Women's freedom and autonomy

Winnifred 2022-01-09 08:03:17

The sun, the white sand beach, the blue sea, the brilliant smile of youth---what a picture like this.

In many countries, this is an uncommonly beautiful scenery: free and unfettered laughter, free and simple play, wanting to taste love for the first time, unruly madness, unrestrained youth, and worry-free shining years. This kind of thing happened in Turkey in the early summer of a sunny day.
Here, love is a taboo, smile is slutty, and freedom is an unattainable dream.
After school, the five sisters were invited by the wind and the sun to take a walk home. They walked
by the beach and played innocently with the male classmates.
Their behavior was regarded as a scandal by their conservative neighbors and informed their family members. ,
Which led to terrible consequences.

The girls' parents are dead and live with their grandma who loved them and the uncle who raised them.
Under the conservative doctrines, traditions, culture, and patriarchy of the feudal society,
girls riding on the shoulders of the opposite sex, playing horseback fighting, are
tantamount to depravity and humiliation, and they are regarded as detrimental, and
local girls are discriminated against if they marry a bitch. Those who do not go out are
strongly criticized by public opinion, and the family members severely reprimanded and banned their feet. It
is like a strong wind and rain.

The impact of traditional culture and emerging ideological trends,
strong patriarchy is doomed to sad stories
of girls, fateful grandmother and uncle are worried and angry about the behavior of the girls,
thinking that this is not in line with the requirements of Muslims for women,
so everything is deemed to let them Depraved things-
mobile phones, computers, nail polish... completely confiscated and no contact.
Enclose them at home and
force them to learn to be virtuous ladies in line with cultural customs and values.
Grandma arranged marriage arrangements for the two older sisters and got married quickly.
A man and a woman know each other and love each other.
Of course, marrying a loved one is the dream of all women in the world.
But the other pair is a strange and unfeeling combination, and
their combination leads to the tragedy of the child's suicide.
Just as grandma was about to arrange a wedding night for the third sister, the
youngest Lalei finally couldn't bear that
she and her sister planned to escape
from the house that is like a prison for freedom.

Having a free life and independent choice
is a matter of course in a civilized society. The simple thing
is that many girls in the world are eager to resist fate.
It is sad that the difficulty of solving problems is so deep.

"Wild Horse" is a feature film co-produced by France, Turkey and Germany in 2015. It is the directorial debut of Turkish French female director Denise Canzer Ehufen and was selected as the director of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Bi-weekly unit and won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. Nominated for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Nominated for the 2016 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Director's Biweekly Award.

Turkish director Denise Kanze Ahufen grew up in France, which is free and open-minded. She often travels to Turkey for winter and summer vacations. "Wild Horse" is the first feature film she wrote and directed, describing how girls pursuing freedom can do The courage to resist the values ​​of the traditional society, the five sisters in it have very different fate, which is a metaphor for different young girls around the world facing different lives of growth, family, and love. The English title Mustang means "wild horse". Home, in their world, is like a cage of wild horses, and the only way to go to freedom is to write their own "Leaving Home".

The director first directs the tube and personally writes and draws materials. With a deep humanistic vision and a critical attitude, he can deeply depict the helplessness of women deeply bound by dark traditional moral concepts, and how underage children are suppressed by old ideas. Get out of the predicament. The film is fresh and picturesque, and the narrative rhythm of the light and shadow of the film is very successful. The performance of the girls is natural, and people should be extremely envious of the bright youth VS the caged family that should nourish and survive. It makes people feel deep sympathy and compassion, and think carefully about the face. The women’s equality dilemma faced by Muslim countries today. Denise Kanzeaihufen is really great!

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Extended Reading

Mustang quotes

  • Lale: The house became a wife factory that we never came out of.

  • Selma: I slept with the entire world.