Do you want to know what a 24-minute shot is like?
Do you want to "spy" on a live broadcast of the entire process of a woman's difficult delivery?
Would you like to see how the White Widow has children?
That's right, the first thirty minutes of the movie "Fragments of a Woman" tell the story of the heroine Martha giving birth at home. With the help of her husband and midwife, Martha finally gave birth to a baby girl with difficulty.
Among them, the 24-minute long shot that netizens have been addicted to is in this opening paragraph. Unfortunately, this little baby was only born a few minutes ago, and he died prematurely, and the heroine and the male protagonist suddenly fell from heaven to hell.
Well, the three questions at the beginning of the article already have answers. But this complete little story, just a small hook, a lead-in, seduces the story that the film really wants to tell later.
Why did the director make such a story? This has to start with the background of the filming of this film.
The film is based on the real-life experiences of Kata Weber and director Kenel Mudluzo.
Weber is said to have lost her child during pregnancy, and she left her husband to come to Berlin alone to heal her wounds. She immersed herself in the creation, and finally adapted this experience into a drama "Fragments of a Woman". Two years later, the play was adapted by her husband, and Weber himself served as the screenwriter of the film, and the film was officially launched in January 2021.
This film is not only a self-redemption path for human beings to suffer the trauma of losing a child, but also a reflection and reconciliation of Weber and her husband's traumatic experience.
Stills from Mission Impossible 6
The heroine of the movie also has a lot of potential, especially Chinese netizens must be familiar with it.
Who is she?
She is the "White Widow" in Mission Impossible 6.
She is the "Little Rose" in Game of Thrones.
She is also the "Princess Margaret" in The Crown.
She's British actress Vanessa Kirby. With this film, she won the 77th Venice Film Festival.
Let's go back to the film story itself.
It's a film with a female perspective. The "independent film" in the first half an hour is enough to summarize in one sentence: "The heroine gave birth at home, gave birth to a baby girl in difficult childbirth, and died a few minutes later." ”
But childbirth is not a point of view, and premature death is not a point of view.
The "statement" of this part of the introduction ends quickly, pulling out the proposition that the film really wants to express:
How can the trauma of the loss of a child be healed and grown?
From the 31st minute, human nature really began to come into thought.
Everything has cracks, and everyone has trauma.
Freud said, "Any experience that can cause fear, anxiety, shame or mental pain is trauma." ”
Everyone's life will always encounter some trauma, from the death of relatives and friends, various natural and man-made disasters, to a joke and a bad comment by others. Traumatic experiences are inevitable, but everyone reacts differently to trauma. Some people are completely overwhelmed by trauma, and some people eventually overcome trauma and achieve self-growth.
Take, for example, "losing a child," one of humanity's most terrible traumas.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first: the destructive type. </h1>
Beaten down, mad and even committed suicide.
For example, the chartered wife in "Baby Project" is crazy for twenty years, and when she sees a child, she is magical.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second type: avoidant. </h1>
No more touching, lifelong knots.
For example, Zhou Runfa and Chen Huilian were stillborn because of the umbilical cord suffocation around the neck before their daughter was about to be born. Since then, Brother Fa is still loving, but in the matter of giving birth to a child, she no longer has the courage to face it. They chose not to have children for the rest of their lives to cope with the trauma.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the third type: the approach type. </h1>
Face the facts and look at the trauma.
For example, the father in Keigo Higashino's Blade of Trepidation. Open a crazy revenge mode for the tragic death of her daughter, and believe that only the hand blade murderer is killed, and the daughter will be blinded. The daughter is blind, and the father can rest in peace. The novel was later adapted into a film.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the fourth type: nirvana rebirth. </h1>
Find new meaning in trauma.
In the film "Fragments of a Woman", the male protagonist chose the "avoidant type" and the female protagonist's mother chose the "approaching type". Only the heroine, if she can't be reborn in Nirvana, then maybe she can only be crushed and destroyed.
Fortunately, after a long struggle, she finally found new meaning in the trauma and completed her self-redemption and growth.
Why are these three important roles so different?
If the funeral accident is likened to an atomic bomb, the lethality it causes is layered.
