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In fact, the title of the film is intended to emphasize "ordinary", but it makes people feel that it is not "ordinary". But after watching the film, I understood the director's intentions. Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's "Ordinary Woman" (2017), of course, is not ordinary. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018, and it makes sense. The transgender Daniela Vega plays the transgender Marina in the film. This kind of piercing truth, the kind of pain that goes deep into the skin, can be said to be exactly the same, and the grasp is extremely accurate, which makes people extremely convincing. I love the disheartened detachment of the film as a whole. It's like an indictment, and it's like an expression, but its intensity and rhythm are precise and impeccable.
Marina, 23, is in love with Orlando, 57. That is to say, if we don't look at them differently, they are just a normal couple, but if you add a transgender Marina, once these tinted glasses are worn, it will breed endless insults. The simple brutality of Marina in the film is not limited to Orlando's ex-wife, son and relatives, but also female detectives. What is rare is that Orlando's brother Gabe and her singing teacher are very understanding and supportive of her.
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But more than that, the real society generally has a contemptuous attitude towards transgender people, which seems to have nowhere to hide and nowhere for Marina, who has "went to die", making it difficult to take a good breath. She wears sunglasses when she goes out, and she can only punch and decompress when she stays in the house. The film deliberately created such a scene, the swept garbage debris chased after her, and the ferocious wind was like a sealed hard baffle, blocking her from moving forward safely. Her body was bent 45 degrees by the gusting wind. So deliberate, which is relatively rare in past movies. It shows the great pressure in her heart, which is like a trace of destruction.
Does the film just want to emphasize the many unbearable situations that special groups face in the face of real pressure, and expect people to understand more? Obviously, it will not be so simple. On the contrary, we saw the rare silence of the film, the restraint under the breathless, and even the coldness from beginning to end. Marina didn't vent for no reason, she just kept silent, a behavior that was more normal than normal. From a certain point of view, she acts like an "angel" everywhere. If you thought she was weak, you were wrong. No, she was fighting the whole unbearable reality with super willpower. This of course tested her patience.
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On the contrary, we see that the abnormal hysteria is people who pretend to be normal, and they are full of foul language. They spat on her, called her "scumbag, gay, super-fascinated," and kidnapped her into a car with tape around her nose and face. In fact, Orlando's family didn't care about Orlando at all, even the dog was abandoned by his son Bruno and was eventually taken in by Marina. To be honest, they care more about Orlando's pocketbook. Their accusation against Marina was, in the final analysis, nothing more than fear that she would devour Orlando's wealth.
From the beginning, their relationship with Marina and Orlando was regarded as "super perverted". It seems that this society has established a perverted relationship, so they have the right to insult her as much as they want. In other words, it's not Marina and Orlando's romance that is disgusting, but these irrational savage revenge. For Marina, it was a "bad and unbearable life". People, often when they are irrational, don't understand how irritated they are, how twisted they are. We see this terrible ugliness in what the Orlando family did to Marina.
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Let me restore the truth. Orlando was with Marina that night. She suddenly felt unwell in the middle of the night. She was rushed to the hospital by Marina. In this way, Marina became the target of public criticism. Orlando's relatives suspected that she did it deliberately, and even the police thought so. Indeed, that night, only they were together, like ordinary lovers, there was no fuss about it. It's just that when she went back to close the door, Orlando couldn't hold it, and suddenly fainted and fell down the stairs, but this was not what she did on purpose.
Look at Marina's helpless and pleading eyes. Look at the female detective Kirsty, with a domineering look, instructing the forensic department to strip her naked for examination, this is what makes her the most painful, you Kirsty is also a woman, how can you be so spoiled, so disrespectful to the same Female Marina. "I'm just flesh and blood, an ordinary woman." But who listens to her. People regarded her as a "monster". Orlando's ex-wife Sonia and her son thought that this "pervert" was only with Orlando because she wanted to make money from her ex-husband. They always treat the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.
But Marina said quietly, I don't want anything. Orlando's car, house and everything, were given to them. She just wanted to go to her lover's funeral, but they wouldn't allow it. Bruno even took the dog, which made her sad, because she knew that this guy abandoned the dog back then, and she was afraid that he would abandon it again, so she rushed to the church farewell meeting, but she didn't expect to be regarded as trouble by them. Indiscriminately, they kidnapped her into a car, taped her mouth, and insulted her vigorously. A guy who likes to be rough can only prove his shameful weakness.
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In addition to the endless pain, the man Orlando brought her was the key number 181. She had never been sure where this mysterious key came from. As a result, in the restaurant where she served, I saw an old man who also had such a key when checking out. After asking, I found out that it was the key of Finlandia sauna. So, she went, which was a mixed-gender sauna. As a result, cabinet 181 was empty. This plot, in my opinion, is not unnecessary, but that Marina, who is a transgender person, has truly completed the psychological transformation from male to female, and she no longer cares about the troubles and accusations this identity causes her. There's something magical about it.
In addition, this also corresponds to the title. Orlando, who likes to take a sauna, was coming out of that sauna. That night, he was rushed to the hospital, indicating that his sudden death had nothing to do with Marina. If yes, it was because he was in the sauna room, and the prolonged steaming probably caused him discomfort, which also relieved Marina of the false "criminal". That's the genius of the movie. If you think about it carefully, you will be surprised by the dense and delicate scene correspondence of the movie. After all, this is only from the hands of a new and cutting-edge director. Its overall narrative, photography and editing skills are enough to match those famous directors.
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From "The Danish Girl" to this "Ordinary Girl", the development of human sex reassignment surgery has only lasted for more than 100 years. This is an unremitting long march for special groups of human beings to self-certify their own cognition. And the film can be retracted and released freely, which shows the effort. It diligently downplays the narrative to illustrate Marina's anxious, restless, and unresolved expression, which inspires infinite sympathy and compassion. Even her own sister Wanda and brother-in-law Gaston, who on the surface accept it, actually look at Marina with tinted glasses.
In the end, Marina walked through the dark underpass and kissed her beloved Orlando tightly, but it was only an illusion of her thoughts. She said her final goodbyes to the icy Orlando before the incinerator, and then watched him transported into the crematorium to be cremated. All the past and old feelings will be turned into this wisp of green smoke, and she has made a real break with the past. She obeyed the teacher's persuasion, dressed in a singing costume, and sang solemnly on the stage. The beautiful voice that was almost heavenly surrounded the entire hall, traversing the reality of the world.
As a result, she finally got an unprecedented new life. All the unhappiness in life will be turned over. Furthermore, those prejudice against her will not be dissipated by her new birth, on the contrary, it may be strengthened. But she will no longer care about those arbitrary insults, because she has a heart of determination and no turning back. After all, everyone's life (whether good or bad) belongs only to himself, and has nothing to do with other people's views, this is life most important.
2018.5.27
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