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I couldn't stop the recommendation of several friends around me to watch "The Handmaid's Tale". After watching the first episode, one of the most direct movie viewing experience - collapse. I can't bear it at all. In the first episode, there is a scene where "Mama Rong" brought the maids who had been soaked in the rain all day into the cafeteria and wanted to "further punish" them. The woman was first called and walked into the kitchen at the back of the canteen. When she saw the handcuffs hanging on the gas stand, the original tough expression on her face collapsed, and she began to scream and admit her mistake: "I was wrong, I was really wrong. I'm done." But they couldn't stop the movement of those people dragging her hands to the gas stand, and then the maids turned on the fire...
This episode tormented me for days, and every time I think about it, it breaks down deeply. "The Handmaid's Tale" has been well received as a feminist drama that warns women. But after watching it, I began to have some doubts - splicing together all the cruel and extreme plots and making the extreme into the ordinary, is it a warning or a sadism?
In April of this year, Netflix's French film "Men Want to Love Oneself" was broadcast on the Internet. It's also about gender inequality, but frankly, compared to the others, this movie is too comfortable to watch.
The movie is very insightful. The male protagonist, Damian, is a playboy and holds an important position in the company, and never hesitates to show his masculine charm and strength.
He designed an app product called "Brother Gauge". The way to play is that men who have more sexual partners here mean that his younger brother is longer, and women are the objects to be counted in the product - just Like stamps for philatelists.
Mianda and her friend Christopher are merciful, while their wives do the work, grocery shopping, cooking, and raising the kids. In their eyes, women are completely objectified prey to be picked at will and to be teased at will.
One day, when Damian whistled to a strange girl on the street, he put on a pillar and passed out. When he woke up, the most awesome scene in the film happened - Damian crossed and wore a The parallel world of feminism.
The English title of the film "A Man Wants Self-Love" is "I Am Not an Easy Man", which literally translates to "I Am Not an Easy Man". The noun "easy girl" that stabs women in this society is reversed into "easy man" in the parallel world that the male protagonist travels through, where only men can be defined as "easy".
In that world, the ambulance staff were women, the garbage collectors were women, and the people who followed the opposite sex on the street were women.
In the beginning Damian didn't even know he was in the feminist world. But all the people and things around him have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Mianda returned to his home in the parallel world and experienced something even more unbelievable to him - his mother became the shop owner, and his father became the "proprietress" who collected the bills. Even his parents asked him to find "dependency" as soon as possible - a girlfriend.
And in his wardrobe, there are only a variety of brightly colored tights and shorts. When you wear a white T-shirt to work, you will be reminded by colleagues: Your clothes are very revealing, be careful.
Later, he found that the female colleague Sophie who had been molested by him at the meeting had become his boss, and the former boss was now Sophie's secretary. count". Unable to accept that his ideas were plagiarized, Damian lost his job because he got angry with his boss.
It was only then that Damian realized that the world he was in had changed. Here, men need to dress up every day when they go out. You need to wear panties that raise your balls, you need to raise your butt... You must dress conservatively, never wear transparent clothes, and never show your upper body. Women, on the other hand, don't need to worry about all this, and can walk down the street with their breasts bare.
It's men who striptease in bars, it's men who get whistled when they walk.
In this world, men need to pay attention to their image all the time in order to find their favorite object. Christopher, who spent time with him in the original world, has also become a different look here, and he suggested that he should take more maintenance, more beauty, more hair removal, and increase his charm.
Men dare not speak out and resist after being sexually harassed, while women can show their aggression and sexual desire without shyness;
The protagonist of the banquet is a woman, and the man is present as the other half of the woman;
The woman on TV is touching the body of the man, and the man is constantly worried that his body is not sexy enough, and that the male body is sexually objectified.
Damian gets a job as a secretary. His boss, Alexandra, a female writer, spends a day with men, taking them shopping, and sleeping with them. Damian, who is already charming, is naturally a sweet pastry appreciated by women in the feminist world. So naturally, he was unspoken by the boss.
