Indeed, Andrea's shot closely follows Mia, long shots, shaking shots, and we follow the 15-year-old running, pounding, dodging, jumping, and growing. Her breath lingered in my ears, sometimes choking my nerves.
The director put almost all his energy on Mia, carefully depicting her every move, her joys and sorrows, and was criticized by many people. This film forgot the general environment and forgot to show the conflict between the people and government agencies. No longer political.
After Mia sent the male protagonist's daughter home, she walked home alone in the dark. The lights burst through the darkness, and he got out of the car angrily. She started running, on a wide lawn. It seemed to me that she ran very fast, with shortness of breath, but he caught up with her and slapped her fiercely, mercilessly, and without thinking.
At that moment, I was so close to her that I felt so distressed for her that my heart trembled.
The director did not give the audience any choice. For Mia, we can only identify with her and share the same fate with her. We don't have the opportunity to watch her life from a distance, and we don't have the right to judge her objectively or even indifferently. Similarly, when we are fully immersed in the life of this teenage girl, many people start to worry whether the audience remembers what made it all.
But I think, Fish Tank's realism and criticism of society are not bad at all.
When I followed Mia nervously to let go of the white horse, when I danced with Mia in a cramped cabin whose walls were painted light blue like a sea of what I thought was cool but a little clumsy, when When I followed Mia into the arms of the male protagonist surrounded by the dim yellow light through the window, when I followed Mia to rescue the male protagonist's daughter in a panic and hugged her tightly, when I followed Mia into the car and left the house When I saw myself in Mia, I felt the oppression of the shallow air around me.
I tried to breathe, like Mia.
The relationship with the former friend broke down, and the mother grabbed her hard and didn't feel bad, and the sister smoked and wore a bikini and swears. The sweetness of the budding love was diluted by the hurried sex and the male protagonist who ran away, and then it was turned into a bitter and disgusting taste by the sweet and lovely figure of his little daughter in the camera. The mother is still preparing how to get rid of her, and the dance she loves is not her way out.
Just as she tried to let go of the horse again and again, as she threw stones and tools at the heavy chain again and again, she tried to breathe and live again and again, only to find that she would never be able to get rid of the misery.
Because I care about Mia so much, I ask, she's only 15 years old, why she's already like that dead fish on the kitchen floor, with her mouth open and unable to breathe.
And the answer, I think, is not just a social problem in Britain. Not just the wealth gap, not just alcoholism, not just indulgence. And humanity.
I think only a woman can describe the ridiculous appearance of the male protagonist running away after sex so vividly. When he looked into her eyes, he couldn't help it, when he entered her body, the man was extremely conceited, and at the end, he refused to face the problem and escaped the routine. We have to keep this between us. We will talk tomorrow.
Nature, wanderlust, motherhood, escape, affection, impulsiveness, depravity, cowardice, and kindness. What took Mia's breath away, and what gave her breathable oxygen, was human nature. It is only because of many problems in society that these human natures are more actively displayed.
So this Fish Tank is not blindly depressed, or blindly optimistic. Human nature is never completely beautiful, but sometimes it brings tears to your eyes.
She is 16. It's time. At the age of 16, animals end their lives, and Mia's second life has just begun.
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