After "The Incredibles 2" was released in 2004, it took fourteen years for us to witness "The Incredibles 2". Pixar's animation has always won the audience's touch with unconstrained imagination and delicate emotional stories.
After being acquired by Disney, Pixar's work gradually changed its style. This sequel, which has been separated by 14 years, can't help but remind people of the previous "Finding Nemo 2", suspecting that it has the suspicion of "grabbing the old".
When I went into the theater after lowering my expectations, I got a lot of surprises.
In terms of themes, the second part is well connected. It is still a general background environment in which superpowers are not recognized by the society, and then it is still the choice of superhuman powers in this general background environment.
In the first part, we can easily find that it is actually telling the story of a man's midlife crisis-this superman is also a human, he is still a man, once a man enters the marriage and family, he is no longer himself.
Faced with this sentence, we couldn't help but ask: What about the woman?
So, we saw it in the second part.
In the second part, thinking about marriage and family has increased. In addition to the crisis of male chauvinism, we have seen more women's consciousness awakening.
Now, let's take a look at a few points that are particularly worth mentioning.
1. In the "traditional family", women are more needed.
In the first part, Bob secretly went out to return to his old business, ignored the affairs of the family, and the family's situation was safe and sound. In the second part, when Helen went out to take on the job of Superman, Bob was caught off guard: He did not take care of his infancy children well, he could not help with his son's learning problems, and he could not communicate with his adolescent daughter. Compared with Bob who only had to hide facts from his family in the first part, Helen called from time to time to worry about the family situation, which was obviously much harder. But the movie still idealizes this kind of problem, although Bob is reluctant in his heart, because out of love, he also tries his best to take care of the child. In reality, we all know that it is extremely difficult. Especially when the father occasionally picks up his child from school or holds a parent’s meeting, he can be praised as a good father. It is even more difficult for the mother to take care of the child’s daily affairs. Imagine.
2. Male chauvinism fears the awakening of female consciousness
It is not difficult to find in the movie that every time Bob knows that Helen's superman work is done well, he will be very upset. Of course, there is also Bob's own ambition to assume heroic responsibility and his vanity to win public recognition. However, as a husband, Bob is not happy for his wife Helen's excellent work. This is the latent male chauvinism, the rising of women's social status brings them a sense of crisis. They don't want women to do well, and do better than men.
3. Women's dress "free"
In the first part, Helen, as a stretchy superwoman's costume, is red and white. Although there is a strong impact color like red, it is still white as a whole. From the sensory point of view, it is a "tradition" and "pure". "The female image. In the second part, the style is completely changed by 180 degrees, abandoning the previous white, and changing to a dark color combination of black and gray. The black leather boots also reveal the tights, and the curves of the character's body shape inevitably have some sexual hints. Speaking of women with sexy bodies in dark clothes, one would definitely think of Madonna in real life. Madonna is precisely a representative of feminism. In the real society, there is a phenomenon that whenever a girl is raped, someone will slander that "it must be in revealing clothing." However, in fact, what kind of dress is a woman’s own right and should not be an excuse for criminals. Just imagine, if all women have the same superpowers as Helen, do they have the courage to violate them no matter how they wear them?
4. Women can be on their own
Since this is the setting of a superhuman family, the final direction of the film must be the whole family. And the ingenuity of the screenwriter's design is also here. He did not make Helen incapable of superhuman work because he is a woman, and he needs her husband Bob to be dispatched to help Helen get out of trouble. He let the dispatched Bob also get into trouble, and let the children resolve the crisis, which is much better. If Bob would help Helen solve the difficulties as soon as he arrived, that would be too patriarchal. In addition, the last villain was also captured by Helen herself, showing that women can be independent.
All in all, "The Incredibles 2" did not disappoint, but also made people see the brighter places, and was more pleased with the awakening of female consciousness in it.
Of course, because it is a movie, it should be much more idealized, but doesn't the idealized story remind us to think about reality? What is the status of women in real life in the family? What is your position in society?
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