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As a biographical film about a woman, "Swimmer's Heart" is highly watchable. Both the shooting techniques and the scriptwriting are trying to be close to commercial films. Compared with the Chinese translation in China, the original English title "Young Woman and the Sea" is obviously more in line with the theme of the film. The three keywords "young", "female" and "sea" run through the entire plot. The heroine Trudy became the first woman to cross the English Channel at the age of 20 - the straight-line distance is 21 miles, and it took 14 hours and 31 minutes, which is nearly two hours faster than the fastest successful man.

Trudy's bond with the sea began with a shipwreck. In 1914, when little Trudy was confined at home with measles, she saw black smoke in the distance, heard sirens whistling and crowds commotion. Her mother told her that hundreds of people died on the ship, and most of them were women, because they could not swim and did not dare to jump off the ship to escape, even though the ship was only 30 feet away from the shore.

Little Trudy almost died from the measles, but she survived. After surviving, her first wish was to learn to swim. But her experience was quite unfortunate. In that era, swimming was not popular with women because people thought swimsuits were too revealing. In addition, Trudy's swimming talent was not good and she had problems with leg strength. The swimming team coach only wanted to recruit her sister Meg into the team. In the end, she was able to stay as a boilerman with her mother's efforts. But little Trudy could not participate in training or go into the water at will. She could only practice alone after others finished practicing, and she had to endure the sarcasm of the old team members. Later, the coach discovered that she had hearing problems and did not allow her to continue swimming, but little Trudy expressed her willingness to overcome all difficulties and finally got the opportunity to continue learning to swim.

As Trudy broke records one after another and became famous, her failure to cross the channel brought her countless ridicule. But even in such an environment, Trudy still stood up and chose to cross the channel a second time. She practiced without telling her coach and only brought people she trusted with her.

After Trudy failed in her first crossing, the lights of her neighbors outside her window gradually went out, perhaps because they felt that the future of women's struggle for equality was bleak. But when Trudy began to muster up the courage to challenge the second crossing of the channel, the lights came on again, and even when she was moving forward at a loss for the last 5 miles in the dark, people lit a bonfire on the shore to guide her - the flame of heroism was burning in the heart of more than one little girl.

My favorite scene in the whole film is when Trudy escapes from the porthole. The swimming skills she learned to jump off the ship finally played their most essential role. What supported her to jump off the ship was her strong desire to survive, her confidence in her skills, her determination to escape the miserable future of her sister being forced to marry, and her determination to fight against the prejudices of the world. This time, no one could stop her.