In a hidden corner, they bloom unexpectedly wild flowers
——From the official selected films of the Golden Goblet Award, "Helena: Life on the Canvas", "The Moon in Hand", etc.
■Reporter Liu Qing
Movies are an extension of reality. Film practitioners actively intervene in women's issues, eager for the voice of industry structure and even the adjustment of gender structure to penetrate the work from reality. In this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, during the film selection and selection stage, it was discovered that the current important trends in film creation are "women's resistance to male gaze" and "women challenge gender stereotypes." In the multiple units participating in the exhibition, the audience can see these works that are either "photographed by women" or "voicing for women" or "in the same position as women". They think about women's self-discovery and self-realization from different perspectives. As well as the relationship between women, diversified types and themes have revealed hidden corners.
The spiritual world of women Kuoda
"Helena: Life on Canvas" is one of the official films selected for this year's Golden Goblet Award. The heroine Helena is a forgotten painter who has only held one painting exhibition, and has since lived in rural Finland anonymously. The watchfulness of the film comes from the gorgeous colors and the strong texture of light and shadow, and the heroine’s performance brings an impactful sense of energy. Although Helena is a peasant woman who has been disappointed in family and love, she realizes herself Energy is put into painting. In her paintings, people see what an astonishing spiritual world an ordinary woman defined by the world can have.
Selected for the Golden Goblet Award documentary unit "Shui Moon in Hand" and the screening film "Hold Your Breath" are exploring the spiritual world of women's Kuoda from the experience of legendary women in different fields. The heroine of "The Moon in the Hand" is Ye Jiaying, a master of Chinese classical poetry. She has experienced a turbulent life. For a long time, she is a lonely person who has no support in life and spirit. Extremely lonely, she created a world of abundance for herself in her poems. From her poems, she jumped out of her personal sufferings and desires, and arrived at the vast love for all living beings. The content of "Hold Your Breath" comes from the real experience of the Russian "Freedom Empress" Natalia Murchanova. Marina in the film is a retired swimmer. After divorcing, she accidentally discovered that she had the ability to hold her breath underwater, so she switched to free diving to challenge her limit. This is not a conventional inspirational biographical film. The focus of the film is not how the heroine counterattacks in new areas after experiencing the trough of life. The director uses the ever-increasing dive depth and broken records in free diving to convey women's unparalleled breakthrough. Self, the belief in reshaping life.
The growth of women can be independent of men
While paying attention to female legends and achievements, more films focus on the unfriendly environment faced by women in their growth.
After in-depth interviews with more than a thousand middle school girls, Spanish director Pilar Palomero wrote the script for the feature film debut "Girls". The eleven or twelve-year-old girls seem to understand but not understand, their bodies and desires Budding in stupid motion. A group of non-professional actor girls, ignorantly, without a trace, delivered their impulses and confusion in front of the camera. In the successive close-up shots, young and young, the beauty is dazzling, but the Spanish environment in the 1990s was so conservative that it was suffocating. The unmarried mother was a shame. Age slut humiliation is everywhere. For women, the growth that "only the Tao is ordinary" has to wade through the stormy waves of prejudice. Just like the chorus at the end of the film, the girls are silenced. They are asked to lip-synch, have the courage to let go of their voices and sing their own unique voices. This is already a difficult adventure for the brave.
The 1992 Spanish in "Girls" may be said to be a "period drama nearly 30 years ago", but the Bulgarian film "Sisters" reveals that this kind of imprisonment and violence against women still exists cruelly in the present, which is stubborn and conservative. The atmosphere is disgusting. Out of impulse, curiosity, and poor imagination in the occluded environment, the adolescent sister made up a lie about body and sex. Little did she expect that the rumors of "sister deprivation" and "brother-in-law infidelity" almost destroyed a long time. Three mother and daughter who lack communication. At the end of the film, the mother, daughter and sister, who were almost falling apart, were calm before the truth. The three made pottery together, and no one made any noise, only the sound of shoveling. It was a moment full of metaphors, and when the storm was over, the women were always walking next to each other.
Women are bearing and overcoming accusations day and night, and the absence of men is the norm. This year's "Lost Canton" and "Dear She", which were selected for the Asian Newcomer Award, and the "Love Trilogy: Rebirth" and "Adam" in the screening unit, have different perspectives on this theme. The two girls in "Lost Guangzhou", one neutral, one sweet and strong-tempered Mi Qi, are looking for her long-lost father. The silly and sweet Jingjing wants to go to her lover, so they go to Guangzhou together. They each think that the men who are very important to them leave them disappointed. Only the love of "on the road" that they support each other brings comforting temperature. In the Japanese movie "Dear She", there is also a pair of girls who love each other. Xiaochun accompanied her friend Ayano through her pregnancy, watching her make the decision to be a single mother, and then they raised their children together. The girl's little league is stubborn and united not to compromise with reality, and bravely said: "Even without the beautiful scenery, the future can still be expected."
"Crazy Flower" shoulders the gate of darkness
In "Love Trilogy: Rebirth", Ivigail is both a mother and a nurse. She has given everything for the people around her, suffering from not being able to find her place; Ya'er can hardly recover from the childhood trauma of being abandoned by her parents; Nama was abused by her stepfather since she was a child, but she assumed the responsibility of taking care of her stepfather, and for this reason had to engage in sensuality at night. The three women who were on the verge of destruction intersected because of the indelible "love" in their temperaments. That little life-hanging "love" tied them together and saved them. The so-called "feminine power" is nothing more than this, that is, in a desperate situation, still instinctively show compassion to the imperfect kind and others. It is this weak and precious "ability to love" that allows seemingly weak women to shoulder the gates of darkness and have the courage and ability to change the status quo.
The heroine of the Brazilian film "Presa" is an uncompromising mother, a documentary-born director who tells the story of a mother who is looking for her son who has lost information, and goes deep into the Amazon jungle to single-handedly uncover Brazilian slave laborers. Shady. In "Made in Bangladesh", the 23-year-old young girl, faced with the harsh working environment of the garment factory, refused to compromise on the “going for safety” and insisted on establishing a union with her colleagues to fight for the rights of herself and her workers. In the French comedy "Crazy Flower", when the small town football team was banned, the team coach hired a group of girls to form a temporary team. These were housewives, restaurant waiters, and women next door to the police. Become a zealous flower on the green field.
This humorous comedy and more serious dramas interweave an exciting force: when there is room for "she watch" and "she speak" in the movie, unexpected wild flowers will bloom in hidden corners.