In the 1940s, the Tacoma Bridge, the third largest in the United States, collapsed.
The reason turned out to be "resonance"
Every solid has its own vibrational frequency,
Resonance occurs if the external frequency matches its own frequency
When the resonance is strong enough, the entire bridge can collapse instantly
Martha and Sean are a loving couple living in Boston, USA
Martha is pregnant in October and is about to give birth
Colleagues in the company prepared a farewell party for her and let her take a vacation at home to prepare for the birth
In the evening, Martha came to the car shop because her mother wanted to give them a car
Sean has just finished work and hastily arrived
Martha's brother-in-law has already done the paperwork for them
The mother-in-law couldn't help taunting Sean, this son-in-law really makes her look down on everything
Sean knew for a long time that his mother-in-law had a problem with him
He has no culture, he's just a construction worker
And the mother-in-law is very rich
But Sean never took his mother-in-law's cold words to heart
Because he loves his beautiful and gentle wife
Soon, he will have a beautiful and lovely daughter,
The bridge he is building is about to be completed, after the birth of his daughter
Sean will make her the first person to walk on the bridge
Everything is going in the right direction
like some pregnant women in the US
Instead of going to the hospital, Martha chose to give birth at home
Because she wants the child to decide for himself, when to come into this world.
Sean also respects his wife's wishes very much, because they agreed to be each other's companions
They made an appointment with a trusted midwife
That night, Martha felt like she was about to give birth
But when Sean dialed the phone,
The midwife who made the appointment was unable to come because another pregnant woman had a difficult labor
They can only find another new midwife
Martha's fluids burst when Eva, the midwife, came
Has started to experience contractions, nausea and other reactions
Martha was in so much pain that Sean was helpless but tried his best to appease his wife
The new midwife was also very experienced and Martha decided to trust her
With the help of Eva's guidance, Martha began her labor
At the beginning, the baby in the womb was normal,
But after two consecutive contractions, the child's heart rate has problems
If the child's heart rate does not reach the expected value next,
They have to go to the hospital for help
But Martha refused to go to the hospital,
She started to work hard again, but the situation is not optimistic
Eva told Sean to hurry up and call the hospital
and told Martha to have the baby right away
Martha endured the pain and finally gave birth to a child
The child made its first cry, and Martha took her in her arms
Sean immediately captured the exciting moment on camera
Eva also took a deep breath that it had finally settled.
However, after a few minutes, the child's body suddenly turned blue and stopped crying.
Before the ambulance arrived, this new life was out of breath.
Tragedy is like a typhoon, people have to face the mess after crossing the border
Three weeks later, Martha is back at the company
Colleagues in the company are showing strange eyes to Martha
In the supermarket, mom's friend met Martha and offered some self-righteous comfort (35:53)
Martha finds the atmosphere depressing every time her husband talks carefully (36:48)
In a no-man's corner, Masha can breathe freely
Moreover, Martha still suffers from a series of conditions that she will go through after giving birth
Her body knew she had given birth to a child, but it didn't know that the child had died
The body is still secreting oxytocin, and the mammary glands secrete milk
What makes it worse is that when Martha sees the child, she really wants to hold her in her arms.
She fell in love with eating apples because she remembered the moment she held her daughter
She smelled the faint scent of apples
A few weeks later, the results of the child's autopsy came out, the doctors told them
The only certainty is that the baby was in a state of hypoxia at the time
In 70% of similar cases, no satisfactory explanation has been found in the end
Sean could not accept such a result, he angrily accused the doctor
But Martha remained silent
After her husband leaves, Martha asks the doctor
Can I donate my daughter's organs, the doctor refused her
But said it could be used to donate to medical research
Weeks go by, mother decides to bury child in family cemetery
Martha was called over to pick a tombstone
But when they got there, Martha found
Daughter's name was misspelled because of her husband's carelessness
But Sean thinks that this is just a small detail, and there is no need to be too entangled.
Martha felt unreasonable and left angrily
Martha's change makes mother and husband anxious
Martha has gone off track,
She needs to get back to being a good daughter and a good wife soon.
Two people who have never dealt with each other in the past have now reached a consensus
Mother introduced Martha's cousin Susan, who is a lawyer, to Sean
Both of them believed that the death of the child must have something to do with the midwife
They want that midwife to be in prison
Atonement for Martha's lost child, so that everyone can be freed as soon as possible
Soon, the midwife Eva was denounced by the public, and various reports flooded in.
Sean wants Martha to accept this approach
his child's father
He can't do nothing, he wants to give the dead child an explanation and an explanation
But all this, after Sean knew that Martha was going to donate her child to medical research
it all changed
That's his child too, how could his wife ignore his wishes,
Even Martha tries to erase traces of the child's existence at home
The couple's relationship has broken down
Looking at Martha who is gradually indifferent to herself
Sean wants to get back the passion of yesterday
Although Martha cooperated with him
It's just that the two hearts have drifted apart
Sean ran to the river and burst into tears
Opposite is the bridge he is about to build.
