As a work of the "One Kind of Attention Award" at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival in Brazil,
"The Invisible Woman" received extremely high attention.
This emotional epic about the sisters spanning decades,
Long and thick, with the thickness of life.
Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1950, 18-year-old Disi and 20-year-old Jeddah are a pair of inseparable sisters who share everything, love affair, dresses, cigarettes, cosmetics, jewelry, the father of the two sisters, who open a bakery, the shop is in good business, the sisters are still rich, carefree, in the leisure of the shop helpers, they can go to the bar to meet an unexpected love.
Jeddah did not quit, breaking the tranquility of the family, the family was stunned by Jeddah's elopement, especially the sister Dixie, she did not understand how the sister who had always been connected in spirit could abandon herself and start a new life, and soon after, Dixie could only marry and leave the family that was already no longer fun. After marriage, Dixie, as always, plays the piano, her husband's family is rich, she only needs to be an obedient housewife and please her husband. Her husband allowed Dixie to play the piano in his free time, but laughed at Theisey's desire to go to the conservatory to study piano. His wife could only stay with her, could not go anywhere, she did not need to be a musician, she only needed to be a housewife.
Sister Jeddah resolutely returned home with a big belly after seeing the true face of her lover, but within a few minutes of entering the house, she was kicked out of the house by her father, who said that Dixie had gone to the conservatory to study as she wished, and she had to leave the family to stand independently because of her betrayal of the family. Although Jeddah was angry at her father's decision and surprised that her sister was able to chase her dreams, she wrote to her sister as always, but the letters were stuck in her father's place, and Dixie never received any letters from Jeddah, and she lived by smoking cigarettes and chatting with her neighbors. Her life was spotless, and her ideals of playing the piano became boring. In her husband's eyes, she only plays the piano to add charm, and for him it is nothing more. The sister who had been with her and praised her had disappeared for years without a trace.
The tasteless life made Dixi change from worrying about her sister to hating her sister, and everyone else said that her sister was not a good thing, and she went out for so long without giving Dixi a letter. And Dixi, who is worried about Jeddah, has been looking forward to Dixie's reply, thinking that Dixie received those letters, but like her father, she chose to forget her. After being taken in by the black woman Fei, Fei also once questioned DiXie, how could this sister be so cruel to care about her sister's death and death, and even did not bother to reply to the letter.
Now Jeddah has only one friend, Phil, and Jeddah says that Phy is not only a friend, but her mother, her father. It was Fei who supported her in her most difficult times. She gave birth to a healthy boy, and Fey raised him with Jeddah.
In the decades of Jeddah and Dixie's lives, the two once met very close, Dixie and her father went to dinner at the restaurant, Jeddah and Fei also went to eat at the restaurant, Jeddah saw her father when he was driven away, so she pulled her son who was playing with Dixie's daughter away in a hurry, she did not know that her sister was also there, she hated her father, did not want to see him, missed the only opportunity to meet her sister Dixie.
Later, Dixie's father confessed to Dixie that Jeddah lived here, and he did not tell Disi because Dixie's mother would not tell him. The truth is that Dixie's father was not allowed to accept Jeddah, and the letter was hidden under the acquiescence of Dixie's husband.
Knowing the truth, Dixie broke down, burning her piano and forgetting her sister, who could not be seen. She became a wife, a mother, a housewife. When Dixie was driven to the brink of collapse by life, Dixie became pregnant again.
Years later, surrounded by her grandchildren, Jeddah returned to her old house and opened the iron box containing her sister's letter, which contained all the letters her had written to her. A thick pile, which records the sister's lovesickness and expectations.
In her sister's memory, her most beloved sister finally went to the place of her dreams and became a good pianist.
The white-haired Dixie found her sister's granddaughter with the address her sister had left behind. The girl was full of style, and the shadow of her sister was interpreted between her eyebrows.
The granddaughter told Dixie that Grandma said she had a pianist sister, was it you? Dixie groaned for half a moment and said yes.
The film ends abruptly. Dicy did not go to the conservatory to study piano, and her sister failed to meet a crush.
Their dreams have all failed to time.
In Brazil in the 50s, women's lives were full of taboos and helplessness. A whole bunch of children, indifferent husbands, a tasteless life. They are consuming their lives between chai rice oil and salt.
In the eyes of both father and husband, Dixie and Jeddah are invisible, they are tools. For fathers, two daughters should marry good men to improve their lives and reduce their burdens. And Dixie's husband believes that Dixie does not need to realize any dreams, and honestly staying at home is the best reward for a stable life.
Jeddah, on the other hand, was deceived by her abusive lover, conceived a child, and returned home to be a cruel abandoner of her father. And her mother could only cry alone in front of her strong father. Father said that when you eloped you were not my child, you had no father, no mother and no sisters. In the eyes of the father, the daughter cannot disobey her, marry a man he does not approve of, and cannot run back with her belly to add a burden to the family. A daughter who is disobedient and cannot bring benefits to herself is not a daughter.
Jeddah later said she would one day see her father and when the child grew up, she would slap him hard. In the eyes of those men, their thoughts don't matter at all, and even their anger is meaningless. What matters to them is their body, and they can work for them and raise children for them.
Jeddah and Dixie, one chose to live independently, the other chose to have a group of children. They were all different from what they had expected, and in those decades of fleeting time, this time they all became less important. As long as in Jeddah's heart her sister has become a pianist, in Dixie's heart, her dear sister will always be the free woman who is desperate for love.
In the illusion, they are all perfect and have achieved their dreams, which is the best answer to each other. Chunxia once said in an interview: "I hope that there is a light in this world that belongs to me." "It's equally appropriate to put it on Dixie and Jeddah, the light they want, they can't ask for, they are their own light, and that's enough.
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