Talking about women's rights from the five Turkish girls who were imprisoned by the patriarchal society - "Wild Horses"

Joaquin 2022-04-21 09:03:01

Author: Evey Wu (WeChat eveywu980703)



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For a long time, the issue of equality between men and women and the debate on the issue of men's rights and women's rights have not stopped, and now there are many In many parts of the country and China, the concept of patriarchy still deeply influences people and casts a great shadow on women.
The film introduced today is a story that takes place in Turkey, where the male-dominated ideology is very strong. It tells the tragedy of five young and beautiful girls who lost their freedom because of being forced to marry by their families and to maintain chastity in order to serve men.

There are five young and beautiful girls in a family in Turkey. In the first few minutes of the story, they fight together and play in the water with their male classmates at the beach. At this time, everything looks so good, but the turning point of the story also begins here. When they came home from the seaside play, their grandmothers were angrily looking for them to lecture them one by one, and the reason was that none of them expected it.


Perhaps from then on, they began to realize that as women, they were not free in this country. Then a series of things happened. Grandma threw away everything that would make them "degenerate"; the younger sister wanted to go to the football game, but was told by her uncle that it was a place for men; and they were asked to study at home All the things to do for men after getting married.

But when they are young, they are not willing to be so imprisoned, so they always go out to play secretly, watch football games, secretly date boys... But when everything they do is discovered by their grandmother, what awaits them is Layer after layer of heightened walls, and even the windows were railed. This time, in their eyes, there is no difference between home and prison.

Soon, the five sisters "should" get married in turn, so let me take stock of the situation of each of the five girls.

Big sister: The first one was arranged to get married, but she insisted on marrying the boyfriend she loved. The family had no choice but to do as she wished. She should be the luckiest of the five sisters.
Second sister: The husband who was arranged was originally arranged for the eldest sister. Because of reluctance, he hid in the corner and cried at the wedding. And on the wedding night, because there was no blood on the sheets, she was suspected of being a virgin, and she was despised. Finally, she went to the hospital for an examination to prove that she was a virgin, but she said "everything is too late".

Third Sister: After being arranged for a marriage, her willful and depressed personality led her to overeating, and she had a car shock with a boy. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and ended her life.

Fourth sister and younger sister: The younger sister is the most rebellious of all the sisters. She wanted to escape to another place, so she secretly learned to drive with a friend who drove a truck and locked the door on the fourth sister's wedding day. , fought with their uncle and grandma for a long time, and finally drove their uncle's car to help the fourth sister and future self escape marriage and reach the city they want to go.

At the end of the film, Xiaomei found her teacher in that city, and the two ended up embracing each other. The little sister's rebellion was undoubtedly a victory, but women like the second and third sisters were still persecuted by patriarchal ideology. A few teenage girls, they should have had a beautiful youthful time full of laughter and sunshine, but they were tightly imprisoned in the house, instilling in them the idea of ​​serving their husbands in the future, and seeing them. A stranger who meets in a few minutes gets married.
Their lives are arranged. Not to mention freedom, they have no basic rights at all.

Not only in Turkey, but in many countries around the world, masculinists have similar ideas:
"You can't put women on an equal footing with men, it's against human nature."
"Women can't do everything . What men can do, because it goes against their delicate nature."
"Women and men are not equal."
But I want to ask, shouldn't people become a kind of people who are easily judged what they can and can't do because their sex organs and hormone secretion are different. of lower animals?

As human beings, shouldn't men and women have the same rights, the same respect, the same treatment, and the same status? No one is attached to another, because everyone is a different and independent individual.

But some people who see my remarks may refute me. Would you say something like your feminism is that you think you are better than men, or some husbands in China will complain that their wives are too "feminist".
But in fact, what feminism wants to express is not transcendence, but equality.

At this point, I also think that Chinese people have misunderstandings about women's rights. I have seen a "joke" like this one:
feminism in foreign countries: we women can do this too!
Feminism in China: Why should we women do this work?
So now many people have a big misunderstanding about feminism. But in the final analysis, "feminism" is just a name. What we should advocate after all is the concept and idea of ​​equality between men and women. In this regard, both men and women should reflect on this.
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  • Dana 2022-03-14 14:12:25

    Black Sea Diary. If you think of the four sisters of Kamakura's Kaijie Diary, who are both fatherless and motherless, behind the similar soft light natural beauty and white thighs, their destiny parabola is so different. Such a movie took place in secular Turkey, and it was a middle-class family but was coerced by backward religious concepts, which caused many speculations. The scene of the grape rack is very good, the cage in turn resists the uncle's capture, and there are also bright spots.

  • Dominique 2022-04-23 07:03:38

    It is also the subject of female consciousness, and the Arab region is obviously flatter and more profound than Indian films.

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