The most shocking part of the film is actually not the cruel and inhumane behavior of the old nuns in the Madeleine Fostering Home, and the criticism is not only directed at the darkness, hypocrisy, and greed of the church and the "fallen women's foster home". After all, it is just decadent. A small corner where the religious atmosphere extends. Abandoning the relatives and families of those innocent girls is the source of the heartbreaking crime. The tragic fate of those girls began with the relatives and families they should have depended on. I imagined that those girls who stayed at home would suffer no less harm than being imprisoned in a foster home. In the film, a girl successfully escaped from the foster home, but was sent back by her fierce father. Another girl happened to have a chance to escape, but after hesitating, she was willing to choose to continue to be imprisoned. Obviously she was aware of it. After going out, we are faced with the same repressive and desperate living environment. Human servility is squeezed out by an extremely cruel living environment. Therefore, the significance of the film does not only stop at the religious level, but further deepens the rescue in the spiritual realm, just like the director. What I have said is that the focus of the film is not on anti-religion, but on revealing common oppressive behaviors in our society.
Once a healthy society is invaded by the ignorant and conservative atmosphere, the family will be the first to bear the brunt. If the family loses the ability to resist this decadent atmosphere, human nature will begin to be distorted in the fall of family affection, and the distortion of the entire society will not be far away, and it will be extremely paranoid. The religious atmosphere gives the family a strong right to life and death. Even the only chance to rescue these unfortunate women is placed on the family that is willing to accept them again in the future. In fact, many women who enter end up in a foster home and die of old age. The low status in the family determines their living condition of drifting and helplessness, so their tragic experience has become a fate that cannot be escaped under the background of such a claustrophobic tradition.
The nuns who presided over the foster home tortured those "degenerate girls" were extremely cruel, flogged, shaved their hair, prohibited normal communication between people, and even stripped their clothes and used their bodies to play abnormal games. Chihan’s tyrannical behavior was carried out in the consciousness of the nuns in the name of God. It was a baptism of "fallen girls" and saved their "fallen souls." This heart-wrenching irony gave the hypocritical doctrine a merciless attack. Humanity was justified and distorted under the cover of religion. In an act of revenge, after the dean of the church was stripped naked, a woman who could not stand the torture chanted "You are not a servant of God" and made a very happy gesture. The accusation, this is also the brightest part of the film. Other occurrences are mostly in isolated foster homes. The atmosphere of the film is dull and depressing, making people feel a long sulking breath, and they want to hire a wild boar to rape the old man who controls the foster home. nun.
While the film fiercely criticized the darkness in the religious field, it also attached a strong feminist meaning. In such a dark environment, resistance is their only way out. They have never been guilty. What they want to win back is not only freedom, but also dignity, personality, and the meaning of survival. At the end of the film, the two girls struggled to resist and finally escaped from the sea of suffering. In fact, from their relatively better ending, I can't see the shadow of victory. They just changed the environment of struggle. The social atmosphere is conservative and ignorant to such a degree of survival. Environment, only where there is oppression, there is resistance.
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