In recent years, Hollywood actresses have come forward to expose the unequal treatment women receive in the film industry. Among them, Nicole Kiman mentioned that female-dominated characters and stories are not valued in the male-dominated Hollywood market. She believes that this phenomenon should be actively changed to prove that female stories are worth mentioning.
The plight of women is not limited to the film industry. The first feature film directed by Kim Farrant, "Stranger Things", uses the disappearance of two children to bring out the discrimination faced by women and the plight of living in a male-dominated society. Kathleen (Nicole Kidman) and Matthew (Joseph Fiennes) and their children move to a small town in the remote desert of Australia. This town is like a typical western town, full of masculine male hormones. Women are the objects of desire. So when a group of young men at the skate park see Kathleen's daughter Lily (Maddison Brown), their lustful and greedy eyes flow out, like a hungry snake seeing its prey. However, Lily has never been more than an object of desire, she is also a subject of desire, and she does not hide it. On the one hand, Lily like this scares men (fathers), and on the other hand, she is regarded as an indecent existence, a slut, a bitch, and a slut.
Matthew once said that Lily is like Kathleen when she was young, she can do whatever she wants and never consider other people's feelings. But Matthew still married Lily, thinking he had "tamed" her, and Catherine thought she had been "tamed". until Lily showed up. When young Lily stripped naked and danced with a red feather fan, Catherine thought it was beautiful, but Matthew was disgusted. Because Catherine sees her former self, and Matthew sees the untamed Catherine of the past. So Matthew tried to "tame" Lily with his male/father's authority, but Lily was not taught and escaped from it. For the patriarchal society, the escaped female body/female desire is deeply dangerous, and it is more likely to lead to the downfall of the patriarchal society. The intensification of the problems of the Matthew family and the various conflicts in the closed town are the best proofs. In order to re-consolidate the patriarchal structure, in addition to finding ways to find Lily, it is also necessary to suppress Kathleen who may become Lily; the best way is to kidnap women with "motherhood". Then Tommy, the wounded and very weak son, returned. His reappearance is precisely to fulfill Kathleen's motherhood, so he will try to hide the fact that his sister has escaped, lest Kathleen know that there is a possibility of escaping herself.
Although "Stranger Place" is the first work directed by Jin Falun, it is unexpectedly mature, especially the way of storytelling with blank space, which gives the film a lot of intriguing interpretation space. Lily's monologue ("touch in the dark, no one knows."), which runs throughout the film, is full of allusions. In addition, although Nicole Kidman is expensive as an actress, her acting skills are often criticized, but this time she undoubtedly handed over a dazzling transcript; it can even be said that her performance is a complete The focus of the film.
Written on 2015/11/20
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