Pieces of a Woman-Woman's fragment, woman's struggle

Many people say this film is about pain, about forgiveness, about breeding. Maybe it's right. But I think a more important theme throughout the film is women's structure. The so-called "structle" is not only a struggle (like a person falling in the water) who has suffered from disaster to survive, but also an active struggle - Martha is fighting for power all the time.

She and her husband argue over the spelling of the child's name, which the husband says is just a "tiny detail.". Martha was very angry, because for her it was not a small detail, it was power: power of speech, power of decision, power to control her body, and power to interpret her life. Those things, for her, or for women, are extremely important (but unfortunately they need to be fought, not born). For the same reason, she and her mother argued about how to deal with the child's body (donation or burial), whether she would not file a lawsuit, whether she appeared in court to testify, and how she should have a child (at home or to hospital).

Strangely (not surprisingly): she clearly thought only about controlling some seemingly insignificant "tiny details", which seemed to belong to her without doubt, but it was so difficult to get them, and it took so many fights. People always say, "we fully understand that you have the right to do so, but...". People acknowledge her power, but continue to give her the word "what should you do" and "how to do it best for you". "If you do what I suggested, you will now hold the living child," said the mother. "

All you have to do is lift your head up, as I did before. When having sex, she told her husband that the trousers were zipped behind, but the husband must tear her trousers. She said to me for a few seconds to let me take off. The husband was furious and said that her behavior had made him completely interested. It's unbelievable, really, that a woman's life requires so much struggle / struggle, and even her power to take off her pants needs to fight and fight. The passer-by (mother's friend) who couldn't hit the eight pole dared to jump out of the supermarket to define her life. A symbolic scene is that she returns to work after having a child and finds a man sitting in her office using her computer. She said it was my office, and the other side looked like "Oh, good, don't get excited.". She had to ask, "do I look scary, please?" It's really typical: no one denies that it's her office, but it doesn't prevent anyone from occupying the Office (right) for granted.

Everything needs to fight, so her life is so difficult, not all because of the child's death, the child's death is just a trigger conflict event. So everything became a struggle. Even whether to fight is a power struggle (mother insists that Martha must fight and fight lawsuit; but Martha resists and opposes it, and her resistance is her struggle). Even we can guess that she chose this poor and uneducated spouse, probably to fight with her mother and fight for control over her life. The power war continued from the mother paying for a car to the mother's check to persuade men to go away.

Martha is a very fighting woman, she is shaped as a rebellious middle and High-yielding woman. But she also had her weakness, which was vaguely portrayed as a woman's own weakness: for example, she was clearly not interested, and half as her husband rushed to her, she entered the state of consent. For example, the pain and helplessness she saw the children in the street - her husband was suffering for losing his child, but his pain was to shout at the doctor, as a threat to the car seller, etc.; it was the pain of having power and power, which was different from Martha. Her weakness, as if it were, was due to the possession of a woman's body (or identity).

Her struggle, not always successful, there are many "half push half", and sex, is "I don't want, but still into the state of consent", it seems to be a very "woman" retreat. For example, she was very opposed to court and court at first, but later she appeared in court to testify. But she also surprised everyone and made a statement in court to forgive the midwife. Her struggles also seem to be "women": she resorted to feelings and love, saying that my daughter was not in order to fight and revenge.

Women exist not for fighting and revenge, but for love. Martha himself seems to believe that.
But: in the way people think it is "women", is it a success or failure?
There are two interesting details at the end of the film.

The first is that the mother seems to show a tendency to dementia, and she doesn't remember what she ordered. Mother said: I didn't order that. Martha said: you ordered it. You like lemon poppy. Mother said: I don't like it. At this time, mother showed obvious hesitation and fear, and Martha had never been so mature and firm. Their power relationship finally turned upside down. It used to be Martha who said "I like this / I want to do it," and the mother said, "no, which do you like / you want to do that.".

Now I've changed it. But this change is not because Martha has achieved some kind of essential success, but only because her mother is old and sick, and she is at her mature age. The power relationship itself has not changed, or that set of "I don't want you to think, I want me to feel.".

The second detail is Martha asked her daughter to come down from the tree to eat. Martha said, "I made your favorite food." "Is it an ice stick?" said the daughter "No "Is it popcorn?" "No And so on. What daughter likes most has to be decided by her mother, but has the final say. The relationship between power has not changed at all, but Martha is now a mother, not a daughter.

This end confused me. It seems that everything has changed, and it seems that everything has not changed, but a generation after generation, and it is just a continuous life.

But maybe we should believe that we will improve and we will eventually build earthquake resistant bridges and anti oxidant apples. At least from a micro perspective, in Martha's personal story, she has created connections in the struggle, healed the damage, and found her own place. She finished her fight against her mother through a court declaration. Admitting that your choice is unreasonable / not optimal, it is also a power in itself.

It's not the old-fashioned "time to heal everything," because Martha didn't live through the pain by waiting quietly. She was always fighting and struggling. The pieces of the struggle, together, have become a perhaps incomplete she.