Gender: Female

Buddy 2022-12-16 02:16:26

The deserted ocean drilling platform and the boring suburban factory workshop, the switching of the two scenes leads to the hero and heroine of the story.

The heroine is silent and weird, obsessive-compulsive, and clean.

The actor was burnt to bed, pretending to be optimistic but feeling guilty.

The female protagonist cannot hear because of the old creation, and the male protagonist is temporarily blinded by burns.

In the ambiguous combination of the female nurse and the male patient, the two handicapped people gradually developed a sense of confidant.

One day, the male protagonist told the female protagonist an incident that happened when he was a child: his father took him to row a boat. He was afraid of the water and began to cry. His father was impatient and directly picked him up and threw him into the swift river.

He was six years old at the time, and his dad couldn't swim at all.

The tyrannical patriarchy made the male protagonist, who was once a weak child, terrified and painful.

The heroine was touched and finally spoke out about her own past.

During the Bosnia and Herzegovina War, she was detained in a hotel with her friends, and was forced to comfort her with other captured women.

When there was not enough food, the soldiers would kill several women, she said.

She said that when they were too bored and wanted to have fun, they would cut hundreds of wounds on their bodies with a knife and then pour salt water on them.

She said that a mother and daughter were arrested together. They forced the mother to put the pistol into the pregnant daughter's Vagina and forced her to shoot, and then laughed and said to the mother: Now you can no longer be a grandmother.

In the heroine's narration about the past, the most terrifying thing is not this, but:

"It was our own soldiers who violated us."

"And the soldiers of the United Nations. One of them has an American accent like you. He also came to 'patron' and kept saying sorry, sorry, while lying on top of me."

How terrifying war can be, we who grew up in peacetime cannot imagine. In "The Other Half of the Sky", the author said: In war, rape of women in hostile countries can become an effective strategy to reduce the casualty rate of one's own side.

After the current system completely collapses and society falls into chaos, women will immediately become sacrifices because of their gender. Both sides of the war raped women arbitrarily, either to dampen the morale of the other side or to boost the morale of their own.

These wars did not take place in distant antiquity, but not long ago, even now.

War is subversive to human nature, and the only people who can stay out of it are the small group of people who make war.

A peaceful, prosperous and stable living environment is a necessary prerequisite for men to treat women gently. Women's rights, me too, he for her, and even pastoral women's rights, can only happen in a peaceful and prosperous age.

Some rights and interests really need to be given by the other party before you can get them.

The heroine received psychological treatment from experts in the international rescue organization after the war, but she could not get rid of the self-blame of the Holocaust survivors. The heroine's best friend was arrested with her, and her friend was abused to death, but she still Lucky to live. Why? This kind of deformed and twisted luck is the unbearable weight of her life.

She was powerless to avenge a war between nations, she could only blame herself for everything.

The heroine has been living like a walking dead, because she can't walk out of the shadow, and because she dare not walk out of the shadow and let herself live too well.

She eats the same food three times a day, apple ➕ chicken nuggets ➕ white rice; she doesn't even buy a bed in the room, and sleeps on the sofa every night; her ears are maimed in the war, but she often doesn't wear them Hearing aids, in order to isolate the noise in the factory and to isolate other people's concerns.

She never arrives late, leaves early, or asks for leave. Her attendance rate is so perfect that HR forces her to take a month's paid vacation.

But the heroine who came to the resort didn't know how she could pass the day apart from working like a worker ant. At this time, the male protagonist urgently needed a personal caregiver because of the burn, and the female protagonist suggested herself. Before the outbreak of the war, she was studying in a nursing school and had practical experience in caring for burn patients.

Therefore, the heroine got the opportunity to board the offshore drilling platform that was out of service.

An offshore drilling platform is a closed and independent space, worthy of the name, and it is an environment completely dominated by men. This echoes the heroine's experience of being forced to comfort herself during the Bosnian War. The heroine would collapse because she was reminded of the past when she stepped into the hotel room. If she entered such a place, she would definitely collapse in minutes.

But it didn't.

It even became a magical place to heal her trauma and help her out of the shadows.

The employees of these oil companies on the offshore platform, although isolated from the world, have a rich salary and a stable life. They are all males in a normal state. They have put away their fangs and blocked their bestiality. Faced with the sudden appearance of young women, they all feel Must be courteous, must be treated with special care. So they are all gentle and polite to the heroine, and even some deliberately to please.

The offshore drilling platform and the hotel where the heroine was imprisoned and abused during the war, these two spaces form a situational contrast that echoes each other, which can be described as the magic of the film.

On this platform, under the respect, care and company of these strange men, the heroine finally laughed again, enjoyed the appetite again, and began to eat delicacies other than fried chicken, apples and white rice.

It was also here that she revealed her biggest secret and her knife-scarred body to the hero.

The male protagonist is a drilling worker on an oil platform. He is tall and tall, but he likes to read and is affectionate. He was so affectionate that he fell in love with his best friend's wife. After the friend knew the truth, he couldn't accept it, so he chose to jump into the oil well.

The male protagonist has a proper heart of a holy father. After knowing what happened to the female protagonist, he has infinite sympathy. In the end, he married the heroine and let her live a happy and stable life.

The male protagonist is a good man, and the animal nature in his heart has never been awakened. Unless he encounters a great change, he should be a good man all his life. However, his father was able to throw his own son into the river to drown because of his madness. He is his father's son, and he always will be.

Lurking in his blood is the nature passed down from generation to generation.

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The Secret Life of Words quotes

  • Victor: He doesn't like to be with the others. He's a loner, too.

    Hanna: There are many of us.

  • Josef: I thought um, you and I, maybe we could go away somewhere. Together. One of these days. Today. Right now. Come with me.

    Hanna: No, I don't think that's going to be possible.

    Josef: Why not?

    Hanna: Um, because I think that if we go away to someplace together, I'm afraid that, ah, one day, maybe not today, maybe, maybe not tomorrow either, but one day suddenly, I may begin to cry and cry so very much that nothing or nobody can stop me and the tears will fill the room and I won't be able to breath and I will pull you down with me and we'll both drown.

    Josef: I'll learn how to swim, Hanna. I swear, I'll learn how to swim.