pose of a tree

Ashly 2022-03-26 09:01:11

I started watching this video entirely because I like Xiao K, and I want to see her little fresh and girly look! Unexpectedly, this movie has spawned many campus problems, such as: campus bullying, sexual assault, the school's unjust attitude towards students... In fact, there are many strange, just like a miniature. Xiao K was 14 years old when she played the heroine, so she interprets this seemingly simple role vividly and brilliantly (forgive me for using so many praise words at one time, because she is really a charming girl^-^). In fact, Melinda is like a tree, the attitude of the tree, not to accommodate any party, she can be the appearance of a tree, but she can be the appearance of many trees! In the pressure of broken friendship, in the anguish of being violated but unable to tell, she became silent, but no longer silent. At first I thought it might be a bit funny to translate the title of the film "Speak" as "Scream", but I think this is my first feeling after watching the film. When the anger, depression, and dissatisfaction burst out at the same time, It's an angry outburst. Later, after watching it, I realized that "No More Silence" is more appropriate, which involves feminist viewpoints (probably because the director is a woman~)

What struck me in this film was the piece of art made of turkey bones. My first reaction needs to be revealed: I first connected this thing with environmental protection and caring for the earth. The skeleton was made of a deer. Countless sharp knives and sharp weapons stabbed at it, but it desperately defended the animals under it. A touch of green. Now I know that this little deer is a Melinda: she is pure, kind, maverick, and she keeps her inner peace and hope alone amid the erosion of the outside world's mad words. Really, if one's hope is dashed, it's really a tasteless life. I admire her for this, and it also proves that inner strength is the most powerful response to our discord!

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Extended Reading

Speak quotes

  • Mr. Freeman: Can anybody tell me what this is?

    [holds up a smashed globe]

    Ivy: A globe?

    Mr. Freeman: A globe? Gosh... what are you guys, 13, 14? You already let them beat the creativity outta you? It's okay. I used to let my daughters kick this around my studio when it was too wet too play outside and one day, Jenny put her foot right through Texas and the entire United States crumbled into the sea. I mean, you could... you could paint a wet muzzled dog chewing Alaska! The possibilities are endless. It's almost too much, but you all are important enough to give it too.

  • Mr. Freeman: In here is a piece of paper and on that piece of paper is a word. You are gonna spend the rest of the year turning that object into art.

    Ivy: Uh, Mr. Freeman? When I was little, I was really scared of clowns and I don't wanna relapse and have to go back into therapy.

    Mr. Freeman: Oh, yeah, well, fear is a great place to begin art.

    [Melinda picks a piece of paper that says "tree" and tries to put it back]

    Mr. Freeman: Hey! Whoa. You just chose your destiny. You can't change that.

    Melinda Sordino: I learned how to draw a tree in like the 2nd grade.

    Mr. Freeman: Oh, really? Um. Well, do you wanna show me? It's okay. I won't grade you.

    [he hands her the chalk and Melinda sulks up to the blackboard and very hesitantly draws a really pathetic tree]

    Mr. Freeman: That's a pretty good start. Yeah, let's see what it looks like at the end of the year.

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