The story of "Two Days in Three Weeks in April" takes place in Romania in 1987. In order to increase the population and strengthen the national strength, the Romanian government at that time banned female abortion. Once an abortion is discovered, both the woman who aborts and the doctor who assists the abortion will be sentenced. In this context, the story told in the film happened, that is, Otilia's roommate Gabita, a female college student, was unfortunately pregnant, so with the help of Otilia, she found a doctor who was willing to perform an abortion. Faced with the inhumane laws of the Romanian government, many parties living in Romania are very ambiguous about their situation. In the film, Gabita's ex-boyfriend never showed up, and as the child's father, he could stay out of it without any burden. Gabita asked her roommate Otilia to share her plight instead of her boyfriend. Gabita kept making mistakes while preparing for the abortion. She didn't book a hotel that was suitable for the surgery, didn't raise enough money, didn't tell the doctor the real pregnancy period, and didn't meet the doctor in person. She used a superficial indifference to hide her inner bewilderment, and finally dragged her roommate Otilia into the water. The two were forced to accept the sexual assault of the abortion doctor because they did not have enough cash to prepare.
In the film, these young men and women think that they can face the relationship and sexuality maturely, but they often show cowardice when the woman is pregnant. We should naturally be cautious about abortion, but the premise of calling for a cautious abortion should be a call for a cautious approach to sexuality. In the film, Gabita becomes pregnant due to indiscreet sex, while Otilia's boyfriend insists on having sex without contraception despite the woman's objections. Two female college students also succumbed to the doctor's sexual assault under the pressure of the doctor's language and behavior.
At her boyfriend's house, Otilia once questioned her boyfriend what if she was pregnant. The boyfriend replied, "It won't be you, it definitely won't be you". The boyfriend knew that his parents had already arranged his future work for him, and he also knew that his girlfriend would be assigned to any city after graduation. The future of the two was uncertain, but he still asked his girlfriend to meet her sexual needs. When Otilia hurried to the hotel because she cared about Gabita, who had just had an abortion, her boyfriend ignored Gabita's safety and just blamed Otilia's departure for embarrassing herself and her family. For women, they often make compromises in sexual relationships, thinking that they are compromising for love or life, while men can be the one who is ready to walk away with his pants up and leave all the mess to women themselves. Negative man. This is why, while sex and fertility should be natural gifts to women, women are always placed in a disadvantaged position in modern society.
The film is also filled with the shadow of the decay of the Romanian nation. There is only one bus every hour, and there are always cigarettes that cannot be bought. Female college students choose engineering only to avoid being assigned to work in rural areas after graduation. It is in such an economy. In the context of depression, Romania regarded fertility as a savior, deprived women of the right to abortion by law, exchanged newborns for the hope of the nation, and left the risk to women. In "April Three Weeks Two Days", the economy is in a downturn, so abortion is illegal. In "Frog", the population is too large, so childbirth is illegal. In The Handmaid's Tale, the birth rate is so low that polygamy is legal again. Adam was bored, so Eve was born, and sex was shameful, so they were banished from the Garden of Eden. The world is not good, so Mary is pregnant, so Jesus was born to save the world.
To be born or not to be born is not a machine to maintain the balance of the world, nor is it a magic weapon to save the world. The solution to the problem is not by the womb, nor by letting the next generation appear. The solution is to rely on this generation to change the status quo. If the status quo does not change, the next generation will be like the baby who was aborted in a hurry, just three weeks and two days old in April, abandoned by the mother on waste plastic, and then thrown into the garbage pipe to shreds. Some time ago, my mother-in-law fell in love with Mo Yan. When I went to her house for New Year's Day last year, she gave me the book "Frog" I had read, and then urged me earnestly to prepare for pregnancy. In the cafeteria of the unit, an enthusiastic middle-aged female colleague asked me, "You should be ready to have a child, and you will be a mother at an advanced age." I said, "I am not yet thirty years old." She added, "You also have to think about the second child." In Mo Yan's "Frog", fertility is likened to a bullfrog in a farm. To give birth or not to give birth is just a means of scientific breeding, and bullfrog is just a kind of product.
Some people want to live, some people want to live. Both birth and non-birth face the same proposition, who has the final say in a woman's uterus. So who has the final say, it should probably be me, but the real me is saying that I don't like raising children, while silently accumulating folic acid. Why so contradictory? Choosing to have children or not is like a tug of war. It is a balance between two ends of the scale, and the standard of measurement is age. When we were young, there was a lot of resistance to giving birth. When we got pregnant because of the negligence of our boyfriend and our own naivety, we would raise money for an abortion without telling our parents. When you are old, the resistance of not being born is great, and you have to face the urging of your parents and the guidance of others. I almost envisioned the resistance I'd encounter when I turned thirty, so I had to surrender early. I just can't understand myself, this is no longer the era and environment of "Frog" and "April Three Weeks and Two Days", we all understand the reason, why are we still not free. It is no longer the laws and ignorant moral concepts that are born or not to be surpassed. What is in our hearts makes us dare not to surpass them. We curse, we resent, but who can we blame? We are out of the jungle and into the civilized world, and we are ready to break with our own weaknesses. But let's see what we've done to society, a scientific farm? We understand differences and promote diversity, and we think we have peace of mind, but why is public opinion always separated from reality? Look at what we do in reality, crowding out a few people, bullying the weak; self-pity, not knowing how to resist. Of course we can complain about the society's disregard for women's rights, but society is made up of every individual, and the disregard for women's rights and self-rights by each of us constitutes the injustice to women in the entire society. We advocate women's rights, we carry out the "metoo" movement vigorously, and we think we have armor and weapons. But our weapon was the pocket knife in Otilia's hand, and we held it in our hands, but we didn't know whose chest it was thrusting into. Rather, cut it open to see for yourself.
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