Doomsday: The Road to Destruction to Freedom

Kacie 2022-04-24 07:01:05

I watched "The Endless Flower" seriously on Sunday afternoon. Someone on Zhihu commented that it is "the shell of a road movie, the core of feminism". I don't care what kind of ism it is. Anyway, I saw a kind of awe at the end. The sense of salute, especially in the final scene, where Louis and Thelma rush out of the police siege, step on the gas pedal to the bottom of the canyon.

The character who has changed the most throughout the film is Selma. Before planning a weekend trip with her friend Louise, she was a housewife who stayed at home all day and waited on her husband, apologizing when he blamed her for making him wake up too loudly in the morning I don't even have the courage to say my plans to travel with friends when I leave work. So, after leaving a parting note to her husband, Thelma packed her bags and set off. At the very beginning of the trip, Salma sat in the passenger car of the sports car, like a bird that had just been released, chatting non-stop, and one could imagine her excitement and joy at regaining her temporary freedom. But that joy immediately changes when the two of them arrive at the bar Selma is almost raped by a man named Harlan. In fact, Louis had reminded Selma before. After all, as a social person who has been a waiter in a restaurant for many years, Louis understands the mixed situation of the big dye tank in society. However, Selma is unaware of all the dangers that will happen around her. She married at the age of 18 and has been "locked" in the family greenhouse. She has an innocence and childishness that does not match her age. That's why they drank wantonly in the bar and easily believed the nonsense of the man named Harlan, and even the two danced intimate dance face to face. Of course, this isn't blaming Selma, it's not her fault, it's the bad guys lurking around her who want to hurt her with her simplicity. Panicked and frightened when she faces Harlan's assault, she looks vulnerable and small, and she doesn't know what to do. At a critical moment, Louis shows up, holding the pistol Selma brought from home before she set off, threatening Harlan to stop hurting Selma, saying "In the future, when a woman's crying like that, she isn't having any fun! okay. Here, is a watershed moment in the transformation of Selma's character. She even used the robbery routine she learned from JD to hijack the convenience store next to the highway, and threatened the police with a gun during the police interrogation process, so that the two escaped smoothly. As if a good girl turned into a female Zhengtai, Selma stopped crying and was overwhelmed. On the way to escape, she found her inner self, and she understood the true meaning of freedom to her. When the two of them swayed together on the dusty highway with loud music, I sincerely felt happy for them. okay. Here, is a watershed moment in the transformation of Selma's character. She even used the robbery routine she learned from JD to hijack the convenience store next to the highway, and threatened the police with a gun during the police interrogation process, so that the two escaped smoothly. As if a good girl turned into a female Zhengtai, Selma stopped crying and was overwhelmed. On the way to escape, she found her inner self, and she understood the true meaning of freedom to her. When the two of them swayed together on the dusty highway with loud music, I sincerely felt happy for them.

When it's hot, throughout the film, men's ubiquitous contempt and devaluation of women in patriarchal culture can be seen everywhere. Selma's husband is arrogant and selfish. As the district manager of a rug store in the district, he thinks he is responsible for the whole family and is the head of the family, so he doesn't respect his wife at all, even a few days after his wife left home. Tiantian didn't care. When the wife called, the husband was watching the game at home. During the call, he missed his wife's words because he didn't want to miss the exciting part of the game. He yelled at his wife on the phone and ordered her to go home tonight. At this moment, he didn't care if his wife was safe or not, he just regarded her as a personal item, and Ordering her to go home tonight just wanted his wife to come home to take care of him. After the police find him, tell him that the police are monitoring his phone, and tell his wife to be gentle when she calls, and to show that you care about him. "You know, women like that shit". Look at the ugly face of a man when he talks about a woman behind his back. In the film, the big truck driver who appears on the road everywhere makes vulgar and vulgar actions to Louis and Selma every time he appears, and wants to be slapped across the screen. Of course, our heroine did not disappoint the audience in the end. After "lure" the truck driver to get out of the car, facing the old pervert who still had no guilt, the two fired several shots at his truck tire, and finally destroyed it. his car, and then drove off in the dust, leaving a frenzied driver on the highway.

I like the Chinese title of this film, "Crazy Flowers at the End of the Road", two women who were involved in the escape route because of a murder case. Although they experienced despair and fear, they also did not forget to enjoy life, and to be with people who are full of dangers everywhere. The world resists. When they finally faced the siege of the police, the two were reluctant to lose their hard-won freedom after being arrested, so they rushed out of the siege and increased their horsepower to the opposite cliff. The end of the wild flower, and finally obtained eternal freedom through destruction.

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Thelma & Louise quotes

  • Louise: You remember when we first met?

    Jimmy: Yeah.

    Louise: What happened? Tell me what you said.

    Jimmy: I said you had a nice pair of eyes.

    Louise: And what did I say? Do you remember?

    Jimmy: Yeah, you shut 'em. Asked me if I knew what color they were.

    Louise: And what'd you say?

    Jimmy: I didn't know.

    Louise: [she covers his eyes] Jimmy, what color are my eyes?

    Jimmy: They're brown.

  • State Trooper: [sobbing] Please! I have a wife and kids. Please!

    Thelma: You do? Well, you're lucky. You be sweet to 'em, especially your wife. My husband wasn't sweet to me. Look how I turned out.