The subject of women has often become the focus of filming in Western TV circles. The two plays "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Serpent Maid" can be said to have made the ultimate depiction of the lives of lower-class women under patriarchy and class division and oppression. This is not the heroine drama of the palace fight that China is keen to shoot, nor is it the manor drama of the British who are extremely retro and pursue classicism, but an in-depth portrayal of the imagination and reality of the future.
If you are a man who happens to love plump buttocks and fat breasts, you may have watched "Scorpion Maid" countless times, because the five resident Latina heroines show their breasts in almost every episode. Wriggling around the big house in Beverly Hills in a maid uniform. In the first season, they belong to five wealthy families, and they treat people and things differently and have different relationships with the owners, who have different occupations and preferences.
The eldest among them is Zola, who is not only the maid that Genevieve de la Tour (a typical old Beverly Hills vase figure) has been with for two decades, but also the master's. Brain, in front of the master who can do nothing but brain, she always stands up and advises the hostess. And she also had an unbearable past, that is, she was abandoned by the mistress's brother who was a boyfriend because of class reasons. And now her daughter Valentuna, who is in bloom, is repeating her own history - falling in love with the heroine's son Remy.
The second sister, Marisol, should be the suspense point of the whole play. She turned from an English professor at a university into a maid because of a secret in her heart. In order to clear her son's murder charge, she sneaked into the next door's young and old match. The Taylor family made it easy to find out the cause of the death of the Evelyn family's dead maid, who had also been loved by her adopted son. In this, the audience will not only discover the temptation of these high-ranking men to recruit prostitutes, love uniforms, and trade money with maids, but also discover the undercurrents surging under the calm appearance of the asexual couple.
The third sister should be Rosie, and almost 60% of the sex scenes in the whole play were given to her. As the maid of a pair of star actors, Mrs. Perry and Mr. Spencer, she obviously had to be better at acting than either of them. His wife is a red-hot American sweetheart, and she has a soft hand in her work. She is not at home all year round, and is busy messing with the little fresh meat in the outside group. The old bacon husband has quietly passed away, and of course he is not lonely. He is working with the maid Rosie on fire, and because he is old and has sex too hard, he has a heart attack and was sent to the hospital. Rosie, while methodically having an affair with Mr. Spencer, went to the priest every week to confess her mistakes. Perry, who had been encouraged all the time, finally found out, and she reported Rosie Black's illegal status in the United States.
The fourth sister should be Carmen with the dream of a star singer. She has an angelic face and a devil-like figure. She is a typical hot girl. Everyone expects that she should be unspoken by the master. Who would have guessed that a man who is a famous singer The protagonist has the goodness of Longyang, so the good cabbage can only be arched by the housekeeper Sam in the end. Carmen can be said to be the most naive of these maids. Although she is 37 years old, she continues to dream of being a star. She doesn't think she is inferior here, so she is following the lame leg of the male master for ten years. The agent has chemotherapy for cancer, but the hero smashes the plate while he doesn't care to shock the host.
The fifth should be the daughter of the eldest Zola, who is in bloom (19 years old), Valentuna. She has a beautiful face and is very keen on fashion and fashion. Every day, she thinks about wearing curvy clothes to attract Remy. Line of sight, Remy didn't care about her at first, almost all of her unrequited love, but after she discovered that Remy was smoking cocaine, she did not help Remy to keep the secret, but told Zola the truth, Remy was arrested in time. Sent to a drug rehab center for detoxification and saved a life. Since then, Remy has fallen in love with the kind and beautiful Valentuna.
Most of the male images here are mainly toying with women, whether it is the father of Remy who raped and killed the maid, or the lawyer who abandoned the artist's ex-wife and married a prostitute, or a lawyer who wants to have a son, or an Iraqi who has a pornographic voyeurism. Fulin's husband is still an old-fashioned actor who finds solace in maids, and none of them seem to have normal sexual and marital relationships. To a certain extent, they are all representatives of pleasure-seeking, singing every night, and excessive indulgence, and most of their other half are also representatives of vases. They only care about beauty and clothing every day, and have no motherhood or intelligence.
It seems that this is also related to the geographical location of Beverly. It is neither the place where the high-tech geeks in Silicon Valley live (the West Coast Bay Area of the United States), nor the school districts around the famous American schools, nor the narrow but narrow spaces around Broadway in New York. Artistic housing. Beverly owns Mulholland Drive, has Hollywood, and to a certain extent, it can be said that there is half of the entertainment industry there.
On the contrary, it is "The Handmaid's Tale" full of asceticism, in which the curves and faces of the women are obscured by nun-like red robes and hats. If it is said that the most feared thing between the hostess and the male host in "The Serpent Maid" is that the maid is pregnant with the male protagonist's child, so there can only be sex between the maid and the male protagonist, not flesh and blood. Then, in "The Handmaid's Tale", the high-ranking archbishop and bishop's wives only allow the maids to become pregnant, and do not allow them to have sexual pleasure with the male masters. Even while making love (if it can be said that), there will be people reading the bible of begging, and the names of the maids will be erased, the children will never know who the biological mother is, they are just human reproduction Female workers on a factory line.
The Handmaid's Tale comes from a story written in 1984 by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, who conceived the novel before the Berlin Wall came down. Seemingly out of fear of the high Soviet despotism, she fictionalized the U.S. has also been swallowed into a tyranny under the cover of religion, environmental pollution, female fertility decline, and those infertile and high-ranking bishops and wives are arrested. These maids let them produce offspring for themselves and their husbands.
The first scene of the heroine in the play is driving with her daughter on the road, but even if she escaped into the forest, she was still captured and became a maid. She changed her real name from Joan to - Offfred, yes An accessory of Archbishop Fred. Every week, the nuns take them to find their respective masters to conceive. The heroine, on the other hand, faces many difficulties, while changing the mind of the archbishop and using him to escape and reunite with his family, while enduring this miserable environment.
The Handmaid's Tale is positioned as a futuristic novel. Future novels are called "suspense" novels with strong speculative meaning in Western critics. Different from Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, the cultural connotation of such stories is obviously richer, because the first two authors write science fiction literature from the perspective of natural sciences, while the latter imagines future literature from the perspective of humanities sciences. Even the narration is more modern, using the way the heroine recorded the scene on tape on a tape, giving it a "black box" feel on paper.
And when hulu in the United States made it into a drama in 2017, it undoubtedly made this imagination more concrete. The oppression is also more clearly visible. The oppressed is not a woman. It seems that this has something to do with the director being a man. He also clearly depicts the oppression of men. This kind of puritanical hardship seems to be another time of "preserving heaven's principles and destroying human desires". exercise.
As for these two dramas, one shows extreme indulgence and the other shows extreme abstinence, but as a viewer, I have neither experienced a moment of tenderness nor the temptation of abstinence, but made me horrified and fearful. endlessly. If it is said that the female lead and the male lead in the dramatic situation both need to go to extremes, what if human society and nature go to extremes like these two dramas?
Is it a repeat of the history of some imperial families indulging in alcohol and sex, the subversion of royal power, or a repeat of the history of the hype of Cheng and Zhu's philosophy? Human civilization has developed so far, and perhaps we should learn to find a way to balance the two.
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