for her greatness.
On the other hand, once the mother is not so great, there is a possibility of sin.
The ribbon of honor is tied to a chain at the other end.
There was blood flowing under the flowers.
This is reminiscent of the chilling scene of "Woman Rhymes".
The Germans held a "goose slaying contest" in the square, asking French residents to cut off the head of a hanging goose.
If you succeed, you can get this goose as a prize.
When people hold a sword and kill something they think they should kill.
Never doubted, the huge hood that was blindfolded in front of you.
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