This drama, which was a big hit at the Cannes Film Festival, is from the Belgian directors Darney brothers. In the film, there are a lot of close-up shots that zoom in and shake, focusing on magnifying the unease, confusion and struggle on the face of the 18-year-old heroine.
As an unemployed teenager in a township society, Rosetta's life is even more unfortunate with an alcoholic and depraved mother who lives in a trailer. The downward environment makes Rosetta extremely eager for a normal life and obsessed with a formal job. However, the reality was too unsatisfactory, which made Rosetta become irritable in her inner struggle, and even turned her back on her friends. After she carried her mother who was paralyzed at the door for the last time, Rosetta finally chose to give up this inhuman life and turn on the gas. .
In the DV-like footage, you see Rosetta live extremely hard, every movement, walking, breathing, eating is doing her best. The hair dryer to relieve dysmenorrhea, the sewer pipe to hide the rain boots, the thin coat that has never been changed, this is the whole world of a girl, the secret and dignity she does not want to be known.
The Dana brothers are amazing because they don't need any skills. They just show you one thing, a character, without complicated character relationships, without warm feelings, and very frankly showing a person's heart to the extreme. You could call it snooping, you could call it revealing, but in the end it was the Danes who redeemed them. The film takes an hour and a half to create a suffocating and restless situation, but at the end Rosetta is forgiven by his friends, and finally falls on the gas can and weeps. "Evil" makes people flee into the soil and bears the fruit of love.
It is said that the Belgian government released a draft of the "Youth Employment Act" to protect young girls like Rosetta in the film. Later, the name of the bill was called "Rosetta".
Favorite part of the film, Rosetta muttering hopefully late at night after getting a new job "Your name is Rosetta and my name is Rosetta. You get a job, I get a job. You have a Friend, I have a friend. You're not going to be the same, I'm not going to be the same."
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