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Cate Blanchett finally has a voice!
In a recent interview with CNN, Cate Blanchett talked about affirmative movements such as #MeToo in Hollywood and her collaboration with Woody Allen, expressing her views on sexual assault and sexism in Hollywood.
"Social media is a good platform to make people aware of many social issues, but social media is not about judges and juries," she said. Director Woody Allen's alleged sexual assault against his adopted daughter after the rise of #MeToo Once again mentioned by the public, his latest film "A Rainy Day in New York" could not be released in cinemas.
Cate Blanchett, one of Hollywood's most prestigious actors who also won an Oscar for her role in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine", came out to give her unbiased personal opinion, how much Let the "Down with Woody Allen" trend that started at the end of last year start to stop.
"Those are Woody Allen's own family affairs. It's a painful and very complicated situation. I hope they can solve it on their own. Things have been decided back then, and I personally believe in the judicial system, but if this case needs to be reopened I fully support the investigation."
Timothy Chalamet, Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, Ellen Page and other actors publicly express their regret for working with Woody Allen, which makes Woody Allen Sexual assault cases of that year have regained public attention. (The verdict that year was to dismiss the charge of molesting Dylan, the court's conclusion "evidence inconclusive")
The actress Ellen Page is particularly notable among those who have publicly sided with Woody Allen.
Ellen Page has been an active affirmative action participant.
Outside of the movie, she bravely exposed the director who had sexually harassed her, publicly came out and married her girlfriend, and sued the studio for "digital nudity" of her image...
And she herself has participated in a number of films that actively promote women's rights, and was nominated for an Oscar.
Today I want to introduce another work that reflects the abuse of young girls starring Ellen Page. This is a movie that makes people feel angry and helpless, and it makes people fall into deep thinking about "how evil human nature is".
An American Country Crime Director | Starring Tommy O'Have | Ellen Page / Halle MacFarlane / Katherine Keener / James Franco Genre | Drama / Crime Release Date | 2007-01-19
"Sin in the American Pastoral" is based on a true case in Indianapolis in 1966.
The girl Sylvia (Ellen Page) and her younger sister (Haley McFarland) are fostered by the single mother of seven, Gertrude Banitzevs, due to their busy parenting. Key (Catherine Keener played by Catherine Keener) lives temporarily at home.
The ruthless and cold-blooded Gertrude vented all the unhappiness in life on Sylvia, not only that, she also encouraged her children, and even let Sylvia's own sister torture Sylvia together.
Other children in the town also began to take part in this brutal abuse, she was dehydrated and starved, she was drawn on a belt, burned with a cigarette butt, stuffed with a Coke bottle, beaten, abused, branded, cut, Thin and thin, she became the heroine of their deformed circus, locked up in a dark room for people to joke about and admire. This sin is unresolved.
Ellen Page, 20, impressed the audience with his acting skills. In the camera, she is so fragile, helpless and thin that it is heartbreaking.
The first point of the movie is the evil of the weak. There is a Chinese saying: Poor people must have something to hate. The weak in life, the more cowardly, the more timid, and sometimes the more ferocious. Atrocities are often the perversion of the weak against the weaker. Do evil recklessly, but always find excuses and reasons for yourself in the humble heart.
Many news at home and abroad in recent years have confirmed this. Those who are frustrated in life, who take revenge on society, do not seek out the strong who brought disaster to him, but choose to abuse children in schools and kindergartens. There is also the evil deed of igniting the bus, bringing his own disaster to the back of ordinary citizens who are running for life and have many disappointments.
In this case, Gertrude, represented by the frustrated person in life, is cowardly, incompetent, timid, inferior and jealous. Almost all miserable women's misfortunes and indisputable appearances appear in her - she got married at an early pregnancy, and then her husband ran away. Not only did she have no job, she was ill, and she had to support seven children. To make matters worse, she also raised a young concubine, a little gangster who only knew how to get cheap with her but did nothing, just to get a little light in her life.
So when she learned that her eldest daughter was also pregnant out of wedlock like herself, she completely collapsed. This vulnerability and anger caused her to take deep anger at Sylvia, an outsider who first learned of her daughter's pregnancy.
Gertrude is a typical vulnerable high self-esteem person. Her good evaluation of herself and her current life is based on the process of comparing with others. In this case, this type of personality distorts any information that threatens self-worth and competence, is extremely aggressive, and the reason for persecuting Sylvia is to pull her from "high" so that she appears to be the same as herself Equality, or far inferior to oneself, strikes a balance of failure.
In life, countless people living in the middle and lower classes of society can easily find their own value. Surviving under such a strong self-denial will usually take actions to prove one's own strength, bully beings weaker than oneself, and do all kinds of brutal and extreme actions; or completely ignore life and self-destruct.
Another highlight of the film is that children are evil. Cognitive genetics regard children's evildoing as the source of "natural evil". There is a sentence in "Ten Deadly Sins": There is an iceberg of indifference and cruelty in human nature. Many movies have responded to this theme, such as "Ugly", "Confession", "Elephant" and so on.
The reality is even crueler than the movie. There have been news reports that four minors in Hebei tricked the victim Zhang to the rooftop of the community building in the name of playing poker to beat him, and then strangled Zhang to death and burned his body. 2-year-old James in Liverpool, England, was shopping with his mother when he was kidnapped by two 10-year-old boys who skipped school. They smeared paint on James' face, ripped off his shoes and trousers, threw stones at him, kicked him, and let him He swallowed the battery and ended up placing little James' body on the rails and covering his head with a slate. There are countless such news.
Objectively speaking, human nature has both good and evil, and it is the environment that dictates children's actions for good and evil. This involves the third major point of the movie, the banal evil - the evil of conformity. Collective mistakes are less costly than individual mistakes. Under the vicious leadership of the female protagonist, the lie of the elder sister and the violence of the younger brother, a large number of people poured into the basement in the film, watching this terrible scene play out like a comedy show, everyone is excited to try to destroy a life.
What's even more chilling is that even the victim's biological sister and the bespectacled fat brother who likes the victim are also involved. No one was spared.
In the book "The Rabble," he writes: "Among heterogeneous groups, there will be mania with the total loss of responsibility. Realizing that there will be no punishment—and the greater the number, the more certain it is—and because The momentary sense of power created by the multitude of people causes the group to express emotions and actions that are impossible for isolated individuals. In the midst of the group, fools, incompetent and envious people, in order to get rid of their feelings of inferiority and incompetence, You will feel a cruel, short-lived but enormous power."
Gertrude and the children committed such horrific and unforgivable atrocities. Although she is also the saddest vulnerable group in this society. After watching the movie, all we have is a deep sense of powerlessness. However, the weak are not a fig leaf for atrocities, and the brutality of the weak cannot be attributed to human nature. After all, not all the weak choose to be brutal, and individuals must be responsible for their sinful behaviors.
△The actor Gertrude Ellen Page who was tried exudes a rebellious temperament from his bones. In fact, I vaguely hope that Sylvia, played by her, will stand up against injustice and darkness. Too bad she didn't. This is heartbreaking, but this is the reality of many innocent victims in reality. There is no divine turn, no protagonist halo. In the face of darkness, we can't bury our heads in the sand forever like ostriches and enjoy life like an ivory tower. We need to be sensitive and always brave. · THE END · This is the 589th article of "The End", Carnival.
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