The real mourning is to smell the sadness

Josefa 2022-03-21 09:02:36

The first point that strikes is that pessimism is not connected. The heroine alone bears a lot of pain that people around her cannot understand, such as the body that is still prepared for the child after giving birth, for example, she doesn't want to blame anyone, for example, she will go into desolation and numbness first.

The second point that touches is the independence of the heroine. The film presents different ways of coping with grief: the male protagonist's heartbreaking + smoking and drinking + one-night stand; the female protagonist's mother's resistance mode (sounds super reasonable, and it is easy to feel that the female protagonist is weak and escapes). The heroine is the one who sniffs the breath of sadness, and every day after the loss of the baby is shrouded in it. She didn't know how to dissipate or express herself, so she could only brutally eat apples again and again and visit the research center where the body was donated.

The third point that touches is what is true mourning. The last sentence the heroine said in court was the way she found a way out after grinding her grief in her own way. Blaming others, blaming yourself, blaming your partner, will all be the easy way, and it seems to be more positive. But the heroine let sadness soak into the life, the dry flowers and plants in the house, and the stacked bowls and plates are all telling the desolation and collapse of her heart. But she, the road to reconciliation in the end, is to understand that she can't blame anyone, she can only face and walk through this sad place, feel every inch of pain with her naked eyes and body, and admit that "this is irreparable". Finally, achieve a compassion: I don't want to pass this pain to anyone, everyone involved in the delivery of this part hopes that the child can come to this world in a healthy way. A few minor missteps, among other unnamed reasons, led to the loss of life.

I use a heart to grind every inch of the pain related to losing you, why this is so, it becomes irrelevant. Because the hole that lost you will never be filled, and I will live with it for the rest of my life.

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Pieces of a Woman quotes

  • Lane: Yes, how did you feel holding your baby you had just given birth to?

    Martha: She smelled like an apple.

  • Judge: Yes, how did you feel holding your baby you had just given birth to?

    Lane: She smelled like an apple.