Today, let's talk about the movie "Women's Fragments".
The title of the film is Pieces of a Woman (2020), also known as Heartbroken Woman (Hong Kong) / Woman Fragment (Taiwan).
Vanessa Kirby has an amazing performance in the "Mission Impossible" series, so she is also affectionately called "White Widow" by domestic audiences. Vanessa Kirby's performance in "The Crown" season 2 was also impressive, earning her an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Now Vanessa Kirby plays the leading role in "Women's Fragments" for the first time, winning the Volpi Cup Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival in one fell swoop, and has been nominated for Best Actress at major film festivals in the future. In the upcoming awards season, there will be another wave.
Vanessa Kirby delivers a wonderful performance in the film, expressing a woman who has gone through all kinds of pain.
From the moment of pregnancy in October to delivery, most women have exhausted their efforts to go through this process normally. And if the child born again suffers an accident, the poor woman will suffer a second injury.
Martha, played by Vanessa Kirby, is just so tragic, she has to suffer beyond ordinary people.
Sean and Martha are an ordinary couple living in Boston.
Sean is a bridge repairer. He works diligently on the construction site to meet the deadline, so that the soon-to-be-born child can be the first to walk on the new bridge.
Martha was pregnant for ten months and was about to give birth. She was ready for her daughter's work in advance, just waiting for the little princess to be born. In order to let the child choose the time of birth, Martha and Sean also decided to give birth at home. They contacted the midwife in advance and quietly waited for their daughter to be born.
The film is 120 minutes long and can be divided into two parts, before and after production.
The first 30 minutes describe the white widow's childbirth process in detail, and then the title appears, and the last 90 minutes are the second injury of this group of people facing the death of the child.
In fact, the occurrence of sudden infant death syndrome in newborn babies is not a rare thing, and the incidence rate is 1‰ to 2‰.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) refers to the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant. The specific cause of SIDS has not yet been determined. That is to say, it is difficult to understand without a cause. It may be the result of a combination of factors.
The most difficult thing to prevent is the sudden death of the child within 6 months after birth. And if it is delivered in a hospital, there is still the possibility of rescue when a newborn baby develops symptoms. If you give birth at home and don’t have adequate response plans, you may be caught off guard by the unexpected situation.
Some time ago, I happened to see an episode of a popular science program introducing Carmen Vortex Street, an example of which is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge mentioned in this film.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and collapsed on November 7, 1940. It's like the death of a newborn baby. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is not simply destroyed by resonance, but by flutter. Perhaps the film simplifies the Karman Vortex Street into resonance for the audience's understanding.
After the sudden death of a newborn, the family is plunged into tragedy.
The love between husband and wife is no longer, and husband Sean begins to find excuses to be depraved and no longer care about his wife. Martha also pretends to be strong, dissolving through work and bars.
The conflict between Martha's mother and daughter is also more acute. Martha's mother herself is a very controlling person. She likes to control her daughter and son-in-law to do things according to her own wishes, and when she is a little disobedient, she will get angry.
The tragic family and the midwife are also involved in a protracted court proceedings, with the midwife facing five counts of negligence, two counts of malfeasance, and one count of manslaughter.
The focal point of these contradictions is Martha.
Martha, who could have carried the child, is now only left with pain. She has no shortage of sins that mothers need to suffer, such as breastfeeding and leaking urine, and her body suffers great harm.
Physical torture is secondary, and psychological torture is the hardest. Martha had originally chosen to downplay the tragedy, but her husband was cold and violent, her mother intervened strongly, and the court was full of chicken feathers, pulling her back to that painful moment all the time.
These people are all under the banner of caring about Masha, but they are actually tearing Masha into pieces.
No one wants this kind of tragedy to happen. There is no normal person who does not love their children, and no midwives say they are determined to harm others.
Behind the tragedy, everyone can't escape the blame, and it is irresponsible to simply put the blame on the midwives.
If Martha Shawn decided to go to the hospital to give birth early, the tragedy would not have happened. The child was too late for the due date and needed to take oxytocin instead of waiting for a natural delivery.
When a midwife encounters such a strange thing, he should contact the hospital for emergency treatment as soon as possible, instead of taking over.
After the tragedy, everyone should not hurt again.
Just stop here, stop entanglement, that is the way Martha faces, there is no need to go to court and make everyone know it. Every time the husband's cold violence, the mother's hysteria, and the court's interrogation are torn Martha's wounds with salt. Those "friends" who pretend to be caring and caring are still pretending, not really caring.
The apple and the bridge become the two most important metaphors in the film. The strong Masha finally successfully completed these two metaphorical tasks.
Martha also began to like apples because of the faint apple smell on her child, collected apple cores, and then further cultivated apple seeds to germinate. In the end, the apple seeds successfully grew into an apple tree, and the apple-loving children happily ate the apples.
The bridge that Sean had been building finally closed smoothly, and Martha took the child's ashes to the new bridge, finally fulfilling her wish.
One tragedy, two injuries,
Nine points are gentle and strong.
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