Jane's appearance is mediocre. Her striking red fluffy curly hair and rotten teeth are the signs of her growth. She is extremely sensitive and sensitive to language. The twists and turns of her childhood made her lose self-confidence. All you want is always cringe. As soon as she was born, the twins who were connected to her by blood were the beginning of the deprivation of intimacy. The unexpected deaths of his two sisters later took a toll on his mental state.
Flawed in appearance, she retreats deeply in the face of her desire to be loved and identified with the opposite sex. Even so, she still hopes that her appearance can be affirmed, just like when her book was first published, she was very concerned that there was no picture of her in the book, hoping to gain some affirmation and acceptance of her appearance.
She is always suppressing her self-needs, and her actions are awkward, especially in some special situations (received a notice from the publisher that she is willing to help him publish a book), her emotions have reached the highest point, if it is true It was revealed that she could have some physical contact with the opposite sex in front of her, such as hugging, but at this time she was embarrassed that she didn't know where to put her hands and feet.
Wandering in the deprivation of death, and the thirst for sex and love, writing has become her only way of communicating with the outside world. After his writing ability was affirmed at an early age, he had the opportunity to access resources in this area (such as a free license to the library), which was the beginning of her outstanding family. Being exposed to the beautiful and imaginative world of literature is her redemption from losing her real life, just like when she lost her sister unexpectedly for the first time, she realized the situation in which she was hazy. Literature has irrigated her outlook on life, but it has made her different from the contemporary people or the people around her. For example, when she heard that the end of World War II cost hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives, others were ecstatic to raise their glasses to celebrate. But there is almost hysterical sadness. When she was under the care of a local man in England, he told her to watch out for black people, and she replied that she did not approve of skin color to judge people's good or bad. Wanting to remove labels and boundaries is her obvious difference from the environment at the time, always hoping to find another way out in the narrow reality, which makes her outstanding performance in literature, but also causes her inner contradiction and pain. , Can learn to truly affirm herself, and it is her completion to save herself.
Jane is a middle-class family of two generations. There are many children in the family who are in financial difficulties. Parents have neglected to take care of their children. For example, when they went on a trip, they didn't find one of the sisters missing until they came home and looked at the photos. Later, they learned that she had drowned. news. Life is full of uncertainty, and there is always the shadow of sudden death. Therefore, they can only struggle between fantasy and reality. When they were young, they would learn "The Twelve Princesses" in Grimm's fairy tale in the Midnight Forest and imagine themselves in it. However, the strength of the struggle gradually turned to the side of reality with age - except for Jane.
In the structure of the whole family, the boundaries between the family members are entangled, and the members must give up autonomy because of the overemphasis on belonging, which hinders the ability to explore spontaneously and dominate the problem. Jane, who grew up in such an environment, faced the pain of self-selection again and again. Her family felt very incomprehensible about her giving up teaching, and asked directly what would you do with your life? What would your parents do? And when the epileptic brother could join the army, the parents cheered happily, thinking it was a supreme honor, but ignored the The unease and panic on the brother's face beside him. Then when he couldn't find a job because of his illness, the sisters used a mocking metaphor that he couldn't make money. All these made Jane on the side feel pain, loss and helplessness.
The whole family is superficially connected, and no one can actually understand each other's inner needs. Its closed state is like a microcosm of the society at that time. For example, the attitude towards sex is complete avoidance and neglect or severe punishment. When she was a child, Jane first heard about sex from her friend Bobby, and then the two spied on their siblings having sex in the jungle. Unaware of the seriousness of the problem, she actually said it directly at the dinner table, in exchange for a furious father and a severe beating, and strictly forbid her from interacting with Bobby. Jane described her mother as a Christian fan. When she faced Jane's first menstrual period, she hurriedly taught her how to do it, and then said that you came at 15 years old, you must be grateful, and then left, completely ignoring Jane's anxiety and doubts. At home, the mother kept giving like a horse, and even felt guilty for a moment of breathing, and the whole family was spinning in a rigid frame.
