Desert Flower is about a supermodel from Somalia, Waris Dirie, who was circumcised when she was three years old. That is, local non-medical staff used unsterilized blades and other tools to cut off the clitoris and labia of underage women and then stitched them up, leaving only the mouth of the match. The size of the opening is used by girls to go to the toilet. When she was seven or eight years old, an old man in his sixties persuaded her father to let Waris marry this old man with five sheep or something. Waris didn't want her fate to be arranged like this, so she secretly ran out of the house at night, crossed the boundless desert by herself, and found her grandmother. Her grandmother asked her to follow a relative of her family who was about to go to the Somali embassy in the UK to the UK as a servant. After she stayed for three or four years, because of the war in Somalia, her relative had to go to Somalia, so she secretly ran from the embassy. She came out and stayed in the UK as an illegal foreigner. Later, she met the second woman in a shopping mall and a photographer at a restaurant introduced to her by her daughter. Then her life changed. There are also two male characters in the film, one is a plumber who adore her apartment, and the other is a man from New York who she and her daughter met in a bar who also shot an advertisement.
Tell me a few things that impress me. One is that the heroine is unwilling and obedient to the arranged fate. She would rather starve to death, be raped and have scars on her legs, and walk across the desert to find another possibility in her life. Later, when she was detained at the airport for illegal residence, she When Britain saw a mother and daughter from the same background as her, she desperately wanted to stay is the same, and when she met the second female to help her clean the room, it was the same as calling the front desk staff mom to ask the front desk staff to let her stay. Everyone may see her aura of being a supermodel in the future, and talk about her infinite magnification, and also see her gorgeous transformation from shepherdess to supermodel, and make a big fuss about it, but what is the pain of this process? Can ordinary people experience it? I suddenly thought of Liu Wen. She said in an interview before that she may only sleep four or five hours a day, and sometimes she may sleep on the subway. The watch she wears is also reminding her how important time is to her, Maybe as models or so-called successful women, there are always some things in common. The second is that she refuses to really be a father with her male friend. If she doesn't love it, she doesn't love it. In fact, she is a very self-respecting and self-loving person. She has her own boundaries. Suddenly kissing his male friend (probably out of gratitude?) but the fact that she immediately took off the ring and said divorce was a bit surprising to me, I thought she was acting decisively. Girls really need to learn to respect themselves, don't lower their posture in order to thank or please men, and don't let it go. This is how to live with dignity and pride. Similarly, after seeing the male protagonist go back to the room with a girl, she immediately said that her other friends lived nearby, then ran away and cried very sad. In fact, I have some doubts, why didn't she immediately go to the photographer when she was so short of money? It seems that because of the cultural background, taking pictures is a bad thing in her cognition or in the concept that others have instilled in her. And why did the photographer say that if Waris went to him right away, he wouldn't want to photograph her so much? Is it because you saw the purity in her character? The third is the translation of the doctor from Somalia in the hospital, which once again shows that the level of education is not related to the openness of ideas.
The heroine has been persevering and insisted on walking out of the bad environment that she was born in, but in fact, she has always retained the unique beauty of the wild that the environment in which she was born has given her, so she has grasped it well after all. her luck. Because most people don't have the opportunity to go out, or even if they go out, they don't have the chance to meet her, or they give up in the process of going, and they choose to stay in the environment they hate but are familiar with. Waris is a real warrior, she is a blood-stained desert flower, thin and agile, but not charming, forbearance and persistence.
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