"I say to you: You are so beautiful in this dress.
I should have let you take the scissors and cut that horrible green dress to pieces,
Lock yourself in the room again,
Swallow the key in your stomach. "
Everything stemmed from that elopement, and everything happened because of that elopement in the 1950s. The era when abortion violated moral standards and sever family bonds. The two sisters are victims of patriarchy and husband's power, and they are tools of fertility. In the end, neither of them got what they wanted, one missed the piano, and the other lost the ability to love.
This is a feminist film with smooth subjective narrative, exquisite scene scheduling, strong color, high texture and full of emotion. The suffocation it brings is like the thin mist from the rain forest, which is getting thicker and thicker. In the heavy scene at the end of the film, the silver-haired heroine found a letter that had never been opened decades ago, and followed the address to find it. I thought this fog would eventually evaporate. Because her husband died, and she will find her own sister, even if not, the knot of many years of heart will be unraveled. But no.
"My grandma said her sister was the best pianist."
The close-up of the expression lasted for nearly 40 seconds, with a sluggish moment and a smile on the corner of the mouth. It may be gratifying, but I think it is more helpless, twice, twice because of pregnancy, getting sick and passing music. In the end, I didn't become the best pianist, I didn't go to Vienna, I didn't even go to the conservatory... Now I have gray hair and it seems like a lifetime. That fog can only be deposited in my heart...
There is only one grandmother's earring, piano, letter; a moment worth mentioning, the bride with a broken mirror on the wedding night, after learning that she was pregnant, was unable to concentrate and sat on the sofa side by side with the piano teacher, the depth of field when the doctor announced her second pregnancy The body of the female protagonist is only a female body in a suspender pajamas, without a face or a head.
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