Lifestyle determines life attitude-"The Story of the Second Wife"

Nakia 2022-01-22 08:03:14

This is the second film I watched by Tetsuya Nakajima. After watching "The Life of the Disgusted Pine Nuts" two years ago, I was deeply moved by its witty narrative and delicate female emotions, and then I came to see his This film debut is still attracted again by its smooth and interesting narrative and gorgeous dazzling pictures. When a story that combines exquisiteness and fun with the emotional growth of a beautiful girl, it is like Taozi meets strawberries, youthful and seductive.

Under our socialist value system, the education we have received since childhood is that we should be arduous and simple, and all the pursuit of material wealth is worthy of contempt. The more a person seeks external material, the more his heart will become. It is emptiness and depravity, and moral corruption. This traditional narrative mode has been popular in Chinese films in the 1930s and 1940s. It is particularly evident in old citizen films such as "The Classic of Daughters" and "Guofeng", and it is capitalist. Shanghai, where it gathers in the center, is even more portrayed as a place where mists are smoky and enticing women from good families to degenerate and licentious. And the materialistic education we have received since childhood tells us that matter determines consciousness, and the pursuit of matter is spurned. After we have pursued abundance of matter, we find that our spirit is so weak, so when When we went to find out what made us so at a loss, we discovered that the acquisition of spiritual power in this world was originally mysterious and disorderly. However, when we have the ability to discriminate, we still have the right to choose. I just don’t know. When we make a choice, it may still be rooted in the us that our previous lives have shaped. We have never been ourselves. This is a very confusing thing. It clearly exists, but it is not. I don't understand what I am.

However, I believe that more often, the abundance of material can help us find the value of our own existence, especially when those materials become our way of life, fall into a delicate and complicated life mood, and the meticulousness of life. Sculpting can make us temporarily forget the absurdity and numbness of survival. The antinomy of material and spirit in the sense of mankind is actually not applicable to individuals, just as Taozi found a beautiful dress and dressed herself like a rag doll. From then on, she You have found the meaning of your own life. In fact, almost all the meaning of life is placed on the material. Therefore, if you keep thinking about the meaning of life, you will often find no way out, but only indulge in a certain kind of concrete. It’s only when you’re living a way of life that you can truly understand what you want.

So when Taozi was wearing a dress, she resolutely played the role of a self-doll girl. In her thoughts, "the weaker the girl, the more valuable it is. This is the aesthetics of Rococo. Compared to being protected, she feels herself The strongest women who are more suitable to protect others are the most disgusting, the most disgusting, the most bittersweet and the accumulation of life experience, the worst." Yes, women are weak because we are born with compassion, can't we just be sad? We are vain, because we are born with emptiness, can't we be just as vain, as Al Pacino in the end of "The Devil's Advocate" said: "Vanity, my favorite original sin."

In my opinion, Taozi is a charming A weak and independent girl, instead of losing the feminine qualities of a woman and going straight to the torrent of struggle against patriarchy, the iron lady who has struggled so badly and can't die, she is more beautiful and moving, compared to being gentle and honest and peaceful but has lost her independence. A pure lady whose personality becomes a male vassal, she has her own set of ideas, and in the film, she seems to avoid her love intentionally and isolate her mind from love. Perhaps all women will lose their minds in the face of love. Becoming a doll at the mercy of others is particularly shocking in Nakajima Tetsuya's next film "The Life of the Disgusted Pine". Momoko's way may be to make herself her own doll before she becomes someone else's doll.

However, when her beautiful dress was stained with the blood of a friend, and when she was thrown into a pool of dirty water, and her outfit no longer had any sense of beauty, the sense of resistance hidden in her heart was lost. Thoroughly arouse, just like a witch, when you put on a special agent’s clothes and get on a motorcycle to become a runaway, you may forget that you used to be so solemn, in fact, it doesn’t really matter which one you are real and true. It all depends on what kind of life you choose to live, and it all depends on the choices you make so catering to your ideas. Therefore, we often find that when we are driven to a certain position by life, we can actually do as well as others, but we never wanted to do this before. Therefore, you are still guarding a falsehood. Of yourself, and then lead a self-righteous life?

So "choose life, choose work, choose occupation, choose family, choose a fucking big TV." This is a very enviable happy life.

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Kamikaze Girls quotes

  • Momoko Ryugasaki: [Repeated line] She spat!

  • Ichigo Shirayuri: What's aristocratic about this forest?