A faithful wife must treat her husband as if she were a god, and must not be bothered by any disobedience to him, and must use all her patience and meekness to conceive of his situation and relieve him of his troubles.
- "The Law of Manu"
The film's love story is lackluster, clichéd and unconvincing, and would certainly fail as a love story. The key is as always, its foothold is still India's social problems, which is an eternal topic. There is no other country that can integrate all kinds of social contradictions like India - religious issues, caste issues, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the low status of women can all be vividly displayed in this land. Then skip the dispensable love story and get to the heart of the movie.
The main core issues are still a few, about religion and feminism but abandoning the caste contradiction, which is to weaken the premarital love story and write a large space for the post-marital life. The film is an adaptation of a true incident. The main story is that the heroine married the male protagonist because of love and found that the male protagonist did not have a toilet. There were a lot of conflicts over the toilet. Finally, a declaration of divorce without a toilet was proposed, which caused huge social repercussions. Dog blood, right? It is really bloody, bloody and real, and all kinds of strange events are being staged all the time in India.
It is mentioned in the "Vedas" that people should be close to nature, born in nature and return to nature. However, in the later period, many people distorted the content of the scriptures for their own interests, thinking that having a toilet in their home was a blasphemy against the gods, so they chose to use the toilet by the river, bathed by the river, and then prayed to the gods. This is not Blasphemy? Be aware that India has tedious purification rituals, because the fear of pollution in Indian religion is very strong, and Brahman law stipulates isolation and complex preventive measures. Many rivers in India are called holy rivers, and people are told that if they bathe here, they will be cleansed. How can it be clean if you use the holy river like a toilet? Blasphemy and non-blasphemy actually only depends on the use of scriptures by the upper echelons. As the male protagonist said, the village committee will only add fuel to the parts of scriptures that are beneficial to them and use them to publicize them. This is typical religious oppression and patriarchy. Does it have something to do with male power? Of course there is.
A woman goes to read the Vedas, and confusion arises in the field.
- "The Mahabharata"
In Chandragupta's time, Brahmin priests did not allow their wives and concubines to read all philosophical books, leaving them ignorant of philosophy. For if women were brought to a philosophical sense to understand pleasure and pain, life and death, they would become depraved, or otherwise, rather than obedient.
- McGastini
A good woman is virtuous without talent. This is a naked deprivation. In order to make women low in status, they will take away their thinking, so that they will not have the ability to think about right and wrong, and make obedience to men as a dogma. This is not just religious oppression, but also male oppression. Men are not only trying to explain dogma to improve their status for the purpose of self-interest, but what is even more terrifying is that they also take away women's ability to think. Without the ability to think, there is no way to question whether it is fair and correct. In this way, it has evolved from generation to generation, and these have long become conventional truths, and no one will question them, so even today, the problem is still serious. Problems are not formed overnight, and change is certainly not something that can be done today.
Fortunately, the male protagonist married his wife out of love, which is also a common problem in India. Will Durant's "History of World Civilization" mentioned: "Manulaw" established eight different marriages, among which marriages due to love and robbery are regarded as the lowest under the ethical scale. etc., and the marriage of purchase and sale is also considered a meaningful method for the union of a man and a woman. Love, like robbery, is really an independent affair. Under this traditional thinking of viewing love as a monstrous beast, coupled with the still very serious caste and religious issues in India, many couples are still not together out of love, just like the male protagonist and girlfriend at the beginning of the movie. This kind of bound marriage, as an Indian male who grew up in a special atmosphere, is of course unlikely to give a voice to women.
The movie mentions a solution - do not do to others what you do not want to do to yourself. The reason why men don't care if there is a toilet is another problem, because they feel that it is not themselves who are always embarrassed, and maybe they can see spring again. Then take pictures of them, and let them just feel ashamed and thrown on the street. There are more staunch defenders like the male protagonist's father. Perhaps only his fallen mother must go to the toilet at home to shake his worldview. After all, you can either use the toilet anywhere in the yard or you can solve it in the toilet that was smashed by yourself. This choice is very simple, because using the toilet anywhere in the yard of prayer is the most serious blasphemy. The misunderstanding of not being able to use the toilet at home is really insignificant. Deal with the government, lock their toilets, they naturally know the pain of not having toilets and speed up the approval process.
