History textbooks tell us that feudal society in the West began to decline hundreds of years ago and was gradually replaced by capitalism. Today's Turkey's full name is the Republic of Turkey. It is a European political system and a parliamentary democracy. These descriptions are enough to show how much progress they have made compared to the backward feudal society. However, a female director used the camera to tell a story about the cruel life of a Turkish girl, which made people think of a sentence: "You are not me, how can you understand my sadness?" In how many corners of the world are there still How many stories we can't imagine. In fact, it’s not just Turkey, it’s not just around us. Maybe we won’t be locked at home because of playing with boys, but any behavior that is inconsistent with the mainstream way of life will be questioned. Isn’t it also a kind of imprisonment? Not to mention the various constraints and criticisms against women in some regions and groups of people under the guise of traditional thinking. The feudal system may have died out, but the feudal consciousness has never died, and the accompanying oppression and imprisonment have never disappeared. Today, girls in the mountainous areas of Turkey are still under the control of male power, and we have to succumb to gender differences, struggling with real equality and freedom, and the helplessness of reality.
The film tells the story of five Turkish teenage girls living in the countryside far from the city. On a sunny day, after school, they were playing with a few boys on the beach, the sea would get wet, and the slapstick would touch the body. It became a scandal in a small village. As a result, the girls dropped out of school and were locked at home, and even sent to the hospital to check whether they were still virgins, and from then on began to be strictly disciplined and waited for marriage.
The youth and beauty of the girls in full bloom, even if they are trapped within the square inch of the house, they sparkle unbridled in the sun. They were fighting in the room, their slender figures were staggered, and the girl's sweet and beautiful breath could be smelled through the camera. They combed each other's long blond hair and looked back with amazing eyes. In this waiting, at least they can be company with each other. Soon, the arrival of the relatives disturbed the peace, and everything will never return to the past, and there is no other possibility. The increasingly sturdy fence around it brought deeper and deeper despair. After the two older sisters got married, the laughter dwindled. The eldest sister married the boy she loved through her own perseverance, and the second sister hurriedly married a man she didn't like before she was ready. The third sister also entered the engagement contract immediately, and she chose to face repression with debauchery and death, who was silent and rebellious. The clever little sister secretly learned to drive, disrupted the fourth sister's wedding, and dragged him to the capital Istanbul. Against fate, they each have their own different choices, but the yearning for freedom in their hearts is always the same.
The director did not render the five girls as pure as white lotuses. The white paper-like fantasy of female purity is always from the male perspective. The girl in the female director's shot has a faint desire floating under her youth. From the beginning of the seaside frolic, it can be seen. The sea water wets the young bodies, and the laughter and playfulness of boys and girls have a kind of ambiguity under the overflowing youth. It is precisely because of this that the aunts in the village point and point, and the uncles of the girls are like enemies. When trapped at home, they are often dressed in short dresses, with long legs, beautiful backs, the eldest sister's slightly charming profile, and the little sister stealing her sister's bra. In addition to being young and beautiful, the director is also dignified. Sexual arousal in adolescence. The root of feudal thought is the desire for control. The control of men over women also stems from their fear of women's beauty and their fear of self-awakening. Therefore, showing this kind of beauty and awakening is also the director's way of fighting against feudal ideology.
Not only the director, but also the characters have used either ignorance or strong awakening to fight oppression. The second sister did not see red on her wedding night, and the groom's family took her to the hospital for an overnight check. The second sister was lying on the examination bed with a look of indifference. The doctor repeatedly asked her if she had ever had sex. The second sister simply said yes, a lot! After the doctor's examination, he asked suspiciously: Your hymen is intact, why do you say that? The second sister answered in confusion: I don't know, I'm just very tired. I said I was a virgin, but they didn't believe it. Well, then I'm not. This reminds me of Qingwen who has a strong sense of resistance in the Dream of Red Mansions. Since you all say that I am a vixen, then I cannot live up to this false name. This is the beginning of tragedy under oppression. The third sister, who seemed to accept her fate peacefully, had actually collapsed under oppression. She simply had a car shock with a man she had never met before marriage, and then fell to her death. As a result, death was her last courage.
Some small villages are called paradise, but this is not a paradise but isolation. In the capital city of Istanbul, people live in a modern way, girls can see it on TV, on mobile phones, but they are not far away from there. And there naturally became the place where the little sister wanted to escape. She watched her sisters get married one by one, saw the pain of the second sister, the moths of the third sister, and she was smart and brave. She pulled her away at the wedding of the fourth sister. Her determination is the imprisoned life. The only hope is the answer to the beautiful youth, and the closest distance to freedom for girls. Every girl yearns for that kind of freedom. Although the eldest sister married her sweetheart as she wished, it was only a beautiful beginning. The future is still under the dark cloud of repression. She just repeated the life of her ancestors in the way she accepted. The real future is far away, and fleeing is the best resistance when powerless to change.
The film turns the beauty of young girls and their own awakening into a sharp sword, pointing to the social reality in remote areas of Turkey. There are multiple political, ideological and religious reasons for this situation. And the essence of all causes is the cowardice of the power-holders. Through the beautiful depiction of the girls, it is satirized that what they are oppressing is actually harmless and beautiful youth. In the contrast between beautiful girls and cruel oppression, there are also tenderness floating around. The sisterhood between the girls is deep, and the tangled family relationship that grandma wants to protect and has to discipline is all moving. When the girls sneaked out to watch a football match, they saw their aunt on TV, and immediately knocked on the switch at home. She was fat and ran quickly to the village, breaking the circuit of the whole village, and the women protected each other. The warmth of support and support made the self-righteous uncle who only knew the suppression look both hateful and ridiculous.
In the world of light and shadow, it is possible to sing praises for beauty or to satirize reality happily, but real life is more desperate and cruel. "Wild Horse" is just the tip of the iceberg of what remains of feudal thought. But the heart that yearns for freedom, like a wild horse, always strives to overcome all obstacles, and rushes to the future that you want without any scruples.
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