于是最后一段 Midge 得以走出音乐厅的大门直面纽约的暴风雪,为她遮风挡雨的精致小红伞和与大衣搭配的浅绿色帽子被吹掉了,她没有回头捡而是不停地踩雪前进。终于在一张巨幅海报下面她停住,把上面的 The Gordon Show 看成了 Go Forward — 继续前进,在这一刻她再次下定决心去走那条困难的道路了。
讲述 Miriam 的心路历程是有象征意义的,因为角色原型 Joan Rivers 是喜剧舞台上的女性先行者之一,也是后来许多女性演员的榜样。编演先行者可能经历过的难题与她们最后的坚持,既是对历史细节的填充,也是对屏幕前的观众的引导和鼓励。女性历史总有相似的片段,电影《妇女参政论者》描写了上世纪初英国妇女争取投票权的运动。电影最后的一段旁白出自南非女作家 Olive Schreiner,也非常符合这一季的基调,摘抄在这里勉励自己。
The woman wanderer goes forth to seek the Land of Freedom. “How am I to get there?” Reason answers: “Here is one way, and one only. Down the banks of labour, through the water of suffering. There is no other.”
The woman, having discarded all to which she had formerly clung, cries out: “For what do I go to this far land which no one has ever reached? I am alone! I am utterly alone!”
And reason said to her: “Silence. What do you hear?” And she said: I hear the sound of feet. A thousand times, ten thousand, and thousands of thousands and they beat this way! “They are the feet of those that shall follow you. Lead on.”