Self redemption from youth

Dakota 2022-04-09 09:01:09

As a literary film, it shows in great detail the coping decisions that minors will make when faced with problems.

Unplanned pregnancy is a surprise for any woman. Happy people have someone around who can face this sudden surprise together; unfortunate people have different performances in the face of shock.

What happens to minors that adults may not be able to handle accurately?

Ott wanted to hide it and wanted the child to leave silently, but in her hometown, abortion was not acceptable, so she came to New York, a big city that allows abortion, accompanied by her cousin Skylar. But things didn't go well. The doctors in her hometown concealed Ott's true pregnancy duration, which made her unable to perform the surgery immediately. At home, Skylar started dating a guy he had known for no more than three days. In the end, accompanied by a psychological guide, Ott completed the abortion operation, and he and his cousin safely got into the car for the return journey, and the movie came to an abrupt end.

In all the incidents, even when he punched her in the stomach, Ott did not have too much emotional leakage, only when the psychological guide asked her if she was forced to have sex and whether she had been abused. When questioned, she shed tears in the choice of never, rarely, sometimes, always, we can guess that in this relationship with the child's father, I don't even want to call it love, Ott is not happy.

One of the greatest charms of a literary film is that it will not tell you all the character stories related to the protagonist like a drama film, but completely stand in the character's sight and tell you what the character's mood is at this moment. expression, mental journey. Because it is an intercepted fragment, we need to rely on the character performance at this moment to infer the story of TA's past or future.

And this movie uses cruel reality to tell us the story of how young people redeem themselves.

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Extended Reading
  • Mossie 2022-04-12 09:01:10

    #Berlinale20-25 Emotional restraint, narrative blank, focused perspective, and moving details. Several interactions between men and women in the film have a sense of conscious/unconscious invasion, and how many people really know and understand women's fear of this social reality. The last shot of going home seems to suggest that this is just a little thing in the girl's life that may never be mentioned again, but it reflects how hopeless the gray social landscape is. Compared with "April Three Weeks and Two Days", it is still too bland.

  • Kolby 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    #70thBerlinale# Main Competition Jury Award, has won the Sundance American Drama Unit Special Jury Award. The finish is pretty good and the photography is great. The heroine Sidney Flanigan appeared in a movie for the first time to such an extent that she had to admire Hittman's ability to train actors. "Never, rarely, sometimes, often" this long shot is the highlight of the film, which shows the director and acting skills. With this long shot and the two scenes of punching the nose and trying to abort herself, it is not impossible for Sidney Flanigan to get a Berlin actress in the first scene... But in the film, the two girls have to carry an oversized luggage when they go out for three days. The box is a typical prop specially designed to create scheduling (manufacturing difficulties in action). If this film fails to win the award, it will be largely blamed on the box... In addition, the play of the film can still be more ruthless... And the "male misogyny" that deliberately writes all male characters as scumbags or hideous, starts to move towards the opposite of #metoo.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always quotes

  • Skylar: What did the Doctor say?

    Autumn: They couldn't really help me

    Skylar: Why not?

    Autumn: I took a test.

    Skylar: What kind of test?

    [Autumn then retches and throws up]

  • Skylar: Don't you ever just wish you were a dude?

    Autumn: All the time.