Do not act hypocritical
Don't think that reciting the Qur'an aloud
cover up lies
- 14th century Iranian poet Hafez
"Honor Killing" refers to the killing of a woman by one or more male members of a family, tribe, or community in order to preserve the family's reputation and clear the door. More common in culturally conservative areas, women have low status and are regarded as private property, and social culture and laws do not respect and protect women. Islamic cultural areas are considered to be hardest hit by "honor murders". The murderers are mainly the male family members of the deceased, and the victims are almost all women. The reasons are mostly "loss of virginity" and "indiscretion", such as being raped, suspected of adultery, not being able to give birth to a son, dressing fashionably, etc. In the case of "honor murder", all kinds of bizarre reasons can become the reason for the relatives to sharpen their knives.
The film begins with a woman named Zanhara who is called a "crazy woman" by the villagers who confided the truth to the reporter, and then the reporter learns the truth and cooperates with Zanhara to avoid the villagers' encirclement and suppression to announce the truth to the world. As far as this result is concerned , Soraya, who has suffered in the truth, is one of the lucky ones among the countless unnamed women who are killed every year in the world. Her grievances can be known to the world, and her hometown will be condemned by world public opinion. Stories will inspire more women to protect themselves and their fellow men.
Why did Soraya die? Because his husband wanted to marry a fourteen-year-old girl and wanted to divorce Soraya, but he was unwilling to pay alimony for the two daughters. After being rejected by Soraya, the daily domestic violence had become accustomed to it, but the village chief had become accustomed to it. Soraya was ordered to work as a nanny for the local widower. Soraya, who was able to support herself, was even more resented by her husband. She used the village chief's weakness to unite with the prestige elders in the village to spread Soraya's affair with the widower, forcing the widower to give false testimony. Soraya's family felt humiliated and personally sent Soraya to a dead end.
In the film, the barbaric behavior of the villagers in the backward village is described in detail, and it is particularly serious about how children are educated to be equally tyrannical men in this patriarchal environment, and women regard flattery and complacency as the foundation of survival. The power of this cultural trend is strong enough to influence the formulation of laws and the development of religion, which has been passed down from the savage Arab era to the present.
I have always believed that only the weak are keen to bully the weak. Those who rely on lies and fallacies as shields, fists and weapons as spears are all afraid of their victims, afraid that their existence will subvert the authority of the perpetrators, and are afraid of witnessing their incompetence from their resistance, such as "honor". murder” such as domestic violence. A woman's house is the source of their self-esteem, and a woman's wound is a symbol of their courage.
There are many close-ups of the whole village in the film. They are ordinary as can be seen everywhere in the world. The warm sunlight generously illuminates every inch of the land. The tranquility and serenity of the village surface and its own bloody absurdity form. sharp contrast. This huge contrast can be seen everywhere in the film: the villagers held a banquet and sang and danced on the night that Soraya was killed, Soraya's white clothes before execution and the bloody dress after her death, the tears of outsiders and the applause of locals. ..... They are a constant reminder that backward cultural regions are like the surviving cannibals in Indonesia, and dealing with them is not something to be fooled by "strong condemnation".
The most terrifying thing is that the murderer is unapologetic, and the many cover-ups of the law and the deliberate misinterpretation of religion have given the whole society an excuse to harm women.
The film was adapted from the novel of the same name by French journalists Frédénérale Sé and Benjam. The real Soraya was buried by villagers in the square of her hometown in 1986 because her husband, who was unwilling to pay alimony, was falsely accused of adultery. Only the upper body was left in the soil, and the whole village was stoned to death, including her father, husband, son and other relatives.
I can't help but feel depressed: In 1986, I cried when I saw this number. It was too close to the era I lived in, but it was too far from the society I saw with my eyes. Some people died while others starved to death. , in some places the women's liberation movement is vigorous, and in some places women even need to apply for literacy; after the suffocation comes fear: fear of reincarnation, fate is so unfair, will a Pakistani family accidentally fall into poverty and be manipulated for a lifetime or a Kolkata in India The successor of cheap prostitutes; fear is followed by contempt: seeing the suffering of others, only doubting my own moral sense, and throwing me into such a village, what kind of role would I play.
In "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", the heroine Marina was forced to become a prostitute and the situation of Soraya in history was very similar. At the end of the film, Marina was beaten by men from the whole town, and all the women were out of anger. , When Marina came back, she lost the beauty and temperament of the year, and the society finally "wide (XIN) macro (MAN) large (YI) amount (ZU)" her depravity.
