Although from the current standpoint, what looks too beautiful often hides great danger. There is no ideological claim that actually brings the promised happiness, communism does, liberalism does, feminism does.
The favorite episode Ballad of Lucy Jordan in the film, when it slowly flows out in the sunrise of the Grand Canyon, also almost makes people cry, and the lyrics point directly to the heart. But resisting the life of a stagnant, lonely housewife is actually the initial stage of the feminist struggle. Today's society has actually entered a deep stage of affirmative action. Society has not resolved all discrimination, inequalities and contradictions because women have independent economic power. Instead, deeper and more difficult contradictions emerge one by one after the initial joy. As Ballad of Lucy Jordan sings, the melancholic housewife Lucy Jordan remembers her lost possibilities: a thousand lovers, driving a sports car through Paris with the warm wind in her hair, etc. When the modern woman After having had many lovers, they found out that there is no man in their dreams, and all love will become realistic, rough, and irritable after the initial passion; indeed, after going to Paris, they also found that Paris is not as beautiful as imagined. It turned out that I have been there, and I have not had any influence or change in my life. After the other side of the past arrives, it is almost inevitable to find "but you". At this time, people will need a new shore again. What cannot be reached is the other shore; and the existence of the other shore is almost an instinctive need for human beings.
But it is precisely because the demand for the other side is so strong that such slightly outdated feminist advocacy still touches people's hearts, just as the slogan of the pursuit of freedom can easily incite large numbers of people in all eras. No matter what the "other shore" incarnates into at this moment, we can't forget the melancholy when we look at the other side, nor our longing for the other side. So even though the film is 25 years old, Thelma and Louise's thoughts, emotions, and actions still seem so plausible, so empathetic. Under the habitual reason of defending my brain from being provoked at all times, I still, undisputedly, shed tears for them.
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