Anti-cliché, anti-blood, a masterpiece with advanced feminism

Marshall 2022-04-21 09:02:22

After reading other people's reviews, I think I see this film from a different angle than others.

It was a very successful film. It is different from the traditional male hero narrative, the film portrays the image of a female hero. Although this is not a true feminist film in terms of shooting techniques and narrative, it has the advanced nature of feminism compared with traditional and mainstream male narrative films.

The heroine of this film is the real hero, the female image is no longer the foil of the object, and the film depicts the heroine, the heroine, from beginning to end. Emotional dramas are not clichés, and feminist films are also indispensable for depicting the feelings of men and women, but this kind of emotion has feminist characteristics. The relationship between men and women in this film also has this advanced nature. Women are no longer the wife of Xiaoniaoyiren, waiting at home for the busy man to come back. On the contrary, the heroine also takes the initiative in the relationship. Moreover, the heroine's male lover does not have many roles, and the emotional line of the two is also described very little. This emotional line is just a clue to serve the plot, and what the film should highlight is not love, but a higher A level of affection and will. So this male lover doesn't count as a hero, and in fact there is no hero in this movie.

The heroine is not very glamorous and beautiful, which also gets rid of the "vase" image. Although the film still focuses on the heroine's body as a selling point, this is just to better meet the public's aesthetics. In fact, the heroine's figure cannot be said to be hot. She is too thin and does not have the plump figure of the female vase in traditional movies. The film does not depict a sexy goddess. The heroine is not wearing sexy and revealing clothes to show her head and posture. She is calm and calm. She only wears ordinary loose casual clothes every day, and she wears professional and capable killer clothes when she is on a mission. Women who wear leotards in traditional movies must have plump breasts, buttocks, and proud curves. Even the heroine in leotards in this movie does not have these characteristics, and the camera does not focus on her breasts, Hip, no twitching catwalk. These are to avoid the film falling into the stereotypes of traditional male films.

People who think this film shows off the female figure and is "vulgar" can go to see a real feminist film, but I think what most of them think of as "vulgar" is also from the perspective of the traditional masculine narrative mode. ?

What is dog blood? A male hero who has gone through various challenges and tribulations and finally succeeded, and a beautiful woman who made several sexy shots from time to time. In the end, the male protagonist achieved success and at the same time returned the beautiful woman, a happy ending. This is dog blood. But this is a male heroic narrative in line with public aesthetics, and women are used as objects, as foils, and as rewards. And this film, which subverts the traditional model, is successful and advanced.

As an action movie, the movie wasn't great, so it wasn't well received. But what I pay attention to is not the action and the scene, but its plot and thought. I'm not interested in action movies. I went to the cinema to watch this movie today because I was with my friends, but I didn't expect to get such a great movie. From the beginning to the end of this film, I feel the greatest and most noble love - family, the heroine lives for love, fights for love, does everything for love, perseveres for love, and suffers and despairs for love. , weeping for love. This "love" is not a vulgar and shallow relationship between men and women, but the heroine's love for her relatives and family, and her firm belief in revenge because of love. In the face of this kind of "love", the relationship between men and women is of little importance and must be sacrificed and abandoned. Although the heroine has real feelings for her lover, she is not dazzled by love. Love does not make her hesitate or shake on the road of revenge. She does not rely on her lover like a cat and tells her all her sufferings to her lover. , and she didn't go far away with her loved ones and live an incognito and uncontested life. Although she can choose this path after she completes the great cause of revenge, we have not seen such an ending.

The story of the prince and the princess is a cliché. The poor and helpless princess waits for the prince to rescue herself. The heroic prince fights against evil and defeats it. Finally, the prince and princess live happily together... Traditional male narrative movies are this routine. . In this female hero movie, the heroine did not choose to be with her lover. Even though she succeeded in the end, what we saw was not a happy ending. Her life was gloomy. It means that she can usher in the light, she is still lonely and painful, I can understand her mood, after completing the revenge, her life has no meaning and pursuit. Therefore, what the film gives us is an ending without an ending. The audience can conceive according to their own understanding and imagination. I think her life will no longer be burdened, but it will always be painful. Even if the path of revenge is her own choice, even if She did not choose revenge, her life was already full of sorrow, and her fate was destined to be a lifetime of pain.

This movie touched my heart and moved me a lot. I sympathize with the heroine's fate and understand her seemingly crazy revenge paranoia, because everything is due to the great "love", this kind of "love" "It will always be praised.

Such a wonderful movie, where is the cliché? Where is the blood?

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  • Laurie 2021-12-18 08:01:07

    The dive in front is great. . . It's a pity that the latter is slightly false. The action is good.

  • Laurie 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    It's been a long time since I watched it, and it seems a bit unfinished, but the heroine is very good

Colombiana quotes

  • Special Agent James Ross: You think you've been smart. Have you covered all your bases? Because this? This is already over. This whole place is wired with web-cams.

    Cataleya: You mean these?

    [holds them up by there wires]

    Cataleya: Taking about covering all my bases, your chair is pressure-wired. You move a single inch, and it'll be the last move you ever make.

  • Special Agent James Ross: She got the drop on me in my home, and she told me that if I don't bring her the whereabouts of this man, she's going to kill a member of my family every week until I have none left.

    Richard: Are you kidding me?

    Special Agent James Ross: Does it seem to you that I would make something like this up? So why don't you just tell me what I should do?

    Richard: Call 9-1-1.