Falling is not scary, but the ugly appearance of being discovered to fall is scary. Men saw their cowardice and lasciviousness in Marina, and women saw their vulgarity and ordinaryness in Marina, like a bug in Lianliankan. People turned into obsessive-compulsive patients to eliminate dissidents. Theories such as "many people are powerful" and "the minority obeys the majority" have come up. If everyone used the urge to destroy the personality of others to reflect on themselves and educate their offspring, the world might stop a lot.
"Honour Murder" One Thousand Ways to Die: Seeing a strange man and being burned with acid by his parents; a five-year-old baby girl being abused to death by a congressman's father who suspects that he is not a virgin; Beaten to death, threw himself into a river, cut his throat; was burned by his father on the phone with his fiancé before marriage; fell in love with a man in the same village and was beaten to death by a family member; refused to quit his job and was stoned to death by his husband; Dancing to be hanged; raped, humiliating, beaten to death, hanged, drowned; electrocuted for giving birth to a daughter...
It is the honor of the villagers to kill the shameful woman, and the honor of the villagers is the woman who rules the tribe. In "Huanzhugege", the woman who rescued the pregnant woman from Zhengyi Village was really pleasing to watch when she was a child. Why, Xiaoyanzi has the courage, the fifth elder brother is rich, Erkang has the martial arts, Ziwei has the talent, and a group of tall, rich and handsome Bai Fumei roared when they saw the injustice. Ah, the fact that even the emperor and his father can be settled makes people believe that Zhengyi Village has lived up to its name since then. Is it one of the traditions of sexual awakening of women? When it comes to cruelty, ancient Taoists in my country used women as "ding vessels" to practice, and the king of the Tang Dynasty asked women to sit outside to keep warm during the cold winter. "Prostitute Wai" or "Meat Array", a woman whose husband has died needs to commit suicide or not marry in exchange for the "Chastity Torii"... The more ancient a country is, the more violent it is against women.
Let’s take a look at the myths and legends that the hard-working folks like to see: Nuwa mending the sky (a mother must work hard to pave the way for her children, because no matter how many she gives birth, it is a pile of waste), Chang’e flies to the moon (trying to leave her husband) All of them will be lonely and regretted forever), Cowherd and Weaver Girl and Fairy Dong Yongqi (even if you are a goddess without one in a thousand, a rude man who steals clothes is worthy of you), Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (rescue Is the waste wood who can't get out of the fire pit of the beloved woman but waits for her girlfriend to die in love really is the perfect dream lover? Good men save people not without asking for anything in return, but by asking you to take the initiative to repay. You don't even know that you deserve your thousand-year-old moral deeds to be destroyed in one fell swoop), Meng Jiangnu cried at the Great Wall (a life-like story of martyrdom). All of these myths expose the patriarchal society's control of women's body and soul, even though world religions have only reluctantly acknowledged that women have souls since the seventh century AD.
Even in a country that claims to be ruled by law, this kind of physical lynching is less, but mental torture has never been relaxed: the "female doctor" who is regarded as the most feared by men is an excellent example, who does not marry at the age of 30. If you don't have children, you will be balabla bala bala is a curse for awakening women. Most old women and men still live in the dream of the old society (although it is also a nightmare for old women, but if you eat shit yourself and don't let others eat it, you will feel disadvantaged), so that Women believe that obeying their husbands, taking care of their in-laws, taking care of their families, and having offspring are the values of women. To put it bluntly, they are just a nanny and fertility machine that can fuck without paying wages and without holidays. When they began to think about the meaning of their lives, the second-order theory that "the old lady has only one daughter-in-law to marry again" became popular. This kind of men who speak disrespect to women don't need to waste a single second arguing or theorizing, what they want is what their lazy thinking souls can only deserve.
If you don’t get married in your 30s, no one wants it, and if you don’t have children, it’s unhealthy. I’m really curious about how this statement first spread and quickly spread across the land of China. What is the difference between this age limit and the pit buried under Soraya's body? Countless golden words such as "for your own good" and "it's all your relatives and friends can still harm you" are not the stones that were thrown at Soraya, and she was smashed with blood and desperate for help. It's scary for an older young woman like us who doesn't smash it?
Soraya's body was smashed to pieces, but justice and truth were with her; my body was still walking in the town of modern civilization, trying to hold on to principle and happiness but walking on thin ice.
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