intimacy and individuality

Lavonne 2022-04-20 09:01:59

You will probably never understand what it would be like to be pregnant with a baby carrier without getting to the point of giving birth. This film is a great introduction to the attitudes and differences between two young women and the changing relationship between them when you decide to terminate your pregnancy but have no money to break the law, are cowardly and get scammed. Reminds me of the Jiang Ge case, where an equally vulnerable individual pays for the cost of another's choice. What is it that supports this effort? Is it a well-behaved education from a young age? Is it habitual humility in a dilemma? Or that I need a close friend too much, and continue to pay the price for this intimacy.

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Extended Reading
  • Kameron 2021-12-25 08:01:13

    The solid and steady long shots and the drip-proof composition design all serve the "film language" narrative. The storm before the dramatic change has long been brewing in everyone's heart. The cruel "body memory", the body resonates, and it hurts into the bone marrow. The quarrel between the people at the banquet, the quarrel between two people in the small room, the details were well-accounted for.

  • Maegan 2022-03-21 09:02:24

    In a time and space of day and night, condensing the fate of women who are besieged. In the play, many conflicts are cleverly designed through situations and dialogues. The fluency and narrative capacity of the long takes amazes me, but the point is that it’s not for show, but for the audience to fully immerse in the protagonist and feel her pain and anxiety. The tone is particularly cold and hard. It does not place the characters in a desperate predicament, but is always under a structural oppression that makes people breathless. This feeling of suffocation reached its peak in the mirror given to the child, and was then exacerbated by the thick night. The heavy problem was finally suspended in the void, and there was no way to find a solution.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days quotes

  • [first lines]

    [subtitled version]

    Otilia: OK.

    Gabriela 'Gabita' Dragut: Thanks.

  • Otilia: [subtitled version] We're never going to talk about this, okay?