It's a road movie in a sense, but unlike before it's a road movie about women, discussing women's autonomy over their bodies, and sexuality During the discussion on abortion, we met different people on the way, and everyone has different attitudes, and we can also see different people's views on this issue.
Before we start, let me say that this is a family without men, with three generations of women, grandmother, a poet, and a lesbian. Ellie, a cynical feminist full of "vigor" and edgy, was born in a drunken young age because of a one-night stand. With Sage's mother, she raised Sage's mother with her homosexual partner. Sage's mother was too busy with her work to get married and have children, so she found a sperm to have a child. This child is Sage. The story begins here with Sage .
Grandma broke up with young girlfriend for "whatever reasons" she thought, paid off all her debts, cut credit cards, and wanted to live a life without any burdens. After her girlfriend left, she cried alone in the bathroom. The coincidence ended and started. Granddaughter Sage became pregnant unexpectedly. But the credit card has been cut off. But today they had to find 600 yuan, but they didn't want to ask their daughter and mother to get the money, so they embarked on a money-raising journey.
They wanted to go to a non-profit clinic that performed abortions for girls who had unintended pregnancies decades ago, but when they got there, it had become a coffee shop. Grandma talked about abortion in the shop, but people around them thought it was disturbing. When it comes to them, yes, many times we always think that we are disturbed about things that we don’t approve of, we don’t listen, we don’t see it, we don’t talk about it, we think it’s something that is far away from us, but unfortunately it happens where we sit.
They first went to Cam, Sage's boyfriend. He simply took him with him when he had no money. He didn't think about the responsibilities he had to take, and said a lot of idiots. Well, grandma couldn't do it well when she was young. The person, the important hostility is still there, beat Cam with a club, and got 50 yuan. This number is far from enough.
My grandmother said that a friend owed 400 yuan, and she checked whether she could pay it back. At the time, I lent this friend for breast reconstruction because he had problems with his breasts after his sex reassignment surgery. Well, this friend said that I also hope to have my money. When you need it, but I don't have money, I can make a tattoo for you. My grandmother made a tattoo by the way. The friend finally gave me 65 yuan, okay Well, one more piece is always better.
But the money is not bad. Grandma thought of the first edition book from her academic friend who became a celebrity 40 years ago when she was still a little famous. There was a proprietress named Bonobo Coffee House who wanted to buy it. She even got the name of the coffee house. It fits perfectly with all that the film expresses. You can go to Squirrel Science Network to learn about bonobos, a very interesting research paper. At first, my grandmother thought that the first edition of the book could sell for thousands of dollars. These books also contained Beauvoir’s autobiography. I didn’t expect that the price given by the proprietress Carla was less than one hundred yuan. Grandma was so angry that she called Carla a Japanese. The leader of the chimpanzee (another bonobos terrier), and what's even more bloody here is that he met his grandmother's girlfriend Viola, who had just broken up, and the two quarreled. In the end the book could not be sold. The two discussed swear words in the car. The swear words of different cultural backgrounds are different. For example, the visiting professor at my grandmother's place turned into sarcastic swear words, while Sage and her peers were only simple and crude.
Out of patience, grandma brought Sage to her ex-husband Karl to borrow money. Although nearly 50 years have passed, Karl is still haunted by what grandma did in the past. The two had conflicts and quarrels during this process. In the end, Karl When she was going to borrow the money, she didn't know what the money was really used for, and she didn't want to borrow it. Grandma apologized to Carl: but only for not telling him she was pregnant, not for her abortion, because it was hers body, and later pregnancy and childbirth, because I want a child, but not a husband.
After looking for everything, it might not be enough to collect 600 yuan. In the end, I had to go to Sage's mother. This is a very professional mother. When they met, she didn't even know that her daughter was on vacation now.
Sage is also questioning himself along the way, am I a slut? Will my abortion go to hell? In fact, we also want children and a family of our own, but now I still want to go to college. They came at the door of the clinic, and there was a mother and daughter doing anti-abortion propaganda: You are killing life, you step in, God will send you to hell, grandma try to tell the little girl that the world is big, don't be so narrow, The result was a gentle punch. Life will give you a gentle punch without taking it lightly.
Nowadays, abortion advertisements all over the sky make young people generally think that abortion is a trivial matter. Unlike disregard, which is blind opposition and condemnation, abortion is the death of life.
But this is my body, and I have the power to decide over her. A good environment should allow people to have the ability to make the choices they want after clearly understanding the consequences.
No matter how the family planning changes, it shows that the state apparatus controls women's bodies. We have no right to choose, or we can only choose from limited options.
Dedicated to myself who has been feminist since the age of ten.
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