After learning that Jane was diagnosed with schizophrenia, the family went to check the book for the first time and found that it would not be better (the book was written at the time), and could only force a smile and be speechless. When she was in the hospital for eight years, she finally decided to have a prefrontal lobectomy because of a consent form signed by her mother. The entire family, ignorant of Jane's condition and needs, left her to suffer. She continued to write after leaving the hospital, and when her book was published, the old writer applied for a study abroad grant for him. When the whole family came to pick her up, the atmosphere was awkward when the fully-dressed father showed a strong unfriendly attitude towards the writer who had been naked for the first half of his life (as he has always been). These clips fully show the conflict between the family atmosphere and Jane's heart, so she suppresses the real needs of her heart and cannot express it. Such as the need for sex and love, she has a self-reported paragraph in the film, "I hope to be as mysterious as her, prompting men to explore, but I have blocked the entrance and exit, and I feel as cold as a block of wood."
All in all, Jane's family is indeed related to her subsequent series of behavioral coping and loss. She has become a scapegoat in the family because of her differences with her family. She is different in the family, whether in appearance or in appearance. It's about ability and thinking. The other sisters are molded products like this family—conservative and realistic. She carries the shadow of family and her ideal world, and the conflict between the two makes her feel overwhelmed. In the interaction process of the whole family, there is more coercion than communication, and the development of stereotyped individuals and rigid identification, so interpersonal relationships are gradually retreated in the repression, showing a certain degree of social isolation and self-neglect.
The film is set in New Zealand after World War I, still in the British sphere of influence, inheriting its conservative and restrained atmosphere. Jane, who has been labeled as a child from a troubled family since childhood, was often publicly humiliated by teachers in front of her classmates at school. She even bought candy for her classmates by stealing her father's money to please her. Discriminatory view. However, she also met a good friend who was willing to share with her, and also let her hear about sex for the first time. At this time, her writing talent was discovered by a teacher of the opposite sex and encouraged her, which opened the door to literature, the most beautiful field in her heart, and the only channel for her to affirm herself.
In adolescence, she began to have curiosity and yearning for sex and the opposite sex, but her appearance and withdrawn character made her only comfortable in groups that always discussed ideas and literature. When she was studying abroad, on the one hand, she had to face unfamiliar interpersonal relationships independently, which made her feel frustrated and powerless, and could only watch the happy atmosphere of everyone on the side. She is always looking for an answer to keep herself supported. She feels that there are too many realities to face in life, and she can only pretend that she is not alone, pretending that teaching is her lifelong wish, until all the depression and incomprehension are in her trial. She broke out while teaching, almost dying, and finally had the courage to pursue her dream - to be a writer.
On the other hand, she, who has longed for love but could not find comfort and satisfaction, has a soft spot for psychology lecturers. Even because he thinks she needs to be hospitalized, she really thinks she is a patient until she enters the hospital. Only then did she find out that it was a psychiatrist, but she chose to accept it silently. In the hospital, the behavior of other mentally ill patients made her panic and wonder if she belonged in this world. Until another of her sisters died unexpectedly, the psychology lecturer advised him to see another doctor, saying there was a new therapy, and she complied. She began her eight-year long hospital stay, received nearly 800 electric shocks, and almost had a prefrontal lobectomy surgery. It was not until her book was published and won an award that she had the chance to be discharged from the hospital.
In a foreign life, the new experience and love allow her to release herself, separate from the original environment, truly taste the beauty of sex and being loved, and also experience and recognize the great loss and pain of separation. After the miscarriage, she began to want to play the role of a helper again and volunteered to be admitted to the local mental hospital, which she felt to some extent was the best place for her. Until the local doctor told her that she was not mentally ill, it was a complete misjudgment. At first hearing the fact that he was not a mentally ill person felt more frightening than misjudgment. In the process of anxiety, she sought deep psychological treatment, where she still hoped that the doctor would tell her what to do, and the doctor told her "when you don't want it, just say no". And refused to affirm her work, believing that it was the responsibility of the publisher and author, not him.
After she became famous, she received the bad news of her father's accidental death and felt that she had no goals to pursue outside, so she decided to return home.
When she rearranged everything and gradually found her lost self and her own answers. The strange reporter came down from the hillside, hoping to take pictures of her, and she began to accept such strangeness. Although she was a little overwhelmed at first, it finally began-her another journey.
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