玛德莲堕落少女

评价这些女孩 ”道德败坏“ 是及其不公平的言论。我们在学习儿童保护的历史的时候这部电影中的情况被引用作为残害少女的证据。女孩们只要被她们的家人或者社会打上”堕落“ 的标签，就会被送到有进无出的救济院。有的人终其一生耗费在救济院里，成为免费的劳工，被体罚和性虐的例子层出不穷。多数人因此有精神上的疾病。可悲的是1996年最后一间救济院才被关闭。剧中逃跑被捉回的女孩，被亲生父亲殴打得满脸是血，第二天被剃光头发。三姐妹并没有做什么在我们看来伤天害理的事，她们被视为家庭的耻辱，却被忽略了她们受到的伤害。最痛心的是来自父母蔑视。可怜可悲。庆幸我出生的家庭和时代。

The Magdalene Sisters
      “ The Magdalene Sisters” is a thoroughly mind-provoking film about 3 young women who, under tragic circumstances,are sent to the asylum as they are considered the “fallen” women in 1964. The asylum is run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. There is another woman named Crispina, who is more vulnerable and tragic because she has mental problem. She experiences something horrific and does not have the mental or emotional intelligence to be able to properly express herself. That is what makes her seem to be more pathetic.
        First of all, Crispina, an unwed mother whose sister adopts the little boy, often bringing him to the gates so that she can see him.She cannot live with her son, even talk to him normally like other parents and children. What she can do is only praying through her Saint Christopher to communicate with her son to make herself peaceful and consoled. There is a scene in the movie that, after she loses her necklace, she is totally desperate and almost crazy to commit suicide. She tries to make herself terminally ill with the flu by soaking her nightgown in cold water then sleeping in it; furthermore, she believes God is punishing her for some wrong and tries to hang herself. These both clearly shows that, she regards the Saint Christopher as a part of her life, and without it, she will be suffered spiritual damage. However, Bernadette, who is a very tough young woman, picks up her necklace by accident, but decides to keep it rather than return it back. Due to Crispina has mental problem, she easily becomes the target that everyone could hurt. Moreover, she is not able to defend for herself. For example, when Margaret finds her Saint Christopher and tells her that Bernadette steals it, she does not show anger at all; on the contrary, she keeps saying, “ but you found it” instead! Even though people try to help her, she is not able to understand the purpose of that.
        Secondly, because of her instability, she falls victim to scrutiny time and again.When the girls are forcedto jog naked in front of the nuns for entertainment, the nuns single Crispinaout as “hairiest,” causing her significant emotional humiliation. After the archbishop takes advantage of her, she does nothing to defend for herself, either. The most unforgettable scene in the movie of her is, she is consistently shouting in front of everyone to the archbishop, "you are not a man of god" when they are doing warship in the field. It can be seen that, this woman is broken and when she sees the archbishop has the rash and she also has the rash a light bulb goes off. She can only uses her own way to tell everyone that the archbishop molests her. However, it does not work, as the archbishop does not get punished, or been sent to the prison, while Crispina is dragged off to an insane asylum, where she eventually dies of anorexia.
        Lastly, in terms of consequences of each character, Crispina is definitely the most tragic one. On the one hand, Crispinais the object of the most punishment because her emotional and psychological instability makes it difficult for her follow the asylum’s strict rules. In addition, she is sexually abused by the priest in the asylum, worsening her instability.On the other hand, the ending of“ The Magdalene Sisters”provides a brief statement about what happens to each girl after her time in the asylum.Margaret becomes a school teacher, but never married.Rose (Patricia in the asylum) remains a devout Catholic, finds the sonshe is forcedto give up for adoption, and has more children.Bernadette marries and divorces three time, and tragically, Harriet (Crispinain the asylum) dies at age 24 of anorexia.Aside from Harriet, who, sadly, is pushedover the edge, all the girls moved on. They all find life after Magdalene Asylum.Although their experiences will undoubtedly remain with them, and the ramifications of the abuse they endured surely marks their lives daily,the film does not end without making it clear to the audience that the women carried on.
      In conclusion, Crispina’s mental health makes her the most vulnerable target, which also leads her to the deteriorated death.

