In Cape Town, South Africa in 1952, Amira was the owner of the "Free Man Restaurant", an Indian woman who opposed apartheid, and her restaurant was the only restaurant that black people could enter.
Amira and Miriam fell in love at first sight at the "Free Man Restaurant".
Miriam is a stay-at-home mother whose husband is disrespectful, unfaithful and abusive.
Her husband hired Amira to build a vegetable garden. In the further relationship between Amira and Miriam, the two people get to know each other and become spiritual partners who talk about everything, and the two know and love each other...
The whole story is quite delicate and beautiful, but because the director himself is the original author of the novel, there are certain flaws in the story shooting method, and because there are many story lines in the novel, the director has tasted the depth of some lines in order to show them all.
But from the perspective of vision, color, gaze, language, emotional undercurrents, feminism, anti-apartheid, soundtrack, and characters with unique female directors, these advantages make up for the director's shortcomings in narrative structure.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > women in pants</h1>
Let's first look at how many struggles women have fought for the sake of fair and upright pants:
George. Sang, who was the first woman of her time to wear pants, was hailed by Chopin as a goddess.
George. Sang and Chopin (image from the Internet, invasion and deletion)
She has a unique place in our time. Hugo made this assessment of her.
Yet the history of women being bound by skirts is still inherent. Until 1932, the famous American film star Marien Dietery was caught walking the streets of Paris in long pants and was taken to the police station.
The Hollywood actress was free to wear her pants, and the opportunity was Coco Chane – in the 1940s, when World War II broke out, Coco returned to France in 1954 to resume her fashion career. Flared trousers are the work of Coco Chanel from the post-war period.
Ms. coco (image from the Internet, invasion and deletion)
In the 1950s, jeans became popular from the United States.
In 1965, the production of trousers finally exceeded that of skirts.
Since the 1970s, women have been qualified to wear pants for formal occasions.
Women have carried out a century-long continuous movement in order to legally wear pants, so that today's women can legally wear pants into social life.
The film's appearance of Amira in a trouser outfit in 1952, in South Africa at the time of racism, and her Indian origins, all make her stand.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > two or three songs, two books and one poem</h1>
The film begins with a deliberate use of black female singer Nina. Simon's I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free opens.
I hope you know,
Be back to the meaning of the self,
Then you can know and agree,
Everyone should be free...
In the 1960s, Simon was active in the racial affirmative action movement, singing many songs about African Americans living under racial equality.
The director used the singer and the song at the beginning to set the tone of the film about equal rights: on the one hand, it reflects racial equality, and on the other hand, it maps women's equal rights.
The second interlude, when Amira first went to Miriam's house to repair the vegetable garden: "I can see you, with my heart."
This is also the opportunity for the two to intersect again after the first meeting in the restaurant, and then to exchange hearts.
Ending song Leonie Casanova's "Broken"
Will you carve traces of time on my face?
Will you look at my palm prints?
Struggling to swallow the thirsty throat, praying for the rain to come
Escape from the desert until you see the deep forest
Through the world of our suffering spirits and flesh
Will you set sail again.
Shortly after the two talked, Amira sent a collection of Miriam's poems, in which the poems were written by George. Herbert's God of Love.
She sat on the porch and recited "That Keen Love."
Miriam returns Amira with a book:
On the title page, it is written that "her eyes are filled with the enthusiasm that emanates from the hot summer." "
< h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > third, apartheid</h1>
From Miriam's husband's sister engaged in affirmative action; to her husband's shame in admitting that his sister was his twin sister; to the fact that the white man came to the ta's grocery store in the middle of the night to buy a car lamp, saying that he had hit a black man on the road, and they were most concerned about changing the headlights rather than how the black man was...
The only sympathetic Miriam went to check on the black man who had been injured, and was found by her husband, who was beaten up.
Then the police suspected Miriam of harboring his sister and threatened Miriam with the safety of the child;
Eventually, the police went to Amira's restaurant and threatened Hera, suggesting that if Amira hid the "criminal", her restaurant might be shut down and unable to operate.
The main side line is the emotional line between madeleine, a post office clerk in the restaurant, and Jacob, a black waiter. As a control group, how sweet this pair is at the beginning, how regretful it is later, and from the soundtrack, it can also be predicted that the next two people will not be happy together.
