I wrote this film review with strong pain, because of my personal life experience, because of my perception of the world and social events around me, and because of my confusion and boundless hope for the future.
The fictional heroine of this film suffered all kinds of expulsions and rejections after she gradually devoted herself to the women's political liberation movement. It reminded me directly of what a female teacher said to us when she was in college, describing her feminist friend.
"She obviously has a husband with a good income, her children are sensible and cute, and she is well-educated. She could live a good life, but she is going to engage in feminism. Now the marriage is divorced, and the children are gone. Anyway, I think feminists are, alas, it’s hard to tell, maybe they all have problems in their heads."
This is the portrait of a contemporary feminist portrayed by a young female teacher at a double first-rate university who was married and gave birth to a daughter in 2016, to her many female students.
McGee said that the decline of the story marks the decline of values. Then the story remains unchanged for a hundred years. Does it also mean that our values have actually been stagnant in the terrible "inheritance" of history for a hundred years?
In 2019, in my graduation thesis, I relied on feminism to discuss the escape and return of women in Monroe's novels. Compared to the instinct of human beings to flee from their advantages and avoid disadvantages, I am even more curious why most of these women will take the initiative to return to the tormented life they used to.
This thinking has brought me many unsolved questions: When women look back on their life course, what do they see? The female gaze is definitely not the reversal of the male gaze, but what are the essential differences brought about by the female gaze as opposed to patriarchy? Is the return actually to escape a more tragic experience-against a family or an entire society, to become a "sacrificer" of love or a "betrayer" chasing personal goals? Maybe women are women, mothers are mothers, and their lives have never been able to truly bear the traumatic and tearing painful separation from their children?
This is how I took these unsolved problems to a social life that made me feel even more unsolvable.
Those men who were admitted with low scores and wantonly humiliated rape victims? ♀️; those male teachers who sexually assaulted many elementary school girls and were only sentenced for less than ten years; these glamorous, well-loved, and play like a pig Girls’ male stars; these male suitors, male stalkers, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, husbands, ex-husbands who kill a woman and say that they “deeply love” her; and these can be online when they hear a sex story Everywhere clamored that they would kill all feminists, but they obviously watched all the above social events with ordinary men from all walks of life and all ages.
My long-term disgust and anger can no longer be described in words. So when I thought about the two iconic male characters in this film in such a different way, the conclusion I reached almost made me wonder if I was too old to be stupid, and because of laziness, I ended up becoming an increasingly conservative evil betrayal. By.
I understand them.
I understand them as I understand all the people trapped in the web of time in history.
The husband is not a vicious husband. He was just a standard head of the family in that era, possessing all the responsibilities and responsibilities under historical conditions, but he was also saturated with every prejudice and cruelty of that era. He was angry because that era required that every husband must have complete and absolute control over his wife; he was ashamed because he thought that feminists would definitely be reduced to inferior prostitutes in prison; he felt helpless because He and his family were abandoned and expelled after being watched by the entire community; he felt sad because he would never be able to return to his previous life, and even had to personally give away his own flesh and blood.
Police officers are not cold-blooded government gears with dementia. As a police officer, he has faith in and responsibility for national security. What he is trying to eliminate is not a feminist, but a social instability factor that can easily evolve into harmful violence in his eyes. He may even admire it to some extent. These fearless women's movement members, but like many male rulers, he must also believe from the heart that the IQ and knowledge of most women are "naturally and truly" lower than men.
They all think that they have done nothing, or at least they have done nothing wrong.
This statement is too "banal evil", but I don’t intend to disentangle the usage and direction of this phrase in this article and in history, because the horror and unprovoked traditional gender order seems to me to be a Throughout the whole history, it is considered extremely ridiculously large-scale Nazism as "it should be".
Thinking back to my 14-year-old self, I thought that the dog forced the world to live in it, but now I am 24 years old, but I want to live to 94 years old, preferably 124 years old, so that it is clear in a basic sense. After the affair, I can fully witness the changes in this world for a century.
Looking back at history is always to better build the future.
A hundred years ago in Shanghai, women with short hair were dragged by mobs to the gate of the city to gang-rape them and then cut off their double breasts and naked corpses for public display; a hundred years later, Shanghai is now the magic capital, the most open-minded and open-minded in China and the world. "The most tolerant city. I think a hundred years are long and long, and short and short; I think human beings are indeed easy to be ignorant and conservative, but when it comes to fostering a new era, they are still the existences that are most worthy of high hopes.
What concerns human beings concerns me. When the vigorous 20th century that devoted all the care and salvation to the disadvantaged is a thing of the past, do we, the young people who were born and raised in the brief calm after the turbulent historical waves, still have the courage and Xinxing to carry those great unfinished undertakings? As a young director, as an artist full of complex emotions for the world, can I accomplish in my limited life even a historical task that has been opened for a long time before me and will continue in the infinite time after me? Am I ready to face pain, helplessness and despair? Can I accept the burdens that I voluntarily carry? My younger generations, my sisters, and my daughters, can they live a more free and brighter life than me because of my hard work? I want them to be born with everything that I have been searching for in my life. At the beginning of the last century, everything meant a room of my own and a check of my own. A hundred years later, this dream-like luxury has gradually become the reality of every girl, so maybe I am arrogant, but I am still so young, I feel that the future of the world is in my hands.
Come on, friends. Let's live this life together.
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