1 Maiden's Pain
"Never Rarely Sometimes Always" The story is very simple. Seventeen-year-old Autumn decides to have an abortion after an unplanned pregnancy. She lives in a place where Pennsylvania law requires minors to have a parent's consent to have an abortion. Autumn Not wanting her parents to know about it, she went to New York with her cousin Skylar for surgery.
This three-day and two-night film is composed of simple dialogue and suppressed footage. The most intense scene is when Autumn hits her stomach to see if she can miscarry on her own, crying silently while beating. Other shots are undercurrents surging, and it seems that every minute and every second, the waves will crash on the shore. I have always preferred female-themed films made by female directors. I guess some people don't like the word "female" in front of directors or writers, but the unique delicacy of women can give them their unique soft texture. Such as the woman who loves fireworks in the world in Wang Anyi's works, and the infatuated woman in Jiang Yun's works. Zhang Aijia's "Little Fishing Girl", "Blind Date", Li Yu's "Apple", "Tieguanyin" and so on.
Every man in the film is disrespectful to women. A cold and violent father not only stingy praise his daughter, but also ridicules him at any time. If his daughter's face is not good, he says she has a problem with her brain. A confused customer, a colleague who was sloppy at work, and when the money was handed over after the checkout, also took the opportunity to grab a kiss. Even if he asked the male boss for leave, he said something suspected of sexual harassment: I will be alone when you leave. The teenagers I met on the way in the car always wanted to attack Skylar, and they entangled Skylar and kissed him before lending them money.
There are a lot of long shots in the film. The most painful long shot is when Autumn confirms her pregnancy, sterilizing the pins with fire at home, applying ice to the surface of her nose, and piercing a nose hole. There were no words, no crying, but the sound of tinkering with the utensils, the heavy breathing of Autumn, the pain of the pin piercing the skin. Reminds me of the day I had my ears pierced. I only decided to get my ears pierced when I was about thirty-five years old. I bought a disposable piercing machine from the Internet and operated it by myself. Why don't you ask others for help, because you're afraid of trouble, others don't dare, only you can be ruthless. Autumn was a revolt against the helpless result, even knowing it was in vain. And me? Of course, it is out of a beautiful heart, and I also want to change that depressed life.
The most heart-wrenching long shot was Autumn's conversation with an agency consultant. Autumn wasn't ready to be a mother, and when the consultant talked to her about relationships, the consultant said that these were privacy questions and she just had to answer "Never, Rarely, Sometimes or Always" (hence the film's title), when Autumn's eyes started to turn red when asked "Has her sexual partner ever threatened her". When asked "whether her sexual partner hit her, clapped her or hurt her in any other way," Autumn bowed her head and said nothing. When asked "Has your partner forced you to have sex with you against your will?" she sobbed softly. A few minutes of long conversation, most of the camera is facing Autumn, the mood from indifferent to sobbing, a little bit high, behind the consultant's professional and soft voice. This comparison shows the hurt that Autumn has suffered in the past, which is heartbreaking. It also makes people wonder who is the father of the child? The same school boy who called Autumn a "slut" offstage when she sang? Or do dogs like dads who are called "bitch"?
In developed countries, American medical care has always been criticized, but Autumn was treated professionally in the clinic. Consultants say they work with volunteers who can help them find cheap accommodation. But Autumn politely refused, because she didn't even have money for accommodation and had been wandering around for two nights. Autumn said "she wasn't ready to be a mother" before making the decision to terminate the pregnancy, and the counselor said "it's totally fine, whatever your decision is, as long as you made it yourself". She can also accompany Autumn in the operating room. Autumn doesn't want her parents to know about the bills because parents who use Medicare will be billed. Financial advisors said they could pay part of it themselves and make up the rest with private funds. These are beyond my comprehension. According to reports, director Eliza Hitman made the film based on a truly tragic event. Savita Halappanavar, an Indian woman living in Ireland, was unfit for pregnancy, but Irish law prohibits abortion, causing her to die from sepsis. If there are people in the country who have the same experience, what should she do? Thinking of every time I go to the hospital with my family, I feel that if I draw lots to see a doctor and meet a patient and professional doctor, the chance of winning the lottery is low. I went to see a doctor with my aunt who was mentally ill, and it was just a common cough and suffered from scorn. I don’t know that we don’t want to seek medical treatment in a professional mental hospital, just because the medical conditions of mental hospitals in third- and fourth-tier cities are so poor that even ordinary CT scans cannot be arranged. Whose fault is this? The doctor said that they are overworked, the treatment is not high, the patients are sad and helpless, and they cannot be judged by simple right and wrong. I have watched two seasons of the documentary "The World", both of which focus on Shanghai and first- and second-tier cities in Zhejiang Province, which are the most prosperous corners of the country, but most patients do not even have the opportunity to seek medical treatment in big cities. No, you can only resort to the medical care that is backward in small cities or towns.
2 Maiden's Friendship
A pair of good friends, young and young, but surrounded by infinite sadness. From a small city to a big city, faced with the complicated traffic all of a sudden, I don't know what to do. Professional medical institutions provide attentive services, but lack of accommodation money, they wandered in the dark city for two nights. The next day was after the cervical dilation surgery, and the pain was unbearable at night, and I also spent it in entertainment venues with clenched teeth. Because the entertainment expenses that night were the teenagers I met on the bus to New York. Skylar didn't like the boy, because of lack of money, he could only endure him touching her at will, even kissing her. Autumn has no family warmth, unsatisfactory love, and even physical harm. Autumn has a gentle mother, but she is soft but not strong enough. She can't stop her husband's cold violence at home. She just lives with her eyes closed. , but fortunately she has a good friend who is willing to commit crimes and steal money for her, and a friend who can endure harassment from strange men for her.
Skylar didn't question her and even stole public funds the night before leaving. Autumn, worried that parents on Medicare would find out about abortions, used stolen public funds to pay for some of the costs, leaving them with no money to buy return tickets. Autumn was reluctant to ask for help from her mother, and she didn't want Skylar to help her own. Skylar had no choice but to ask for help from a boy he met by chance. It is a pity that he is unkind, the teenager always wants to be lustful and obsessed with Skylar, Skylar endures his touch in the karaoke room, and the long kiss before borrowing money. He said that Autumn was having trouble walking around with her luggage, and told her to wait where she was and go outside with Skyla to find an ATM. It was just a delay, and when Autumn found them, he pressed Skylar and kissed on the stone pillar. Autumn walked slowly to the back of the stone pillar, pulled Autumn's hand, and the two of them ticked their tail fingers. The unsuspecting teenager, Skyla who endured disgusted kisses, and Autumn who had mixed tastes. The two girls are quiet and have pure friendship. Autumn knew she owed Skylar a big favor, and she thanked Skylar with a tick.
Youth can be unbridled or cruel, you can't stop, the invisible hand pushes you forward, but your strength is too weak, you don't know how to deal with grief. But sadness is not always in a high-pitched state, it is like a movie, spreading around you, lingering. After the surgery was over, the teenager also borrowed money for them to buy a return ticket, and Autumn finally slept on the return bus. For so many days, she has endured running, enduring pain, enduring guilt and grief, and she has not slept a single night.
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