Revisiting childhood classics has become a must-have act to accomplish "growing up." Putting "The Sound of Music" in different contexts of the times can draw two completely opposite conclusions, "progressive" and "conservative".
Looking back on "The Sound of Music" today, I feel that the gender roles, family structure, and depiction of the relationship between men and women are a bit outdated. For example, it says that girls need the guidance of men, that women belong to a certain man after they get married, and even the pairing of male big and female small (in fact, in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States, this kind of male is more than a dozen years older than female in film and television dramas). The 20-year-old pairing is likely to reflect the social status quo in the United States), and the embrace of the traditional family structure is very old-fashioned.
But if you saw this film fifty years ago, it was trendy at the time. In the United States in the 1960s, the second round of women's liberation and sexual liberation began. Everyone began to think and question about the relationship between men and women, the model of the family, and whether marriage and love should be a trinity. The female image portrayed in "The Sound of Music" was very popular with the audience at that time.
On the one hand, Julie Andrews has short hair, loves singing, and embraces freedom, which is in line with the needs of new women, and when she arrives at the Colonel's house, she brings warmth and joy to the family, perfectly acting as a wife and mother. Expectations of traditional female characters. And in the process of getting along with the colonel, she has the stubbornness of sticking to the principle and not giving in an inch, which makes many women who pursue equal relations and who are eager to break through the original model of husband leading wives highly respected.
It does not challenge the public order and good customs of society in the general direction, and tentatively conforms to the social trend in the specific details. It is difficult to say whether this is a shrewd conservative or a compromised progress. Just like gay marriage, on the one hand, it is sexual A few Pingquan have taken a step forward and, on the one hand, have strengthened and contributed to traditional marriage/family values.
One of the more interesting things about this movie is the role of nanny/tutor. From the literary tradition, female governesses have always been short of stories, and the Sound of Music and Jane Eyre are not without similarities. But from another point of view, the duties of the American nanny and the British classical tutor are different. In fact, in the 1960s, due to changes in the family structure and the relationship between husband and wife, the pattern of parent-child relationship was also quietly changing. Many parents began to consciously think about whether their way of educating their children was correct and healthy, while nanny/tutor, It is the buffer zone of the parent-child relationship. At that time, there was a large influx of immigrants in the United States, and many foreign workers served as family nanny.
In fact, it is also very interesting to look at the responsibilities of the nanny in the family at different times in various places and everyone's expectations and requirements for the nanny. It can reflect many social phenomena and social changes. Well, I will read "Transnational Cinderella" It is also transnational labor, family politics, gender relations, and intertwined with various issues of class and ethnicity.
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