       当片头优美的民歌声响起，谁能想到，爱尔兰人同时也在制造那么一出悲剧？
    影片《青楼姊妹花》的故事发生在二十世纪六十年代。在我们的印象中，那是革命和叛逆的浪潮席卷世界的时代：美国的嬉皮士运动如火如荼，法国的戈达尔和特吕弗们走上了街头，英国的披头士乐队正在掀起“披头狂热”。世界在剧变，可与英国近在咫尺的爱尔兰，却依然在以自己的方式恪守着天主教的清规戒律。在彼时的爱尔兰，有一种被称作“不良妇女教养院”的机构，负责监禁“不良妇女”，并通过严厉的行为管制、清贫的生活方式以及沉重的体力劳动对“不良妇女”进行“灵魂净化”，以期她们能够洗清自己的罪行，升入天国。“不良妇女”的判定标准则是五花八门：可能是未婚生子，令全家蒙羞；可能是婚宴上被表兄强奸，家人却不敢声张；甚至可能仅仅是吸引了太多男子，对男人“产生了诱惑”。
    对这套制度，导演的批判态度是坚定而鲜明的，整部电影无论从情节还是镜头语言上，都充满了导演的批判与暗讽。影片伊始，三位女主角被带进修女的房间，接受了教养院修女对她们的第一次训诫，可伴随着种种冠冕堂皇的道德说教的，却是修女专注数钱的镜头，以及记账簿上“红利”字眼的特写——这正是“不良妇女”的“劳动赎罪”为修女带来的物质成果。而影片结尾伯纳黛特与罗丝出逃时，面对金库钥匙与大门钥匙，修女最终选择了金库钥匙，放任二人出逃，这一选，也就代替导演做出了道德宣判——修女放弃了“教养”这一原本就未必正确的目的，也就否定了教养院存在的最后一点意义，它和之前克丽丝皮娜喊出的那句悲呛的“You are not a man of god”一起构成了导演最尖刻的否定。是的，这才是事情的真相——你们不是上帝的人，你们不配做上帝的仆人、使者和代言人。当你们仅仅因为重名就不由分说地改掉一个人的名字，当你们为了无聊的消遣就勒令妇女们脱掉衣服，任由你们对她们的性器官评头论足，当你们把性交易作为灵魂净化的筹码，当你们坐在铁栏后面和“不良妇女”们共进早餐，当你们对内专制无情，对外却对富商和主教百般谄媚，这其中包含的无知、狭隘、歧视、自大和残忍，何曾能与博爱宽容的宗教精神划上等号？教养院其实是被神遗弃之地，其中充满的，不过是权力对人的异化。
    尽管导演曾表示，考虑到观众的接受能力，他还未将更加令人发指的事实搬上银幕，可是电影尖锐的批判，仍然容易引起观众关于他“偏激”的担忧。然而在我看来，这部电影是尖刻而不刻薄的，导演的理念，其实已经包含在镜头当中。整部电影灯光运用趋于明亮，手法写实，力图阐述一种冷静节制的态度，而电影的压抑、幽闭和愤怒，其实更多地来源于故事本身（而非影像）——这也让高潮部分的情感宣泄变得坚实有力。而关于宗教优越性的种种陈述，实际上并不能帮助教养院洗清半点罪责，因为这根本就算不上一个宗教问题。影片中牧师手里那部摄影机或许已经给了我们足够的启示——在牧师的镜头前，修女们变得平和文雅，甚至有点羞涩，和日常生活中懒惰邪恶的女巫形象大相径庭，牧师甚至还开始指导修女进行表演。可是，这种表演对牧师和修女而言都并非有意为之，而只是他们在不同环境下的自然反应，是一种无知和缺乏自省的表现。这种对无知的刻画是贯穿全篇的，那些自大贪婪的修女，那些斯德哥尔摩综合症一般的老妪，从两方面透露了导演的思考——正是受害者的无知，赋予了修女荒谬的权利，而修女的自大又造成了权利荒谬的滥用。若非如此，这些教养所的统治者又怎能在伯纳黛特的铜烛台下忽然变得如此不堪一击？

