Some Kind of Woman: The Montana Women I Know

Teresa was the first and only Montana woman I knew. Even in a society like the United States where household registration is not checked and people come from all over the world, it is not easy to meet a Montana man. The reason is very simple - there are too few Montanas. I guess not many people can name even a city in Montana, and my impression of it is only a paradise for fugitives, the Canadian border, the cold and desolate glacial Gobi, and the entrance to the North Gate of Yellowstone National Park.

And soon after I met Teresa, I realized she was a typical Montana woman. She has almost all the character of the rough and simple side of an American woman—she doesn't wear makeup well, she's tall, she buys the most common brands of the middle class; she doesn't paint her nails when she wears sandals Oil, which is very rare in our luxury company; she has two children and lives in the big city closest to Montana; she has a straightforward and kind personality, and she doesn't make a fuss; I interviewed the panel with her team She honestly told me her opinions on candidates, and basically she liked the other. Finally, she returned to Montana and bought a house the size of a farm, giving her two children a completely free space to grow.

This is the Montana woman I know. Their greatest strength is that they never complain to life and truly feel that everything is bearable. In Certain Women, the three heroines are all like this: they have axes and shotguns in their hands, body armors and horses under them; they endure all the hardships and depressions of life silently, and believe that This has to be endured. No woman has ever left her post, or her life; their desires are so veiled that they end before they can be expressed. The "嗲" and "Zuo" of women in big cities are completely absent from them. They are the original side of American women inherited from colonial times.

The film is edited from the stories of three women, a female lawyer, a hostess, and a winter wrangler on a farm. There is not much connection between them except for a few occasions. I almost immediately fell in love with this "Montana"-esque narration in the film: rough, plain, unadorned, with very little background music, and all the shots were as dull as a layer of grey. The heroines are all dressed in neutral colors (except Kristen Stewart, who is not the heroine), the language of the film is subdued, like music without a melody, a heavy drum hits your heart. Close-ups and close-ups of their faces make people feel that their lives are very real. That's what sets this film apart, as do these Montana women.

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