A and B can refer to many social groups. But here, A in my eyes is a man and B is a woman. B1 are ladies and ladies who carry wealth, fame and even chastity, B2 are ordinary women with husbands and sons, and life rules, and B3 are "crazy women" marginalized by mainstream culture. The madness of these women is that they did not abide by the rules of life set by the men for them, deviated from the traditions, and embarked on a turbulent journey. In fact, it is not men who hate these people most, but the decent women of high status, because the alliance between them and men that they have worked so hard to maintain is likely to be broken by this group of crazy women who have nothing. The men’s attitude towards these mad women is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, they are eager to enjoy the latter’s pitiful eyes, admiring gaze, tender body and wild amorous feelings, and on the other hand they are afraid that these insidious and greedy desperadoes will cause trouble to the upper body. , Destroying his homeland and even himself. Therefore, after enjoying the flattery and body of mad women, men are more willing to let serious women kill them on the battlefield and maintain the stability and harmony of their rule. They can't wait to order individual mad women on the cross and whip their bodies for public display. The biggest nightmare of men is that these mad women broke through the defense line that good women defended to the death and hit their own territory. Because he knew they had nothing, and was ready to go desperately at any time. And desperate people are really difficult to deal with.
In "Orphan", this nightmare becomes a reality. This mad woman is the embodiment of multiple disadvantaged groups. She is a woman, a madman, a child, an immigrant or even an orphan (although she is an orphan and a child in disguise, but she is indeed restricted by this status in life). If such a marginalized person has no scheming and is not vicious enough, then all that awaits her is the desperate life of loneliness and death in a lunatic asylum. So she fought, she frantically cleared all the obstacles between her and what she wanted, even if it required her to kill and set fire. She has never had any real power to fight against those who control her life. She is only beautiful, only treacherous, only clever tongue, and cruel, to become a femme fatale who spits out venom and manipulates men to fight against women. This war is always between women until the critical moment. These two people who belong to the B group will never be soft when attacking each other, but they can always turn a blind eye to A's mistakes and ugliness. The actor is a hypocritical betrayer, but this is not obvious in the movie. Because this is a film shot from the eyes of a man, it reflects the extreme fear of men (the male protagonist in the film is finally cruelly stabbed to death), and it is extremely dedicated to portray a female "demon" (orphan) and a female "Warriors" (mothers) are used to educate the majority of women (although this is not the purpose of this film, it is clear that this film is based on traditional values). However, as shown in the movie, the victory or defeat of the two women in the war depends to a large extent on the men. When a man is on the side of the "devil", even the crying pleading of the mother is reduced to being judged as a "drunkard". Why is the mother completely controlled by the father and the psychologist here? The key is that she had neglected her duty because of alcoholism and almost drowned her deaf girl. And why does she drink alcohol? The reason was her miscarriage. Both of these events marked her failure in the role of "mother". In a patriarchal society, the weight of the two roles of wife and mother is far greater than the weight of a woman’s self, and it is also the primary criterion for measuring a woman’s success. So when she neglected her duty in this role, the blame for her came not only from others (including her husband, her mother-in-law and her psychologist, two of whom were women), but also from herself. She can't forgive herself, she is particularly lacking in self-confidence. She even felt that she was unqualified to be a wife, so she couldn't have sex with her husband at the beginning, and she also tolerated her husband's messing around outside. Although she cannot be blamed at all for the miscarriage. However, because of this series of negligence, her position was shaken. This kind of vacillation comes from her She did not fully play the role that society gave to a woman, and she was also a victim of patriarchal social ideology. In a sense, she and the orphan belong to Group B, but they are destined to start a bloody battle, which is determined by their social status. In the process of watching the film, we may completely stand from the standpoint of men and see how a fearsome female devil can pick and divorce among the kind people and cause disasters. But if you broaden your horizons and look at the film’s perspective and portrayal methods, you will find that the women who are really separated are the demonized and heroized women, and those who use strategy to control others are the group of kings who come to the world and write history. Men. Of course, this trick has a long history and is notorious in all feminist works.
For most people in the weak B3 group, they simply cannot fight for their own destiny. That's why there are many ghost movies that allow the vulnerable people who died before they die to carry out the recovery in the form of ghosts, and bring justice to them. This is the obscenity of the weak and the instinctive cry of the voice of justice in people's souls. Therefore, many ghosts in the movie are more flesh-and-blood than human beings, and they are sentimental and righteous. Compared with them, wicked people in reality are thousands of times ugly. The devil in "Orphan" is not a ghost, but it is much more terrifying than a ghost. Because she harbors the resentment that the disadvantaged group has nowhere to vent and the hatred of oppressing her and distorting her social rules. She is very powerful, powerful enough to concoct a series of shocking bloody incidents. She is very weak again, and in front of her fate and society, she is just the mad woman screaming and crashing in the toilet cubicle. She may be able to get to the top with the temporary favors she got from a man, but she understands that she is just a pet, and eventually her conspiracy will be dismantled. She always has to go to the trial stand of the joint organization of A and B1 and be ordered by a man. Going to the cross is regarded as a negative teaching material by the righteous woman.
This movie is not only well-made, with lively characters, but it can also be called a tense gender fable. It expresses the hatred and fear of men towards women, as well as the hatred and fear of women towards women, and perhaps also the hatred and fear of the ruling class towards the lowest power. Although the male perspective on the demonization or deification of women is extremely paranoid in the film, the delicate depiction of women's psychology and living conditions is quite touching. There can be such a movie, because only in such a movie can you see the most desperate and the most desperate. Yes, this is usually a woman, a woman forced to the extreme.
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