On their first date, the police come to the door, and the two give an explanation so that Jacob is not suspected, but the atmosphere and relationship between the two has been destroyed by this incident.
Finally Jacob said goodbye first.
From this perspective, the director contrasts the emotional line between Camilla and Miriam. Love belongs only to the brave. And they've always been fighters.
A conversation between Camilla and Miriam's husband's twin sister at the restaurant
Camilla is a rebellious woman, and she was influenced by her grandmother, who was raped and pregnant by black people, beaten by relatives and sent back to India, cheated by her husband to take away her child, and her grandmother's experience as a reverse teaching material made Camilla an equalizer, and the equality of that era was destined to be more difficult than it is now.
Camilla tells Miriam what happened to her grandmother
<h1 class = "pgc-h-center-line" > four, "invisible" woman</h1>
Camilla and Miriam's crush at first sight stemmed from Camilla's smile, after which Miriam and Camilla said no one smiled at her for 8 days.
Her husband cheated with her sister-in-law in the utility room downstairs when she gave birth to her third child, and the first time the child was born, he did not ask his wife how it was, but only whether it was a son.
The midwife heard the husband ask if it was the son's expression after saying a word
When he didn't come back from Cape Town, he actually went to meet his sister-in-law privately. Camilla asks Miriam about reading, and Miriam says that he used to love to read, but didn't read much after getting married.
Camilla asks Miriam why she got married, and it is this long dialogue scene that makes Miriam's feminine consciousness begin to awaken. Examine what you want. Her husband was not only an empathetic racist, but also abused her domestically, and the two had the following conversation during the last domestic violence:
Husbands judge "I don't like" and never ask their wives if they like them or not, nor do they allow her to work
Miriam decided to make choices for her life instead of leaving her husband in control.
As Camilla asked Miriam, "Don't housewives have their own feelings, thoughts, and desires?" "
In his 1918 book Understanding Human Nature, Adler devoted an entire chapter to the question of "men and women":
"In our conception there is a dividing line dividing those things that are meaningful, powerful, and victorious into symbols of masculinity, and all tendencies of obedience, submission, and slavery are symbols of women. This is a serious consequence of the prejudice that 'women are inferior'... George. Sang once said that the best invention of men is the virtue of women. "。
From this whole chapter, it can be seen that Adler supports equal rights in the book, but the problem he proposes in the book, even if it is still not done in many places now, women are still in a "misogynistic" environment. To this day, India remains a country where women are very inferior and women are humiliated, damaged and oppressed.
How many women have lived their lives in a state of being insulted, damaged, killed, consumed, and invisible for thousands of years?
If Miriam hadn't met Camilla, perhaps she would still be the woman who was "invisible" her. It is gratifying that we can also see that when Miriam's fighting spirit burns, she moves forward, and she becomes a woman who can be "seen".
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > five, color</h1>
Maybe the director didn't do it deliberately, but the contrast of colors shows a lot.
Camilla's café showcases her inner passion in contrasting colours. White walls, green trees and red bricks have always been characteristic of Africa, but here at Camilla it really fits her enthusiasm and intensity.
Where Miriam was, the colors were soft, bright, and warm, just like her people were gentle tones, full of empathy and empathy. Like the initial encounter between the two in the café and a lot of dialogue later, she shows a high degree of empathy and empathy everywhere.
The colors of Camilla's home: neutral, serious. But Camilla's freedom to grow up came from the support of her parents, and when Camilla wanted to give up the relationship, her father not only visited her, but also communicated his ideas with her to encourage her to bravely face the relationship.
The colors in Camilla's home are neutral
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > written at the end:</h1>
Love belongs to the brave.
Jacob and Madeleine in the control group said goodbye first because of racial segregation.
Camilla and Miriam still intersect because they work together.
The end of the film
Although it seems that this ending is beautified and unrealistic today, such an ending within the story is the most perfect ending of the story.
Kappa and the Crane, amateur book critic, film critic. Two-dimensional heavy enthusiasts. Self-taught psychology on the road. Believe in lifelong learning. Believing that writing is a skill that anyone can learn by input and output.