Speak - A Short Review of "No More Silence"

Carolyne 2022-04-22 07:01:47

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Christine has always struck me as silent, melancholic, and rebellious. The tone of the film is also suppressed in the first half. Fragments of memories flashed by, and the truth has been hidden and difficult to surface. And the repressed reality is a foil to the helplessness of inner struggle. There is fear in her heart. In order to maintain her prestige, the stereotyped teacher in reality also keeps the students silent, so the heroine's heart is even more repressed and even more silent.

Fortunately, the art teacher is an avant-garde and friendly person. He saw the depression in the heroine's heart, so he directed her to draw a tree in his heart. No matter what kind of work she handed over, she is fully encouraged and praised. Taking the tree as an outlet, the heroine struggles, wanders, hesitates, and repeats in her mental journey... Finally, after experiencing her mental journey, she persuades the silent self, and tells the person she trusted her terrible experience, and no longer remains silent.

This reminds me of the Snow Queen from Frozen. Because of her peculiar abilities, she was afraid of being called a freak by others, so she locked herself up and established her own kingdom of ice and snow, preventing anyone from entering her world. However, as sung in "let it go", she gained freedom and happiness in the ice and snow kingdom she built, and all the unhappiness in the past was relieved like this. I really like this lyric in the movie - "Let it go, let it go...be the good girl you always have to be."

Silence, sometimes to cover up the inner fragility, sometimes to protect yourself, sometimes to fulfill others. It's frustrating to be silent all the time, but when the time is right, silence is golden. It depends on how you balance yourself. Still, an occasional, well-meaning silence is always good.

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  • Mr. Freeman: Can anybody tell me what this is?

    [holds up a smashed globe]

    Ivy: A globe?

    Mr. Freeman: A globe? Gosh... what are you guys, 13, 14? You already let them beat the creativity outta you? It's okay. I used to let my daughters kick this around my studio when it was too wet too play outside and one day, Jenny put her foot right through Texas and the entire United States crumbled into the sea. I mean, you could... you could paint a wet muzzled dog chewing Alaska! The possibilities are endless. It's almost too much, but you all are important enough to give it too.

  • Mr. Freeman: In here is a piece of paper and on that piece of paper is a word. You are gonna spend the rest of the year turning that object into art.

    Ivy: Uh, Mr. Freeman? When I was little, I was really scared of clowns and I don't wanna relapse and have to go back into therapy.

    Mr. Freeman: Oh, yeah, well, fear is a great place to begin art.

    [Melinda picks a piece of paper that says "tree" and tries to put it back]

    Mr. Freeman: Hey! Whoa. You just chose your destiny. You can't change that.

    Melinda Sordino: I learned how to draw a tree in like the 2nd grade.

    Mr. Freeman: Oh, really? Um. Well, do you wanna show me? It's okay. I won't grade you.

    [he hands her the chalk and Melinda sulks up to the blackboard and very hesitantly draws a really pathetic tree]

    Mr. Freeman: That's a pretty good start. Yeah, let's see what it looks like at the end of the year.

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