The film begins with a cloud of fog, and the audience listens to the conversation between the two actresses, not knowing what to say. With the development of the plot, the audience was shown the ins and outs of the story, but despite this, we didn't see everything clearly. We didn't know the two people who were in the restaurant at the end. In the future, the humiliation will not be mentioned in the future. The past, what will happen. We have no way of knowing if the heroine will go back to her normal life, taking exams, going home and going out with her boyfriend.
In the restaurant, there was a noisy wedding banquet on one side, and two people in silence on the other, some happy and some sad. On the dining table, there are various parts of the cow on the plate, like two women who have been squeezed clean by life. They are slaughtered and have no ability to resist. The heroine Otilia hasn't ordered a meal yet, just a glass of boiled water, her desire for life returned to purity after a series of blows.
In the silence came the whistle of the car, and the weak Gabita just stared at the menu without responding, and Otilia faced the camera at the last moment. What is the purpose of arranging the car chirping in the ending? And the doctor with bad intentions owns a car, and his ID card accidentally fell on the front desk. How the heroine handles the ID card has never been shown in the film. But at this time, the arrangement of the doctor to ask for the ID card does not have any profound meaning. After all, the heroine cannot use this to make the bad guy get the punishment he deserves. So this possibility is minimal.
And the heroine faces the camera, I prefer to understand that this is her natural reaction to face life. Unlike Gabita, who was resigned, Otilia was a person who dared to fight. Although her resistance was not strong enough to shake the oppressive forces at the time, she had a perseverance that was different from ordinary women. Raising a baby to find a way out in the dark. Even if it is hit, when there is bright light, it will still tend to the light like a conditioned reflex. She is not afraid of darkness, she is a light in herself.
Flat narrative, ushered in a flat ending. I can't help but admire the director's bland style. He didn't let the ambulance in front of the hotel become the foreshadowing of Gabita's accident, and he didn't fall short due to the difficult baby. The Romanian of that era mourns.
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