Jeanne Dillman was the first Ackerman movie I saw and one of my favorites. The film focuses on the daily life of a family woman for three days. Although it is "everyday", it is not ordinary. Some people say it's a film about women's rights, and I see it as a woman's tragedy.
three days of life. Get up, cook, take a shower, take a bath, cook steak, cook carrots, peas, potatoes, boil water, make coffee, chat with son. It made up almost all of her life. Her husband is not around, letters from distant relatives, boring and ordinary day-to-day life. What I noticed is that there are many scenes in the film of her letting go, sitting quietly at the table, as if waiting for some kind of mysterious and hopeless judgment, drinking coffee (in my opinion, this coffee has no taste), waiting. The whole film is one scene after another fixed camera, which made me get closer to her life and feel her pain more.
The son seemed to be the only person she confided in, but she was not that close to him. He was reminded more than once at the dinner table not to read, and refused to answer when his son asked those questions. The son is also numb, and his behavior is repeated, and he concentrates on books. It seems that there is nothing new.
What impressed me was the porcelain jar, which contained money, so to speak, her savings. And where did this savings come from? In the end, you can see that she sold her body in exchange for it. The final outburst, like her provocation of life. She was exhausted from the boring life all day long.
It can be said that women were neglected in the past, and now we need to give them more attention.
I think of every mother, I carefully observed my mother's life, got up in the morning to cook, do laundry, buy food, cook, sleep, watch TV, play mahjong, dance. The same monotonous repetition of yesterday. This is not just the monotony of life, but the despair of life from the heart. Their souls are dead.
At the end of the film, I see it as the awakening of women. This is the new life of Jean Nadirman. She let out a roar that shocked the world and herself. She found a way to redeem herself. He seemed to say to the world: fuck your life.
It's a tragedy and a woman's epic. What she taught me is to learn to pay attention, maybe we don't understand, but we have to understand, maybe we want to escape, but we have to face it.
The world doesn't turn for anyone, but everyone is part of the world, and so are women.
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