A year later, after watching several unsatisfactory movies, I finally remembered this movie she participated in—— Certain Woman.
Thought the movie was good and wanted to write something about it.
When referring to this film on Weibo, it is mostly translated as "a certain kind of woman". Such a translation makes it easy for people to think that the women appearing in the film are of one type and represent "a kind of woman". But in reality, the film is made up of three distinct stories, each revolving around a woman who doesn't have much in common. So I think it's better to translate "a certain woman" and "a certain woman" - these three women are just three very ordinary women out of billions, and they are all isolated cases, each facing a different life situation. In fact, one of the wonderful things about this film is that, although it is composed of three different short stories, its focus has actually been refined to a specific section. Compared with the "story", Closer to "fragment". Although such fragments cannot be said to be seen everywhere in our lives, they are also very common, and do not have the intense contradictions and conflicts necessary for ordinary dramatic works—it is not that there are no contradictions, but the contradictions are more subtle and therefore closer real life.
Lawyer Laura explained to the disabled client Fuller for eight months and told him that he had no right to sue the company, but Fuller insisted again and again; while a male lawyer whom Laura hired just said exactly the same thing as Laura, Fuller agreed Say Okay.
Lawyers are high-paying jobs in the United States, so competition is fierce. In such an industry, women are "rightfully" subjected to consistent discrimination. The same legal provisions, the effect of what the female lawyer said seems to be less effective.
Fuller, who finally accepted the reality, held the security of the building hostage, and the police who called Laura let Laura go in and negotiate with him without thinking. At work, they saw that you were a woman, so they thought you were not good; I never thought that as a woman, your strength is not as strong as the security of the building, which is naturally extremely dangerous.
And Laura is not easy to refuse. She wears a bulletproof vest obediently, goes in obediently, and comes out obediently - if it is a man, it may be easier to resist, at least you can question, the police will not be so strong.
After being arrested, Fuller, his wife and children separated, and he can only keep writing letters to Laura. And Laura never replied. For Fuller, it doesn't matter what the content is, even if it's just talking about the weather, as long as he can get a little bit of information from someone, it's enough to prove his connection to the outside world and that he's not completely alone. And Laura just happened to be such a person.
Taking over this job from the beginning, I believe that Laura has always been in such a helpless situation. We can make a reasonable guess-because this person is difficult to deal with, there are many (male) lawyers, but no one is willing to take over, and finally falls into the hands of Laura. As a female lawyer, it is difficult for her to get a job, so she has to become a lawyer. Fuller's attorney.
A few days ago, Fuller was holding him hostage, and a few days later he was the only person he could rely on. Thinking about it, it feels like a big fire - why?
If it is my job to be entangled with you for eight months, and you finally decide to give up, seeing that my job is coming to an end, but being held hostage again—how many lawyers will encounter this kind of thing? It was hard to escape from your gun, but still couldn't get rid of you -
Fuller, who was disabled due to work and separated from his wife, deserves sympathy, but that doesn't mean he can just ask Laura for it.
In other words, female lawyers must play the kind and tolerant role of the Virgin Mary at this time.
It would be nice to say no from the start - but ask yourself, there really aren't many times in life when we can say no.
Gina wanted to build a house on the rocks in front of Albert's door, so she went to visit him with her husband. But the husband always makes Gina "play the bad guy" unintentionally. Whether it is in the relationship with his daughter or in the matter of negotiating to buy a stone, the husband always seems to be unable to reach an agreement with him, and even pushes in the opposite direction. .
Gina may be too strong. Although it is only a fragment of buying stones, it can be seen from her plans and actions that she is a very capable person. She did get the stone in the end, too—which made me wonder if, so far, whatever she wanted to do, she couldn't do.
In the end, she looked at the pile of stones, alone—perhaps because of her ability and determination, such women are often described as single-minded or unscrupulous, and such mothers and wives may be really unattractive.
But such a husband and father seem to make the family feel more secure and happier.
