《The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga 》
The child is not dead
The child lifts his fists against his mother
Who shouts Afrika ! shouts the breath
Of freedom and the veld
In the locations of the cordoned heart
The child lifts his fists against his father
in the march of the generations
who shouts Afrika ! shout the breath
of righteousness and blood
in the streets of his embattled pride
The child is not dead
not at Langa nor at Nyanga
not at Orlando nor at Sharpeville
nor at the police station at Philippi
where he lies with a bullet through his brain
The child is the dark shadow of the soldiers
on guard with rifles Saracens and batons
the child is present at all assemblies and law-givings
the child peers through the windows of houses and into the hearts of mothers
this child who just wanted to play in the sun at Nyanga is everywhere
the child grown to a man treks through all Africa
the child grown into a giant journeys through the whole world
这样一个在绝望深渊里赞扬希望,在遭遇死亡时展露生命美好的女人,最终却选择了投海自杀。她是多么的脆弱啊!自小和离婚的母亲同住,10岁时母亲去世,她被迫和妹妹搬去和父亲同住,然而这疏远的父女关系却成了害死她的一个理由。电影没有选取她出版第一本诗集《解脱》(《Escape》)并嫁作人妻的经历。而是直接从1960年英格丽认识了第一个作家情人杰克考布(Jack Cope)开始,两人短暂的快乐之后,有两个孩子和妻子的杰克坚决不离婚,不娶英格丽,此举让她很恼火,怀孕堕胎外加任国会议员的父亲的不认同,英格丽几乎崩溃。这期间她的第二部诗集《烟与黄土》(《Smoke and Ochre》)在情人的帮助下出版,并得到了文坛的大力褒扬,却受到了正受命起草审查艺术与娱乐出版品法案的父亲的严厉呵斥,并和英格丽断绝了父女关系。英格丽选择了拿着稿费和第二个情人安卓布林克同游欧洲,再次爱上了一个有妇之夫,在男人得知她怀孕之后态度冷淡,这让英格丽再次选择了堕胎,从此一蹶不振,最终万念俱灰的她选择了投海自杀,留下了一个7岁的女儿和那些伟大的诗作。
又是一个伤不起的女人的故事,一辈子遇人不淑,每次都爱的不管不顾。荷兰影后Carice van Houten出演这种情欲澎湃、至情至性、自由豪放、歇斯底里的独立女性角色已经成了拿手好戏了,让人很满意却也找不到意外的惊喜。这部电影可以说就是她的独角戏,导演把所有力量都放在了这个角色上,以至于她的父亲和两个情人都很片面,角色的存在感连海边的美丽风景都比不上。影片让人印象深刻的除了影后的表演,就是那些萦绕在观众耳边的诗作,这让人很难不爱这样一部蕴含着巨大力量的电影和这个苦命的女人。