Domestic violence, abruptly turning a drama into a horror movie

This year's Venice Film Festival opened last week;

Looking back, the main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival last year brought us such a film that was nominated for the Silver Lion Award and the Golden Lion Award :

"Guardianship".

It's a drama - but the further you look back, the more horror it becomes .

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I don't know if you will cry in mourning or cry in fright - anyway, in the end, the trembling audience in the theater and in front of the screen couldn't stop the tears.

The source of the plot conflict is simple:

Divorced parents fight for custody of their children , and mothers protect children from violent fathers ;

As a result, he did not win the right of sole custody. At the same time, the father forcibly intervened in the child's life in various ways, which almost led to tragedy.

The telling of this cold story in the movie is also very simple-

From the court judgment , to the comparison of several episodes of father-son coexistence with that of mother-son coexistence, to the complete outbreak of contradictions .

In the slow but firm progression of the movie, you may have already made a mental premise:

For this theme, you may have seen too many in other films;

However, when the vicious mask was torn with blood , even with great preparations, it was too unbearable.

Under the extreme shadow of domestic violence , children are eternal victims.

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Please stop, who is responsible for my wounds

After watching the film, I felt that it would be an exaggeration if the film suggested that "part of the content may cause discomfort" .

How much harm does endless domestic violence do to children?

Contradictions and conflicts between elders should not be caused by children, nor should they be related to them;

Far and near separation, should not let the child be guilty .

But in countless cases of high-pressure families, the fear of being swallowed up hangs over the children.

The "court" , the place responsible for finalizing the decision, was not the end this time, but was moved to the beginning.

Once it came up, it took a single scene of about fifteen minutes to present the process of making a transcript before a hearing.

There is no loud quarrel, no fierce confrontation, and the emotional expression of both parents is also very restrained , only struggling between small expressions;

The children as witnesses also did not appear, only their testimony strung the whole scene.

But this seemingly peaceful scene is enough to suffocate .

This quarter of an hour of quiet discussion is enough to make you fidgety —enough to make you think, "Why isn't it over yet?"

The way the father treats life in the film is obviously a mess, and the children are reluctant to approach him;

However, accusing the mother of being "excessive" for her actions to protect her child actually brought the situation back for him:

The judgment of the court is obviously not fair enough;

This decision started the fermentation process of a series of subsequent potential events .

In order to protect the child, the mother tried every means, but even lying about being sick could not stop the father's insistence ;

Every time the son sits in the co-pilot, he cannot communicate properly with his father at all—

It is embarrassing to say light, but in fact, it can be seen that the psychological shadow of the son is huge.

I don't want to see each other in private, and I can't wait to dig a hole to hide when I meet.

[No Love to Tell] is about a more indifferent form of cold violence—

Parents indulge in the separation and confrontation between each other , and the child gradually disappears from this family life in the process - and finally, he really disappears completely .

Whether it's conflict or ignorance , the blow to a child is huge.

The scene at the grandparents' house can be said to ease the tension slightly ;

Too bad this didn't last long.

Communication with my grandparents is smooth, but I always face the sudden outbreak of my father in the next second .

Unstable emotions, of course, deepened the child's fear, not to mention this situation occurs again and again.

He also fiercely refused to change the child's request for custody time, and then just slammed the door and left the dust.

At the same time, the desire for control over his ex-wife has reached a pathological level.

In addition to his bad behavior when living with his children, the father also indirectly imposed his violent tendencies towards his ex-wife on his son, or found an opportunity to directly impose it on his ex-wife.

Even so, the father is still accusing his ex-wife of being "controlling" over the children, believing that the ex-wife is "brainwashing the children" and that this is the reason why the children are alienating him.

It's funny, even though I can't laugh anymore.

When my father blasted open the house with a shotgun and injured his son's ear, I shivered along with my mother and son while watching the film—

Looking back, with a father like that, it was literally destined to happen, wasn't it?

Violence begets violence , which in turn begets a brutal end ;

The perpetrators of domestic violence will not give up unless they lead to extreme situations and the sovereign they want to seize cannot be obtained .

There is no sympathy, no repentance, no understanding in the mind of such a person, only a disgusting desire to commit violence - against his own family.

Having said that, let’s turn around and look at the recent “ Didi” incident——

There are things, just sighing and cursing, that one doesn't know where to start.

Well, I don't dare to watch this movie a second time.

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In the dark, put down the gun waving in your hand

There is no doubt that the mother and child in this family are all absolute direct victims of the mental and physical violence of the father in the film.

The mother, who had the instinct to protect her children, became more desperate but cautious after experiencing the entanglement of her ex-husband——

Those lies, attempts and positive obstacles to help children avoid their fathers all seem so pale, so helpless, so embarrassing.

She's just an ordinary woman--

Although not highlighted in the film, her tragic marriage with her father in the film is obviously full of violence and pain ;

She tried to do everything she could to protect her children , but what she got was the unwarranted infamy and more extreme actions of her ex-husband .

The role of daughter is also very cleverly set:

There is no positive rivalry between her and her father at all - but this character is indispensable in the story.

Her interactions with her boyfriend and gatherings with her classmates and friends represent her personal life, while her interactions with her mother represent the intersection with her family.

The two reflect the cross- interaction in the daughter in the film, which plays an auxiliary role in the development of the story ;

All the contradictions and resolving factors in this family can sometimes be seen from the daughter through alienation .

Such as mother's lawyer, grandparents, daughter's boyfriend and mother's friend --

These images, more or less, contrast and reflect the brutality of the father through their own attitudes towards the central event and their expressions in daily life .

Moreover, these characters are also the normal side of the mother and children's life, and greatly relieve the film's tense atmosphere.

The judiciary, which supposedly represents impartiality—

But obviously, in many cases, this is not the case.

The verdict in the film also illustrates one point: the legal rulings in this world always have places that can not touch the worst part of human nature .

At such times of need to get into the vicious circle of "potential danger" , the law is very powerless.

I don't know if it is possible to call on perpetrators of domestic violence to stop their violence against their own family members;

But what I can be sure of is that none take this issue lightly;

The official means that should be used must be used, the law that should be perfected must be perfected, and the punishment that should be handed down must be handed down.

Don't let the victim fall deeper and deeper into the darkness.

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Text: Yorkshire Viking

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