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Synopsis

Suk-jing recently welcomes a baby daughter into her ordinary life, which, to her surprise, will never be the same again. She is soon stressed-out taking care of the baby 24/7, while her husband never proactively takes part in it. Conflicts with in-laws, postpartum bodily changes, affected work performance are straws piling up on her back... After long nights of nursing in loneliness, where will the break of day lead her?

三十多歲的淑貞最近成為了一名媽媽，伴隨著寶貝女兒來到她身邊的，不只是幸福與喜悅，還有比想像要多的變化與壓力。儘管有一份全職的麵包師傅工作，淑貞仍被理所當然地視為女兒不分晝夜的主要照顧者，也因此是寶寶發育不良、哭鬧時問責的對象。丈夫從不主動參與育兒，即使同在卻如同缺席，過著與生育前大同小異的生活。同住的婆家因育兒方式及男女觀念時常與淑貞有衝突，但娘家卻似乎已沒有她的容身之處。永遠不足的睡眠以及產後的各種身體變化亦令她煩惱不堪，甚至影響到她極為重視的工作，成為母親的「副作用」仿佛滲透在生活的每一個層面。淑貞那麼努力想成為一個「好母親」，卻在過程中不知不覺地被蠶食得只剩空殼⋯⋯在一個又一個孤獨照顧孩子的深宵之後，等著淑貞的將是怎樣的日出？

故事大綱

Movie Info

  • 陳小娟

    Chan Oliver Siu Kuen

  • 陳小娟, 龍國瑤

    Chan Oliver Siu Kuen, Lung Kwok Yiu

  • 談善言, 盧鎮業, 彭杏英, 區嘉雯, 馮素波

    Hedwig Tam, Lo Chun Yip, Pang Hang Ying, Au Ga Man Patra, Fung So Bor

  • 強尼, 文頌嫻, 太保

    Johnny Hui, Man Chung Han, Tai Bo

  • Hong Kong Sign Language, Cantonese with English Subtitling

    香港手語, 粵語, 中英字幕

  • 116 mins

導演：陳小娟

Director: Chan Oliver Siu Kuen

Director’s Statement

In the past, when I saw mothers shouting at their babies on the street, read online about mothers confessing that they regretted having children, or read news about mothers hurting their children, I judged them for not loving their children enough and for not being good mothers. It wasn't until I became a mother and experienced the tug-of-war between my old and new identities, as well as the physical and mental pain, that I began to understand them. Becoming a mother appears to be a blind spot in gender equality: society romanticizes and celebrates motherhood in a way that takes all of the sacrifices mothers make for granted, is indifferent about their plight, and fails to provide them with adequate support. I am determined about bringing these issues to light through this film in order to explore with the audience the possibilities of changing existing gender stereotypes while also sending a big hug to all the struggling mothers.

導演的話

以前偶爾在街上看到對著寶寶抓狂咆哮的媽媽、又或在網上看到有媽媽自白說後悔生了小孩、甚至是媽媽傷害了自己年幼兒女的新聞，我都會默默地批判她們不夠愛小孩，沒有當好媽媽的資格。直至當自己也成為了母親，親身經歷了原有身份與新身份的角力、也體會了心身上的疼痛與考驗，我才終於開始理解她們。成為母親一事仿佛是性別平權討論裡的一個盲點：社會浪漫化及頌揚母愛，把母親的所有付出與犧牲都視為理所當然，對媽媽們的困境無動於衷、亦未提供足夠的支援。我強烈地想將這些困局透過電影訴說給大眾知道、和觀眾一起探索改變既有的性別型態的可能性，並希望為正在掙扎中的媽媽們送上一個深深的擁抱。