Extreme survival has always been a hot topic that has attracted much attention. Thrilling scenes always get an adrenaline rush. Last year, "Falling" caught fire, and recently there was a blockbuster new film, "Nowhere to Live".
The film, which won the weekly championship of non-English film views on Netflix, created a more grim environment, telling the story of a pregnant woman who survives alone at sea, including explosions such as giving birth in water and eating placenta raw.
How exciting is that? Today, we will inspect the goods. The movie "Nowhere to Live" is set in a volatile and resource-scarce authoritarian country. The protagonist Mia is a refugee,
She struggled to flee her homeland and wanted to smuggle them into other countries through containers. However, she was shipwrecked on the way, and the container she was in fell from the cargo ship, and she was knocked unconscious. Fortunately, the container did not sink directly to the bottom of the sea,
Instead, floating at sea. When Mia wakes up again, she embarks on a journey of survival at sea. The setting of this story is very attractive, blending elements of survival at sea and escape rooms, plus Mia's identity as a pregnant woman,
Make the whole story full of gimmicks. However, this also brings an extreme sense of despair. On the one hand, pregnant women face fertility problems in the process of survival. Mia has contractions during her survival, but there are no medical devices in the container.
In a hurry, she could only take off her clothes, give birth in the seawater, and remove the placenta in her body with her own hands, which was very shocking. Even if the daughter is born safely, the problem has not been solved. Mia knows that she must breastfeed as soon as possible,
in order to ensure the survival of the baby. However, no matter how much she coaxed, her daughter just cried and did not feed at all. Mia fell into anxiety, broke down and yelled at the baby. In the cry of the baby,
Mia's will to survive is constantly eroded. On the other hand, Mia also faces an existential crisis. She had tried to call for help, but she was still alone. There was no signal on the sea, no phone calls at all.
She had put a note with a distress signal on it in the lunch box and threw it outside. However, driven by the ocean current, the lunch box went around in circles back to her, but it was useless. Mia could not seek help from the outside world and could only save herself.
The conditions inside the container are also very difficult, airtight, under the sun, the temperature is often very high, which can lead to heat stroke and dizziness. In addition, there is only a small amount of food and fresh water. Although Mia has been very frugal,
But it was quickly consumed, and he could only be constantly tormented by hunger, and he was once hungry to the point of retching. Such a living environment is suffocating. In the movie, the shot of Mia eating vividly reflects the process of her being squeezed step by step to the extreme,
The horror in it is highlighted. There are five scenes of her eating in the film, the most representative of which are three. When I ate for the first time, the food was still sufficient, and Mia was able to deal with it calmly, calculate carefully, and eat the bread calmly.
By the second time, when only the last bite of bread was left, Mia no longer enjoyed the taste of bread, but closed her eyes and swallowed the bread mechanically. And after eating the bread, she still eagerly stuck her head forward,
Continue to swallow heavily. Such a plot does not whet the audience's appetite like a real-life mukbang, but it will make people feel disgusted. After running out of food, Mia had to go hungry and even tried to eat the placenta raw,
This scene is terrifying. As netizens said, "I was in phantom pain all the time". Some people may think that Mia is too stupid and self-inflicted. Knowing that she is pregnant, she chose to smuggle at a double risk. However, in fact,
She didn't have a choice. She lives in a volatile and authoritarian country with extremely scarce resources. In order to ensure the survival of itself and its children, the government suddenly issued measures to execute all the people who could not work, first the elderly,
Then there are pregnant women and children. In order to keep the child, Mia had to become a refugee. Unexpectedly, before the smuggling was successful, he was trapped in the container first. Her escape is thrilling and highlights her intelligence.
Mia will collect and use the limited cargo in the container, such as lunch boxes, televisions, headphones, spirits, etc., to seek a livelihood. First, the sealing strip on the dining box plugged the loophole on the container,
Then a plastic pipe is used to drain the water inside the container little by little, getting rid of the danger of drowning. Of course, this is only a temporary safety measure, once it encounters strong winds and heavy rain, the seal will be washed away, and the container will still be filled with water.
