Silence is like a dull black cave.
--Inscription.
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Christine starred in "speak" when she was only fourteen years old, but her acting skills were already quite impressive. I think, compared to "twilight", maybe "speak" can bring Kristen's acting skills to the fullest.
The story told in "speak" is actually very simple: Melinda, a girl who is about to enter high school, is raped at a party in the summer vacation. She is hurt in her heart to face the outside world with silence and hide the truth.
In fact, the theme of the film is nothing more than growth choices.
that is it.
The main melody of "speak" has no dramatic ups and downs, but shows a calm color. It is like pale sunlight. As the plot twists and turns, the paleness is mixed between the heart songs, but it vaguely carries a little warmth. In the pale meandering place, it also makes people feel soothed. The warmth spreads diligently, but it still brings tears to my eyes.
I think that's what makes it so memorable. Maybe it's its magic.
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The background of the film is mostly daylight. In that place where the warm yellow sun shines. But Melinda's silence was a dull cave, pitch black.
She is a little fox who can't even radiate sunshine, and refuses the domestication of princes.
The wound festered before it healed. Melinda's silence is also engraved with decadence and extremes. Perhaps no one can see it as a girl's usual shyness. Just because it is uninhibited and sluggish possession, full of wild shouts, and then silently erupts.
Inadvertently, it pokes a soft piece of people's heart.
under such paleness.
in such pale sunlight.
Melinda's behavior hovers at extremes. Although it's not too explicit.
Just like she used to hold a paintbrush on her lips in the bedroom. The bright red paint turned into twisted vertical bars under the brush. Like a scar in her heart.
Her mother peeped at her like this, looked lonely, and said with a sigh: I don't know what you are doing.
It's like the day she took classes.
She walks in the sun and takes a ride. She curled up in the car, peeping at the posture and expressions of the passengers on the bus. She said: In any case, she wants to find someone to talk to. Then let the past go by and move on with life.
Later, she followed a nurse out of the car and went to the hospital.
Melinda wanders the corridors of the hospital. She heard the patient's groaning and walked into an empty ward. She put on the gray clothes that belonged only to patients, and lay on the hospital bed.
She said she wondered how long it would take for the nurse to realize she didn't actually belong here.
She wants to know.
Another example is when she shut herself in the closet, stuffed her clothes in her mouth, and screamed.
She lay flat on the snow, swinging her limbs wildly, rubbing the ground.
She brought the chicken bones she had eaten the other day to art class and set up building blocks.
She painted a man who fell dead on a tree, and a tree that was struck by lightning and had no branches. There were no leaves on the tree.
Her behavior was mixed with extremes.
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People mocked and despised her as a whistleblower. Melinda did not object. She dropped her defense. She faced everyone with silence. She is some marionette who has left her freedom behind and let others pull her.
Such loneliness and abandonment are so desolate and depressing.
So, when Melinda just stared blankly or was in a trance, people's pupils were filled with tears before they knew it, the pain slowly spread, and the trembling wrapped the beating heart.
There seems to be nothing more pitiful than loneliness.
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But in the end, Melinda chose to face it bravely.
Just like the name of this film - "SPEAK", no longer silent.
In other words, she chose to tell.
There's nothing heartwarming at the end of the film. It's just that Melinda seems to be back to her old self, and she starts to smile. {When she was doing the annual signing, she was surprised how sluggish she looked a year ago. }
At the end of the film, Melinda is sitting in her mother's car, rolling down the window, thinking back to the party she attended a year ago. A year ago, on her way to the party, she rolled down the car window, screamed with her head out the window, and laughed with her best friend.
A year later, she Ren Changfeng kissed her cheek gently, without screaming or laughing. When she got home, she told her mother what happened a year ago. The experience of that party.
She spoke, her nose flushed and her voice choked. In my impression, this was the only time she cried in the film.
But it didn't make people feel uncomfortable or sad.
The sun was still shining brightly. Not pale.
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