story of man and self takes place in the American West during the development period. Not long after the film starts, the heroine, (an ordinary-looking old leftover girl, but she is Swank! If I were, I would marry her) invites a man for dinner, and hopes to marry him. But she was rejected. She said: I have good physical strength, I can work, I can still have children...
The initial setting of the film is that women are not as good as men. This cannot be said to be gender discrimination, but more of a difference in status caused by differences in social division of labor. Humans entered the patriarchal society because the role of male labor ability surpassed female fertility, and women's body structure was indeed not as suitable for hunting and other heavy work as men. Several crazy women in the film show the vulnerable side of women. The labor is already quite hard, and conquering the west is not something ordinary people can do. The men shown on the screen are all struggling to survive, and the "fragile" women are even more difficult. The three women were driven mad by life in the West, so perhaps the quiet and peacefulness of the monastery was the place for them.
Swank stood out among a group of girls in a small western town, and she was more gritty, or rather, more manly, than the other women. Swank's own tough temperament adds a lot to the character. It's no wonder that men are reluctant to marry her back home, after all, who would want to marry a woman like a man. How much courage and strength does a 30-year-old girl need to live alone in the west!
No man was willing to take on the task of escorting the mad woman, so Swank, who failed to propose a marriage, took on the heavy responsibility, indicating that the heroine completely gave up her female identity and "transformed" into a man. Only the hard side of a man can give her the ability to cross the desert and lead mad women to the hotbed of human society. If she fails to meet the male protagonist, no matter whether the mission succeeds or fails, she is a person who has given up her gender. Even if she dies, she "leaves with dignity", but she does not meet
until she meets the male protagonist. With men in this action group, the heroine needs less masculinity. The heroine's lust for men gradually reveals her feminine side. As the heroine's masculinity fades, the male lead gradually plays a leading role in the team. When she decided to have sex with the male protagonist, she also chose the feminine side that was naturally given to her and became a woman completely. The pressures and difficulties of life in the west are all raging because of the lack of her masculine side. Therefore, as a woman, in the barren west, she can only die with the wind.
Man and nature
man at the same time compete with the West, and he got a lot of torture. This state of non-human life is focused on the male protagonist. In the savage world of the jungle, robbery is reasonable, so the rogue lives in someone else's empty house; and the hero burns down the hotel, in addition to showing that the hero is influenced by the heroine and has a desire to protect a few crazy women. It is also his display of the barbaric side of a westerner, and the film also shows the picture of people being burned without hesitation.
The river in the film is an important tool, one side is barbaric and the other side is civilization. When the male protagonist arrived in a civilized town, he put on new clothes, took care of his beard and hair, became civilized, and loved the little girl played by Hailee Steinfeld like a father. Change the nature of greed and arrogance. But when they go away by boat, the men on the boat begin to reveal their nature again. "The other side of the river" is to humans what the full moon is to werewolves, and the night of the full moon is the time of transformation. As soon as humans left the land of civilization, they turned back into animals. We think how important civilization is. In fact, animals are the nature. In nature, the light of human civilization is actually very weak.
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