Previous movies, current movies, and movies of various themes all like to use love as an embellishment, and even love as a redemption, even gunfight movies are no exception. I have to create some tenderness for the tyrannical male protagonist, and make the public believe that people who kill without blinking actually long for true love. What a wonderful world! It seems that the world is really full of love. The power of love is the most powerful, but it is actually a self-deception.
This movie is outstanding because it is very realistic. It is a female drama that has no intention of praising love at all, and even a bit of a mockery of love. The lines of the lawyers are ironic, and every sentence is ironic, admonishing those who are loved. Wake up a woman who has been brainwashed and dreams of walking the world by love. This is the real world. In the real world, love is just a legend. Most people have only desires, all kinds of desires.
Although there is no love in this film, it has other content. The reaction of the audience below when the framed woman was sent to the guillotine, sighing, or cheering, suddenly reminded me of Lu Xun’s novels, those Chinese who craned their necks to watch the hero beheaded, excited as if watching a play. In fact, it is not necessarily the root of China's inferiority. CHICAGO has shown us that this kind of mentality is in fact all over the world, but the abused protagonist that people like to watch in that era is not a hero, but a woman.
It is a woman, a woman, whether you are a musical actor or a criminal, you are actually on the stage, the content of your entertainment. Whether you dress up like a doll to accept your admiration, or hang yourself in the crowd, you are actually an entertaining actor. Women, especially beautiful women, petting you are entertainment, and seeing you in pain is also entertainment. Your birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, separation and reunion, are entertainment for the public, as long as the protagonist is a woman, then everything will bring a fragrant meaning, even your pain is like a performance to everyone, it seems to have the pleasure of SM. The director is obviously expressing deeper content through this theme, because this is CHICAGO, because the protagonist is a woman, so there are so many spectators. If the person sent to the gallows was a man, the director would not be able to shoot a curious audience and cheer in their hearts. The director is actually sarcastic, isn't it?
ROXY finally understood that she used to think she had conquered the public, but in the final analysis she was a doll of the public. The public's mentality of seeing her cleverly smiling is actually similar to the mentality of watching the female criminal hang on the gallows. Everything is nothing more than entertainment. Entertainment, that's it. It is as if the king is bored with the concubine after being favored, looking for a new body and new excitement. ROXY will never escape the fate of the doll. This is the eternal destiny of women, the destined destiny of women who survive by the favor of others, and the destiny of most actresses.
This is why I feel that this film has a feminist taste. But the main thrust of this film does not seem to be an accusation, it is not a lamenting women's liberation film, and the heroine is not an angel. Everything she did was out of desire. She killed people, enjoyed her reputation, and escaped legal sanctions. Therefore, the world is unfair, but what else do you want?
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