This movie is mentioned in Yang Lan's "Big Woman". So I looked for it. I can't remember what point of view this movie used to support Yang Lan. After watching the movie, I was overwhelmed with emotion.
For the United States, I have no systematic understanding. Not much is known about it. But in my impression, America is a strong, aggressive, unreasonable country. Li Ao's criticism of the US president in "The Trial of America"; provoking strength in Sino-US trade frictions for no reason; the image of a world policeman who maintains world peace everywhere; extremely waste of resources; . It feels like a powerful and unreasonable neighbor who makes one want to approach but stops.
When I read the classic book "84 Charing Street", I saw the perseverance and sincerity of the scholars, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that the European people and even the American people were also deeply tormented by the Second World War. Not just Chinese. The anti-Japanese films shown on our TV every day repeatedly emphasize the shame of modern history, making us narrow-minded and lacking self-confidence. In fact, we should not be so narrow-minded.
"Mona Lisa Smile" was originally about the awakening of female consciousness. In addition to feeling that the United States is not always superior, not the paradise I always thought, I also deeply feel that the low status of women is not only a phenomenon unique to China. In the 1950s, the United States had already experienced the awakening of female consciousness. And we were still at the end of the war.
If you compare books and movies from different countries at the same time, you will see differences and distances, and you will better understand yourself, your country, and the society you live in.
Chinese fashion and Chinese designs are always copied from foreign (European and American) countries. I used to say that others are advanced. But the term advanced is too general and abstract to make people understand it. The age of female consciousness awakening is even longer. The system, way of life, and product design in the United States will also be more perfect, which may be advanced.
Seeing so many people immigrating makes my heart itch. But I don't have more motivation and more specific understanding to make me work hard to do this. I am dazed and ignorant about immigration. I also want my country to become stronger, but it is not as strong as I imagined.
After reading "Mona Lisa's Smile", I suddenly realized. Now that our female awakening has lagged behind America. What are we women doing now?
Douyin, buy, buy, fight between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, take children, introvert? So what are our media doing? What are they writing, playing, promoting? How many people are reading and thinking? A little more pessimistic. However, I think, I will make myself better!
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