What keeps us going in this world is the belief that in the other world we will meet again with all we love.
This world is too dangerous for women, in addition to enduring the hardships that ordinary people have to endure, they have to endure some additional pain. Such as wounds that may never heal after the loss of a child, such as injuries inflicted on oneself by the same kind. There are two scenes in the movie that evoke my fears as a woman. One of them is the two heroines lying in the woods, suddenly the sound of a branch breaking interrupted their intimacy, and they panicked. That kind of vigilance can only be found in the most alert little animals who are constantly surrounded by hunters. That scene made me feel like they were carrying the best secrets in the world, for fear of being discovered, because they knew that once they were discovered, they would be shattered. Also in this scene, tallie says, "I've never liked cages." So maybe their good secrets are cage songs for Abigail, and for Tallie, the better the love, the worse the cages around it Bear. In another scene, Tallie finally finds a house in the blizzard where she can take shelter for a while, but when she finds there are several men in the house, she leaves immediately, preferring to risk her life and keep on going against the whistling wind and snow. The film takes place in a rural America in the 19th century, and the threat and fear that Tallie feels in the house where she can shelter from the wind and snow permeates into the 21st century. For hundreds of years, women have fought for rights, equality, and opportunities in this world, but we have never been able to establish the sense of security that we can avoid disaster in the same room with a strange man. The world is too dangerous for women.
Abigail is like Cordelia, the youngest daughter of King Lear. The cry of her dead daughter in her arms, her apology and gratitude to her husband, and her tidal wave of love and longing for tallie, these sincere and burning feelings all turned into words and flowed from the tip of the pen to the paper. She said that when she was a child, she wanted to change the world through her talents. In a sense, she did it. In that diary, she constructed an emotional world of her own, where she spent her happy times over and over again.
Tallie died, died of diphtheria, perhaps murdered, or perhaps the captivity of this world. In another world, Nellie is waiting for Abigail to reunite with Tallie's hair.
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