The Indian film "Hot", released in 2016, was a topic devoted to exploring the plight of women at the bottom, but the film did not seem to have attracted much attention at the time, perhaps because it was related to the storyline and overall tone of the film. . The protagonists in the film are all women at the bottom of the society. They are housewives or dancers. The film is full of various unfair phenomena such as discrimination against women and domestic violence, and it is filled with a heavy atmosphere extended from the old times.
The film mainly revolves around the stories of three women's lives. Rani, a fifteen-year-old child married, never got the love of her husband after marriage. After her husband died early, she became a widow at a young age. Since then, she has been serving her mother-in-law, pulling her eldest son by herself, and living a life without the slightest emotion. Everyone thinks that she should be content with the status quo. La Qiao's life is a different story. Because she has been married for many years and has not been able to get pregnant, she is constantly beaten by her husband. She can only bear it silently. Bieqi Li worked as a dancer in a dance troupe, but she was engaged in prostitution in private. For this reason, she was ostracized by the villagers, and she was even prohibited from participating in any ceremonies.
desperate life cycle
Rani is a typical traditional Indian woman. She married at the age of fifteen. Her husband liked prostitution and domestic violence during her lifetime. After her husband died, she was a widow for fifteen years. She served her mother-in-law and her eldest son alone. I can suppress myself, and I don't have any consciousness to change the status quo. As she said, when my husband left me in the cold, my mother-in-law said everything would be fine. When my husband went out to prostitutes, my mother-in-law said everything It's going to be alright, when my husband was hit and killed by alcohol, she cried but still said everything was going to be okay, but it's been fifteen years and it's not going to be okay...
Rani watched the years go by and her youth disappeared. She was in debt for her son's marriage, helped him buy a bride, turned a blind eye to the future daughter-in-law's call for help at the village meeting, and turned a deaf ear to the girl's cry for help on the wedding night. My friend La Qiao's domestic violence experience remains silent.
But on the night of her son's wedding, her mother-in-law died suddenly, and Rani began to cry, her eyes of despair, in addition to her mourning for her mother-in-law, she was more of a grief for herself. All of these are the only expectations that "they" can hold in their minds after being constantly oppressed, and there will be no miracles at all... It seems that at this time Rani has seen through her entire life at a glance: lonely like a mother-in-law forever. And this year, she was only thirty-two years old, but she felt that her life was over.
Ridiculous and violent lie, La Qiao, her husband is also an alcoholic who loves domestic violence, plus many years of infertility, enduring her husband's beatings all the year round, La Qiao, who has no children, got work and compensation through excellent handwork, I wanted to use this Winning the favor of her husband, but still receiving her husband's beatings and scolding, in the eyes of men, a woman's independence is a heinous thing. In order to get pregnant, La Qiao had to borrow seeds from others, but she was still beaten by her husband after she became pregnant. Only then did she realize that her husband had blamed herself for the infertility over the years.
miserable trading tool
Bicki Li, a geisha, makes a living by erotic performances and picking up customers. She has a warm and fiery personality. She thinks she has surpassed the traditional patriarchal constraints, but she finds that in the end, she is only the object of lust for men, and she appears younger and more beautiful than her. After becoming a geisha, he realized that he had no choice. When he thought he had met true love, he found out that the other party was just another pimp.
All-round crushing of women at the bottom, making them completely reduced to a tool to serve men. The film is full of pictures of brutal treatment of women. A woman who was raped by the whole family in her husband's family fled back to her mother's house and was raped by her mother's house again. She was forcibly sent back to her husband's family. For her mother's family, whether it was life or death, she was no longer here.
Everything in the village is decided by the male elders, who maintain the status and authority of men in the village. Men can beat and scold their women at will, and endlessly drink alcohol, go to prostitutes, and find mistresses. Women should drop out of school and be sold when they reach a certain age. They can also return goods at will. The greatest value of their existence in the world is to satisfy men’s sexual desires, only for them to inherit the lineage, and they must have boys, because women are “shorter” than men, they will be criticized and discriminated against by others.
