Quiet performances and great long takes make me feel like I'm there

Kasey 2022-03-22 09:02:11

I heard about this movie a long time ago. I am also very interested in the subject matter, but unfortunately I have been very busy recently. I bought it for more than 2 months and it has been put into the cold palace by me, and I hurriedly found it on Sunday. Fortunately, the movie definitely didn't let me down.

Story is a wonderful subject. From simply helping a roommate to have an abortion, to reluctant dedication to this end, to listening to meaningless conversations in a restless trance, to heart breaking conversations with boyfriends, to panic and helplessness when seeing the body of an aborted baby . Although the story is only told in a short day, the emotional tension is full.

Another great feature of the film is the use of long shots. People often mistakenly think that they are sitting in the room looking at the ugly face of the unscrupulous doctor who takes advantage of others' danger, and the panicked mood of the heroine eager to abandon the baby on the dim street, all of which reflect the wonderfulness of long shots.

I have to mention the heroine Anamaria Marinca. Absolutely quiet performance. It made me feel immersed more than once. Step by step with her into a deeper whirlpool. It was squeezed and twisted and deformed by the pressure on the face, through the long dark tunnel, until it came out from the small luminous tube. As relieved.

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Extended Reading
  • Chadrick 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Hand-held long shots, dark lighting, quiet scenes with sharp noises, vague lines, and the expressions of characters who are always scared... All these not only create a sense of oppression in the image, but also promote Wave after wave of empathy has made me span a long period of time and a distant space, but I can still feel the pain that homosexuality brings to my skin. Still, it can hardly be called a women's film. This is not only a jungle for women, but also a cage for everyone. If the women who were forced to abort and raped sacrificed their wombs to become the "meaning bearers" of power, then the men who carried out abuse, and the pretentious decency at the dinner table People only have an illusion of "complicity," and their complacency is just as deplorable. To paraphrase Bong Joon-ho, "It is the incompetence of the times that caused the tragedy." The individual is always under the soil.

  • Mabelle 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Romanian movies. On an ordinary day during Ceausescu's dictatorship, a girl assists her roommate with an abortion. The sense of the times before the upheaval in Eastern Europe is very strong. The fixed long-lens composition is delicate and symmetrical, while the hand-held long-lens is wobbly and indifferent. It keeps the atmosphere of the whole film depressed and tense, and even the peaceful family dinner and chat scenes are breathless. Feminist films by male directors. Worthy of the Palme d'Or at Cannes. five star

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days quotes

  • [subtitled version]

    Otilia: Why did you make the reservation by phone?

    Gabriela 'Gabita' Dragut: I thought it'd be like calling from somewhere else.

    Otilia: You "thought".

  • [subtitled version]

    Gabriela 'Gabita' Dragut: I got rid of it. It's in the bathroom.