Antonia's smile

Lottie 2022-01-21 08:02:43

Every time I saw Antonia's calm smile, the whole world was quiet. She is like a kind mother, caring for the members of the big family and comforting everyone in the audience.

This world is dirty, especially for a woman. Only when she turns from a girl to a woman can she find it getting dirty.

Remember the heroine Val’s grandmother in the diary of sexually hidden women said to her, enjoy your life as much as possible. Getting married and being a prostitute are actually the same. Marriage is nothing more than selling one's body to a fixed person.

When will we escape the fate of selling ourselves?

I was surrounded by all women,
a woman who was tortured tonight by a gynecological disease so that she could not fall asleep and had a mental disorder, a woman who had been spoiled, ravaged, and insulted by men after several love affairs.
A woman who can't stand her husband's machismo, has been searching for herself all her life, so she uses gambling to lose money to relieve her hatred, and is finally dragged out of bed by a man and violent.
A woman who has to comfort herself in the face of her own man's sexual organs that are about to become suppurative after having fun outside.
A woman in her early 20s who had given birth to a man once but was abandoned. After breaking up, she should not have a new girlfriend for a man within a week.


If we can be stronger, if we don’t have to rely on men, if we can get rid of the so-called moral shackles, will the world become cleaner as a result.

Woman, in any case, whether you are his baby or his only one, please cherish yourself, keep yourself, and keep a separate space for yourself.

In this world, no one is the salvation of others.

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Extended Reading
  • Trace 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The first time I watched a Dutch (language) movie, I didn’t quite get used to it. After watching the first 30 to 40 minutes, I thought it was about a farm/manor in the 17th and 18th centuries. I didn’t expect that the narrative time was after World War II. Enter state. The problem with acceptance is that they don’t know much about the cultural traditions that the film inherits, such as the status and roles of women in Dutch rural society, so it’s difficult to judge whether the characters’ motives are absurd or realistic; Shang women, reminds me of Wei Lianshu in "Eternal Light", whose narrative and religious significance is temporarily unexplored. On December 25, 2020, at 18:30 in the Bai Lecture Auditorium of Peking University, Christmas Eve-Christmas screening, you will be notified as soon as you appear on the stage, and the New Year's Eve party will receive a ticket that morning, together with several film screenings in January. And it was cancelled. The ten-year-old personal tradition of New Year's Eve at Bai Lecture had to come to an end. Kuei Kei also prepared a few group photos for on-site projection. Watching this movie became the only time to enter the lecture hall this year.

  • Taya 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    Not my cup of tea. What a gibberish. Only moved a bit at the end.

Antonia's Line quotes

  • Boer Daan: Still as mean and ugly as before. But, Christ, what a well-stacked daughter you've got. Here, my two sons. Thoroughbred stallions both of them, ready to be put out to stud. Just right for this girl of yours, eh?

  • Kromme Vinger (Crooked Finger): The world is a hell, inhabited by tormented souls and demons.

    Thérèse (13): Schopenhauer?