Alexandra's sultry skills are skilled and high-level, and she coaxed Damian to kneel under the pomegranate skirt in three or two times, and even told her about her experience. The process and mode of two people getting along is exactly the same as the plot of scumbags cheating women in the original society.
Damian is really in love with Sandra, but her scumbag makes Damian sad, and Alexandra even resolutely "doesn't have sex with men over 26 years old". Every man she gets adds another to her glass ball collection.
In this world, men are mostly betrayed and let down.
Damian's friend Christopher was just as miserable. The wife cheated during pregnancy because the pregnancy made her "full of hormones all over her body, and she needed to vent her desires, so she lost control." He himself also thinks that his wife cheated because he is not attractive, so he goes to the gym every day to exercise his body curves.
Men in the feminist world, like women in the real world, live unhappy lives.
Men have to live according to the standards defined by feminism for men, and they have to be questioned by successful women: "What's wrong with you (masculinism), do you get compliments, or do you get drinks for you?"
They can't decide their own lives, and women in the feminist world hold the right to speak in that world.
And women in the feminist world, likewise, are not completely happy. Just like men in the real world, women cannot show a weak side, they must be strong and responsible, and have a "female appearance".
The many details in the movie are shocking. Unlike "The Handmaid's Tale", which is horrific, "Men Need Self-Love" will let us discover that in real life, all kinds of inequalities imposed on women are basically the same. Considered by everyone as ordinary and ordinary, we act according to the "rules", "just right", and there is no problem at all.
At the end of the movie, Damian traveled back to reality. The highlight here is that it was not only him who wore it back, but the gorgeous woman Alexandra also returned to "reality" with him.
Here, Alexandra, who was walking on the street, found that the cool and sexy clothes on the street were all women, the advertising signs were full of sexually objectified female images, and it was women who took to the streets to resist the patriarchy. You can imagine how terrifying everything in the real world will be for Alexandra from the feminist world.
After more than 90 minutes of foreshadowing, just when we, like Damian, have almost accepted the world of feminism, this ending suddenly brings us back to reality.
In the real world, women's rights are also fighting for inequality, so we will have the hit "The Handmaid's Tale" and a series of similar literary works that help women awaken.
In Leni Zumas's "Red Clocks," abortion is outlawed and the United States erects a "pink wall" at the Canadian border to prevent women from smuggling into Canada.
In Louise Erdrich's "Future Home of the Living God," global warming further catalyzes a fertility crisis, with pregnant women held in correctional centers, while those who have children Capable females were recruited to raise fetuses.
Helen Sedgwick's The Growing Season builds a world where artificial wombs are accustomed to. Lidia Yuknavitch
The Earth in The Book of Joan is so polluted that it is hopeless. In order to survive, the rich people on earth took a "stupid space condom"-like aircraft to the artificial planet Ciel (Ciel), but their physiological characteristics have also mutated and become genderless. .
Sophie Mackintosh's "The Water Cure" is fascinating, in which women are sensitive and tortured by men.
Jennie Melamed's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning fantasy novel "Gather the Daughters" tells a woman's nightmare in a gated community where fathers rape themselves Undeveloped daughters, in lieu of sex with the potential to produce offspring - a population control method there.
"Misery drives sales, and the effect is more pronounced when the person being tortured is a woman, and writers are under pressure to update their stories, better than previous ones. The story of torture in the book works well. , so the absurdity is negligible. Christina Dalcher's Vox, due to be published in August, features women with a daily quota of 100 sentences, which they must wear Collars, as long as the quota is exceeded, you will be electrocuted."
Like I said, when "brutal" is displayed to a certain level, it's not clear whether it's a warning or a hate-inducing alternative sadism. As a film work, "Men Must Love Oneself" is not perfect, and there are many bugs in the plot and settings. But frankly, I still think that it is more comfortable to talk about unequal rights between men and women. It not only allows people to see the inequalities that we have become accustomed to and accept, but also allows people to not only think radically and hatefully: the feminist world in the movie is actually as bad as the patriarchal world. The root of the problem is inequality, not which gender has a voice in the world.
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