Although the story takes place in the British economic depression after World War II and involves the religiously sensitive topic of illegal abortion, the ups and downs of the film are not imposed on you through the lens, but through the lively performance of the actors to melt you bit by bit. Go in, as if those characters are alive around you, and you are truly experiencing their misery and helplessness. The director did not criticize or vilify anything. Even the police who arrested Vera were serious with gentle and sympathetic brilliance. The director just showed the story objectively in front of you, leaving all the merits to your own thinking. . It’s not completely objective, that kind of helplessness and heartbreak appear in every scene of Vera. On that Christmas Eve that should have been reunited and warm, Vera was taken away by the police in the snow, and her husband followed helplessly but firmly. In the moments after her, those repressed tolerance and heartfelt heartfelt uncomfortable.
I didn’t want to entangle too much with the controversial abortion issue in the West, but in contrast to those lower-class women who had to resort to Vera for help, it was the “legitimateness” offered by money and status that the upper-class ladies served by Vera faced. "For safe abortion, Vera’s rudimentary equipment and such illegal service behaviors are indeed unreasonable from a security point of view, even if they are not in a religious sense, but for those helpless women at the bottom, how can they be? Can afford dozens of pounds in cash to obtain "legal" and safe services. Although I don’t want to say that, Mike Leigh is often like a representative of the working class, a proletarian artist (^_^), and the hardships and hardships of ordinary people in their lives are just like under his camera. It's true and believable, and it's so thought-provoking. Ironically, the mother who was the subject of the abortion that exposed Vera's deeds was her old acquaintance a long time ago, a middle class between the upper class and the lower people.
I can always think of Imelda’s performance, or I think that performance that has been exceeded, in my opinion, she is Vera, the warmth to the family and neighborhood, the encouragement of smiling women in the face of abortion, but from time to time she expresses helplessness. His gaze, the close-up of his face for more than ten seconds at the time of his arrest, vividly and vividly showed all the changes in his mood, and the guilt and helpless eyes and trembling body of the world collapsed during the detention, this performance was born. No blemish. She also fully explained how many tears were squeezed out in the performance without making many expressions on her face, but also in every small movement and even staggering steps.
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