But just relying on men to help or waiting for men to wake up is too cliché and passive, this is only a temporary solution. Many movies in India have this problem, such as "Wrestle! In "Dad" and "Mysterious Superstar", women always rely on forward-thinking men to change their destiny. In the final analysis, men have the right to speak, but the difference between men makes women's destiny change. This has to think about whether it is still just a pseudo-feminist film wearing a feminist coat. After all, in these feminist films, even the plot cannot develop without the promotion of men, and women are still being pushed by the hands behind the scenes. So, when it comes to women's rights, who should be the first to pick up a gun? Of course it is myself!
As mentioned earlier, women are not allowed to read the "Vedas" and are deprived of the ability to think so that they cannot judge right or wrong. Of course, this is what men want to see. Just like the emperor, what emperor does not want to centralize power? If women are not aware of their own awakening, how likely are men, as vested interests, to lend a helping hand? Of course not much, we might as well focus on women who make up half the population.
If I really prove to be my husband's virgin,
Mother Earth, free Sita from the burdens of life.
- "Ramayana"
In "Ramayana", Sita seeks only death after being tested and tempted to remain chaste. Indian women do not feel that the status quo is wrong, and the female consciousness in Indian films is not strong enough. The biggest advantage of this movie is also the same. The heroine always has the initiative, and she does not need to rely on men. This is of course the advantage of a wealthy family and a higher education. But the awakening of women's power in India can only be done from top to bottom, with the minority leading the majority, and the highly educated leading the uneducated. When most women don't even realize that the status quo is wrong, they can only use a spark to start a prairie fire.
The heroine has also done a good job as a missionary, and she understands that she is speaking on behalf of all women, whether they realize they need a voice or not. Divorce without a toilet is absurd but smart and effective. This is a naked fight against poison. In Indian tradition, a husband can be divorced because of his wife's refusal of chastity, while a wife cannot divorce her husband because of any accident of her husband as an excuse. Therefore, the divorce of the heroine caused an uproar like a flood, and the heroine can express her opinions as much as possible with public opinion - if there is no toilet, only the woman herself can be blamed.
I really like the heroine's line of scolding women at the door of the house. It is the essence of this movie. The lines are roughly as follows: "Men can be convenient in their own backyards, but we are women, and we have to suffer a lot in everything we do. What should we do? We have to compromise, because traditional culture requires us to compromise, but also to control the three emergencies, and then solve them when it gets dark. Men can do it easily during the day, women can only solve it at night. If there is a man peeping, then cover your face, But can't tell. If a pervert flashes a flashlight at you, cover your face instead of your butt so they can show off to their friends and say I saw it, but I don't know who it is. They shine at you with headlights every day , but you have been painless, you are still very happy, because this way, the urinal women will have something to talk about along the way. Why make these rules, why only for women, it's the man who is wrong but becomes the woman's Wrong. The problem is that you don't feel like you have a problem at all."
Ironic and classic, it is also a voice for the awakening of women's consciousness: If you don't feel that you have a problem yourself, why let others think that your current situation has a problem? Only by picking up the gun that defends your rights can you draw more people's attention to your problem, and you are always your own spokesperson.
The advantage of the movie is also here. It does not simply use men to speak for women, so that the heroine really has a role. Only the power that women have won for themselves to speak out first is feminism. Fake femininity in feminist garb. Disrespecting yourself is the most difficult problem to solve. You should remember at all times that you should speak up for your own power. Only when you stand up first can you truly resonate with the group and drive thousands of people. Speak together, and the power of dripping water will become a vast ocean. Finally, I hope that the eternal topic of equality can be more and more profound.
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