In many film and television works and social news, we often see such content: a couple was originally in love with each other and gave birth to the crystallization of love, but there are unforeseen circumstances, and the child died soon after birth or died unfortunately in childhood , and subsequently, the intimacy of the husband and wife also followed, and even went to separation.
Many people may have such questions. When the husband and wife have no physical problems, it would be good to have another child after losing one child. Why would the people who originally loved each other split? The movie "Women's Fragments" may be able to give us some answers.
The story told in this film is actually very simple: a couple who choose to give birth at home due to the unintentional mistakes of the midwife lead to the death of their child. Faced with the sudden loss, the lives of the heroine herself and those around her have changed. In fact, even knowing the content of this movie does not prevent us from appreciating it, because it does not tell us the story of a mother who loses her child, but shows us how a woman, after losing her love, can live with The process of "losing" a peer.
Maybe we've all experienced this sudden loss, it could be a love, it could be a friendship, it could be something important to us. When these things suddenly disappear from our world, the feeling of a sudden lack of a piece in our heart can only be felt by ourselves. For this vacancy, no external force can fill it, we can only rely on us I slowly digest and suture, and the time required for this process is beyond anyone’s control, maybe a month, maybe a year.
But this process is easily overlooked by those around us. Either out of concern or out of indifference, they will come over and tell us over and over again, "You have to be strong, you have to cheer up, you have to get through it", but no one will really go through the pain in your heart. I understand, and these concerns from people around us sometimes evoke our memories over and over again, to constantly pull on the wounds we are about to heal.
In this film, the second pain after this kind of pain is vividly displayed. Like the heroine Martha, her husband, mother, sisters and even mother's friends are very sad after this tragic incident. But their sadness was momentary, and then they quickly "looked forward". This is indeed a calm attitude to face life, but after all, it is the flesh that fell from Masha. The most heart-wrenching pain of a mother losing her child is that they do not want to understand. They only hope that Masha can get out of the sadness as soon as possible. Back to normal life.
Now think that we have actually acted as such calmers in real life. When relatives and friends around us encounter a tragedy, we will be very sober to comfort them and tell them to calm down and look forward. But when I watched this movie, I suddenly realized that this kind of behavior is actually a kind of cold selfishness. When we "request" the other party to get out of the haze in our hearts as soon as possible, the most essential motive is actually to let the other party return to the The trajectory of our own normal life has come up, and we do not want our social life to be disrupted because of the grief experienced by the other party.
To put it bluntly, the reason why we comfort others is essentially a selfish mentality, so that our own lives will not be disrupted, rather than genuine concern.
Shia LaBeouf's husband in the film is a prime example of this. The loss of his beloved daughter was also a kind of grief for him, but for him, this kind of grief was quickly healed, or it was quickly ignored by his calm choice, and the death of his daughter even made him There are reasons and excuses for depravity. His behavior is cowardly, but the hateful thing is that he wants to impose this cowardly behavior on Martha.
In the passionate scene from the sofa to the bed, this selfish behavior from the "other" was vividly displayed. Do not care about the violence of the "other" of the tragic feeler. And this is what many of us have experienced in real life, but in the movie, this behavior has an extreme performance.
Maybe to some people, this movie is very dull and boring, but in my opinion, this movie is actually a very emotional movie. Director Kennell Mudluzzo perfectly captures the grief of this woman after suffering great pain and the process of slowly healing after being constantly pulled. He especially likes to reflect the torment and torment in the process of walking with the loss through some details. Those close-up shots of the characters' hands and necks, and those silent scenes are all delicately conveying that a mother is losing her own life. Childhood, the kind of heart-piercing but silent pain that no one can understand.
I think the most ingenious thing about this movie is the date and the bridge. If the plot of the movie is played normally, the feeling may not be so strong, but when the date appears again and again, it plays a very good emotional conveyance, making us involuntarily feel a kind of torment, the kind of The torment of a wound that does not heal.
As the date appears again and again, the two ends of the bridge in the picture are getting closer and closer until finally, the bridge is closed. This seems to imply that the wound in the heroine's heart has also healed. But her husband mentioned in the film that the Tacoma Bridge, the third largest in the United States, had collapsed in the 1940s, but I have another feeling that the Tacoma Bridge once completely collapsed. , now it has been rebuilt and looks very solid, and not many people remember it ever collapsed.
After watching the full movie I feel like Martha is like the Tacoma bridge, at the end of the movie she looks like no one but no one will know and no one will care, her heart has collapsed, broken However, these fragments were forever buried in the deepest part of her heart, under the wound that had healed.
I think the name "Women's Fragments" is exactly what it means.
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