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Turn off the lights and dismantle the movie, read only the classics. 6 minutes to watch the 2017 Shanghai Film Festival hit movie "April Three Weeks Two Days". Appreciate one popular style every day, and finish the film festival efficiently.
If the world film history has a almanac, there must be three words written in 2007:
should. beat. fetal.
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Text / Pea Watching Eastern European movies, thinking about American toilets, thinking about "Little Reunion"
In 2007, China, the United States and Europe colluded to create an unmarried teenage pregnancy film , which both won awards.
Chinese girls dedicate themselves to middle-aged uncles and teach uncle abortion by hand, and get golden rooster ("The Teeth of Love"),
An American girl who was out of wedlock, almost had an abortion, and finally gave birth to an infertile family, won an Oscar ("Juno"),
A Romanian girl who was out of wedlock asked a doctor to have an abortion and also caused her roommate to be sexually assaulted won the Palme d'Or in Cannes ("Three Weeks and Two Days in April").
In 2007, too many secrets about pregnancy and abortion were fermenting.
In line with the film archaeology spirit of "textual research on clues and horses, follow the vine to find the connection between the gods and the gods", after watching these three pieces of peas, I wrote several Zhihu body titles in one breath:
Which is the best abortion technology in China, the US and Europe?
Which is the stronger drainage pipeline in China, America and Europe?
What is it like to have a girlfriend with a touching IQ
What is it like to attend a boyfriend's mother's birthday party immediately after being sexually assaulted?
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When it comes to abortion technology, Romania comes out on top.
Although the abortion in "Tooth of Love" was technically successful, the aftermath was not handled properly , and the IQ was so touching that the dead baby was wrapped in a newspaper with his own name and thrown into the community trash can in broad daylight, which was finally exposed.
"Three Weeks and Two Days in April", under the orderly guidance of a private doctor, sneaked into a high-rise residential building on a dark and windy night for a month and threw it into the top floor garbage chute.
When it comes to drainage pipes, the United States does its part.
In "Three Weeks and Two Days in April", the private doctor specially told the dead baby not to flush the toilet and it would block it. It was in Eastern Europe in 1987.
In "Little Reunion", Eileen Chang described that she (Jiuli) had also removed a baby boy of more than four months: she was also looking for a personal doctor, and the 10-inch-long baby with visible eyes was flushed down the toilet . That was in America in 1956.
As for China in those two periods, flush toilets were not yet widespread, and for quite a while, toilet paper could not be flushed directly.
In terms of IQ , Gabita , a Romanian girl in "Three Weeks and Two Days in April", perfectly explained what a pig teammate is.
Unexpectedly pregnant, her roommate helped her raise money to contact the doctor, but she repeatedly screwed it up. In the end, the doctor offered to sell sex as a condition, including her roommate, of course.
When it comes to attending a birthday party at her boyfriend's house immediately after being sexually assaulted, the embarrassment index of "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" is 30 years ahead of Rainbow Band's "Guide to Self-Help During the Spring Festival".
In "Little Reunion", when Eileen Chang had an abortion, her American husband stayed outside the door and rushed in immediately when she said that the doctor was doing something wrong.
In "Three Weeks and Two Days in April", two girls silently accepted sexual extortion, and the boyfriend who had been chaotic and abandoned never appeared. What kind of country and what kind of era is this?
The story of "Two Days in Three Weeks in April" took place in 1987, only two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the upheaval in Eastern Europe.
Romania, a small country with few people, is in full swing with the mass production of "prohibiting divorce, prohibiting abortion, and having less than four children is illegal" , and the outrageous "menstrual police" conduct physical examinations and interrogations of women every month.
Do you think your body belongs to you?
The most terrible tyranny is to control a woman's body.
As of 1989, 500,000 Romanian women died from clandestine abortions , and the film's director Christian Mongi, who was born in 1968 (chair of the 2017 Shanghai Film Festival Jury), experienced this period in his youth. .
Just as "third-tier youth" Wang Xiaoshuai has always been anxious about "third-tier themes", Mengji, as a witness to that period of history, can't let it go. He said that making this film is an expression of "friendship, responsibility and love".
The first picture of the film is a cold and outdated girls' dormitory. Two goldfish swimming in a small fish tank become the visual center. The back of the fish tank is pasted with pictures of high-rise buildings in the city. The alarm clock rushes around to create a sense of urgency.
Then, the female No. 2 Gabita with a touching IQ and the calm and capable female No. 1 Otilia entered the painting one after another. Like fish trapped in a fish tank, they are bound by the force majeure of the times.
For the next 40 minutes, the camera follows Otilia through the corridors, bathrooms, her boyfriend's school, and the hotel lobby, witnessing her methodically preparing for an unspecified assignment: borrowing money, opening a room, and meeting a mysterious man.
The common black market transactions, the bureaucratic services of state-run hotels, and the depressed and depressing appearance of the city have reproduced Romania in 1987, where materials were scarce, people were indifferent, and the supply system still existed.
Cold tones, claustrophobic space, linear progression, no grand era labels such as class contradictions, class struggles, social unrest, and even no background music, documentary-like texture.
