Is the woman studying in danger?

The French film "The Elegance of Hedgehog" tells a story between a thinking girl, a concierge who loves to read, and a Japanese man. While watching this movie, I kept thinking of two topics I saw in the magazine recently, one is that women who read books are dangerous, and the other is that women who write are dangerous. So I watched this movie very sadly. As a Chinese woman, if you happen to account for both, then you will often hear the lesson "Women's ignorance is virtue." "Women read too many books, men dare not ask for them." etc. Etc. So we sometimes can't help but think, maybe this is just the idea that our place is like this, and other places won't think of us like this. But after watching "The Elegance of Hedgehog". You will understand that the world is so big that some things don’t make much difference. Even if freedom, equality, fraternity, reading and cleverness are like France, they are considered to be something that should be in line with status and age. It's like 12-year-old Baroma. Adults don't like such a child because she is too smart and always likes to tell the truth and ask questions that adults want to avoid. If her talent is to play a musical instrument, even somersaults are better. But her genius is thinking. So much so that her neurotic mother even wanted to send her to a psychiatrist to check if there was nothing wrong with her brain. To myself, talking to the tree nervously all day long, taking a lot of anti-depressant drugs but not paying attention at all. And Baroma also didn't like this grown-up's world either. She said she didn't want to live in a glass fish tank, so she decided to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. Until one day, she met the porter Hani.

Compared to the twelve-year-old Baromar with a sharp edge, the fifty-year-old Honey has obviously been taught how to live a safe life. In the eyes of the noble ladies and gentlemen in the mansion, she was a non-existent person, and no one would even recognize her face except for being labelled as a concierge. But in her own world, she built a study room for herself. She would drink black tea and dark chocolate while reading Tanizaki Junichiro's books. Secretly in the world of great books, let your soul fly freely. Of course, all of this was hidden by her in a place where people couldn't see it. It was a bit sad to see her carefully disguised as an illiterate and vulgar woman. Why is it such a shame for a female porter to study? But maybe, this is the best life she can get. Of course, in the eyes of the ladies and gentlemen, why doesn’t a female concierge live like other female concierges? A few children, do housework and serve their husbands, this is what the concierge should do. Why do you have to read "Anna Karenina"? Hani has a deep insight into people's thinking, so she said, "People will feel scared when they see a female porter reading, and think they will cause trouble." Sometimes this world is like this. Originally, you think we read and write. It's a very quiet personal life, and it doesn't disrupt other people's lives like a food stall, playing music with the loudest voice, but still has to be pointed and poked by others. In fact, because there are too many people in this world, they don't even know who you are as a person, but they feel that they have the right to ask you to live in your fish tank in accordance with your identity. And those who refuse to live in a fish tank and do not perform their duties conscientiously to play their assigned identities are destined to become aliens. When you stay in your fish tank depressed, no one cares about your depression, but once you want to jump out, you go too far and you cross the line. In fact, people with this kind of thinking are in any class and country. So after seeing this movie, some people think that this movie, this concierge is too much. Because reading, eating dark chocolate and drinking tea is not part of the concierge. You see, this is the secular view. I think Hani must have gone through too much ridicule and suspicion. That's why I decided to dig myself a hole to the outside of the world. The hole was finally discovered by two people, one was Baroma and the other was Mr. Ozu, a newly moved resident.

Love doesn’t matter. If the story makes Mr. Ozu gradually start to be friends with Hani, it’s not because he wants to construct a fairy tale about Prince Charming saving the princess, but because he wants to leave a little bit of hope for those who read the story—maybe In this world, there are still people who do not treat you as a porter, but treat you as an individual. At the end of the movie, Baroma renewed her decision to live. We have reason to believe that in the future, she will likely grow into a "dangerous" woman who reads and writes in the eyes of the world, but she will choose bravely. Be herself. As for Mrs. Honey, Virginia Woolf said that all women want to read and write are a fixed income and a room of their own. Both of these, Honey, who is a concierge, relies on it. I did it with my own labor and thrifty life. She gave her the meaning of life, not dependent on anyone, which is also a kind of happiness. And what I want to say is that she is just an ordinary female concierge who has read a lot of books. She has surpassed her life, has been kind throughout her life, and has never hurt anyone.

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