I don't think this can be said on the table in China.

Leonel 2022-04-10 09:01:08

Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
7.6
2020 / United States / United Kingdom / Drama / Eliza Hitman / Sidney Flanigan Talia Ryder

At that time, when the film was released, it involved the subject of underage abortion, which made most people think it was the main theme movie, but I don't agree with this point of view. The director adopts the narration method of line drawing and the long-lens shooting method to realistically open up the various difficulties encountered by the two cousins ​​on the journey to the operation from the perspective of a third party.

What impresses me most about the whole movie is the medical staff, who should provide preoperative consultation for each patient undergoing surgery, and give each patient due help, and conduct investigations on personal emotional issues, taking the choice of four options Questions to answer the test questions: never, rarely , sometimes , always.

In the past year, has your sex partner refused to wear a condom?

Is your sexual partner getting in the way of contraception, or trying to get you pregnant when you don't want to?

Has your sexual partner threatened or intimidated you?

Has your sexual partner slapped you, slapped you, or physically harmed you in other ways?

Has your sexual partner ever forced you to have sex with you against your will?

Has anyone forced you to have sex with you since you were born? yes or no?

I believe that no one will face the above six questions in China. Even when you are lying on the operating table, no one will ask you or care about you. With the heightened awareness, I think every woman should listen to her inner voice, perceive her own feelings, touch her, and accept her, instead of choosing to escape or be silent, indifferent, and passive. It's true feminism.

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Extended Reading
  • Theo 2022-04-14 09:01:06

    Before I read it, the four words are like prose. After I read it, I realize that the name is so direct. The director is so patient and I love her little cuts and reflections. The lens is unremarkable, which also means that the lens never takes over. She tells the bad things that girls can encounter in an orderly manner. Despite this, the traces of calculation are not too strong, and she adds a lot of life-like plots like carrying a suitcase and taking the subway, which makes the story very convincing. However, like the fireworks at the end of "The Beach Rats", the works still have an academy atmosphere, but lack some kind of wild power, maintain such patience and calm in an anti-intellectual society, and keep the boundaries between things and things. Sad, but extremely rare.

  • Mossie 2022-04-12 09:01:10

    #Berlinale20-25 Emotional restraint, narrative blank, focused perspective, and moving details. Several interactions between men and women in the film have a sense of conscious/unconscious invasion, and how many people really know and understand women's fear of this social reality. The last shot of going home seems to suggest that this is just a little thing in the girl's life that may never be mentioned again, but it reflects how hopeless the gray social landscape is. Compared with "April Three Weeks and Two Days", it is still too bland.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always quotes

  • Skylar: What did the Doctor say?

    Autumn: They couldn't really help me

    Skylar: Why not?

    Autumn: I took a test.

    Skylar: What kind of test?

    [Autumn then retches and throws up]

  • Skylar: Don't you ever just wish you were a dude?

    Autumn: All the time.