In the scene where Otilia is negotiating with the front desk of the hotel, the composition is divided into two parts by the high marble front desk , which completely separates her from the waiter, as if there is an insurmountable gap, implying that there is a major obstacle to her communication with the other party.
Just book a room and accept the arrogance and disdain at the front desk, and even explain the privacy and report the whereabouts .
After securing the hotel and bringing back the mysterious man, the main event is here.
Gabita brought home-made cakes, but forgot to bring plastic sheets, and finally found a plastic bag to make do.
Compared with the medical school girls in "The Teeth of Love", they brought a full set of sterilization packs, pliers, and tweezers.
However, the real difficulties are not so easy to solve.
She was not two months pregnant but four months .
"Three years of stupidity in one pregnancy" , she finally screwed things up step by step with her touching IQ.
According to the doctor, once exposed, four months of pregnancy will directly increase the sentencing years.
In addition, they did not bring enough capital, and the doctor shamelessly offered them sexual extortion.
The film does not directly address the sexual assault, which occurs when both girls are cut off from the experience of the other .
Gabita turned on the bathroom faucet to cover up the sound in the room with the sound of running water, out of escape and to avoid embarrassment.
Until Otilia suddenly broke into the bathroom, the naked lower body caught the audience by surprise.
The director did not let the audience see her expression, but only left a back view for the camera. She didn't talk to Gabita and couldn't see her face, but we can guess from the back view of her constantly washing her body, her huge anger and anger. nausea.
When it was Gabita's turn to enter the room, the camera remained in the bathroom again, waiting for the end of the sexual assault in the room.
For Otilia, the embarrassment of this day is far from over . She has to rush to her boyfriend's house to attend the birthday party of her boyfriend's mother that she had promised before.
A large table of relatives and friends sat together. The director never gave a panoramic picture, but placed Otilia in the center of the picture, the camera was always facing her, and only arms or half faces of relatives and friends on both sides appeared.
They heatedly discussed the topic of the hospital, and it was hard for Otilia not to remember what happened just now.
The eloquent relatives and the bookshelves in the background reveal the superiority of this intellectual family, and Otilia, who was born in the 18th-tier countryside, is obviously at the end of the chain of contempt.
She was so embarrassed among a group of strangers, listening to their loud self-healing, but her heart had already flown to the hotel. The idiot who stayed alone in the hotel could have N kinds of accidents at any time, and he might have lost too much blood and died in the room.
A great fear enveloped her, and she was full of anxiety as if on pins and needles.
The depressing space was closed and the camera seat was fixed. The audience seemed to be "pinned" there along with Otilia, and they had to guess whether there was an accident at the other end of the hotel.
Her conversation with her boyfriend was also unsatisfactory. The little boy obviously didn't know what happened to her just now, and he didn't understand why she was so good at mentioning what to do when she was pregnant.
In fact, we can find clues when the film starts her conversation with her classmates in the bathroom: the dormitory is looking for her, and she needs a medical certificate for her menstrual delay for more than two weeks.
My boyfriend got married when he said he was pregnant, but in that family full of "class" and "urban-rural differences", could he really marry her?
For the first time, Otilia clearly realized that the only person she could rely on once bad luck befalls her seems to be the pig teammate Gabita .
So she couldn't die, she had to go back to save her, so she left without saying goodbye and rushed into the vast night.
On the way home, hand-held follow-up photography was used, and the violent shaking released all the depression she encountered in one day. We followed the shaking camera to truly experience her unrest and anxiety.
The follow-up shots of Otilia going to "throwing the baby" are also in this way.
The director does not directly attack the sexual assault, and he also refuses to shoot miscarriage. All important events happen off-camera.
The restraint of the language of the camera enlarges the imagination. We have already rehearsed N kinds of death methods of Gabita in our hearts. At the moment when the lights were turned on, we did not see any blood. Gabita not only did not die, but also successfully completed. Abortion .
As Otilia rushes to the bathroom, we see a blood-stained dead baby on the ground wrapped in a towel, and the camera stops firmly for a few seconds, forcing us to look directly at this innocent life.
Finally, they went downstairs to eat, all the organ food reminiscent of a dead fetus.
The director did not ask them to show any remorse or introspection, and they even refused to relive the humiliation of the day in any way .
In the background is a huge glass window. In front of the glass, they are like two fish in a fish tank. They cannot escape this era.
Compared with the standard domestic youth films of "splitting, abortion, love triangle" , this film is restrained, calm, without preaching, without sensationalism, and with extreme coldness, creating a kind of objectivity with zero compassion .
This small-budget film with a shooting capital of 600,000 euros and more than 6 million yuan at the exchange rate of the year touched the soul of every moviegoer.
There are two versions of history, one printed on books and one branded in people's minds.
The director refracts history from small figures, and re-examines and reflects on that era from the perspective of women.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival.
When the social system is cruel enough to control a woman's body.
Sex has become a burden and a source of anxiety for women.
This may be the ultimate dilemma for the female body.
After the revolution, winter came as usual, and for the Romanian people, nothing seemed more satisfying than the sunshine that had broken free from the cold fog of winter.
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