There is no doubt that the female protagonist is in the positive core, the male protagonist is in the secondary core, and the female protagonist's mother is on the margins.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Old Lady: Approaching Type. </h1>
Self-help under the "law of the jungle"
Let's start with the heroine's mother. This old lady is not an ordinary old woman, she is the most courageous and decisive character in this story.
Her background is that of a Holocaust survivor of World War II. When my father was taken to a concentration camp, my mother hid in a cellar with her and survived. In order to survive, the mother struggled to go out to forage, and the milk was only enough for her to live but not enough to make her cry.
Such an early childhood experience determined that she had been a follower of the "law of jungle survival" all her life, and she especially believed in the power of money.
Why? As soon as the shot of the old lady in the story appears, it is basically a "money transaction".
The first time: At the beginning of the film, in order to take care of the pregnant daughter, the old lady did not want to see her son-in-law, but paid for them to buy a car. The heroine said thank you to the car seller, and the old lady took the initiative to correct it, saying that the person you should thank is me, it is the money I paid. She believed in the power of money. With money, buy the comfort of my daughter.
The second time, the female protagonist was immersed in the pain of bereavement and could not extricate herself, and the old lady vigorously encouraged and jointly launched a lawsuit against the midwife together with the male protagonist. She wanted her to lose her family and prison.
The third time, at their own home. After the small family banquet, the old lady left the male protagonist alone to negotiate. In order to make her daughter say goodbye to all the clues that will cause painful memories, she even took out a check for her son-in-law behind her daughter's back. Let him find a good reason to "disappear completely". This time, she used money to buy out the departure of the male protagonist.
In this story, did the old lady suffer trauma? Absolutely.
It's just that her trauma is indirect. The old lady was not involved in the birth of the little baby, nor was there any clue that she had strong feelings for the little baby. So her trauma is actually indirectly injured because her beloved daughter was fatally hit. That is to say, in the circle of trauma, she belongs to the periphery.
But the old lady had anger, and she had intense anger. Where did her anger come from? From the disappointment of her daughter, in the scene of the family banquet, the old lady dictated the family past in which she was born, and "mourned it", blaming herself for not teaching her daughter well. In a battle, the heroine lay down, which was really a loss to the descendants of this family.
So how did the old lady heal her wounds?
Nature was a simple and rude way, and the old lady insisted that the accident was a man-made accident, and she insisted on suing the midwife. In fact, she wanted to transfer her anger. Telling her that she had lost her family, seeing that the wicked would eventually have bad retribution, and the human justice that the old lady wanted, even if it was done. Her anger subsided, and her grief was soothed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Male protagonist: avoidant. </h1>
Liberate yourself from escape
The male protagonist appeared in several scenes, making people think that he was a responsible bearded warm man.
He was at the bridge site, angrily denouncing his irresponsible subordinates. He also promised to wait for the day when the bridge was opened, and he must let his daughter become the "first person to cross the bridge".
He knew that his mother-in-law didn't like him, but the moment he got the car, he was still happy and happy, not entangled in ridiculous self-esteem. After all, taking care of your wife and children is the top priority.
The female protagonist suddenly gave birth, and the male protagonist unswervingly guarded the front and back. Has been cheering up, giving the heroine the greatest comfort and support. In fact, the female protagonist can see through it at a glance, in fact, the male protagonist is more nervous than the female protagonist, and his muscles are stiff.
When the hard birth is over, the minute when the little baby is born, the male protagonist clicks excitedly with the camera, he is as ridiculous and cute as all the men who have just become fathers in the world.
However, whether it is really a responsible person, not to see the moment of happiness, but to see if he is in front of you when disaster comes.
Obviously. Male lord he is not.
As a father, the male protagonist also suffers great pain of losing his daughter. But mothers under the heavens know that compared with mothers who have experienced pregnancy and difficult childbirth in October, the pain of losing a son suffered by the father is not at all the same level as the mother's suffering.
Disaster is coming. The male protagonist in this story only sees his own injuries and only wants to heal his own pain. And the main way he heals his wounds is: avoidance.
He conspired with the old lady to sue the midwife.
He went to talk to the heroine's cousin about the lawsuit (the cousin was the lawyer in this lawsuit), and the first time they met, they directly cheated and rolled the sheets.