To Beth, the girl who went to the wrong classroom was just a "local." Because she's a "local", she can take her to a nearby restaurant. The only interaction between them was the thirty minutes of eating every night. During these thirty minutes, Beth casually complained to the girl about the long journey and the hard life, and the girl was willing to listen, which was enough.
She never even asked the girl's name.
Obviously, this girl likes Beth very much. She brought the horse here on purpose, in order to add as much fun as possible to the little interaction between the two.
This girl is a little childish, maybe it has something to do with her upbringing. Get up early every day to feed horses, raise dogs, and deal with animals, gradually becoming as simple and direct as them.
Until one day, Beth could no longer take the eight-hour drive back and forth and quit his job. The girl who heard the news immediately walked out of the classroom—the class had not been chosen originally. With the vague address she heard from Beth, she drove all the way to her city.
Four hours later, it was already late at night. After waiting for another five hours, when the law firm went to work in the morning, I finally found out where Beth worked.
Just a glance in the rearview mirror recognized Beth's car.
Beth saw the girl and only said one thing, I thought I was in the wrong place.
Again, did you drive here?
The girl said, I didn't think about anything, I just felt that if I didn't come to you, I would never see you again.
Beth didn't know what to say, she felt like she should say something, but really had nothing to say.
You see, you have impulsive emotions that need to be expressed, but that doesn't mean I need to accept them.
From a certain point of view, this behavior is really romantic and touching. But for Beth, it's completely pointless, you don't need to come to me at all, and I don't have anything to give you.
I can't respond to your feelings at all.
The girl said, did you resign?
Embarrassed again, Beth said, I was going to tell you, but it's a long way.
In fact, Beth must have thought that she had no obligation to tell the girl - there was no agreement between us, and we weren't even friends.
Like Laura, Beth seems to "hurt" others unintentionally and "hurt" others unknowingly.
Just being yourself as usual, living alone as usual, working hard to survive, but because of some kind of "connection" that seems to be dispensable and "hurt" completely unrelated, another person in this world .
Loving someone is always your own business.
Once you like this person, you can't ask him to respond to your likes.
Getting a response is lucky, not getting it is normal.
The girl did a good job of being as nice to Beth as possible and prolonging the relationship as much as possible.
But all she could do was go to see Beth, and what happened after that was a matter of two people, not her alone.
So in fact, as long as she has worked hard, fought for it, and seen it, she should be satisfied.
It's like, I like you, I must tell you, and after telling you, my side is done.
Kristen is very good at playing this kind of character that is a little awkward, a little hesitant, a little shy, and a little contradictory.
Young female teachers are always being harassed by adult night school students with all kinds of questions - even if it's not on purpose, they always don't believe you, and it's hard to convince these older groups that you have the ability to teach them what.
Of course, that's not the case with male teachers, they seem to have a certain kind of majesty, and even if they're wrong, you'll have to give in.
Beth is very worried that the best way out for her in the future is to sell shoes. The girl asked her why she was worried about not finding a good job. Beth said, my mother works in the school cafeteria, my sister works in the hospital laundry room, and selling shoes belongs to my family The best job a girl could find.
Women do suffer a lot when looking for jobs, and this is similar in every country.
By the way, this movie is based on the novel of the same name. In the novel, the man who goes to the wrong classroom and falls in love with Beth at first sight is a man. The movie changed the character to a woman, which made the emotion more difficult and euphemistic, and also made Beth's rejection more intractable.
The four women on the poster all performed well. This small-scale, low-budget film won awards in the just-concluded NYFCC and Sight&Sound selections.
Overall, while my life seems unconnected to the three clips here, in every woman I see myself as I was or was.
By the way, the director of this film is indeed a woman.
Finally, over the course of a year, my love for Kristen Stewart has continued to grow (covering her face
in 2016 with four films she starred in, in addition to Certain Woman, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Café Society and Personal Shopper.
Among them There are both small costs and big productions.
I was too busy last year, so I only watched this one, but I have no regrets, because with her development, the chances of seeing her on the big screen will only increase in the future. more and more.
Last but not least, if you see Kristen Stewart's name in a low-budget, small-budget movie, don't doubt it, it's definitely worth a watch.
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