Growing Pains - Screen 2
- Director
- Cong Le
- Country
- China/UK
- Year
- 2025
- Category
- Sound Post / Sound Art / Experimental / Film
From childhood to adulthood, what has accompanied me the longest is the indescribable affection between girls. I have never been able to describe the complex bond between girls - the innate trust is wrapped up by hidden jealousy, and the intimacy of a community of shared destiny is concealed by the confrontation of imagined rivals. Throughout my educational journey from childhood to adulthood, I have never heard any word to define it, as if it were a negative emotion that would only secretly grow in the hidden corners of one‘s heart. So, I call this emotion ”growing pains“. How can this kind of pain be described? Just like in a cozy blue swimming pool, the comfort that should have flowed freely instantly turns into a pool filled with glass shards - transparent and fragile, with sharp edges pointing straight to the depths of one’s heart. I want to figure out exactly what happened, but I have no clue and feel very confused. What‘s even more terrifying is that after going through all this, women strive to restore the sincere trust they once had with their intimate partners, only to find that the shattering and powerlessness can never return.
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