What fascinates me the most about the whole film is not how Wallis met the famous photographer, how she became famous, or how she fell in love with the man she met by chance. What fascinated me most was the fact that she began to escape her destiny on foot through the desert, and the pain in the soles of her feet couldn't hold her back. What was fresh in her memory was the part of her recollection about circumcision. The young Wallis was taken by her mother to be circumcised, and among the rocks stood an old woman waiting. With Xiao Hua Lisi's shrill cry, she lost a part of her body, just because of that cruel custom.
What you especially remember is the words that Hua Lisi said when she was an adult: "Once, when I went back to the rock pile, there was nothing left, and it was eaten by the birds..." There was nothing left. , what is lost cannot be returned. It makes me feel sad, but incapable of doing anything about it.
[Female circumcision is a so-called traditional ceremony performed between the ages of four and eight to remove part of the sexual organs in order to relieve women of sexual pleasure and to ensure that girls remain virgins until marriage and remain faithful to their husbands even after marriage . It is generally estimated that around 130 million women are circumcised worldwide, and as mentioned above, two million are growing every year. That's a scary number. (Excerpted from Baidu Library)]
Circumcision still exists in many places. Proponents of circumcision believe that only circumcised women are clean. In this culture, circumcision became a way for women to survive. Uncircumcised women are considered dirty and unacceptable. This concept is like a poison, deeply rooted in the minds of believers.
[Some fundamentalists and sociologists have criticized the West’s interference in African countries where circumcision is still practiced. override. (Excerpt)] This view makes me unacceptable. If custom is the destruction of human nature, then this custom should be called bad custom, and bad custom should be improved. Whether this question is right or wrong can be answered only from the perspective of one's own humanity and conscience.
This custom of circumcision reminds me of the Chinese foot binding, and the two have similarities. Mingli maintains the tradition, but in fact it is the distorted selfish desire of the patriarchal society. Whether it's Chinese feet binding or Somalia circumcision. Women don't just lose a body part, they lose a spirit, and their spirit is wrapped in heavy shackles. Both physically and mentally, he has completely become a vassal and plaything of patriarchy. Completely lost its own future, spiritual death is the end of life.
The survey shows that [currently 6,000 girls are still being circumcised every day] the figures tell us that there are many more victims born at this moment. All we can do is let the world know about this cruelty. And believe that bad habits will eventually be defeated by human nature.
At the end, I seem to see her walking in the scorching desert looking up at the sky. Wondering if she sees her future self? The one who walked out of the desert step by step to face the vast sky, the one who fought for the rights of the children who had the same fate as her.
——To "Desert Flower"
: Beihai Nightmare
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