The wish to take my daughter to the bridge together will never be fulfilled
In the days that followed, he started smoking, drinking, filling the void in his heart with other women
The long winter has come, the ice and snow, the sun can never penetrate
Martha quits her job and buys this book on plant germination to germinate apples at home
She read word by word, carefully fiddling with the apple seeds one by one
It seems that a new birth has begun
Her life seems to have returned to peace
It's just that everything has changed completely
When her sister handed her an earring, she knew that her husband had returned the car behind her back
But the earrings are not your own
Sean has found new solace in Martha's cousin
Two people tried to talk, but it always ended in lies and quarrels (1:11:05)
After the child is gone, everything is gone
Martha's belly is empty and her heart is empty
Midwife's case closes, mother calls kids over for dinner
The family has begun to slowly step out of the shadows
But Martha listened to their relaxed conversation and felt out of place.
Like a fully armed hedgehog
When Martha wanted to escape from here
The mother stopped her and she recommended Susan to Martha so that she could testify in court
They have all the evidence ready
She wants Martha to face herself, the baby's death must be some negligence
And the midwives are to blame, and they are bound to be punished by the law
Although Martha suffers,
But she resented the family's "must find a murderer for this" approach
And going to court means that Martha has to see the woman again
Open up the wounds of yesterday
She doesn't understand her mother,
Why do you have to order yourself to choose according to her wishes?
This time I didn't give birth to a child, I must have made my mother feel ashamed.
Looking at the hoarse Martha, the mother cried tears and told her
She is ashamed of herself because she is not a good mother
Teach children how to stand up and fight for themselves
Just like her mother didn't teach her
Martha's mother was a Holocaust survivor during World War II
Her father was sent to a concentration camp in the Nazi eradication of Jews in Germany
And Martha's grandmother ran into a broken house and gave birth to her mother
Hide her under the floor when you go out to steal food
Grandma's milk is very little, just enough for mother to survive
Because she can't have the strength to cry, lest she be found out
When they were finally able to go out to see the doctor, the doctor directly advised Grandma to give her up
Because it's so weak
And my grandmother insisted that the doctor would treat her
So the doctor grabbed mom's feet like a chick and lifted her up
Tell grandma that if the child can lift his head, there is still hope
So my mother raised her head desperately
Mama told Martha all I want you to do now is raise your head
Fight for yourself once, dare to face it once
Face the midwife and tell her what you've lost
Otherwise, you will live forever in the past and never let go
Afterwards, the mother helped Martha make the final break.
She hands Sean a check to let Sean leave Martha
Sean is tired of being here
A marriage comes to an end
The day Sean left, it was snowing
Sean thought about it and left the hat to Martha.
And then left without looking back
Weeks later, midwife's case goes to trial
Martha agrees to her mother and decides to appear in court
Half a year later, Martha met Eva again, and her heart was full of mixed feelings.
she was called to the witness stand
Lawyers for both parties asked Martha for details of that day.
From home birth, midwife change
Until Martha admits that she refuses to go to the hospital
These Marthas can clearly remember
But when the defendant's lawyer asked Martha what it was like to hold the child at the time
Martha was silent for a while, she couldn't remember anymore
During the adjournment, Martha went to a photo studio
Because she remembered that Sean had taken a picture of them that day
Martha seems to think that the final answer can be found in that photo
When the photos became clearer and clearer in the developer, the beauty and emotion at that time,
All at once came to Martha's mind
An angelic gift, an innocent life, lying in her arms then
This life has enormous energy, although only for a brief moment
But it is so intense to warm Martha's life
At this moment, Martha found the answer in the child - forgiveness and gratitude
Back in court, Martha told everyone
The midwife didn't intentionally hurt her daughter, she was just trying to deliver a healthy baby that night
There must have been a reason for that, but the reason was not in the courtroom
Martha looked at her mother who was watching the trial and said, if I stand here asking for compensation
That means what I lost can be compensated
But no compensation can bring the daughter back to life
She can't inflict this pain on other people
The brief moment her daughter came into the world was not for her to do so
Martha smiled at her mother, and all the past, the ice and snow melted at that moment
Winter is over, spring has come
The apple seeds that Martha once cultivated are now sprouting
She walks on the bridge that Sean had built before, and it's open to traffic now
Martha wears Sean's hat and scatters her daughter's ashes into the river
It can be regarded as fulfilling the promise that the father once made to his daughter.
When the heavy hammer of fate slammed down,
The powerful resonance of the surrounding people caused Martha's heart bridge to collapse.
Martha traveled alone on a dark, long journey
Pick up the pieces scattered all over the ground, and then try to piece the heart bridge together.
But some fragments will always be buried deep in her heart,
Like an apple seed, it takes root and sprouts out of the ground
Finally grew into a tree full of fruit
Fragments of a Woman is directed by Kenel Mudluzzo.
Film starring Vanessa Kirby, which hits theaters on January 7, 2021
The film was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the 77th Venice Film Festival.
Actress Vanessa Kirby won the Best Actress crown.
The screenwriter and director of the film are a couple.
The movie is based on their real experience of losing a child
The screenwriter said in an interview that writing itself is a kind of healing
Through it, you can begin to understand your emotions
In life, when we encounter the unbearable weight of life, we might as well declare them in our mouths
or pinned on the nib
Say it, express it, we can better face the past, face ourselves
The movie "Women's Fragments" is a healing process
It is not so much the director and screenwriter's healing and relief of past pains
Rather, what it brings to the audience is actually an immersive spiritual journey
We have seen that when the heavy hammer of fate falls, people can only choose to grit their teeth and suffer silently
How slow and difficult this journey of redemption is
However, the more times like that, the more we have to be brave for ourselves and raise our heads
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