At the beginning of the story, when Bjork's loud and penetrating singing began to echo in the room, I was just thinking, Faye Wong imitated Is it her music?
The heroine Thelma (played by Bjork) suffers from a congenital eye disease that her 12-year-old son also inherits, which eventually leads to blindness. She immigrated from her native Czech Republic to work in a factory in Washington, USA, earning enough hard-earned money to find a famous doctor for eye surgery on her son's 13th birthday. Her eyes have gradually lost sight, and she is groping in the factory to work overtime. She loved music since she was a child and often went to rehearsal for musicals, and at the same time sang happily in the hard life. Her dream is simple and beautiful, everything is for her son, but she treats it all as a secret to cherish and work hard.
The work in the factory gradually became impossible due to the sharp decline in eyesight, and many friends silently helped Selma. The neighbor's husband is a policeman who is said to have an inheritance. His wife is used to living a luxurious life, and he gradually feels pressure in life. During a conversation with Selma, the policeman cried to her. To comfort him, Thelma shares her secret. The police were shocked at her even harder life and had nothing to say. But under the pressure of his wife's vanity and life, the police neighbors came up with the idea of Selma's money for his son's medical treatment. At this time, Selma couldn't see anything at all, so she was dismissed from the factory reluctantly, singing "Ive seen it all", and politely rejecting the courtship of a coworker who loved her dearly. When she got home, she saw that her hard-earned money was gone. She went to a neighbor's house, but the police told her wife that Selma had seduced him and coveted his money, and told her to call the police. After letting go of his wife, the police unexpectedly begged Selma to shoot the desperate self or not pay back her hard-earned money. During the fight, Selma shot, took the money in pain, went to the hospital quietly, and prepaid the money for her son's surgery.
In court, Selma did not say why the police neighbors begged her to shoot her (wife was vain and could not make ends meet), only because she had sworn not to. When the case turned around and could hire a lawyer to defend herself at a high price, Selma heard that she had used the money for her son’s surgery, and categorically refused to defend herself, just to ensure that the child could see again. As a result, she was sentenced to be hanged... Before the execution, her legs were trembling and she couldn't support it, but when she heard that her son had successfully operated on, she immediately sang the last song briskly, and the singing stopped abruptly after the execution... ..
Watching this sad movie and listening to Bjork's tragic and sad singing, I was moved by the injustice of Selma's fate and her strength. Watching her gently help her sleeping son take off his glasses, you can feel the brilliance of maternal love. And in the dark, she groped her way home along the railroad tracks, and she felt both pain and joy for her when she saw the beautiful scene fantasizing and singing in her heart. Nearly breaking her own fingers in the factory, Thelma imagines dancing and singing musicals with her co-workers! She declined the man who loved her deeply, and sang "Ive seen it all" briskly, knowing that although she was nearly blind, she no longer cared about anything, and was only happy for the light that her son would get. My tears have long flowed silently. Her ethereal and distant singing makes people unable to resist. By the end of the film, the unavoidable tragedy had been foreseen. Seeing Selma approaching her execution, she was still singing and dancing happily, but I was already weeping...
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