All the injustices and sorrows are just fragments of a woman's life

Bradford 2022-03-24 09:02:47

To conceive a new life, you have to go through the physical discomfort in the early stage, know the gender of the child, a good colleague will throw a party for you, and you will only be alone if you leave. During the production process, the predetermined plan will be broken at any time, and all the discomfort will come. Pain roaring confusion overwhelmed, unprecedented. And all this is the hardship that a mother has to endure. The midwife's comfort again and again, and the companionship of his partner have made the pain a bit less. After a lot of hard work, it smelled like an apple, and the young child was born, but in just a few minutes, it was completely lost.

This is part of a woman Martha's life. In the end she lost the child. However, she suffered from the lochia milk that her mother would have after giving birth, and suffered the pain of loss both physically and psychologically. She would also go to the supermarket to smell the apples and miss her daughter. When I was doing it with my husband, it was difficult to accept the pain of touching each other again. When Martha strode into the company and office, what she received was no longer a blessing, but shock and wonder. All made her sensitive.

Her husband's derailment, her own paralysis, and her mother's oppression made her collapse. At the party, the discussions between the husband and his cousin and brother-in-law were all tied together. She was like a gun, firing bullets at any time. Her mother persuaded her to put it down, face it, seek her own rights, and tell her fragmented life. Martha held back her tears, and contradictory emotions appeared on her face, like a child who did wrong.

In the courtroom, when the lawyer asked questions, Martha could only see the other party's mouth and neck, and when she asked her own vague questions, she was also sluggish, with only a strong heartbeat. In a trance, she walked out of the courtroom, and in the red-filled print shop, she seemed relieved to see pictures of her husband hugging her daughter.

Going to the court, she put forward her own ideas, which were completely different from the image of the midwives reported by the media. And this is also what the director presents to the audience at the beginning of the film, just like producing a documentary, allowing the audience to have their own opinions on the facts, giving them an objective and real perspective, and leaving a possibility for forgiveness at the end of the film. In terms of shooting techniques, the director uses the physiological phenomenon that people will swallow saliva and the heart beats faster when they are the most nervous, highlighting the human neck. There is also the heroine who has no time to clean up her nails after losing her child, highlighting the messiness and sadness of Martha after losing her child. In the film, Martha's husband is a bridge worker, so the transition of time is the four seasons of the bridge. After the bridge was built, Martha stood on the bridge, took out her daughter's ashes, and scattered them into the ocean. Therefore, the construction of the bridge is the presentation of the time of the film and the clue to the development of the story. The film is a story about the changes in women's surroundings after losing their children. A lot of dialogue and scene switching can make the audience feel Martha's heart. When Martha was at her mother's house, in the beginning, when others talked to her, she was far away. She resisted changes in the outside world and interference from others. When arguing with her mother, the director used a close-up on her mother's face, and then looked up from a lower angle to see the tears in Martha's eyes. In the end, she walked to the court, expressed her feelings, cast her eyes on her mother, and proved her growth to her. In the afternoon, she can hold her mother's hand and talk with her sister about the fun of being young.

The girl is in the dandelion bush, waving the branches, destroying the function of the wind can help the dandelion, the girl changes the nature, and at the same time changes the world. She climbed up the tree, picked the reddest fruit, and enjoyed her own delicacy. Maybe this is what the film wants to tell us, what a woman faces in her life is a dandelion standing in the way, an apple tree that is much taller than herself, but as long as you know how to protect yourself, know how to stick to yourself step by step, and defend yourself The right to fight for what you deserve, and eventually you will usher in your own relief and growth.

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  • Liana 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    The first half hour of childbirth was reduced to a gimmick, and the second half was still the same, ambiguity, quarrels, broken bits and pieces, pain to satisfy the lower body, each seeking pleasure, grief filter, chicken feathers all over the place, then put down the reconciliation, waved goodbye to the rough life . I'm sorry, really

  • Julien 2022-01-08 08:01:08

    How uneasy, painful, uncomfortable, and suffocating in the long shot that came up, then every subsequent roll, close-up, push-up and even emptying, every snowflake, every ice, every core, every sentence , Are all its broken fragments, sharp and shining, piece by piece is restless, painful, uncomfortable, and suffocating. After Mr. Li Bifu was banished, the film entered the female lawsuit, and women rescued women, and women were born in the Garden of Eden. Only women can empathize with the pain of life and death, and only women can give others such love and rebirth. . So far my words should be pale and weak, but the camera may have crossed gender at some moments, realizing an emotional gift and baptizing me. When I tried to piece together your fragments, but only vaguely remembered your breath, only then discovered that you came into this world to sprout and take root in my heart?

Pieces of a Woman quotes

  • Elizabeth: And I'm ashamed of me. That I wasn't a good enough mother to teach you how to stand up and speak for yourself, for God's sakes. And to deal with this. Like my mother taught me. After my father went into the ghetto, my mother found a shack, an empty shack, that she went into and gave birth to me. Without any help at all. She stashed me under the floorboards when she had to go out and steal food. So she could make milk enough to keep me alive, but just alive. Not strong enough to cry, or we'd be caught. When she finally got me to a doctor, he advised her to just let me go. That I wasn't... I wasn't strong enough to survive. But when she absolutely insisted, he picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, "If she tries to lift her head, then there's hope." And you know what I did, Martha? I lifted my head. That's what I'm asking you to do now. Lift your head and fight for yourself, for God's sakes! Go out there and face that woman.

  • Lane: Yes, how did you feel holding your baby you had just given birth to?

    Martha: She smelled like an apple.