德弗里维利

首先看到豆瓣把本片贴上犯罪片，这样的标签和影片中的审判法官有什么区别？？

故事背景设于二战后英国，战后重建及社会秩序恢复的初期。然而道德宗教的束缚，社会偏见的绑架及法律的滞后给女性带来的隐形压迫无处不在。各种机构的构建参与决策都是由男人们把持，包括堕胎这种关乎女性自己身体的事。富裕家族的大小姐需要花光自己的全部积蓄，饱受精神科医生的羞辱拷问才可以如愿以偿。

善良的Vera身体力行的践行着最女权的事，她本能的知道生育孩子是女性自己的选择而非社会或家庭强制。片末她入狱后发现并不是她一个人在做这件事，而是群体性社会性的问题得不到解决才会使堕胎演变成地下模式。因循守旧禁锢的是更多父权社会下男人们的思想，不管他们有多位高权重。

很多评论讨论边缘人群，战后失去家人的人不是边缘人群，堕胎的女性不是边缘人群，

要质疑的是各种非人性化法律法规的合理性。

psychiatrist的问询令人如若针毡

今天上午还搜索着有没有人造子宫的可能性来解救女性生育的痛苦。毕竟想要实现男女平等，就跨越不了女性在生理特征方面的特殊性。

早前追着有着深层次矛盾的电影看，现在冷不防的看到vera好心办坏事最后得到惩罚的结局，心里也好似便秘一般，憋闷闷的。要说这世界除了钱，就数性的问题最难办。

电影发生在二战后，失足少女们甚至是不少已婚妇女选择堕胎，可法令明确不允许个人以何种理由给他人流产。一个整日里无偿为邻里奔忙脸上笑哈哈的老妇人被判监禁两年半，手术是她做的，温柔安慰需要帮助女生的也是她。

到底谁做错了，谁有罪？🙊

Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

For many years now, English filmmaker Mike Leigh has explored the lives of the working poor with unflinching honesty and an uncanny ability to respect his characters' idiosyncrasies and the feisty ways they struggle to survive against the odds. In this incredibly moving film, he hits high stride in his career and delivers a masterwork that is all of one piece. The ensemble performances are remarkable for their realism; production design accurately conveys the dark alleys and shabby apartments of poor neighborhoods; and the string score by Andrew Dickinson is tender and evocative.

The film is set in London in the early 1950s. Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) lives with Stan (Phil Davis), her husband of 27 years. She is a domestic who cleans the houses of well-to-do ladies; he works as a mechanic in a shop run by his brother Frank (Adrian Scarborough). They have two grown children, both still living with them in their small tenement flat: Sid (Daniel Mays), a gregarious apprentice tailor, and Ethel (Alex Kelly), a shy factory worker.

Vera, as her husband puts it, has a heart of gold. Although she has plenty of household chores on top of her job, she finds time to regularly visit two shut-ins, one of whom is her cranky mother. Vera, who hums methodically, is a cheerful person who believes that a special grace in life is to savor a good cup of tea, no matter what the occasion. Noticing that Reg (Eddie Marsan), is a lonely fellow, she invites him over for dinner. Everyone in the family is pleased when he takes an interest in Ethel.

Another aspect of her care and compassion for others is her secret mission to help poor pregnant women who are not willing or able to give birth to a child. She works closely with Lily (Ruth Sheen), a friend since childhood, who sells household goods on the black market and finds women seeking abortions. These poor girls, married women with too many children and wives who have gotten in trouble, have no choices other than to throw themselves on the mercy of Vera, who does not charge them anything for her loving ministrations. Their lack of options is contrasted with the situation of Susan (Sally Hawkins), the daughter of one of the rich women Vera works for. After she is raped on a date and becomes pregnant, she sees a private doctor and a psychiatrist who arrange for a calm and safe abortion at a discreet clinic for a substantial fee.

Vera's secret missions of mercy come to an end when a young woman she treated develops life-threatening complications. The police find out about Vera and Lily and are swift to apprehend them (abortion wasn't legalized in England until 1967). Much to Vera's dismay, this all takes place on the same day that they are celebrating the announced wedding of Reg and Ethel. Frank and his materialistic wife Joyce (Heather Craney) are at the party with them. Their good news that Joyce is pregnant gets lost in the confusion when the police arrive and question Vera. Anger and shock are two of the emotions experienced by Stan, Sid, and Ethel when they learn the secret Vera has kept from them for nearly 20 years.

When was the last time you saw a movie that focused on the compassion and genuine goodness of a person who doesn't live for herself but always puts others first? Look no further. Mike Leigh has created an emotionally resonant drama around the little acts of kindness that all the world's religions agree is at the center of what it means to be a fully developed human being. Vera accepts the punishment that is meted out to her, but then many good and self-sacrificing individuals have suffered for what they believe in without complaint. Vera Drake is one of the best films of 2004, and Mike Leigh is to be commended for making a hero out of a kindly woman who does her best to help the less fortunate around her.