I'm a woman, and when I read The Taming of the Shrew, I laughed dumbfounded at first, and then laughed out loud.
First of all, I praise Taylor. Although her handling of Shakespeare's lines is still a little too polite and unnatural, as Woody Allen said, actresses can only be born. Her first shot, a close-up of the eyes, shows her ability to express complex human emotions. She has a fiery human desire, an understanding of complex human nature, and the ability to empathize with the audience. When she growled like scraping a wok, I covered my ears. When she wept, I thought that she was not favored by her father, did not understand that she did not want to be liked by men, she was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, and I also wept for her. When she kisses her nemesis sister, I know she has love in her heart. When she kisses the tip of her husband's nose, I know how pretty she is.
Taylor, makes other actresses look weak. Those actresses who never seem to have sex.
Finally got to talk about the plot. In fact, it is the process of the little girl gradually becoming sensible. As I said before, her "toughness" comes from the love without her parents, and her father obviously loves her sister. There are some things that people are born to have, and if they don't have them, they will go crazy. The so-called "tame and tough", of course, seems absurd in the current era. But at that time, women did not produce anything, and noblewomen did not need to raise children by themselves, so there was no status. Judging from the two lines:
"The husband shelters you from the wind and rain, works hard, and all you need to pay is your love." This line expresses the heroine's motivation for the change. She used to be the unloved daughter at home, full of anger, feeling like everyone owed her. But after being exposed to the wind and rain and starving, I realized that what I took for granted could actually be taken away at any time. In other words, she discovered what her husband had to offer in family life. The husband is not a father or God, and his contribution is not deserved. In the next scene, the heroine starts to do housework, takes care of the messy castle to a new look, and also does her own efforts and responsibilities in family life, and is respected by her husband. Both of them fulfilled their responsibilities. The husband earns money and the wife takes care of the housework. The ice-breaking relationship between husband and wife has been warm since then.
There is another sentence, "Your attack is only like straw for your husband." She found her temper, and her husband could just treat it like a child and make trouble. There is no point in losing your temper, and it will not help resolve conflicts.
When the heroine faced her husband's pursuit, Taylor jumped angrily at first, and then showed a little smile when she hid by herself. She felt a little love, and maybe more love in the future. . . Can grow, no longer angry.
The Taming of the Shrew does not have to be elevated to the point where men and women are equal, and men destroy the integrity of women's personalities. This is a very special case. It is well known in mathematics that infinity cannot be derived from one. The heroine used to be irritable because of the emptiness in her heart caused by the shadow of her family, and then she was loved and began to return to her senses. From the beginning of ignorance, learned lessons, and then grew up. Not to mention that any independent personality has been wiped out. The understanding and obedience of a wife does not deduce that all wives of that era were obliged to understand and obey.
If a husband thinks he has earned money and ignores his wife's hard work in caring for the family and raising children, he will naturally be dumped or poisoned to death. If a wife takes her husband as her father, she eats and drinks freely to vent her emotions, and she will naturally be harassed by the angry husband. This is human nature.
In today's society, the status of women has improved. Women also have to go out to earn food regardless of the wind and rain, and husbands and wives begin to understand each other. I kind of think of a little girl who thinks that her father doesn't know how to be gentle, and only focuses on work. When she grows up, it is not easy to begin to understand that her father is really TMD.
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