"April 3, 2nd, 2nd" is undoubtedly a masterpiece. The use of long lenses and hand-held follow-ups allows actors to have a coherent performance, but also brings out the face of life in a more comprehensive manner. The film style is cold and documentary, which makes people can’t help but think of the Dai Dan brothers ( Dardenne Brothers), and the subject matter is similar to Mike Leigh's "Underground Guanyin" (Vera Drake, 2004).
The set time of the film is a certain day in 1987, during the Communist Party's rule. There are only three main actors: Gabita, a college girl who is in desperate need of abortion, she is indecisive and reckless; her roommate is Otilia, who is cautious and serious; in addition, there is an abortion doctor. In addition, the plot of the movie is clearly divided into three sections: First, preparing for an abortion, Otilia has to have sex with the doctor due to insufficient surgical fees; second, Otilia goes to her boyfriend’s home to attend his mother’s birthday party, Otilia and her boyfriend break up; Finally, abandoned babies.
Cristian Mungiu did not show his own moral judgments in the movie, but vividly presented their experiences in one day, realistically reflecting the distress and pressure of the two female college students under the Iron Curtain regime. It comes from different levels-authoritarian politics, lack of money, conscience and morality, feelings between men and women, reprimands from parents, etc. This is the real situation.
Sex is the most controversial aspect of modern ethical and moral issues. Whether it is abortion, homosexuality, or video privacy, it is all about sex. Some people have adopted a quick one-size-fits-all strategy to immediately say right and wrong, but do they have a sufficient understanding of the person, each case, and the person involved? Will there be more caring principles and positions than caring people?
I admired the ending of "April 3 Week 2". The two finally had a long and arduous day. Gabita had an abortion and sat in the dining room; Otilia, who had just abandoned the baby embryo, came to her and sat down. Drink a glass of water. Gabita picked up the menu and ordered food-that's it. People always have to eat and drink while they are alive, but they have freedom in what they eat and drink. But the freedom of man does not mean that man is bound to make good and right decisions. Augustine pointed out in "On free choice of the will" that guilty people are punished by ignorance and incompetence. Because of ignorance, people lack the free will to choose to do what is right. "Ignorance makes us act." Mistakes and incompetence make our lives tortured and painful.” If this is true, then people will naturally ask, what did I do wrong to suffer this pain? Augustine added, "You are blamed not because of your unwilling ignorance, but because you don’t seek what you don’t know. You are blamed not because you didn’t bandage your wounds, but because you refused to The only one to heal your wounds."
"April 3, Week 2" is set in the era of the authoritarian left-wing regime, when people lacked freedom, and abortion was of course regarded as illegal. Just think about it, whether people are too keen to stand at the moral high point and authoritarian center, claiming to be legislators and judges, forgetting everyone's inherent ignorance and incompetence, and forgetting that the only one who heals wounds is not us.
I was sad for the dead baby, but I also put down the stone in my hand.
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