Medea Castaway
这篇影评可能有剧透
1,导演想要表现的是她们这样的黑人女性所处的中间状态,无法融入法国这个种族和阶层分化的社会,又无法回归自己祖先所代表的传统黑人社会。“As both a forced and a voluntary exile, a cleaving wherein she was handed a knife by French society but pressed down with her own hands. All of my films, really resides in this guilt that I feel of having, for a time, integrated this French injunction of separating myself from working class neighborhoods”.
2,一定程度上,这个作家女主是导演自身的映射。导演自身曾经就像女主一样十分关注过这个案件(本电影是基于真是案件的,法庭上的对白都是基于真实的庭审记录),也想女主一去旁听过;
3,Euripides’s Medea, a princess uprooted from her homeland of Colchis and brought by her husband, Jason, to Greece, where she is regarded suspiciously as a foreign sorceress, a “barbarian” with “black looks”. Medea is better remembered for murdering her sons in an act of revenge against her adulterous husband.
4,杜拉斯(Marguerite Duras)在广岛之恋的剧本中描写了那些在二战之后因为与德国占领军交往,被剃光头发公开羞辱的法国女性。”Uses the power of her narrative to sublimate reality”,在杜拉斯的叙述中,这些被羞辱的女性被转变成了优雅的形象(in a state of grace)。女主所要做的就是想把这个被控告杀死自己幼女的黑人女性,转变成为真实的女性。
5,影片中不时插入的女主的童年回忆中,她和母亲之间无处不在的距离感。这种距离感让她与被Laurence遗弃的女儿产生了共情。她也开始去尝试理解自己的母亲,也努力去寻找产生这种距离感的原因。是作为一个弱势移民女性被生活折磨得筋疲力尽了吗?还是一个被隐形的母亲无从反抗的无力感?这其中的原因是否也是Laurence杀死自己女儿的原因呢?当女主躺在床上,抚摸着自己的腹部,她是否也在思考自己与即将到来的孩子之间,会是怎样一种关系呢?