He resigned and stopped working.
He carried the heroine behind his back and secretly sold the car that the old lady had paid for.
He regained his drunken habits and became drunk.
He ignored the heroine's feelings, couldn't see her reluctance, wanted to pat her roughly, didn't succeed, and then exploded and went away.
After the old lady's family banquet, he took the check given by the old lady, smiled bitterly, and completely disappeared in the life of the heroine by default.
In the final trial part of the film, I thought that the male protagonist was going to appear after all. As a result, neither.
This cargo, just like that, withdrew from this story.
Where did he go? He went to another city and started another life again.
Will he be able to live the rest of his life? There is no explanation in the film.
But I don't think he can.
The wound in his heart was not healed, he just put it on hold for the time being.
An escapist can never live this life well.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Heroine: Nirvana Rebirth Type. </h1>
Only meaning can be reborn.
The heroine Martha copes with the self-redemption of trauma. It can be roughly divided into four stages.
Stage 1: Endless Silence.
In the first post-traumatic time, the person often shuts himself in the room alone. Don't eat or drink, don't say or don't do. In a daze, it was as if life had been pulled out of this shell.
Many people don't see where this paragraph is?
I tell you, it's the first 30 minutes of the end of the small piece, the black screen of the few seconds. There were only a few seconds, but it was the endless silence of the heroine. I looked at the black screen, and it was the heroine who was staring into the abyss.
The second stage: alienation, indifference.
On the surface, the heroine began to get busy.
She dressed red and went to work.
She donated her daughter's body.
She even attended family gatherings hosted by her mother.
Ordering the tombstone, she walked away without a word.
At the family gathering, she and her mother spoke ill of each other.
When her husband left, she even drove herself to the station.
Health balls, she secretly burned with cigarette butts.
Her black nails were broken.
Her addiction was back.
Baby room stuff, collect and throw throw.
The kitchen pots and pans were piled up in a dirty mess.
The flowers and plants in the house were left unattended and withered.
She seemed to be pretending to be busy and doing a lot of things. But on any occasion, although she was in the crowd, she was still alone.
The third stage: face the trauma and redeem yourself in meaning.
How can grief be resolved?
I think time can at least partially dissipate.
As time passed, the bridge that the husband had built at the beginning got closer and closer to the fit.
After experiencing so much despair, the story finally gives a few clues of hope, which is naturally the externalization of the heroine's mood change.
The pots and pans began to wash clean.
Flowers and plants also began to take care of.
The carefully cared for apple cores in the refrigerator also began to sprout.
All the details around are the projection of the heroine's state of mind. All the signs are showing that the situation is getting better, and the heroine's broken self is beginning to repair little by little.
Finally, it entered the trial drama. The woman decided to testify in court and confront the suspect in the medical malpractice, the midwife. The first time he appeared in court, within a few minutes of the baby's life after birth, he was asked by the defendant's lawyer and could not answer. The heroine only thought of going to the photo studio to rinse the photos taken by her husband at that time.
In the darkroom, the photographs are soaked in a potion, and the images become clearer and clearer little by little. The little baby, who had only a few minutes of mother-daughter bonding, was also resurrected in memory. That little head, that little arm and leg, that brief hug, that pride and joy of being a new mother. The heroine cried bitterly in the darkroom.
This is the only time the heroine cries bitterly in the film.
It is this cry that washes away all the pain that comes with the trauma.
It was this crying that the heroine found the meaning of this angelic child coming to this world.
She had been here, she had been a daughter for a few minutes, and she had brought happiness and joy to her parents.
That's the point.
On the naked wound, a new meaning was found. People who have suffered trauma have a new flower in their lives.
When the heroine returned to court again, she forgave the lucky midwife. The confrontation between her and her mother also dissolves the bond between mother and daughter who love and kill each other.
This, of course, is also her reconciliation with her own trauma.
At the end of the film, a little girl picks apples from a leafy apple tree and eats them. In the distance came the voice of the heroine calling for her daughter...
Time is good, but it can be heard and heard. You and I hear it all.
What happened to the bridge that runs through the whole play and symbolizes the heroine's mental journey?
Finally the bridge is open.
The story in the film ends here.
This concludes our article.
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