“I actually really want to be masculine”
“But I have a pair of”
“D-cup breats”
“I hate bras”
“And I hate under wire”
“Should I wear it or not?”
Breasts constitute an important gender symbol of females
Throughout the history
Males and females have been fighting over the say in them
What do a pair of beautiful breasts look like?
Should I wear a bra?
My name is Chen Xinyi
I’m the director, scriptwriter and editor of Body Talk
I’m 44 years old
As I get older
I become more and more aware of my own body
Because it begins to malfunction
And needs regular care
It starts to suffer from various occupational diseases
Body talk tells a story
Of women finding themselves through their body
I interviewed around 30 females in the film
And they shared with me
The most private things
About their body
About menstruation, pregnancy and labor, about aging
Or the intention to change their body
About birth, illness and death
“My breasts sprouted then”
“The adults were whispering”
“Saying my mom didn’t do her duty”
“She should quickly get a boobie basket for me”
“To cover those stuff”
“After graduation from college”
“I went to France”
“I went to beach for the first time”
“I was already a grown woman then”
“And I found people were topless there”
“I was exhilarated”
“I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all”
“I just took off my clothes”
“And started running on the beach”
There was a woman
Who called herself a semi sex worker
She worked at a hotel
And her mother had been teaching her
That it’s bad for women to be beautiful
You have to depend on your brain
Such education turned out to become
A restriction and pressure to her
So she really wanted to break the chain
“It (the body) isn’t cheaper”
“I can proudly say”
“My body and mind are equally important”
“Not only those handsome men and beautiful women of standard size”
“Are entitled to sex”
Wang Qi is a live streaming performer
Indeed before knowing her
I never think of the sexual desire of the overweight
She doesn’t understand why fat people
Are not entitled to sex
When she worked as a nude model for a painting studio
Her pose on the stage
Was confidently raising her jaw
“I’m standing here like a goddess”
Everyone, no matter tall, short, fat or lean,
Should find the state in which he or she is the most comfortable
“They don’t see me”
“They see a woman with a baby in her body”
When a woman is pregnant
Everyone is allowed to touch her belly
She would think why
The kid played on her tummy
And when her husband touched her belly, she suddenly cried
It might be an unconscious movement
But could trigger a strong feeling from her
“I cried the moment he put his hand on me”
“Because suddenly I feel”
“This is my belly”
It’s not just a container to hold the baby
And it’s not a toy for her elder daughter
Surely I’m surprised in many aspects
After a woman have a family
And have a baby, where is she
“The laboring process in hospital”
“Makes me feel like a sow”
“Once you’re pushed in, don’t ask anything”
“They start to shave directly”
“All are standard operating procedures”
That mother was a medical journalist
Her first child was born in hospital
She couldn’t accept the overtreatment
So she decided to give birth to her second child at home
“If you hurt too much, we can go into the water”
“Go”
After the baby was born
And was held in the arms of its mother
It would really search for the breasts
The mother who kept the placenta
They made a rubbing of it
On a piece of rice paper
It’s really beautiful, like a tree
A tree of life
They brought the placenta home
And cooked it after some preparation
In TCM
Placenta can relieve mother’s depression
I think it’s like a rite
Laboring is a rite
And they carried the rite over into home
They cooked the placenta which once fed a life
“Bai and director, do you want to have a try?”
“Come on, be quick”
So many things confuse me in life
I want to find answers to them through filming
In Body Talk
I search for the answer
To the question of
How to build your image through your own body in society
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