At the beginning of the film, the girl sang at the school party. Halfway through the song, a boy suddenly shouted "slut" and then pretended as if nothing had happened. She paused and finished singing with tears in her eyes. After that, the girls' family ate in a restaurant, and several boys at the next table ate. One of them kept staring at her and making faces. She went over and threw a glass of water in his face.
I am always slow to respond to stories, and it took me a few minutes to realize that this should be her boyfriend. And the one who called "slut" was her boyfriend's friend. It seems that boyfriends and friends should share their private lives.
Then the girl found out she was pregnant and was going to have an abortion. This film is actually about her cousin who went to new york from Iowa to have an abortion with her. Abortion has always been a cliche in domestic youth films, but this film ended after the abortion was filmed in good faith, not a cliche. Experienced psychological activities are also carefully captured, such as natural mutual support between women (girls). Without saying anything, her cousin stole money from the supermarket (both of them worked as part-time cashiers in the supermarket) and accompanied her to new york. The receptionist in a strange hospital will hold her hand tightly during her operation. I have never felt "all women", but I do have some experiences, and women can understand each other better. There is some sexual humiliation and malice that men just can't understand. It is not that women are better than men, but that human beings have never been an empathetic species. A little emotional experience will separate people from each other between the stars and the sea.
Recently, I also watched a Korean film "Miss Dionysus", the story of an elderly prostitute shot by a male director. The poetic second aunt starred in "the man in the bathhouse owner's house" My second aunt is very skilled, and every expression and every movement are in place. This Dionysus is not Nietzsche's Dionysus, but Bacchus in the English name "The Bacchus Lady", which is a Korean beverage brand "Baojiashi". Older workers will ask by the roadside, "Do you want a bottle of Baojia?" Therefore, Douban netizens named it "Miss Bao Jiashi".
This film was also made sincerely. At the beginning of the film, the sky looks up, the leaves are shaking around, and the blue in the middle is like a patio. Next, zoom in to a small flower in the fallen leaves, which should be a very small white daisy, with only one flower, so simple as to be ignored. This is Miss Dionysus.
Prostitutes have always been women endowed with many meanings. The dirtier, the more sacred-I don't know how the awkward person put forward this view. I don't know where the dirt comes from and where the holiness comes from. In this film, the old prostitute Miss Dionysus is the "goddess" who consumes old customers. She helped or accompanied three men to die, and the first man could not commit suicide after a stroke; The second one has Alzheimer's disease and dare not commit suicide; The third one doesn't want to die alone. He saved a bottle of sleeping pills, hoping to give her one and let her sleep together.
After doing the first thing, I suddenly inserted a scene of Miss Dionysus's work-under the open sky, above the fallen leaves, next to the white chrysanthemum, she completed a transaction.
The word "crossing" really doesn't know where it goes. Miss Dionysus was found guilty of this and died in prison soon. The part where she died was in a hurry and there was no bedding. Probably because the whole film is paving the way for this moment. Reading Douban commented that "the old man who asked her to help is a bit selfish." I don't know if this is the so-called "crossing" or the redemption of her life of regret and guilt.
Both films are about women's lives related to "sex", one is the beginning and the other is the end. I was curious about the name "never, occasionally, sometimes, always" when I saw the movie poster. I didn't know until I watched the movie that this is a routine question about female abortion in some countries, such as "Did your partner force you to get pregnant?" "Did your partner hit you, slap you in the face, or do you any other physical harm?" I need to answer "never, occasionally, sometimes, always." When answering these questions, the camera stared at the girl intently, watching her go from "never" to "occasionally" to tears, and she couldn't go on.