When I typed the seven words in this title, I went back and found that they just happened to make up a sentence. And these seven words are almost eternal topics that human beings discuss in philosophy. As a movie public account, I didn't intend to use Zheng Shuang's surrogacy as a hot topic, but when I needed to digest the melons I ate these days, I saw a movie "Women's Fragments", which This is a heart-wrenching movie that makes us have to think about these issues again.
resonating emotions
It wasn't until half an hour into the film that the title "Woman's Fragment" appeared on the screen. In the content before this, the director has already completed the shaping of the characters and the introduction of emotions, a self-respecting husband, a strong mother, and an independent heroine.
The long shot of more than ten minutes dissolves the estrangement of time, and uses the most real sense of time and space to perfectly present the emotions and states of the heroine's characters during childbirth to the audience . From the resistance to the replacement midwife, to the hug in the bathtub with the husband, to the excruciating pain of labor, the brief joy of the baby's birth, and finally the sudden surprise and panic of the baby. Vanessa Kirby's documentary-style reality show brings out all the possible states a woman can be in childbirth.
Then, the title "Women's Fragments" appeared, as if to tell the audience that the baby who died just after birth was the "fragments" of this woman. The real story begins to unfold slowly. She tried to pretend that nothing happened, but everyone and everything around her suddenly reminded her of that accident, that child. She had a dispute with her husband over the spelling of the dead child's name, and she had a dispute with her mother about a lawsuit against a midwife. After experiencing the great pain of losing her child, she has to face these trivial incidents. As the audience, we can also clearly feel the state of the characters who are on the verge of collapse. A sense of sadness and alienation that cannot be forgotten and resolved , just like the weather in Boston in the movie, haunts the characters all the time.
"Women's Fragments" has many anti-drama scenes. Martha's resistance and distrust of the temporary replacement midwife during childbirth did not continue and develop. Martha finds out the details of Sean's (husband) cheating, but doesn't care. Even later, when Martha's mother gave Sean a sum of money to let him leave Martha, Sean did the same. These seemingly unconventional and unconventional details just present the story more realistically. Vanessa Kirby portrays Martha's inner transformation from overwhelmed to chaotic. At the climax of the film, the mother and daughter quarrel, the mother accuses Martha of not actively prosecuting the negligent midwife. While they grieve with great grief for their dead child, they are worlds apart in the direction of the way forward.
The film tells about a real event that caused the bridge to collapse due to resonance, and this story also hints at the direction of the characters after that. Emotional resonance cannot heal the huge pain in the heart. It just makes the pain explode and collapse at a certain emotional point.
At the end of the film, Martha stands in court. She didn't defuse the grief, but she didn't accuse anyone either. She chose forgiveness, and she looked at the only photo of her and her daughter, in the name of love, as one woman forgave another woman. We all know that sadness will not go away and be forgotten. But forgiveness is the first step to self-reconciliation, and we continue on the path of life with pain and grief on our shoulders .
The yoke of gestation
This article is not actually a film in the true sense, it is more like a prose about a film. After the last feature on "2020 Women's Movies" was launched. I try to find what is really touching the core of "women's issues" in the world of real events and images. After the incident of Zheng Shuang's surrogacy was exposed, I read many related articles and documentaries. Gradually, I realized that the core of all problems may lie in "gestation". The ability to conceive directly contributes to the huge differences in male and female physiology. The need to nurture life gives birth to the instinctive impulse of human beings for "sex" . When trying to understand gender issues, it is necessary to skip the analysis and discussion of "pregnancy" itself.
When I watched some texts and documentaries about surrogacy, I was not only distressed by their difficult living conditions and the physical harm caused by surrogacy, but the most distressing thing was that after a long and arduous pregnancy, they had Pass the child on to someone else. That kind of deprivation of a person to become a mother is undoubtedly anti-human. This kind of physical connection is the existence of maternal love as an instinctive response, and it is precisely because of the ability to conceive life that all women tend to have stronger empathy than men. However, in the development of human society, this ability of empathy has become a moral shackle that binds women. Women are forced to play the role of "mother" first, thus ignoring the existence of women as independent individuals. In the long history of human beings, this ability of women has been forced as a kind of "obligation" to serve the existence and continuation of society . And women can only be forced to undertake this "obligation" most of the time. And "surrogacy" is an even worse behavior. She even deprives women of the right to become "mothers" and frantically squeezes their "reproductive value".
And the sexual exploitation of women is only a by-product of the exploitation of reproductive value. Under male-dominated sexual behavior, men will undoubtedly strengthen their possessiveness and so-called territorial awareness. Hence the concept of chastity attached to women. This is how all-round oppression of women was born.
dehumanization of man
Millions of years ago, when Australopithecus decided to start walking upright, they never expected that this small act would lead to the complete evolution of human beings and the birth of civilization, and they never expected that walking upright would bring about The shrinking of the pelvis has made humans the most difficult species to reproduce in the mammalian world. So that females can only evolve towards the reproductive type, which weakens their ability to work and survive. And because of this, females have to start relying on males to hunt and protect them . So man and woman were born . Thus, the family unit appeared. And for stability, the form of farming appeared. Thus, human civilization also began to appear. Human beings are actually anti-nature. We keep saying that we have built a splendid civilization, but this is just an attempt to cover up the crimes that humans have committed against our own ethnic group. We fought each other, with mad plunder and war. What a splendid civilization behind what a cruel crime . Exploiting people of different genders, ethnic groups, languages, and skin colors. In the course of history, most of us, most of us, have only regarded man as a tool. The human desire for fertility is unimaginable. This madness is not only biological, but more societal. The female uterus is thoroughly socialized. Throughout the long history, women have been treated only as reproductive machines . Humans have a stupid and ridiculous obsession with their "blood". Humans are also extremely arrogant, arrogant enough to think that they are the head of all things, and arrogance attaches a set of so-called "morality" to themselves, so that they can consider themselves higher than all other creatures. In order to find a more perfect rhetoric for himself, he created the so-called religion, the so-called God. In one false story after another, we construct a set of so-called cognitions about people .
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