"No Name Girl" is a crisp film, with the camera closely following Adela Harnell's Jenny, the clinic doctor. One night, the doorbell of Jenny's clinic was rang. The intern Julianne wanted to open the door, and Jenny taught him: "We've been off work for an hour." Julianne insisted: "What if it's an emergency?" Jenny retorted: "If it's an emergency, the doorbell will ring twice." The doorbell didn't The second sound, as if declaring Jenny's victory, Julianne left the clinic angrily. The next day, Jenny was told by police that the body of an unnamed girl had been found by the river, the same person who rang her doorbell last night.
Jenny's life changed dramatically because of this incident. The reason for the change is not from the outside world, but a kind of self-moral judgment. Although the police, her familiar patients or her seniors told her that it wasn't her fault, after all, she was not the real perpetrator, but Jenny still couldn't escape her inner trial. She gave up her already determined promotion opportunity and decided to stay in this small clinic on the side of the remote highway to continue serving the residents of the community. She even moved her home to the clinic and was unwilling to miss any help from any patient. At the same time, she stored the photo of the unknown girl on her mobile phone, and when she saw a possible opportunity, she would ask the other party if she knew the girl. She hoped to find out the identity of the girl, she bought a cemetery for the girl and waited for the girl's family to come and claim it.
In the process of finding the identity of the unnamed girl, Jenny not only maintained the clinic's daily admissions, but also took the initiative to contact all kinds of people in the community. Whether it is a daily patient or a stranger who appears because of the case, they seem to be cross-sections, forming the living conditions of ordinary people in the contemporary French social reality that the Darney brothers are trying to present. Most of these people are not wealthy. There are foreign black workers who dare not go to the hospital after being burned because they are afraid of having their passport checked. There are elderly people living alone who cannot go to the Social Security Bureau to pay gas bills by themselves because of diabetes and mobility issues. Young man who smashes things in anger because Jenny refuses to cooperate with false sick leave... Jenny selflessly helps those who are in need of care and suffers from hostile attackers. Maybe it was to atone for her sins, maybe she was just like that. The movement of the camera is calm and objective, but in this calm, we can always feel some inadvertent warmth flowing between strangers. The Darney brothers have successfully captured this inadvertent, primitive and pure goodwill between people, after excluding the interest relationship.
Jenny's run came to an end, and the nameless girl got her name right. The conversation in the clinic between Jenny and the "murderer" (not murder) is impressive. The "Murderer" did not dare to go to the police station to confess because he was afraid. He shouted: "Why should I ruin my life!" Jenny calmly persuaded: "But the girl wants us to do this." The "Murderer" retorted loudly: "She doesn't care! She's dead!" "If she were dead, she wouldn't be in our minds."
For most ordinary people, no matter what the constraints of society, rules, and laws are, in the end, we must face the private and heavy moral judge in our hearts. We had no choice but to face it like Jenny did. At the end of the film, after knowing the true identity of the unknown girl, Jenny has no sentimentality, no grief, no carnival and relief after redemption. She just walked silently to the next old man who was waiting in the waiting room, helped her downstairs slowly, and walked to the consulting room. black field. The movie ends.
Life has to go on, maybe Jenny can stop dreaming about that nameless girl.
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