After reading the movie reviews, I found that many movie critics think that this is a movie that is cool and finished, or that it is a boring and bad movie in itself. But I was completely moved by the whole movie, whether it's the scene, the way of narration, or the setting of the plot. This is a film that discusses how women struggle against men's control and harm, and how to save themselves.
The film begins with a punk-inspired tone, and the silent and depressing scene shows a rainy night when the girl baby doll's mother dies. And her stepfather has coveted her body for a long time, and he did not get an inheritance of his own. In his anger, he forcibly took the baby doll and her young sister. And baby doll accidentally killed his sister in the process of shooting his stepfather. The stepfather used this to fabricate her violent tendencies and sent her to a mental hospital. The psychiatric hospital employs a type of theatrical treatment. And the reality part of the movie ends here temporarily.
What follows is in the fantasy of the baby doll, where these mentally ill people are all actors in a theater, dancing and performing special services for men. The fantasy world looks better than reality, but is full of male control and desire. The theater owner who exercises pua control on them, uses them as a tool for making money, and also practices violence, the fat chef who often molests them and tries to forcibly take possession of the rocket, and the mayor who has money and power to play with women. The male group in the movie is like One-sided ugliness is exacerbated. It also shows that their living conditions are very difficult.
So baby doll made an escape plan, ready to escape from the theater with a few girls. Every time you complete a task and find a prop, the other girls are secretly preparing to escape under the cover of the baby doll dancing. The audience did not see what the baby doll was dancing in each dance, because the narrative jumped to another fantasy level, like the game world had to do a task to fight a boss. There was no direct filming of how they stole maps and lighters, but rather a few girls had to face a dense army of firepower, an army of orcs, dragons, and even robots. Many people feel secondary to this part of the fantasy scene, and there is no logic. But apart from the exquisite special effects and shocking fight scenes, this is another way of telling the film. Every time they resist, they are fighting. The way of fighting in the fantasy of baby doll is to pick up their own weapons, charge bravely, and resist desperately. The scenes are as magnificent as killing the enemy on the battlefield, and they are the protagonists of the game and they are as brilliant as heroes. In contrast, in reality, one can only act cautiously with fear.
In the end, the plan was revealed to the theater owner by Blonde, Rocket was killed by the chef, and the boss imprisoned Sweet Pea in anger, killed Black Amber and Blonde and violated the Baby Doll, but was counter-killed. In the final stage of the escape, baby doll sacrificed himself to cover sweet pea and escaped from the mental hospital. And when she wakes up, she lies in bed with another man and prepares to have a physical union with only love and freedom, escaping all negative emotions. It all sounds good without being forced and painful. (It can be said that this is an "Inception"-style narrative method, but the traces of possible transformation are more obvious, and there is no feeling of intertwining of several layers of dreams. But the presentation form of the fantasy world has meaning, showing the battle and struggle in women's hearts , also shows the reality in baby doll's hope, which is better than reality but still can't escape the darkness of reality.)
The picture flashed to the original reality, baby doll had a frontal lobectomy. I lost some of my emotions and fell into a state of wandering. And the theater owner (who is also the doctor who holds the key) was accused by the female doctor of forging a signature and arrested him. In the end, only sweet pea escaped alone, and then she met the NPC in the battle fantasy. It turned out to be the bus driver who rescued her from the guard's questioning. This is also the only male character in the film who shows goodwill. Finally she was on her way home.
In the process of this series of women's struggles, we not only saw the difficulty of the battle itself, but also saw various obstacles. Male control and violence, misunderstanding and disregard, and some women's cowardice and betrayal like blonde, and some latent women like female physicians, so how do we fight? Everything is up to you. This is also the answer given at the end of the movie. You thought it was the female doctor's whistleblower who saved the baby doll, but it was actually her own choice, the one who sacrificed herself, performed a prefrontal lobectomy, and gave up all painful emotions so that she could ignore all past and future hurts is herself; You thought it was the god-like, guiding bus driver who saved sweet pea, but it was herself. It is they who choose to fight and resist from the very beginning to have the strength to fight all the way. And is the battle finally won? This judgment is also based on your own criteria.
In the end, there is only one question left, whose story is this, who pulls the curtain on it, who decides our dance moves, who drives us mad, who whips the whip before us, who crowns us and who rules when we do miracles Who made the love of your life honored Who made the beasts to kill us and lifted the sins that never die Who taught us how to tell the truth How to make fun of hypocrites Who decides why we live and why we fight to the death Who imprison us Who The key to our liberation is you. All the weapons you need are in your hands Now Fight!
Finally, let's talk about the design of clothing in the movie. Many people think that this is deliberately wearing revealing and sexy to consume women. But I think this is just to visually show the inherent image of women in men's eyes, what men want women to wear and show, such as ultra-short jk with exposed navel, cheongsam with slits to the waist, suspender stockings and tube top one-pieces Clothes, this is the beauty they think women should have. Including the heroine's double ponytails and their silly-sounding names, men think that most women should be so sexy and silly. If the intention of the movie is this, it can be said that this is a really successful costume design. If it is to attract more male audiences, it can only be said that this may also be a successful marketing.
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