When do you count the time with your fingers? Maybe it's "I'm three years, two months, nine days!" as a child, maybe it's the "countdown to the college entrance examination" when I go to school, or maybe it's "we've been together for a hundred days" as an adult.
The timing of today's movie "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" stems from the fact that Romania has a clear legal prohibition of abortion in 1987. Gabita, a female college student, became pregnant unexpectedly, and asked her roommate and friend Otilia to help her. The Story of Secret Abortion - The title of the film "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" is exactly how long Gabita took from pregnancy to abortion.
The two contacted a doctor who was willing to perform surgery through the introduction of a friend, and estimated that they had raised a considerable amount of money. No, the money they raised couldn't meet the doctor's request. At the location of the surgery - in a cheap hotel - the doctor offered to exchange the two's bodies. In order to completely help Gabita, Otilia agreed to the doctor's request. Afterwards, she began to think about her relationship with her boyfriend, and put forward a hypothesis: what kind of attitude her boyfriend would have if she became pregnant unexpectedly...
The story sounds so ups and downs: from the helplessness after the accident, to the joy of the arrival of the doctor, to the anger at the shameless request, and finally to Otilia's suspicion of intimacy... So strong and complex emotions are filled in. Throughout the film, the director used a calm and almost ruthless approach to present all this in front of the audience's eyes, but it was so impressive that it lingered - just like the aborted fetus at the last moment. , with a close-up picture impacting the audience's so-called repressed feelings.
There are so many points worth mentioning in the film, so that the editor has been desperately remembering during the filming process - this place can trigger discussions on early sex education, and that place can discuss conflicts in intimate relationships , However, in the end, the dream that haunted the editor all night and made her sleepless at night revolves around the doctor's shameless request and Gabita's deception.
I still remember that when the editor was very young, I was asked countless times what she wanted to do most when she grew up, and she answered unequivocally: "Doctor, because it can cure diseases and save people." In "April Three Weeks and Two Days" , is such a sacred doctor who should have been saving the dead and the wounded, but he used his professional skills to propose a quid pro quo that Gabita and Otilia couldn't refuse. In his words, he committed himself Mistakes are to be borne. Yes, Gabita made a mistake. Under the social background and legal regulations at the time, she could even be sentenced to 3-5 years in prison. However, as an assisted abortion doctor, you do not admit the guilt of assisted abortion. Could it even be a death sentence? If Gabita used her body to pay for her mistakes, how should your mistakes and guilt be redeemed? ! What's more, who gave you the right to use your skills to persecute the desperate Gabita, and even coerce Otilia with every inch?
When I wrote this, I thought of the suicide incident of Yang Debao, a doctoral student at the beginning of this year (according to Yang Debao’s girlfriend, Professor Zhou asked Yang Baode to accompany her to drink, water the flowers, clean the office, carry her bags, get water, pick her up at the parking lot, accompany her to the supermarket, accompany her She went to the house to install curtains, etc., and questioned that Yang Baode's death was related to Yang Baode's mental depression caused by his mentor's enslavement.) They are also "upper-class people" who seem to have infinite beauty. They have received higher education at the intellectual level and have a decent They do their jobs and are respected, but they are not worthy of being called human beings in terms of morality. They don’t know how everyone is equal. They arbitrarily control the lives of others. "service personnel".
However, Grandpa Lu Xun still has this sentence: "Mourning for his misfortune, anger for not fighting."
Take Gabita as an example, let's not discuss the outrageous premarital sex in 1987, only because Otilia reminded her countless times to "pay attention to measures", but she was told "it's already like this, you Can you help me in the end?" She contradicted her and came back to analyze. Gabita didn't realize her mistake at all, or she was too scared to think about it. to solve the current problem.
However, Gabita flinched many times at the door - she should have gone to the street with the doctor herself, but was unable to go because of fear; she should have booked accommodation in person, but she made an appointment by phone because she was afraid of being recognized, resulting in no room; The plastic sheets that should have been carried were forgotten because of the panic. And all this mess can only be solved by Otilia, so she was involved in this abortion storm again and again.
However, Gabita, who should be full of gratitude, has been making Otilia around from the beginning of the film—buying soap for a while, smoking a cigarette; and lying to Otilia several times—about the appointment with the doctor , the way of payment; and even wantonly tampered with Optilia's views on abortion - deliberately not answering the phone; so, when finally, when Gabita, who had a successful miscarriage, sat down to enjoy a sumptuous dinner in the restaurant, Optilia's hurried Looking for it is full of irony...
Therefore, perhaps Gabita is not "not fighting", but "retreat as advance" - using Otilia's sympathy to make her friends willingly pay for herself without asking for anything in return. Because of this, I can't help but suspect that maybe Gabita mentioned the need for "another girl" in her initial transaction with the doctor...
Well, I wrote it here, it's a bit late.
Although the article tonight was written 24 hours after watching the drama yesterday, I believe you can still feel the anger of the editor. Yes, anger - anger at the doctor's reckless use of "power", anger at Gabita's use of "friendship", and perhaps a hidden, at the mercy of Otilia...
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