“青楼姐妹花”的译名是对本片的亵渎，任何看过此片的人都会同意。
透过这部片，你会发现：
人类进入所谓的文明社会并没有很久。
文化的偏见与盲信竟然连亲情都会扼杀。
假道学的道貌盎然总是奏效，越无耻越伟岸。
不要被绝望吞噬，你要反抗。拿出勇气，你会发现，你的敌人虚弱得可笑。

影片的社会背景太陌生了，但还是让我感到一些挠心的东西，而且觉得匪夷所思，难以理喻。我没有宗教信仰，但曾被信徒们的虔诚所感动过，我一直相信信仰是克制情感的圣事，那是屈服于理性的沉思。显然我误解了信仰的意义。假如伪善披上了洁净的黑袍外衣，也会变得和上帝一样和蔼可亲，至少在一些不稀罕怀疑力量和自觉意识的伟大信徒心里是这样的，他们只懂忏悔，以至于自己的灵魂一文都不值。

影片最震撼人心的地方其实并不是玛德莲寄养院那些老修女们惨无人道的卑劣行径，批判的也不仅仅针对教会和“堕落女子寄养院”的黑暗，虚伪，利欲熏心，毕竟那还只是腐朽的宗教氛围延伸到的一块小角落。舍弃那些无辜女孩的亲人和家庭才是令人痛心的罪恶根源。那些女孩的悲惨命运开始于她们本该依赖的亲人和家庭，我想象那些女孩留在家里，受到的残害绝不会比囚禁在寄养院里轻微。片中有个女孩成功逃出寄养院，但被还是凶神恶煞般的父亲送了回来，另有个女孩偶然碰到了一次可以逃离的机会，但她犹豫之后，甘愿选择继续被囚禁下去，显然她意识到出去后面临的是同样压抑绝望的生存环境，人的奴性被一种极端残酷的生存环境压榨出来，影片的意义因此也不仅仅停留在宗教层面上了，进一步深入精神领域的解救，正如导演所言的，影片的重心并不在反宗教，而是揭示我们社会常见的压迫行为。

一旦健全社会被愚昧保守的风气侵扰之后，首当其冲的必是家庭，如果家庭失去了抵制这种腐朽风气的能力，人性在亲情的覆灭中开始扭曲，整个社会的畸变也就为期不远，极端偏执的宗教氛围赋予家庭强劲的生杀予夺之权，就连解救这些不幸女子的唯一机会，也放在日后肯重新接纳她们的家庭身上，事实上很多进去的女子最终是在寄养院里终老病逝的，女人在家庭地位中的低下，决定了她们生存状态上的飘零和无依无靠，因此她们的悲惨遭遇在那样一种幽闭传统的时代背景下成了难以逃离的宿命。

主持寄养院的修女折磨那些“堕落少女”的手段异常残忍，鞭打，剃发，禁止人与人之间的正常交流，甚至剥光她们的衣服拿她们的身体大玩变态游戏，而这些令人齿寒的暴虐行径在修女的意识中以上帝名义进行，是对“堕落少女”进行的洗礼，是在拯救她们“堕落的灵魂”，这层揪心的反讽给伪善的教义一次毫不留情的抨击，人性在宗教的掩饰下名正言顺地扭曲，一次报复行为中，教会院长的衣服被扒光后，不堪忍受折磨的一名女子高呼“你不是神的仆人”，作了一番痛快淋漓的控诉，这也是影片最为光明的一段，其他发生多在与世隔绝的寄养院内，影片气氛沉闷压抑，让人心口憋着一股长长的闷气，直想雇头野猪强奸那个控制寄养院的老修女。

影片对宗教领域的黑暗进行激烈批判的同时，附上了一份强烈的女权意味。这样一种暗无天日的环境下，反抗是她们的唯一出路，她们不曾有罪，她们要争取回来的，不仅是自由，还有尊严，人格，和生存的意义。影片最后，两个女孩奋力反抗，最终脱离苦海，其实从她们相对好一点的结局我看不到胜利的影子，她们不过换了斗争的环境而已，社会风气保守和愚昧到那样一种程度的生存环境，也只有哪里有压迫哪里就有反抗才行。