Films with female vision are well-made, with obvious noise, high contrast and high saturation, overall dark, heavy makeup, blue-green tones. A friend jokingly called me Wong Kar-wai’s Feel. The overall narrative is stable, conflicts come as scheduled, and the rhythm is quite fast. Several of the subjective vision shots are psychedelic and tense. The two-line narrative will not distract the audience, and each small unit will be fully explained.
As a female visual film, I understand its facial expression of male images. However, the treatment of twin flowers in the plot is clichéd. The character setting with excessive contrast in itself, coupled with the plot intentionally and expressly implying the meaning of "family", reveals that this film is mainly a family ethics film, and it is not against " Patriarchy” is “family patriarchy”.
After her elder sister came back, her father's lies and violence refused to contact the door, and she also severed her contact with her sister. The disillusionment of the family as an ideal haven was in an instant. Later, when there was a potential chance to meet, he no longer recognized the "family" thing. In the letter, he mentioned the words "new fetters" and "new family", and even inherited another person's name in the end. The identity changed on the level of "existence", which made it abandon the past and adopt a new existence, so The standing of the tombstone is quite reasonable. And all of this revolves around "missing" and "family". The meaning of sisterhood independence is driven by "family emotions". This family is composed of a son, an old woman who sustains each other, and a "sister in memory".
The younger sister was suspected of being arranged to marry the supplier’s son. During the wedding, she was very unskilled in making a kiss. After that, there was a couple life day after day, and my sister became a full-time woman. It is dangerous for full-time women to have ideals in traditional concepts, so the following plot is as expected, contradictions arise at the historic moment, and the family, lies, and dreams are constantly swaying. The sudden arrival of a "bad news" pushed the contradiction to a climax, and after the burial passed, the "invisible life" that truly responded to the topic began.
It is not difficult to see that lies and family are the important elements of this film, although there are a lot of "unfriendly to women" scenes in the film, such as direct sexism, the passport issue of single mothers, and the sale of flesh in exchange for resources. These details show that the status of women in that era is not high, but it has little connection with the story line of our protagonist's "oppression-resistance". The “patriarchy” in the family was the culprit that caused the two tragedies. It is not difficult to imagine that even if the role of the younger sister is changed to a boy, it will be established to a certain extent. A tragic marriage, a reproductive right that cannot be chosen by oneself (of course) Women are more oppressed), forced to give up dreams due to reality, etc.; while the role of the sister is to "sever the relationship" type of parent-child conflict, set up another door, cannot reconcile with family members, abandon the identity of "bringing blood", etc., These left-to-left men are also established. Of course, the use of female characters, coupled with some discrimination that did exist back then, increased the tension of the drama.
But here I will ask a question: Is this film really discussing feminism? In this film, we do see the injustice and the status of women in those years, and indeed, the authority of family patriarchy is also part of the gender injustice discussed by feminism. But the focus of the film is on the family, and it guides the audience to think about what is "family", is it true mutual support between people, or the kind of "patriarchal" control? This is a bit like we are discussing the issue of the impact of the original family on children, rather than discussing the injustices faced by women in the last century in a broader and larger scale. So at the end, I think it’s inappropriate to pull this film into feminism (maybe the original is). This film is more about the eradication of human nature under the control of "patriarchy", which is under the control of personal power. In the end, the plot of "far in the sky, close in front" also confirmed this cruelty.
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