Kenel Mudluzzo’s Hollywood debut is very heavy and powerful. The film narrates a story in which people cannot heal each other after an accident. The pain is added, and the relationship collapses and collapses like a resonant bridge. The true tragedy is not the accident itself, but the irreconcilability of contradictions caused by the differences in the way individuals endure accidents.
The beginning of the movie has a long shot of childbirth that lasts almost half an hour, which visualizes the pain to a great extent. The audience's hearts have been grasped, and empathy reaches its climax at the beginning of the story. This immersive shooting makes the emotional resonance experience of the audience more smooth and natural.
At this time, the relationship between the two people is still very lingering. The man has helplessness and fear in the face of childbirth, but he is trying his best to share the pain of the woman. Hearing the baby's cry, the audience also breathed a sigh of relief. This time the family birth seemed to go smoothly. In less than a minute, the baby slowly turned purple and lost his heartbeat.
The long pain kicked off.
The tragedy is like a typhoon. After crossing the border, people have to face the odds and ends.
The film chooses to use a fragmented life to slowly spread the pain, and everything suddenly becomes gloomy and silent, which forms a strong contrast with the explosive production shots in the opening film.
With the demise of the baby, their disagreement gradually began. The incompetent anger of men and the silent pain of women, one by one, showing the contradictions and conflicts so irreconcilable.
The man desperately wanted to vent his pain. He wanted to get the midwife to be punished as soon as possible. He tried to invite a woman to a road trip in Seattle. He tried to make love, but these didn't get the answer he wanted.
A woman chooses to bear and internalize pain. She has her own way of healing. She seems to be suddenly fascinated by apples. She chews apples on various occasions, like a ritual. She tries to let the apple cores sprout, but the director did not explain at first The reason behind this metaphor.
But no one chooses to cooperate with a woman's self-healing rhythm, and no one respects her choice as a mother. She tried to lick the wound, but was torn apart in different ways by different people. The woman's mother forced her to go to court to prevent her from donating the baby's body. The younger sister felt that her sister should be evading, and she felt that she was going to see a psychologist. Her husband couldn't stand her indifference, and even violently acted against her. He smashed the yoga ball that was originally used to help with birth on her face, and chose to have fun with the woman's cousin. In the end, the woman's mother gave the man a sum of money and told him to leave her, and the man did. The woman watched him leave without a word.
All of this, the public opinion of the society, the pressure of relatives and their awe-inspiring righteousness, is the resonance of women's pain, which intensifies Martha's wounds.
There are many scenes of women alone in the film, which is very intriguing.
In the end, the hostess chose to appear in court. Her defense lawyer was her cousin and the man's derailment. In the court, the midwife's defense lawyer kept asking her about the scene of the day, forcing the woman to tear her wounds over and over again, and the cold justice system completely ignored the pain of the individual. Through the woman's submission, we finally know the meaning of the apple that appears repeatedly on the screen. It turned out that my mother felt that her dead baby smelled like an apple, and the last string of my emotions was torn off when she saw it.
The woman finally chose not to hold the midwife responsible. I don't think this is a kind of forgiveness, I think it's a kind of sole responsibility.
Maybe only the mother knows that there is no way to comfort this kind of pain, and it is meaningless to let the midwife serve the sentence or compensate for the economic loss.
The heroine finally completed the internalization of the pain. She chose to bear all this alone, because in the eyes of the heroine, the pain of losing a child cannot be healed by the law, society and the relationship between people.
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