I used to think that only successful women like Emma Watson, Merkel, and Yao Chen could be called feminists. After all, only women with a certain right to speak and absolute economic leadership are qualified to talk about gender equality. thing.
But when I dared to resist my boss's request to work overtime, refused a blind date party proposed by my classmates, and suggested to my parents that I wanted to play alone for the rest of my life, I felt that maybe I also had a feminism at work in my bones.
Nowadays, women's rights in Hollywood, homosexuality, and black people are in power. All movies are inseparable from these three themes. I recommended this movie to a married colleague because it is about a mother and son who were antagonists turned into an equal relationship.
What the film itself is more meaningful than the conflict between mother and son is the story of three women from different ages growing up in the context of the twentieth century. This is quite similar to the idea of the popular "Invisible Figures" some time ago. How did three black female scientists earn a seat in the white-dominated NASA in the cruel 1960s, but compared to the larger pattern of "Invisible Figures" In comparison, "Twentieth Century Women" is very small.
A 40-year-old single mother, Dorothea, raised her son alone. On her fifty-fifth birthday, their only old car ignited spontaneously. Dorothea casually invited firefighters to join her. birthday party.
There are also two tenants in their home, Julie, a 17-year-old girl who is sexy with different men, Abby, a 25-year-old female art student suffering from cervical cancer, and a woman who likes to burn pottery and has a good relationship with women. Middle-aged male William.
Son Jamie spends his days thinking about the ultimate meaning of life, trying to understand whether everyone is happy or not, suffering from a typical teenage morbidity, listening to punk bands and skateboarding with Abby every day, and listening to Julie in his bed at night. A bunch of shit from boyfriend.
His confusion about his mother stemmed from the fact that her mother was a good mother in a non-traditional sense. His mother graduated from one of the earliest flight schools, was highly educated, divorced in middle age, never quit smoking, studied stocks, anyway She is a middle-aged literary woman.
Their first conflict was when Jamie fainted while playing a game with some bad boys. Dorocia asked him why he was doing it in a hurry. Jamie said, because everyone else is playing like this, then you can go with the elders. flow? During the quarrel, Jamie expressed his confusion. The one who did not communicate with me was you, and the one who smoked every day was you.
This may be the first time Dorocia realizes that the baby she desperately gave birth to has grown up quietly, and that she is still stuck in the past. After thinking about it for a night, she asked Amy and Julie to be Jamie's life mentors, using their life experience to guide Jamie on how to become a better person.
Jamie thinks his mother is running away from her role, and at the temptation of a friend he starts his first run away to see a show in Los Angeles. At the same time, Amy was in despair over the fact that her mother had uterine cancer because she had taken fertility drugs. While she was waiting for the outcome of her illness, she came to Dorothea's house after breaking up with her mother, and was doing a photo shoot about herself. Exhibition of works, read books related to feminism.
The premise of her having sex with William is to ask him to imagine a scene where William is the photographer and she is the model under his lens. This kind of sex has nothing to do with the situation. The object envisaged in Abby's mind can be William or any image she has portrayed. This is her current view of love.
The conflict with her mother stemmed from her feeling that cervical cancer could have been avoided, and she was annoyed by such an unwarranted disaster, which, after all, made her lose a certain degree of fertility.
In contrast, Julie is more like a rebellious adolescent girl, born in a restructured family, has a half-sister with cerebral palsy, has sex with different men, and sleeps with her best friend. One of the beds was doing nothing, and the scene was sped up like a hallucination as she came back home from under Jamie's window.
When I was seventeen or eighteen, I declared my sovereignty by being different. Looking back now, I feel that the sadness at that time was nothing compared to the passionate self that is now fading away, but I am also thankful that I am better than my former self. Only some courage can be precious in the ordinary in the future.
The awakening of self-consciousness is a kind of flapping of values that have been swayed for many years. The confusion of the three women in the film at different times is exactly what we encounter. The director talks to you about this matter in a very light tone. Between the sexes, between the mother and the child, between the lovers, we don't want much, and it is because it is important enough that we will be extra cautious.
In fact, when we talk about feminism, it is more of a mockery. Even in a context dominated by male discourse power, many women themselves do not understand the meaning of feminism. Raise the flag, raise your arms, the whole world is convinced by you, this is too Mary Sue, on the contrary, feminism should be gentle, what I care about is that you treat me in the same way, rather than succumbing to a certain political correctness and Internet culture Down.
I think equality between men and women lies in the fact that a boy dresses himself well and cleans himself up neatly and no one says he is a sissy. A girl wears pants, sneakers and short hair all her life and no one thinks she is not feminine enough. This is equality.
There are many kinds of lovers, the most tender love is that I accept every appearance of you.
Trying to deprive others of their sense of freedom to satisfy their own lust is straight male cancer and straight female cancer.
By the end of the movie, Dorocia and Jamie are still recording the changes in the stock every day, as if nothing has changed.
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