The tragedy of women, the birth of a consumer product

Enos 2022-03-21 09:01:40

If this Breakfast at Tiffany's heroine wasn't Hepburn, if this movie wasn't made in 1961 but made now, I'm sure there are a lot of people who would give a three-star rating or less, and yell: 'Damn it' .

It's true that the film itself isn't anything to write home about, but on the same night, after watching it as a distraction, I flipped through a few pages of The Second Sex of Beauvoir, and I had some ideas and a desire to record.

The Hepburn in the film somewhat reminds me of my former girlfriend:

1. Life is messy but can dress up like a princess when she goes out (great attention to her appearance).

2. Very persistent to an unrealistic idea (marry a rich man, but this does not affect having a man you really love occupying your heart).

3. Unpredictable behavior for men. Naughty and cute as a pixie when happy (propose to our handsome writers to spend a day doing something that has never been done before. Often this happens suddenly and for no apparent reason, and men are able to escape from the tedious Temporary relief from the real world, where you can have a pleasant experience like a child's play).

After being happy, the man still thinks about the wonderful time that happened yesterday, but our Hepburn didn't send breakfast with love as expected, but disappeared. She remembered that she should marry a rich man, and began to immerse herself in her own world. It should be said that she never jumped out of the world she imagined, and borrowed a sentence from another film review: "A woman as beautiful as her has no more than ten brain cells." So her thinking is jumping, you can't guess it What will she do in the next moment.

Men try to understand women's behavior in their own way, but unfortunately the two never think the same way in the same way. What do you think the other person is thinking, when in fact the other person is not thinking anything.

However, it is no wonder that women, Beauvoir said: women are not born, they are formed the day after tomorrow. Girls are more cared for by their parents than boys when they are young, and they are under careful protection; while boys are refused to stay with their mothers, refuse to act like a spoiled child, and are taught to face everything as strong as a little man.

In this way the boy is taught to be like a man, and the girl is taught to be like a woman, learning from her mother what it takes to be a woman: pay attention to how you look and dress yourself up to please yourself. I like and feel the inferior position of women to men from my father. If a girl behaves like a boy, she will be reprimanded by her parents. Even if her parents don't respond, she will feel that people around her look at her differently, and when she behaves like a well-behaved girl, she will Got a thumbs up. So girls become women under such long-term discipline, while boys grow up bumpy in constant setbacks and competition.

This phenomenon has been developed to the extreme in today's society. Men are required to have a career and a sense of responsibility. Parents often educate their sons at home: Are you afraid that you won't be able to marry a wife when you have money? Women, on the other hand, pay more and more attention to their appearance under such a deformed viewpoint, hoping to obtain happiness through marriage. This asymmetry ultimately makes women a consumer product.

Just like the cat without a name in the film, it doesn't know who it is, it only knows to follow its owner, but when she abandoned it, even if she was not so willing, she had to accept her fate. You can't dictate your own destiny because it's just a consumer product.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, some people see it as a comedy story, while others see it as a complete tragedy. No matter how the times change, the unequal relationship between men and women has never changed.

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  • Macey 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    The songs are nice, the costumes are top-notch, and the theme is good. If I put it now, I might just call it a bad movie.

  • Lane 2022-01-27 08:07:01

    In fact, the only classic is Hepburn's appearance, which has been imitated by later actresses for half a century, and it is estimated that it will be endlessly imitated for several more centuries.

Breakfast at Tiffany's quotes

  • Holly Golightly: Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

  • Holly Golightly: It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.