The subject matter is good, the content of the narrative is disgusting, seriously distorted, and full of ideology that vilifies the proletariat!

Hermina 2022-04-20 09:02:54

Let’s analyze the film from an ideological perspective. First of all, the audience should not understand why the heroine is not welcomed by her family, because she is disabled? absurd. Later, through the narrative, we learned that she was pregnant out of wedlock, which was a serious moral issue at that time. And how was this "bad girl" treated? Whether it is the elder brother or the husband of the representative of the male power of the proletariat, they are all ruthless and selfish, and regard the heroine as a cash cow. So much so that the proletarian heroine went to the bourgeoisie (a woman from New York) to find spiritual comfort and soul support... what a fxxx's class logic! The film succeeded in splitting feminists from the ranks of the proletariat!

Let's see if the heroine's artwork really has such great commercial value? A bunch of working women in our country painting folk paintings have this level, isn't it? Undoubtedly, a sense of art developed purely by itself without training is to be admired. But giving her a market value that doesn't go along with the logic (I don't know how much the people who buy her paintings are out of sympathy), this is the trick that the ruling group often plays with capital: subverting values ​​and reshaping aesthetics, so as to achieve control over people's hearts Purpose!

I don't know what makes the husband feel so inferior and jealous of his wife, and use the artistic value distorted by capital? I don't know what made the wife submit to her husband's violence. Is she a maid or a hostess? In the eyes of the creator, poverty = despicableness, no doubt the audience has subtly accepted this logic, hehe, congratulations to the producer, you have created another brainwashing agent with capital. The ruling bourgeoisie has once again succeeded in destroying the morality of the proletariat with movies!

Seeing the actual documentary footage of the old couple at the end, I feel so sad that their beautiful images are being used by such a shameless film!

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Maudie quotes

  • Maud Lewis: So.

    [pause]

    Maud Lewis: I'm gonna stay, where do I sleep?

    Everett Lewis: Are you gonna follow my rules?

  • Everett Lewis: I'm lookin' for a woman...