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Monserrat 2022-03-21 09:03:01

The Darnay brothers have taken the characteristics of handheld photography to the extreme. The swaying follow-up camera from beginning to end shows Rosetta's poor, wet and dirty living environment in every detail. The strong sense of substitution and real touch makes people feel like sitting on pins and needles. Hold your breath. The Darney brothers' ability to render emotions with plots is top-notch, especially when elements of moral dilemmas are added, so that the Darney brothers' film tells the hard life of the bottom people and exudes more unease than horror films. A sense of unknown fear, a sense of fear generated through empathy and moral anxiety, because in the process of watching the movie, you and the characters are caught in the problem of survival together, and the audience changes from a third-person perspective through emotional rendering and substitution. From the first-person perspective, everyone is Rosetta, and everyone wants to change their lives against the sky.

The beginning of the film is the plot of Rosetta being fired. Rosetta runs frantically in the factory to avoid the arrest of security guards. The fact that she refused to be fired with her crazy behavior has no reason to speak. As a poor poor living in a suburban trailer all day, she can only fight this unreasonable world in such an unreasonable way. After losing her job, she had to face her mother who was drinking and fooling around with men all day. The film has a lot of scenes showing the details of her daily life, fishing with glass bottles, confronting and arguing with her mother, blocking the window in the trailer, blowing her stomach with a hairdryer to relieve pain, and asking around if she needs work. She has never changed a single piece of clothes, and spends every day in internal and external troubles. She was pushed into the river by her mother on the way to the alcohol rehab center. The muddy bottom of the river made her unable to move. Her heart-breaking cry for help did not get her mother's help. sigh. The only warm moment in the film is the scene where Rosetta dances at the house of the little brother who sells muffins. There is a crappy recording of the little brother playing the drums on the disc player. Feelings beyond friendship, but all were shattered by cruel life. When the little brother accidentally slipped into the muddy river while helping Rosetta fish, Rosetta hesitated for a while in the face of the little brother's call for help. If the little brother died, then she could replace the little brother and become the seller of the muffin shop , This is the test of human nature in the face of survival, but in the end she still saved the little brother. But when she faced the kindness of her brother and gave her a part-time job to help her sell private goods, she finally chose to tell the boss about the secret of brother selling private goods. This looks like a story of a farmer and a snake. Like the snake, Rosetta and the snake are both out of self-defense and out of survival instinct to hurt well-meaning people. In the face of survival, morality is not worth mentioning. She got a job, but she has to face her brother's harsh motorcycle noise and angry, contemptuous eyes wandering around, she is a moral rotten, white-eyed wolf, egoist, all dirty words are used to insult her. Not too much. But look at her life, look at her state of existence, all the treachery is just to live, this is the simplest and most powerful reason, and you will not feel the same way until that step. But people are people after all. Rosetta finally quit her job. After putting her drunk mother to bed in the trailer, she boiled an egg, turned on the gas, plugged the cracks in the windows and doors, and lay on the bed while eating eggs. waiting to die. The exhausted gas played a joke on her like life, and even suicide was so twists and turns. Carrying a heavy empty gas tank in exchange for a new one, she walked to the house step by step laboriously, surrounded by the harsh motorcycle sound of her brother, and Rosetta fell to the ground exhausted. Crying, this is the most desperate tears, life, morals all lost. The little brother's action of helping her up is the last bit of warmth, and I don't know if it can dispel her determination to seek death at least today.

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Rosetta quotes

  • Rosetta: Your name is Rosetta. My name is Rosetta. You found a job. I found a job. You've got a friend. I've got a friend. You have a normal life. I have a normal life. You won't fall in a rut. I won't fall in a rut. Good night. Good night.