In both Chinese and Western cultures, male superiority and female inferiority are the essence under the cover of appearance, and the West cannot escape it. The cruel reality of women being objectified is often worse than the scenes of gang rape and sexual abuse of the heroine in the film. Men are the enjoyers of sex, but women are only the givers. At present, there are still more than 100 million women in the world who undergo circumcision, circumcision of the clitoris and unable to enjoy the pleasure of sex, only for men to enjoy. In the violent scenes of men in "I Spit on Your Grave", the men completely disregarded women's basic rights as human beings and abused their bodies madly, as if they were treating a lifeless object. The heroine Ping did not make a favorable resistance at this time, and then jumped off Takahashi and drowned herself. Whether the heroine committed suicide by throwing herself into the river or escaped by throwing herself into the river, whether it was the heroine’s ghost or the undead body (the movie did not explicitly imply or express this issue) , On the contrary, deliberately deliberately deliberately make mystery, so you can understand it at will), the thought that it wants to express is basically the same, that is, the rebirth and awakening of female consciousness. Rebirth is a useful content in Hollywood movies, and rebirth is often manifested by transformation. In "Grave 1", the change is the change of the heroine's attitude before and after. From innocence to cruelty, this change is not incomprehensible. Even in China, where the status of women has always been low, there is an old saying called "the most poisonous woman's heart". When a woman gets cruel, a man can't stand it either.
There is an important symbolic meaning in the film, which is an abandoned house that the heroine strayed into before. There are poisons, hydrochloric acid and other items in the house. These items eventually helped him to retaliate more cruelly against the men who had abused her. When the hostess walked to this house for the first time, she had a scared expression on her face, but she still walked in, and then left and returned to her previous residence. In her previous residence, she became a completely weak person, not only weak compared to men, but weak compared to the house, and also weak compared to the mobile phone dropped into the toilet. She turned into a downright weak. With tears coming down, wagging his tail to beg for mercy. I think the thought expressed here may be that the dilapidated house is the female consciousness hidden deep in the heroine's heart, that is, the thought of not surrendering to men. The mainstream social thought instilled in women is to succumb to men and become weak, so the heroine’s first leaving the broken house also symbolizes the choice to continue to pretend to be the weak. From this point of view, the director is a feminist through and through, and here he fully expresses the idea of equality between men and women without distinction between the weak and the strong.
After the heroine fell into the river, she returned to the dilapidated house, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Even the most powerful one peeed his pants.
The plot of the final murder revenge is very cleverly designed. The order in which everyone died corresponds well to the plot in the first half of the story. The first two people who died standing idly by, one sang a song and the other watched the other people's violence against the heroine. They were also the less guilty people in comparison. Then it was the instigator, and he also urinated his pants, but he just agitated and did not infringe on the hostess's body. The two who died in the end were the two most guilty people who directly violated her body. One is a coward who is driven by desire to forget all beliefs, fears and moral bottom line at a critical moment. The other is a policeman who pretends to be Miyoshi's father in front of his daughter. He is a representative of the law, but he knows the law and breaks the law. And most importantly, the most evil policeman, he has a daughter.
This film is a female film, so it is very important for the daughter to deal with the almost only female character in the film except the heroine. If the director does not handle this step well, it is very likely that it will be late at the end of the film. Not guarantee, change the overall meaning of the movie. Therefore, at the last moment of the film, how my daughter handled it deeply attracted me and made me even more engrossed.
I have imagined many versions of the treatment of "daughter":
1. The daughter has seen the video of his father's violence and is determined to avenge her father with the heroine.
This is a plot that reflects the attention of women's rights, but it will also cause harm to the female role of the young girl;
2. The hostess abused her favorite daughter in front of the police.
This could better retaliate against the police, but the theme is contrary to the movie as a whole;
3. The hostess abused the police in front of her daughter.
This is revenge on both sides. Obviously, it caused harm to the innocent daughter. In terms of catering to the theme of the movie, this should be the worst plot setting;
therefore, the handling of my daughter made me feel very troubled, and I became more curious to see how it was handled in the film. The treatment in this film is neutral, and there is only one sentence to the police, "think about others treating your daughter the same way." The daughter did not appear, and at the same time she retaliated against the police, and the harm to her daughter was relatively minimized. It's a good plot setting.
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