Like a tenacious sea buckthorn, Wallis came from Somalia. She has traces of cannibalistic social circumcision and the courage to cross the desert alone.
The film uses an interlude method. The bloody little girl walking in the Somali desert is connected with the radiant face on the stage. The bitterness and suffering can't stop this woman from darkness to light, and the warm music is always just right. The ground sounded, and people couldn't help but also give birth to a lot of power.
In the process of the heroine's step by step towards herself, the external obstacles and the inner struggles complement each other. Everything is not natural, it takes effort and struggle. Starting on foot through the desert, she was in danger of being raped and nearly sent back to the place she feared; when she first lived in London, she had to sleep on the streets; Repatriation to the country... Several obstacles always come inadvertently when I think things are going smoothly, but this is also the reality.
However, her earnest pursuit finally came to fruition.
The director's way of shooting is very symbolic, and the characters who play threats and oppression are almost male, although the reality is true. Especially when Wallis went to the doctor in pain due to the sequelae of circumcision, the Somali man who maliciously translated for her and the British doctor represented the ugly group of people who subjected women to circumcision and other abuses. They turn a blind eye to the suffering of women, and even use the creation of such suffering as a means of showing their authority; they meanly declare that only circumcised women are chaste, and only women who survive such suffering are worthy of existence.
Only women can empathize with women, and only women can deeply understand women's suffering. The important female characters in the film all provided Wallis with great and small help at critical moments, and they all shed tears after hearing about her suffering. From the Somali mother-in-law who took in Wallis at first; to Marylin who still allowed her to stay in her own poor situation, and then really helped her and was proud of her success; the photographer's assistant who was hard-hearted and soft-hearted and helped a lot in Wallis' modeling career ; even the concierge lady was much softer for her. I really saw girls help girls, and saw the mutual help and sympathy among women.
But the idea of the film is not only to tell the story of the heroine's personal life, the story from shepherdess to the world's supermodel is nothing new. More importantly, through the heroine's personal struggle, we can see countless women who are still in similar suffering and cannot be relieved. Their lives disappeared under oppression and died in blood. Even in today's society, we are struggling with other pains.
Look back at us now. In this era, there is no more foot binding, no polygamy, and no naked regulations prohibiting women from receiving education. We have reached the farthest distance in history. This is the result of the struggle of our ancestors.
But this is not enough, we should go further in the footsteps of our predecessors. We still have a lot of discrimination and devaluation of women, our values are often suppressed, the road to our ideals is still full of obstacles, those key powers are still in the hands of men, and there is still a long way to go before complete liberation. Way to go.
Like the story of the heroine walking away from the desert to the stage, there are bound to be various obstacles and threats. But we shouldn't cower or have fantasies about the oppressor. We can help girls, and we can also be the predecessors of the later generations. Don't let the ancestors down, and don't be ashamed of the descendants.
So sisters, unite, for ourselves and for the thousands of women who are suffering. The power of the individual is small but not optional, and when we as a whole, we are bound to take a further step.
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