She was destined to sink to the bottom with the container. However, Mia plans ahead. She used an electric drill to punch holes in the top of the container to cut it. Even if the drill broke, she didn't give up and used a knife instead. After the blade of the knife,
She hasn't given up yet, and she was inspired by the lid of the can to pry the container open with her own weight, showing a very powerful scene. Even if the thigh is scratched and there is no suitable tool, Mia can flexibly change her strategy and disinfect it with spirits,
Then the wound is sewn up little by little with parts inside the TV and headphone cables. It is under this effort that Mia and her daughter's living conditions gradually improve, and she also gives her daughter the greatest love, will record her growth, and hum to her,
It reveals a different kind of warmth. After that, Mia took her daughter out of the container with a pontoon boat made into a simple pontoon with a lunch box, earphone cable and cargo box, and finally came to a country that allows vulnerable groups.
The shining maternal brilliance on Mia's body moved many viewers, "Women are weak, but mothers are strong", "maternal love and the will to survive saved them". However, the theme of the film is not the cliché "motherhood is rigid",
It's the transformation and growth of women. Mia originally ran away with her husband. At first, she was very weak and always hid behind her husband. After encountering a reneging ground snake and being forced to separate from her husband, she immediately had no master,
The voice began to tremble, "I don't want to be alone." However, this weakness did not come from her own limitations, but from her knot in the birth of her child. Mia originally had an eldest daughter, but after the policy of slaughtering women and children was introduced,
Pregnant Mia and her eldest daughter have been staying at home, relying on her husband who can go out for food and clothing. However, Mia's good intentions were not understood, and she was pestered by her eldest daughter to go out. Mia relented and took her out. however
It was soon discovered by officers, which eventually led to the murder of the eldest daughter. This incident made Mia feel very guilty, and she kept repeating the scene in her mind, thinking about various possibilities and hoping for a miracle. "If she were alive,
And we left her there?" When she was trapped in a container and her life was in danger, she even hallucinated and saw her eldest daughter who had died, and constantly apologized to her. She also completely lost the confidence to become a mother,
It is even hoped that the child in the belly is not a daughter, as if this is the only way to avoid repeating the tragedy. Moreover, Mia deliberately did not care about the baby in the belly, obviously her husband could clearly feel the beating of the fetus,
But Mia can't feel that the child is still alive, as if the child has died in her own stomach, and deliberately does not tell her husband, allowing life to pass away. It wasn't until her husband pointed out that the fetus would kick her in the stomach that Mia suddenly realized,
Ask your husband how he did it. In the process of escaping the container, she gradually sobered up, no longer confused, and found that the death of her eldest daughter was not her responsibility alone, but more from exploitation and oppression in the environment.
Through the mouth of her husband generated by the hallucination, he spoke Mia's inner thoughts. In the end, she came out of the shadows and exerted extraordinary determination and strength. Looking back, the whole container is a metaphor,
It satirizes the fertility dilemma of women in reality. The film repeatedly emphasizes the importance of the husband's role in childbirth, and most of the smuggled refugees are family-based. And Mia's husband still looks very competent,
When Mia finds out that there is a pregnant woman alone, he in turn comforts her, "If she is pregnant, she is not alone". He took it for granted that every pregnant woman would have a conscientious husband by her side. however
Ironically, in the end, it was Mia who was trapped in a shipping container, alone and took on all the roles from fertility to feeding to education. The husband is not helpless, although Mia is stranded at sea, his situation is relatively safe.
He promised to come to rescue Mia, but he disappeared for a long time, and did not help Mia locate through her mobile phone. He would only say the same love words over and over again, self-touching, but it didn't really help Mia.
This is similar to the dilemma of widowed parenting in reality, where the husband is always absent. And Mia was preparing for escape in the container, and she had to be busy with the little baby's eating, drinking, and Lasa,
The state of collapse is also very similar to the real mothers who are busy with work and childcare. Mia's escape journey can be said to be a metaphor for women's rebellion against the environment. As just mentioned, the climax of the movie,
Mia used her whole body strength to pry open the corner of the container, which is similar to the situation of Mia's childbirth, which is to pull out the strap and exert the strength of the whole body. The overlap of the identities of the mother and the woman brings the power to break the cauldron. Sum up
Although the movie "Nowhere to Live" features the mother as the protagonist, it does not simply celebrate motherhood. On the contrary, it truly shows the plight of mothers. In reality, there are many women who are facing fertility problems.
Why aren't they "surviving at their limits"?