Moulin Rouge makes me angry.
Fully male narrative. It's another old-fashioned tale of "whore prostitutes" and "the virgin of sluts".
Satine, precisely because she is a beauty, and the brokenness of the beauty responds to the desire for destruction in people's hearts, the beauty is like this, so much suffering has been projected and so much pain has been carried. Completely exploited, completely shattered, and incapable of resisting, she lives a life of luxury and fading away in a fragile bubble.
All the men in her life coveted her, like those crazy men at the ball, the duke; they were all using her, using her as a money-making tool, looking for conquest and control in her and packaging it as a "Love" hero.
Does anyone love her? In this movie, there is none. The hero loves her? If you love her, will you humiliate her in public? In order to prove that he is favored by Satine, he will reveal his relationship with Satine in public, and anger the Duke who holds Satine's future? Does he know Satine? Is he trying to get to know her? Does he know Satine's dreams, and unease?
He fell in love with her only because of Satine's sparkle and attention, he just wanted to monopolize her, he just wanted to control her, and the most important reason why he fell in love with her was because Satine told him that she recognized him as a duke ! After this sentence, the male protagonist seems to have to be her, oh, really? Did the chaste male protagonist really fall in love with Satine? Of course not, this is just a man's bloody desire to win! Is there anything better than a woman favored by the superior who likes her little self? no!
And Satine was deceived by this poison packaged as "love". As an inspirational muse, a companion to let the male protagonist complete the sublimation of the work. Finally, in the curtain call of "in the name of love", at the cost of life, I have finished the journey of being exploited in this life.
And the movies 20 years ago, in the name of love, exploited women, projected their own wretched destructive desires and misogyny on women, regarded the female role as only a tool, and ignored the female subjectivity and female friendship. Talk about fucking everywhere.
And we grew up under this narrative, we longed for love, but the poisonous destruction in the name of "love" was being shown on the big and small screens. We subconsciously don't believe in friendship, or think it's extremely fragile, we're picky about the details of our appearance, because we grew up with no female role models on the mainstream screen, just beautiful girls, beautiful girls, beautiful women, and we think we are It has to be beautiful or it will "disappear" from the world.
I'm glad I saw this movie in my late 30's, she's gorgeous, dazzling, humorous, and Nicole is breathtaking, but even though it's so beautiful, what I'm watching is still fidgety, anger and disgust. I saw misogyny, saw the strangulation of female characters done by the director and screenwriter, and saw disrespect as a female audience.
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