Planting a latent inner past...

Van 2022-04-21 09:02:52

Through the climax at the beginning, the work directly brings the audience a roller coaster-like emotional fall, deeply penetrated into the inner world of the characters, in the trivial daily life, the pain of being armed again and again is also behind these daily life, Through the changes of the river and bridges, the psychological process of the characters is shown, and the handling of the third act and the layout of the objects also bring a powerful force in the narrative and the actors' performances.

But it's a pity that it didn't get a complete pavement in the man's mood

Vanessa Kirby's performance is definitely very strong in the award season. She completely grasps the heartbreak and pain of the character. Too many details of the performance make the character more three-dimensional, and the subtle changes in the expression when the emotions are released strengthen the whole scene. The strength, the performance at the beginning and the end really hit my heart.

The mother played by Ellen Burstyn also had several very exciting emotional performances, and Shia LaBeouf's performance was also quite good, but it is a pity that due to personal reasons, it is a pity that this opportunity to impact the award season is not available.

On the whole, "Woman Fragment" gives a fairly high-quality performance of the character's progression and mood transitions in the script and performance. Although there are still some shortcomings in the story, it is definitely a work with enough strength to impact the award season.

4.5/5

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Extended Reading
  • Mae 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    This is a victory for the director Mundruczó Kornél. A family drama was promoted by his schedule to be an artistic human observation. The drama does not prevent the director from filming the complexity of the characters, and the film festival owes him a director's trophy. The director's imagination and control are very strong. "White God" made me see a group of dogs running madly. This time it is a new level. Several indoor stage plays in the film (the long shots are very long!) can be called contemporary cinéma. vérité. The story is bloody, but the heroine has a lot of room for performance, because the accident caused physical and psychological changes, which gave the actors a very solid creative foundation, and at least half of the credit for the actress is the director. The front and back lineup is very strong, the music Howard Shore, the producer Scorsese, the Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn are old and strong, Shia LaBeouf is finally normal, thank you director. Benny Safdie's "Good Times" did a good job, an actor who was delayed by the director's work.

  • Monroe 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    The title of the movie makes it easy to think that it is a story of female indictment, but it is not. She has a strong and radiant image. The film opens with a short male protagonist, followed by a long and wonderful childbirth scene, setting a benchmark angle: Can others really empathize with a woman's state of mind? Then the story depicts two pairs of novel-style relationships: 1. The husband naturally cannot experience the pain of childbirth, but he collapses very much, echoing the opening paragraph. For him, this collapse may come from the face of his colleagues, otherwise why would he not go to work? What; 2. The strong mother has loved face all her life and is facing senile amnesia, and she can still show her experience at birth in detail. The audience understands that no one really thinks from the point of view of the heroine, she must move towards self-rescue. This may be a perspective that only European intellectuals have, and that directors with vested interests in Hollywood do not have. It gives the American story played by this American actor a brilliance and warmth that is different from the American narrative. Hollywood needs more of these perspective rescues.

Pieces of a Woman quotes

  • Elizabeth: And I'm ashamed of me. That I wasn't a good enough mother to teach you how to stand up and speak for yourself, for God's sakes. And to deal with this. Like my mother taught me. After my father went into the ghetto, my mother found a shack, an empty shack, that she went into and gave birth to me. Without any help at all. She stashed me under the floorboards when she had to go out and steal food. So she could make milk enough to keep me alive, but just alive. Not strong enough to cry, or we'd be caught. When she finally got me to a doctor, he advised her to just let me go. That I wasn't... I wasn't strong enough to survive. But when she absolutely insisted, he picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, "If she tries to lift her head, then there's hope." And you know what I did, Martha? I lifted my head. That's what I'm asking you to do now. Lift your head and fight for yourself, for God's sakes! Go out there and face that woman.

  • Lane: Yes, how did you feel holding your baby you had just given birth to?

    Martha: She smelled like an apple.