India is the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women, worse than Somalia. It is also listed in the "Least Inhabited Areas for Women" by the lonely planet travel guide. Women who have knowledge or study here will be treated differently or even excluded. People think that "a woman's incompetence is virtue". Therefore, as an intellectual woman, A is often not welcomed by the men here, and the husband who married A is "lessons" by the hairy boy, including Lani's son, and even was beaten to the hospital once.
Rani has been a widow for many years and has a son who is as violent as her husband. She is always violent towards her daughter-in-law. Sometimes Rani can't stand it and stop her. But the relationship with his son was difficult to describe, and in the end his son ran away from home in dissatisfaction. The son's dissatisfaction was that his mother had found a wife with short hair for himself. Under the feudal ideology, girls were not allowed to have short hair. But the bride cut her hair short in order to prevent this marriage and be with her beloved, but the reality did not come as she wished, and the wedding went ahead as scheduled.
But in the end, Rani chose to let the child bride go and gave her a sum of money to keep her with her beloved. Maybe it's because I can't be happy, so I want other women to be happy. This scene is touching. How valuable is it to have such awareness under the imprisoned thoughts.
After La Qiao got married, she was never pregnant, so she was considered incapable of getting pregnant. Her alcoholic husband also beat and kicked her. Most of the men here are so irritable, and the status of women is extremely low. In order to test whether she is really infertile, with the help of her sisters, La Qiao had sex with other men and became pregnant, which made her very happy. I thought my husband would be as happy as me when he found out, but he was beaten again. It turned out that he was the one who couldn't bear children. Therefore, after being found to be stealing a man, La Qiao will not have a good life, and there will be new scars on her body from time to time.
As their friend, Beachley is the head of the dance troupe. It looks beautiful, but endures the world's scolding, and even her best friend Rani did not welcome her when she appeared to congratulate her friends on her son's wedding day. Men also just regard her as a certain kind of thing. After she was replaced by a newcomer on the stage, she always liked her colleagues to make bold confessions. But in Bickley's eyes, this pimp just wanted to make himself an important source of goods for him.
Everyone has their own concerns and suffers from misery. At this time, Bieqi Li will drive the big motorcycle in the dance group and take them to the lake far away from the village to find peace and freedom. But returning to the village is business as usual. If you don't leave, there is no difference between death and life is meaningless.
After a fire, the three sisters fled the diabolical village. The fire started when La Qiao accidentally overturned the oil lamp when she was beaten by her husband. After La Qiao escaped, the fire quickly engulfed the dilapidated house, and her husband disappeared in the fire. As a result, they once again ride on the big motorcycle of the dance troupe, but this time, they are gone forever.
A happy ending is a vision of a cruel reality, and as cruel as the reality is, the ending is as beautiful as it is. Under such exploitation, oppression and bullying, the three women have not lost their enthusiasm for life and pursuit of freedom. Perhaps this phenomenon is still very common in India, but through film, TV, books, etc., we can pay more attention to women, and will it bring them closer to beauty?
Many people reflect on why there is no such film in China, and some areas in China are also so backward, both in thought and life. Whatever the reason, I hope those who feel it have some respect for women. Those who say, "Now China is overly promoting feminism and gender equality, and the status of men is starting to become lower..." just proves that gender equality is still far from enough!
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