It is said that these were the dark times in Romania, the era of Ceausescu's dictatorship, the era of banning forced abortions to increase fertility. However, which country, which era, has ever spared a woman's vagina, a woman's womb, and a woman? The lifespan of the embryo is three weeks and two days in April.
compassionate devotion
In the eyes of men, the vagina is their possession, the source of pleasure. The sexual relations that occurred during the coercion, the humiliation of women after the coercion, where can I tell? Two female college students exchanged their bodies for an abortion probe. The male doctor released his sexual desire, took the money, and left with satisfaction and caring. Otilia helps her roommate Gabita secretly have an abortion, but is involved in the deal and sacrifices her vagina. In the room of the three, the male doctor angrily scolded Gabita for all kinds of uncontracted practices, and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the 2,850 lei (money) they brought. In the room, the man wanted to show his majesty, and finally threw out his request (order): The two of you discuss, who will go first?
In this enclosed space, Otilia seems to be one with Gabita, she becomes her. Otilia couldn't bear the risk of delayed abortion anymore. She developed "sympathy" for Gabita. She felt Gabita's panic, fear, and helplessness. At this moment, in addition to devotion, it seemed that No choice. However, this flawless sympathy cannot dissolve the filth of this transaction, it cannot remove this embarrassing humiliation, and it cannot even express the betrayal of another man behind it. It will disappear into the silent darkness.
But, this is Otilia's choice.
share the original sin
Gabita lay in bed waiting for the embryo to fall off, Otilia rushed to her boyfriend's house to attend her boyfriend's mother's birthday party. Panic, anxious, and worried were all written on Otilia's face. The boyfriend started to ask questions, so there was the following dialogue:
"What would you do if it was me who was pregnant?"
"You will not."
"You don't know my ovulation cycle at all."
"Isn't it just these days?"
"Why should you care, and it won't happen to you....I told you not to end up in it on Thursday, you don't take it seriously."...
"At that time, there is still Gabita who can help me."
In a patriarchal society, men are mostly conspirators of power. Although, Gabita is not necessarily reliable. But at the moment, Otilia is Gabita's only trusted friend. Across the night, chasing the bus, eagerly heading back to the hotel to help Gabita throw her embryo. Formed blood embryos lie on the bathroom floor, and Otilia seems to have seen a murder. The rapid ringing of the phone brought her back to reality. At this moment, they are the lambs to be slaughtered, if the embryos are found. So, under the dual pressure of morality and law, Otilia ran into the night again, under the barking of the dog, under the whistle of the police, rushed into a residential building, and threw the embryos in the garbage aisle on the tenth floor. Sex and reproduction seem to be the original sins of women, disciplined and punished in various power relations. Otilia took up Gabita's original sin and saw her own destiny.
end
At the end of the film, Gabita, who had an abortion, regained her appetite, ordered a plate of guts, and asked Otilia if she had buried the fetus. Otilia, who had a tire, only wanted a glass of pure water, and asked Gabita not to talk about it again in the future.
The prohibition of abortion is still the law of some countries; the prohibition of having a second child was once the national policy of some countries; in 1989, Ceausescu fell, and the decree prohibiting abortion became invalid. How will Otilia tell what happened in the hotel one day in February 1987?
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