The opening of the film is like a dream, but also like a prophecy. Mysterious, deep. In the verdant mountain forest, the creek mixed with the chirping of monkeys and birds, and the wind gently beat the leaves, making a rustling sound; the two sisters scattered in the forest one after the other, shouting to each other but disappeared.
Then came the title-
invisible woman
Compared to the female hits "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" and "Never Rarely Sometimes Always", the Brazilian film "Invisible", which received "Un Certain Regard" at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival "Woman" received a mediocre response, and was considered anonymous.
Just by looking at the name, you can tell the suffering of women under the patriarchy.
When it comes to the plot, there is nothing fresh and refined, and it can even be said that it is not surprising. The kind of daughter who elopes, gets pregnant and goes home after being abandoned, and then the father refuses to accept it, so the daughter is out of the house, and the TV series that cut off the relationship with the family are still rare?
Or the daughter has a dream of music, but is blocked by the marriage arranged by the family, and she is unwilling to embark on the bridge of marriage and childbirth. Too familiar.
That's the plot of the film, the story of the older sister and younger sister, in a family in Brazil. The older sister who keeps writing letters and the younger sister who never receives them.
There are not many roles for male characters, and the characters are also designed with masks. A boyfriend who abandoned his sister, a father who does not recognize his pregnant daughter, a husband who only pursues sex, a passerby who says "a woman like you shouldn't work here".
To sum it up in one sentence - Well, men don't have a good thing.
The extremely stylized audio-visual technique is the biggest feature of this film. The high-saturation colors last from one to the other, and the visual experience of daytime and nighttime scenes is particularly different.
The blue-green tone is soothing and seductive, and the tropical atmosphere of green plants brings a clear and comfortable freshness, clean and comfortable.
The lights at night create a dreamy and blurred neon sense. Under the yellow street lights, the shadows of the trees are whirling; the chaotic and noisy dance hall is full of feasting and feasting;
Green stained with red, like a dream, a departure from the sense of order in the sun.
Everything is unexpected, and the director not only amazed the audio-visual in such a bloody plot. Unexpectedly, the director's control of the relationship is so direct and cruel.
The sex scenes arranged on the wedding night were nothing but rape scenes, straight and rude. The younger sister Eurydice at this time was just a physical machine with the function of sexual desire processing, left to be manipulated by her husband.
There is no warmth in a woman's relationship with a man, only control and sex.
When my pregnant sister returned home, my father's machismo could not tolerate this woman who was pregnant before marriage and drove her out of the house. My mother wanted to keep her, but my father said, don't come back, so she stopped. .
The saddest thing is that the younger sister asked about her sister's news when she was alone with her sick mother, but the mother still turned a deaf ear. Under the warning of the severe sanctions of the patriarchal society, the mother acted as the agent of the patriarchy, and the identity changed from the victim to the perpetrator. The little hope that the younger sister could learn the truth from her mother was dashed.
The most profound scene is when the younger sister learns the news of her sister's death, burns the piano, burns her hand, and bandages the wound in the hospital. In the whole scene, the younger sister has been placed in the background with a defocused lens, and the foreground is a close-up of her husband's profile.
Out of guilt, the husband did not look at his wife for a long time, and out of concealment, he avoided the sight of the audience. Only one ear is the center of vision, and the doctor told him at this point - your wife is pregnant.
An understatement dragged her into a bottomless abyss that could no longer escape. The person who has become blurred is her who has lost her self-identity, lost her thoughts, lost her piano, and lost her dreams, leaving only her vagina and uterus.
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