It is inappropriate to regard Verhoeven's feminist film "She" this year as a good work. The stuck plot development makes the film feel hesitant every time it takes the next step. It seems that Verhoeven is not affirming every decision of the heroine. , but submissive, and only when forced to the point of being unbearable, did he attack others, so that the biggest highlight—the promotion of feminism was like a dance with shackles. But one thing is quite interesting. In 130 minutes, as the camera continues to focus on Pell, we feel the strangeness and strength of this middle-aged woman in a series of daily life, which may become a kind of future women. life trends.
This film does not use homosexuality as a means of expressing feminism like "Carol" and "The Life of Adele", nor does it measure the depth of feminism in extreme environments like "Room". In the discussion of feminism, "She" may be the most realistic and practical. This reality accompanies the heroine's interpersonal relationships with her mother, father, ex-husband, lover, girlfriend, son, etc. At the same time, in sudden danger, childhood Huppert also shows us the stability and restraint of modern women in the nightmare and urban career.
The heroine played by Huppert, Michelle, is like a woman who combines various difficulties and successes. This is of course the role that Verhoeven may have set in order to fully reflect everything that modern women may encounter. However, in order to strengthen the dramatic conflict and viewing degree of the film, the film uses the heroine's encounter with the rape of a strange man as the beginning of the film. The whole film also promotes the development of the plot in such a suspense.
Intercepting a fragment of a person's life, you can see the leopard in the tube. It can be seen that Michelle resists rape, but it does not hinder her hunger for sex; having a grudge with her ex-husband is not suitable for living together, and it does not affect her. Disgust and jealousy towards her ex-husband's new girlfriend; although she likes to live alone, her desire for control over her son will not make her feel shackled. This seemingly contradictory psychology is actually what the film attempts to express: modern women can be like Like men, they are not only independent and free in terms of socioeconomic status, but also free from the constraints of patriarchy in interpersonal relationships.
Of course, in the current social discourse in China, many people will think that Michelle is a "bitch", but she just sees her superficially, but doesn't see what Michelle a woman really wants. A woman who has been in the public eye since she was a child because her father brutally killed more than 20 people. She has suffered from outside controversy. Even if she is raped, she is reluctant to call the police because she has experienced discrimination and injustice by the police since she was a child. . Distrust, these three words should be Michelle's first defensive response to the outside world. From her father's crime, she began to distrust her father, and extended to her mother, husband, son, and daughter-in-law. In fact, she always harbored a kind of distrust. "Anxious Loneliness".
In order to show the life of urban women, the social places in the film are no more than homes, cafes, cocktail parties, companies and other places, and the camera continues to focus on Michelle alone, in order to expose this special middle-aged woman to the audience. In the prying, this kind of prying has both Hitchcock's morbid qualities and David Fincher-esque crime scenes. From the fact that most of the movies take place at night, and the lights are mostly sharp yellow, we inadvertently think of it. Lighting in Fight Club and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
In "Her", the feminism we feel is largely an awakened consciousness, rather than a habitual action. This is a kind of speculation about female identity by male directors. From the perspective of gender identity, male directors Because he has been in the discourse system of patriarchy since childhood, even if he has "feminist consciousness", it is an acquired turning point. As the director of this film, Verhoeven made Michelle act like a lady who lives in a villa for a long time. When she encounters all kinds of things from the outside world, she will choose to resist. It seems that keeping herself safe is her best way of life.
This movie is not enough to be included in the list of feminist masterpieces, but because of its delicate performance of the crisis of urban middle-aged women, it does not feel too strong. After all, it uses a gentle tone to tell the story.
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