Another reason is.... Recently, I have watched a lot of violent and cult movies, and I want to have a stage look back at erotic movies. From this perspective, this film disappointed me too much, because there were no erotic scenes in it at all. The only time all the protagonists went out naked, but they were so ugly that they couldn't bear to watch more.
Once again by the title and title of the movie-"Sister Flower in the Brothel" and "The Fall of the Madeleine Girl", which name is not imaginative? -Deceived. I think of bragging to others that I've got a good eye, just look at the cover of the disc to know the film type and size, sweat.
However, if you lose your horse, I can watch it quietly. Religious movies are mostly set in the "evil" Middle Ages, classics such as Pasolini's Decameron. The ecclesiastical rule in medieval Europe harmed humanity, denied science, and obstructed history. The ugliness must be revealed in movies, and it has long been familiar to the audience.
But the time setting of "The Fall of the Madeleine Girl" is in the 1960s. The world at that time, especially Europe, was an era of great emancipation of minds. It was very vivid in thought, art, and movies. For example, France, which developed masters like Godard and Truffaut in the early 1960s, New wave. However, everything portrayed in this movie is incompatible with the prevailing ideological trend at the time.
This is a point that shocked me.
In the 1960s in Europe, there were monastic institutions like Madeleine. Raped virgins, mothers who gave birth to children out of wedlock, and even girls who were prospered by boys, are all considered misbehaving women, and they will all be admitted to this so-called Catholic monastery. Working here endlessly, humiliated, and desperate. Perhaps the so-called civilization and justice, even in Europe that advertises a perfect democratic system, is nothing but a beautiful yearning and a hypocritical excuse. Reminiscing of shelters with Chinese characteristics is just to erase the gender differences between people, but as long as they violate the so-called social order, they will be unwarrantedly controlled and re-education through labor.
The redemption of humanity in "The Fall of the Madeleine Girl" in a so-called civilized society is more shocking than the redemption in the cruel war in "Schindler's List" and the redemption in the desperate cage of "Shawshank's Redemption" sex. Perhaps the gloom of human nature is far from being resolved by the system.
Back to the movie itself, there is another kind of shock.
Finding four ugly people to play the four humiliated heroines, although it is not kind to the audience, it more truly shows the cruelty of monastic life. When a row of tall, short, fat, thin naked nudes stand in front of the nuns and let them humiliate them, we will no longer secretly judge each person's figure, but only the anger at the abuse itself.
Bernadette was arrested into the monastery just because he liked to attract the wind and the butterflies. The fat girl who didn't admit her life tried her best to escape this hell cage. She would take the initiative to seduce the young transporter physically to open the door for her. Her bare thighs covered with weeds showed us stubbornness and unyielding. However, the young man did not fulfill his promise and left cowardly.
We don't know why Rose gave birth to children out of wedlock, but this cannot be an obstacle to her kindness. Everything she has done for the begging for death and her son stems from her kind nature, and her peace of forbearance is a refreshing potion to calm our upset mood. So when Bernadette and Rose escaped from the cage and rushed to the ordinary world, although there was no rain and spread arms in "Shawshank's Redemption", it was enough to move us and it was meaningful.
In fact, we can't put ourselves in and feel the courage of director Peter Mullan to touch religious taboo subjects, but just look at the suffering and strength of these women who are imprisoned in the monastery in a kind of onlooker posture. But because of this, it transcends the restrictions of religious background and enters into a kind of care for human nature. Therefore, even if this movie has a reputation in Europe, its strong concern for human nature can easily impress us.
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