The beautiful new colleague Shiba also entered her diary, and Shiba's 20-year-older husband, grumpy daughter and mentally handicapped son became the main talking point between Barbara and the diary. The secret will quickly bring the two women closer together, and hope for Barbara's celibacy comes with the arrival of Sheba.
Until one day, she discovered the adultery between Shiba and a 15-year-old student. She realizes that this is the perfect opportunity to use the secret to make Sheba feel guilty, indebted, and stay with her. Sheba has her own life, and she can't cope with Barbara's summons at any time. Barbara is furious and finally shakes out the scandal of Sheba. As a result, Sheba was convicted and jailed, and Barbara was fired from the school for refusing to report.
Sparks can be said to be sparkling in every scene between two powerful actresses, Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. Barbara is a single lesbian. She looks strong and independent on the surface, but in reality she is afraid of dying alone because of her advancing age; Shiba has a husband and children, a satisfying job, but there are troubles in her life that she can't talk about, so she accepts. The pursuit of students, through desire to mediate the dull life. It can be said that the archetypes of these two women abound in life, because of the unspoken confusion and loneliness in their hearts, because of a strong desire, to do wrong or paranoid things. And these things that originally belonged to the category of privacy, once made public and exposed to the public for moral judgment, will appear so perverted and bizarre.
After Shiba's secret was announced, she was expelled from the house by her family. She stayed at Barbara's house without knowing the truth. She accidentally discovered Barbara's diary and learned everything. She rushed out of the room, holding a diary, intending to reveal everything to the reporter, but, facing the camera and the microphone, she was speechless and said nothing.
Jesus said, "Whoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to stone her." Whether it is a moral trial or a legal trial, it often ends at privacy. If a machine were invented to decode the secrets in everyone's mind, probably no one would escape trial. This is not to say that there is tolerance for crime, but that one cannot use another's secrets as a weapon, and cannot arbitrarily judge another's privacy (especially if it does not harm the law).
Here, I have to talk about "Pornography". This is a typical public moral trial on privacy. The charges include promiscuity and hypocrisy, and the wording even uses the word "moral bottom line". A young unmarried man has sex with several or dozens or dozens of young and beautiful unmarried women, and uses it to shoot for fun. I don't know if the level of sexual liberation of the Chinese people is too low, or the level of sexual morality is too high, "promiscuous" Really exaggerated. As for hypocrisy, who among us has been a man without a mask is qualified to scold her/him. It is the indignant netizens who wantonly insulted the personalities of the parties, and even took some derogatory nicknames, exposing their personality metamorphosis caused by long-term repression. Just like in the film Shiba asked Barbara: "What right do you have to judge my life?"
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