(Almost all) Feminine body and face are similar in size and shape. Uglies have their own unique ugliness. Beauties are all similar.
Two women were to live closely together and naturally get to know each other. This process is not always pleasant as it could be an intrusion to personal space, and so inevitably it did. The two women's personal aura crossed over each other and formed an iterative influence among themselves.
They were both pretty and young therefore bear resemblence in their appearances. What is more, they were both at an age when they have already been involved in family affairs of their own generation: one engaged, one married. One who was an actor has turned into a dumb doll, almost always presenting a non-face, an expression that is blank and wooden; the other who was not an actor has turned into an actor instead, being now shy and amiable, now intelligent, now peckish, now hysteria; in a word, their roles seem to have been switched, or rather, transferred from one to another, all but a result of complexities from their own lives - two lives that have thus intertwined, briefly.
It it worth noting the bleeding head statue outside of their beachside retreat, a statue somewhat facing upward to the sky, seeking an answer that would never arrive. It is a symbol that carries the interchangeability of both women's persona. Afterall, in tranditional society, all women share a common persona of girl, woman, mum, and carer for the man. Their social functions are constantly subordinate, their wills and influence are limited within the house. As woman, they were all trained to deliver such functions individually, acting as the girl, the woman, the mum and the carer simultaneously during most part of their lives.
And hope, oh hope, is like that blood, like leukemia, you bleed, you bleed, and you bleed somemore. You bleed, every month from the age a little above ten until you are too old to give birth to a child.
Throughout, women are consumed as a visual object in the view of men as well as in mass audience perspectives. The representation of attractive women in paintings, films are cues and reminders to their bodily beauty as visual objects and to the environmental beauty of surrounding landscapes . Such is the desperate situation. The duty to live up to these aesthetic expectations imposed by script writer, producer, director, film production company etc. and audience is inescapable. The complexity and inescapability of such duty are burdensome and depressing.
There was a brief speech from the doctor. It distinctly differentiated from the everyday life rythm. It provided cricital analytics revolving around consciousness and subconsciousness, reality and illusion, passivity and activity within the film framework.
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