In many questionnaires, 4 options often appear: never, rarely, sometimes, always. It's the frequency of a certain behavior or the level of a situation, and in this film, these four options refer to the level of violence the girl is subjected to. Such serious and terrible violence is hidden in such a relaxed and indifferent questionnaire.
At the beginning of the film, the girl Autumn held a guitar and sang a sad and helpless song, and was reprimanded by one of the audience as a "slut" during the singing interval. Obviously, some people know the girl's mind, but no one sympathizes with the girl's experience.
The style of this film is extremely restrained, and it is full of close-up shots throughout. During the two girls' trip to New York City for abortion, the camera takes pains to portray the girls' fear, confusion, curiosity and loneliness, while the camera serves as the background and the girl's observation object. New York in New York is like a strange beast, indifferent, dirty, and noisy, surrounding the girl.
Two girls with no support and no money, wandering back and forth in this huge city with potential danger, looking for a place to rest between the hospital, the station, and the subway. Manipulating the mobile phone to pass the time, but no one can talk to, no one can help. In the few conversations, we can feel the two girls seem to warm each other with each other's body heat, supporting each other's bodies. There are dark circles under the eyes, which are covered with foundation and cannot be washed and cleaned, so I will deal with it in the toilet.
In this way, it lasted until the completion of the abortion operation. After appearing to have completed the task of the trip to New York, the girls did not feel relieved. On the contrary, at the end, what is left for the audience is only deep exhaustion and sadness. A life that should have come into the world is lost in this huge city, only because he was born at the wrong time in a wrong action. What is extremely irresponsible and reprehensible is not the girl who doesn't want to be a mother, but the boy who made the girl pregnant with violence.
Likewise, when the girls were left alone, a New York boy showed up. He invites hungry and tired girls to eat, drink, play ball, and sing like an old lover. He seems to be a symbol of the city's ruthlessness and a metaphor for the selfishness of this society. When the girl begged him for help, he immediately took advantage of the situation and made a deal. The girl had to use the color to satisfy him in exchange for the travel expenses home, and this kind of transaction was not uncommon in the girl's hometown.
Doctors investigate sexual violence with 4 options of never, rarely, sometimes, always, while also unraveling the mystery of the girl's pregnancy. In the face of violence, girls are submissive victims, while the perpetrators go unpunished and have no shame. Girls are left to suffer the consequences of this violence alone, and are blamed by the anti-abortion movement. She gave up a life that should have come to this world, but who caused such pain and abandonment? I believe that everyone will have their own judgment in their hearts when they see the girl's tears.
Before the operation, the doctor routinely asked the girl's name and date of birth, judged the girl's level of consciousness and respected her free choice. But this seems to be the girl's own decision, but it is the last choice she is forced to make helpless. Freedom is just an appearance.
The girls are surrounded by ubiquitous indifference and alienation. While warming and supporting each other, the pain in their hearts is slowly revealed on the screen by the calm camera language. Corresponding to the fragile and helpless girl is the indestructible and huge fait accompli of modern civilization, in which all people are forced to seek a place in life. Just like the crowd of homeless people who are still bustling in the middle of the night, they can't talk about resistance or change, but only for the needs of survival to acknowledge and adapt to this fait accompli, and reduce the harm it does to themselves. to the minimum. This helpless and desolate atmosphere runs through the film throughout the film. In many scenes without dialogue or conflict, this depressing and desolate atmosphere itself is the protagonist of the story, making the audience sigh and reflect.
The girls who returned to their hometown with exhaustion and pain, empty bodies and luggage, perhaps, this painful New York trip was just an unfortunate episode in their youth, and the girls would soon forget it. However, the director used this unusual experience to tell the audience that it is precisely because of forgetting and neglect that such tragedies happen all the time. Under the shadow of violence, many unborn lives have been terminated, and many The tears and pain caused the overwhelmed girls to repeat Autumn's experience. And such horrific encounters are so commonplace and so traumatizing, both physically and mentally. The perpetrators, however, received only moral condemnation. The huge imbalance between the perpetrator and the victim may be the chronic disease of the whole society, and the fact that it is hard to return makes such chronic disease never get treated, like a wound that bleeds constantly, shocking, but no one cares about it.
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