"Where there are women, there is a battlefield." I don't know when it started, this joke became popular.
Throughout the film and television industry, where there are women, it seems that there is no need to tear each other up and intrigue. There are "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in ancient times, "Little Times" now, "Story of Yanxi Palace" and "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" in China, and "The Favourite" in foreign countries... The war between women is a plot that almost every audience loves to see, because The open and secret battles are always more interesting than the shouting and killing of men.
This film is also a classic script and interpretation, starring two actresses, and has two Oscar nominations.
This is a tight-paced psychological thriller, with no scary pictures, but it can make people panic and panic along with the plot. Even in the heat of the sun, you can still feel the chill on your back. Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett put on an intense and unforgettable performance for audiences as they battle wits and bravery over a scandal.
Barbara, an old teacher who is about to retire, has a repressed and gloomy personality, and has a notebook that she can talk about. Her smug, sly personality made her sidelined by her colleagues and held in contempt with the principal. A new art teacher, Sheba Hart, arrives at the school. She is beautiful, graceful and charismatic.
Lonely Barbara is fascinated by Sheba, and with a longing, she becomes Sheba's close friend. But when she finds out that Sheba has a secret affair with a male student, Barbara uses threats and deceit to enter into a more subtle but precarious relationship with her.
The two leading actors in the film are one of Britain's most famous actresses, Judi Dench, who voted to beat the Queen to become the number one "Britain's most popular and respected person". There is also Cate Blanchett, whose acting skills are as good as the old show bones. She played the tangled woman who fell from a lady to a commoner, and she was also the Dark Death in "Thor".
"Notes on Scandal" is a novel written by the British female writer Joy Heller. It received a good response and caused a social sensation when it was listed on the market. The kindness of the female writer finally chose to reconcile the two, and Shiba forgave Barbara, who had revealed her affair. The ending did not write about Shiba's imprisonment, but it also left some hope. Who would have thought that this unethical love would come to fruition in reality? Looking back now, this novel written in 2003 can have such an ending and break through the shackles of society, which is very remarkable.
In 2007, when social concepts were not fully developed, many cultural conflicts were avoided by the public. And "Scandal Notes", as its name suggests, brings these originally obscure elements to the big screen naked. The movie brings together the very unlovable things in human nature: desire and social envy.
The film retains two eye-catching selling points in the original novel: homosexuality and teacher-student love. A bit special is that homosexuality is the compulsive infatuation of older women with younger women, and teacher-student love is the unscrupulous love between female teachers and underage male students. What the story presents is a series of struggles between desires and ethics.
The same is love, but homosexuality is discriminated against by society, and all deserve sympathy. Barbara's obsessive need to be loved is daunting, but it's not a gay cauldron. Before Shiba, Barbara had destroyed a woman's family, but she wasn't shy. She pleads with Shiba to leave her family behind to accompany her dying cat, and pleading for nothing is coercion. "I can't get you, and others don't think about it." This terrible predatory personality, I don't know how many social tragedies stem from this selfish extreme idea...
The man did not want to break up, and stabbed his 26-year-old girlfriend more than 20 times in the car; the man robbed the girl up the mountain, and the woman's mother prevented her from being stabbed to death; suspecting that his wife had an improper relationship with others, the man poured sulfuric acid on his ex-wife and daughter after the divorce ...Similar news abounds, and the victims are mostly women. In China, disputes over marriage and love are the number one cause of intentional homicide. For girls, the most dangerous thing is to accidentally get a man who will destroy you if they break up, so you must be careful, and you should pay attention to whether the other party has personality problems when making friends or falling in love.
Weibo blogger "Liu Zhao on the Road" once wrote a love survival manual, teaching women how to avoid potential murderers. People who are highly egoistic in their personalities, act extreme, and lack the ability to empathize are potential dangers. No matter how tacitly they get along with each other on weekdays, how much they hide, and when they encounter conflicts, they will definitely be exposed.
The word teacher-student love appears intermittently in our field of vision. Some people think it's common, and some people are against it. But in foreign countries, prohibiting teacher-student romance has long been the consensus of universities. Even if the school does not expressly stipulate it, teachers and students generally do not go beyond the limits. Once an incident occurs, teachers will often be fired or even involved in crime. Even if the school does not pursue it, the pressure of public opinion in the society will gradually overwhelm the parties concerned. The fact that Shiba in the film has a relationship with a fifteen-year-old boy is indeed a scandal enough to destroy her.
In fact, the essence of prohibiting teacher-student love is to prevent the abuse of power. Due to the unequal power between teachers and students, teacher-student love may lead to abuse of power by teachers and sexual coercion of students who lack power. It is difficult to maintain the relationship between the sexes of "you love me and I will" in the case of unequal rights. In the same way, many company manuals in the United States also stipulate that romantic relationships are not allowed between employees, especially between employees who have a relationship between superiors and subordinates.
A high school female teacher in California was expelled from the school because she flirted with students on Facebook; former US President Barack Obama also nearly capsized due to "teacher-student love" during the election. The media pointed out that Obama was an intern and a practicing lawyer. It is illegal for trainee mentor Michelle to fall in love. Fortunately, in the 1980s, when the two met, the United States did not strictly prohibit the relationship between teachers and students, so the storm was calmed down.
Essentially, this is a lonely story. Barbara is alone with her pet cat, and Sheba is lost in a tedious marriage to an older man. Both inspire empathy even in the story's most sinister moments. They all think highly of themselves and think they deserve something better. They are all looking for something pure, friendship or love. So when the two thought they had found a good thing, they became fierce, like moths that went up to a fire when they saw a little light.
Human nature is complex, and we can't say that the protagonist in the movie is doing right or wrong, because the standards of civilization do not represent human nature. Barbara's character is terrible and abominable, but also has the same complex helplessness. She was saddened when Shiba tore up her diary. When she shouted not to desecrate our feelings, like the beauty that had been carefully protected in your heart was torn apart, you found it hard to hate this lonely old woman, she was just a fragile person.
Lonely life will be very stable, but also prone to loss. This scandal note set off a big wave for the two people's originally smooth life, but at the end of the story, they still returned to stability: Shiba returned to the family, and Barbara had a new notebook. Will they repeat the same mistakes? Nobody knows. Maybe everyone has an unbridled love in their hearts, and it takes a long, long way to end a journey of Odysseus that is not understood by the public.
No one likes being alone, everyone is just afraid of disappointment. After disappointment, whether we have the courage to face loneliness and continue to live is the source of our strength.
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