Innocent victims: For example, an innocent girl, who has never seen a sinister heart, was robbed of her virgin virginity by her cousin at a singing and dancing wedding. In the eyes of others, you as a victim are a real one. No buckle sinners and sluts.
Honest and trustworthy relatives: Once you confess the pain to your trusted relatives and hope to be comforted and protected from them, you will inevitably face the danger: For the face of the family, in order to maintain the dignity of male members, they may be ruthless Sacrifice you, including your newborn baby. They only hope that you will disappear from now on, without bringing a trace of dirt to their glamorous faces.
Innocent and imprudent: From the day you are born as a woman, you have to pray that you will become a compliant girl next door, like a saint, without desire and desire. If you make any "decent girl", you shouldn’t have With his vanity and frivolous behavior, behind you, there will be countless rope-like gazes that will bind you firmly and send you to this Madeleine correctional home specially set up for "bitch."
In order to survive and suffer less pain, you must
have a name that satisfies the nuns: the most important thing is not to have the same name, so that the nuns bother to distinguish between two different people. If you have the same name, you'd better have another name, otherwise the nuns will definitely give you a new name, and you won't even know yourself anymore. But having said that, if those old women stay here for 40 years, numb and pious, what does it matter if they have their own names?
Overworked: Work is the only reason you can live. No one is willing to raise a waste, including kind nuns. Get up at 6 o'clock, pray at 6:30, and work at 7 o'clock. There are always endless clothes for you to wash, until your hands are painful to numb, as white as paper. Whether the money you get from your labor is actually sent to children in Africa is not something you should be concerned about. You only need to know that washing clothes is washing away your sins and washing your soul.
Obedience: Don't say "no", don't ask questions, don't interrupt the nun's orders and admonitions. Disobedience is the most intolerable fault, otherwise you will face the punishment of haircut and whipping, and after being beaten, you have to say thank you, nun.
Don't make friends: this big house, which is cold and claustrophobic all year round, does not grow potted plants, warmth, and friendship is never allowed. Your voice only needs to pray every day, praise the Almighty Lord, thank the merciful nun, and then it will be silent and indifferent, isolated and helpless. When someone stole the sacred talisman of the poor neurotic girl, the only thing she had, her children and hope, no one thought it was a big deal, and the numb silence of that room was horrifying.
Isolation from the world: You must accept this fact and enter here. No one is voluntary. You are a person who has been voluntarily abandoned by the outside world, so don’t try to get in touch with them, even if you only send a Christmas card to your son. . If you make such a request or try to talk to outsiders, what awaits you is a shower of whipping.
Learn to praise and lie: Seeing Sister Ingrid Bergman's poignant expression on the screen, Sister Dean burst into tears with a holy light on her face. You keep your eyes open and face each other coldly. This is the best movie. You can deceive yourself by pretending to be touched and compassionate. You must also benefit a lot from it, hiding resentment against the bishop and the camera, and squeezing the happiest smile.
Forget the shame: the word "sinner" is always branded on your forehead, and sinners have no shame. Being naked in front of the old virgins wrapped in black robes and letting them be humiliated is nothing compared to the shame you have brought to God compared to the sins you have committed. You know, that was just invented by the nuns who wanted you to be happy. game.
Consecration: Here, your only purpose is to atone for sins, and the nuns and priests are God’s people, instead of the Lord to guide and take care of you. Therefore, to dedicate yourself to a respected priest, to satisfy his shameless carnal needs, or to swear before the Lord to dedicate your body and soul to the correctional institution and endless work forever. That is your greatest glory.
Beware of old women: Don’t think that those old women who have red eyes and gray hair will sympathize with you and have the same pain and fear as you. For 40 years, if you can use your miserable 40 days to imagine theirs In 40 years, you will understand why they have only hatred and loyalty left in their hearts, and their faces are either wrinkled with viciousness and gloat, or with empty and pale satisfaction like the sheets that have been washed for 40 years.
If you want to escape...
Of course you have to remember two premises, that is: first, you have to have a place to go, your relatives must be willing to come back, and this is almost impossible, then facing you is a more painful experience than the punishment of a nun , The curse of the family, the whipping of the father, and personally send you back to the cage. Secondly, you must have the power to bear the eyes of the world. You can never wash off the mark on your forehead, and you can't get rid of the malevolent and obscene look of a man. In this look, you will be like the girl named Marguerite, when the opportunity comes suddenly. Staying back from time to time.
Method 1: Have a brother who is deeply affectionate with you, wait patiently for him to grow up, and then come and take you away. This is the most ideal method, but how many people are lucky? Even if there is a relative who really cares about you, it may be like Kespina's sister, even if you are dying, you will never know your news.
Method 2: Rely on the hue to seduce the man in charge of the key. This method is very unreliable. Of course you have to have Brenda's beauty. More importantly, you have to rely on men completely, and how dirty, cowardly, mean and unreliable men are, you should have known poorly.
Method three: suicide. When there is no way to go, you will choose the most decisive way to be liberated forever. You can hang a beam, you can put on a water-soaked pajamas and die from a fever on a steep spring night. But once you are rescued, you openly despise mercy with death, and you can only anger the nuns. They don't even give you a chance to die, but drive you crazy.
Method four: kill the birthplace. Just like Brenda, she fought angrily that night and discovered that the nuns were also afraid. They were not closer to God than you, and even a brass candlestick could level the big house from the roots. So, who is Zeng Jin who gave them the power of spiritual slavery?
Regarding "Madeleine"
1. It is the name of the correctional institution. In the suburbs of Dublin, the Irish capital of the 1960s, the city of Joyce was depressing and even crazy. Similar to the juvenile management office we know, the difference is that no one will wait for you to come back like a child who has made mistakes. Basically, you are a person abandoned by society and family.
2. It is the name of a person, the guardian of the Madeleine Correctional Institution, a woman who once "gave her body to evil and licentiousness for money". She attempted suicide, so she abstained from sex, did not eat or sleep, and was overloaded with work.
3. It is the name of a movie, directed by the British Peter Mullan, who won the Golden Lion Award at the 2002 Venice Film Festival. If you see the long list of white letters on a black background at the beginning and end of the movie, and you think of Schindler's list, I wouldn't be surprised at all. The documentary style, the extremely suppressed atmosphere of anger and sadness, the cold, humid, and claustrophobic space, without any outlet for venting, a movie in which the power of emotion makes you ignore the technique.
Fourth, it is the truth. In Ireland under Catholic rule, this kind of church-run asylum houses are spread all over the island, becoming a chain institution that accumulates wealth and persecutes women to suppress humanity, and its indifferent, hypocritical and cruel expression does not only belong to the church. Until the last one was closed in 1996, 30,000 women have been locked up in correctional homes across the island. When Peter Moulin's film was awarded in Venice last year, the anger and accusation of the Vatican were of course expected. Choosing such a true subject matter itself means great courage. The pirates commented on the director on the DVD jacket: The words are not surprising and endless.
——But you know, what is amazing is not movies, but life.
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