Fragments of a Woman: Rediscovering and reshaping life, even if it was broken.

Wendell 2022-03-24 09:02:47

Hope - pain - let go, and that's where the plot of the whole film goes. A couple decides to give birth at home, both are longing and looking forward to the birth of a child, the wife's mother has bought them a new car, the husband expects the child to be the first person to step on the bridge he is building, and it all looks like it will be is so beautiful. However, under the guidance of a temporary help midwife, the wife gave birth to the child with difficulty at home, but the child died of suffocation after giving birth. The couple was devastated by this misfortune, with serious disagreements over whether to file a lawsuit against the midwife, the name of the child on the tombstone, etc. The pain has divided their relationship and destroyed their lives, and the involvement of family members such as the mother has intensified. This heartbreaking dispute brought the couple to the brink of separation. In the lawsuit against the midwife that the mother and her husband insisted on launching, the wife finally got out of the collapse when she testified in court. She faced up to her poor choice before the misfortune happened, and said in court that she would not hold the midwife accountable. Others who blame others to relieve their own guilt also let go of their own painful self-blame. Finally, when the spring flowers bloom and the bridge closes, a new life begins. The little girl who climbed the tree and picked apples is the beginning of her life.

View more about Pieces of a Woman reviews

Extended Reading
  • Barrett 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    Questions about how people put the "pieces" back together after trauma. I love the director's narrative pacing, the ambitious, immersive childbirth sequence at the beginning, and the script's life-like details about intimacy. At the same time, I also like its most fundamental cruelty - the fragments without a partner, family, or friends who can really accompany you, and some pain and loneliness are destined to belong to the individual. But it's also the most encouraging conclusion, because it also means that no one can really stop you, no matter how tightly bound you are. After all the real events, I can't really ridicule the last given dream in this story.

  • Elouise 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    The first half an hour is a horror movie about childbirth, and the latter point directly points to the core of childbearing being the first cooperation between mother and child. The surrounding husbands, midwives, and surrounding relatives have little to do with this process. The process and result of the birth of life are only borne by the woman, and in the end it all falls on the mother.

Pieces of a Woman quotes

  • Elizabeth: And I'm ashamed of me. That I wasn't a good enough mother to teach you how to stand up and speak for yourself, for God's sakes. And to deal with this. Like my mother taught me. After my father went into the ghetto, my mother found a shack, an empty shack, that she went into and gave birth to me. Without any help at all. She stashed me under the floorboards when she had to go out and steal food. So she could make milk enough to keep me alive, but just alive. Not strong enough to cry, or we'd be caught. When she finally got me to a doctor, he advised her to just let me go. That I wasn't... I wasn't strong enough to survive. But when she absolutely insisted, he picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, "If she tries to lift her head, then there's hope." And you know what I did, Martha? I lifted my head. That's what I'm asking you to do now. Lift your head and fight for yourself, for God's sakes! Go out there and face that woman.

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

    Martha: She smelled like an apple.