The story of "The End of the Road" is very simple and exciting at the same time - two women embark on a desperate journey with no return to kill a rapist, on the way they rob shops, attack the police, and set off the smelly man's van. , and finally flew into the cliff in the joint pursuit of the military and police. As the inner b-story, the b-story has not been concealed at all. A road escape hides the awakening process of the female consciousness of the two people. Almost everyone who has watched the movie can feel the strong feminism in it, and this is what I am watching. When I reviewed the movie almost a week later, I smacking it repeatedly and could taste the parts with more layers.
There are three ways to show the awakening of women's consciousness in the film. The first is to unleash the power of women, which contains many action scenes and is the easiest to understand. At the beginning of the film, Lewis shoots a bar man with bad intentions. The release of his power is spontaneous rather than conscious, and it has the meaning of emotional explosion, but this first established the keynote that women have the power to destroy - women are not submissive little ones. White Rabbit, we can kill when we get angry. At halftime, Louis and Thelma's powers are more sensible, and they have to "politely" rob the store because the escape money was stolen by a cowboy, and have to put the police car in the police car for fear of exposing their identity as outlaws. The contactor exploded and the policeman was locked in the trunk of the police car. Because the wretched and greasy truck driver on the road was too disrespectful to women, he couldn't help but frightened and taught him a lesson. At the end of the credits, their decisive and courageous decision to self-destruct is the pinnacle of the unleashing of female power - not only powerful and rational, but independent and free - Prince Hamlet in the 17th century Still worried and hesitant to ask "to be or not to be", Louis and Selma in the 20th century had already chosen to work together after fully experiencing the repression of women in the patriarchal society and analyzing the pros and cons of compromising with the police. Fly to the cliff. Even if it is difficult for us to analyze the logic of the progressive progression of female power when watching the movie, we cannot but be deeply struck by the plot of the cliff speed.
The second way to show the awakening of female consciousness is to break free from the gaze of others. In a patriarchal society, women exist as objects to be watched, and many items that symbolize women are often closely related to men's preferences. When Louis and Selma first went out, they both wore exquisite makeup, skirts and silk scarves, but women were not only delicate and beautiful dolls. Change into a straw hat with a ring, and scrub with a damp turban in the humble cistern. There is a detail in the film. When Louis stopped the car in a remote place and found that someone was looking at her, her first reaction was to apply lipstick in the mirror, but she quickly stopped this behavior and threw the lipstick out of the car. . Feminine symbols are jointly constructed by society in the gaze of others. Lewis's loss of lipstick is actually a loss of the gender coat that has been imposed on women by society for a long time, so that women are difficult to perceive.
The third way is the three-dimensionalization of female images, which is most evident in Thelma. In the first half of the film, she is a complete idiot: at first, she never dared to ask her husband if she would allow her to travel. She decided to sneak out and took a lot of luggage with her. She believed in a strange man in a bar. After being raped, she still remains innocent and takes the initiative to hook up with the cowboy she met for the first time, causing Louis's entire savings to be stolen - this is simply a female stereotype award, cowardly, brainless, and emotional. But she was the one who calmly robbed the store, the one who pointed the gun at the police and instructed Louis to blow up the intercom, and the one who taught the truck driver a lesson. It can be seen that the so-called "femininity" is actually produced because they are trapped at home for a long time and cannot contact the real society, not by birth. After some experience, the stupid Bai Tian who was so angry at first can also transform into a brave and resourceful big woman. Another heroine, Louis, has always been mature and stable, but there are times when she is emotional. She could have used a pistol to push back the barman who attempted rape, but pulled the trigger after the latter said provocative words, indicating that she is rational and emotional. It is also her, the image of a woman has never been flat. In the end, the heroic act of the cliff speed car is not only the result of rational thinking, but also a strong emotional shock. The seemingly contradictory rationality and emotion are integrated to construct a female image with rich inner meaning.
After analyzing this film of the last century, it is hard not to feel sorry for the domestic female-themed film and television dramas in recent years. In order to please female audiences, she is advertised as a big heroine, but the creator still has a patriarchal heart, and the content can be imagined xx.
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