The women's representatives in the village asked to install TVs in the villages to enrich the lives of women, but the so-called male elders accused one by one of modern devices such as TVs and mobile phones, which allowed these women to have too much exposure to the outside world and learn badly. Bad, just focusing on grooming and free love, which are not allowed.
Under such male authority and social public opinion, women are not only subject to this kind of supervision and restraint, but can only become men's "punching bags" and "puppets", who can be beaten and scolded arbitrarily by them. Reading clubs become bad wives, and they are also cursed by everyone. and made fun of.
In such a barbaric and ignorant society, without the help of stronger external forces, it is impossible to conflict with this "thick wall", and the women here will always be treated savagely, without the autonomy of marriage, but only the property of the father, which may end up in the When you were fourteen or fifteen years old, they sold you for a good price, and their greatest survival value was just serving men.
When alien civilizations are completely destroyed
The representative of civilization in the village is a couple. The man is responsible for helping the women in the village to find some handmade textile businesses. He is hated by the villagers for making women more profitable than men. At the same time, his ability also stabs the poor self-esteem of the idle men. . For this, he was beaten by men in the village.
His wife, a college student with a higher education, worked as a teacher in a neighboring village, but she was criticized by the men in the village, who thought she was a witch who was spreading harmful things. At the end of the film, the female teacher cried that her husband's life and death were unknown and that he had to leave the village forever. This is the only couple who made them better, but they were hostile to the men in the whole village, and they could only escape from here in the end.
Like "the fire" that awakened the self-consciousness of three women, three completely different lives, whether they are married or not, have husbands, have children or not, they are all unfortunate. Since these traditional male-dominated ideologies have oppressed women in all aspects, Lani is a victim of child marriage, La Qiao is a typical representative of women being treated as reproductive machines, and Bickley embodies the traditional deprivation of women’s sexual rights. . In the film, the three female characters have a large number of private conversations between women, sincerity for friendship, desire for love, and yearning for good sex. Even if each of them faces different life pressures, they are still hot for the future. of hope.
Rani did not discriminate against them because of La Qiao's infertility and Bikili's infidelity. When Rani realized that the child bride Zhan Qi she had found for her son would end up just like her in the future, she resolutely let Zhan Qi go and let her go. She went to follow her own happiness, and at the same time sold the home that had trapped her for many years. Rani didn't necessarily realize what she was doing at this point, but she decided to start listening to her inner voice.
La Qiao wanted to be a mother. When she boldly borrowed seeds from a strange man, when the man did not beat and scold her like her husband, but treated her gently, she was moved to tears. This is the respect she has always longed for. When her husband learned that she was pregnant, La Qiao welcomed her husband's intensified fists and kicks. This time, La Qiao instinctively slapped her husband back, and she began to learn to resist.
Although she has a fiery personality and dares to love and hate, she still cherishes everyone around her who is kind to her when she is not liked by the mainstream society and is excluded. Even though she deals with different men every day, she knows very well that there are other things in life besides money and sex, and love is the happiness she pursues.
Their pursuit of life and their desire for love, in addition to the mutual support between women, also benefited from the help of other men. The only civilized couple in the village, Kishan is completely different from the local men. He is not only a local woman. They fought for their rights and helped them find handicraft jobs. And the "phone man" who has never appeared in the film also gave Rani spiritual help, and the help from the outside world is also one of the important reasons for women's awakening.
When La Qiao was abused by her husband again, luckily Rani arrived in time, and together with La Qiao, they defeated Manuki and burned her husband to death. As the camera turned, another fire outside At the Tokachi festival celebration, everyone was celebrating Rama's victory over the ten demon king Ravana. Rani, La Qiao, and Bickley chose to escape during this festival. It seems that they have broken through the shackles and ran for freedom, but at the end they face the choice of a fork in the road, which means that they will continue to face choices in the future. And challenges, but in which direction to go, it is up to you to decide.
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