I've always wanted to write something about feminism, and finally borrowed a pen with a little drunk. The background setting of the story is very attractive. The science fiction films of the Victorian era are probably the most imaginative era in human history. In such a classic era, it is not historical films and documentaries, but science fiction films, which are especially interesting when you think about it. feel. In today's British towns, dwellings are mainly left over from the Victorian (and Edwardian) era. The legacy of the best era continues into the scenes of daily life, always making people imagine the vitality of that era. Although there are many fantasies, it is also necessary to understand some things about that era: for example, the narrow, damp and dirty streets, for example, the moral collapse of the industrial revolution that swept people's lives like ants (similar to the current social situation in China), and the notorious The poverty relief law, which is the source of the tragic life of Oliver Twist in Dickens's writings (it is ridiculous that this law is regarded as the beginning of the specialization of charity in domestic university textbooks).
Going back to the topic of feminism, the people who have been noticed and touched in the play are all women, so there is an argument that only women will be possessed by demons, resulting in an unexplainable mutation. But from the story setting, the spore that landed on the world like a ray of light is logically possible to land on both men and women. Even in a male-dominated era, assuming that men are more exposed to the outdoors, the proportion of men who are touched must be higher than that of women. But among these mutated populations, the vast majority of those who were demonized and rejected were women. Is it true that the spores sprinkled by alien creatures only bond with women? I don't think so, because there are also male mutants in the play, especially when the alien spaceship traveled back to the 1800s, and the scene of Xiaguang falling on the street, it is obvious that men, women, young and old, all merged with Xiaguang. Then why are women, why are touched women treated as "devil possessed" mental patients, and even suppressed and killed as the enemy of all mankind.
This is also an ingenious place where the show was filmed in recent years and changed all the characters in the original text to women: the me too movement and the black life matters movement made embracing diversity a politically correct and must-have theme. This change can not only meet the needs of current political correctness, but also a happy slap in the face of the segregation policy of the year for the concentration of mental patients on asylum. The Victorian aristocratic life we fascinated about came at the expense of the dignity or worth of another. Because of class, status, capital, and even the intelligence quotient and beauty brought about by natural selection, all the advantages or privileges that cannot be obtained through future efforts have become positive factors for the accumulation of power. Countless such factors have accumulated over the years. The superposition of months has finally resulted in the solidification of society: the bottom people have been in the dark for generations, and will never turn over; So we see that the gatherings in the shelters are all people from the bottom society. And the dialogue on the side of the characters in the play lets us know that there are also mutants in noble families: for example, a little girl whose feet are one foot off the ground; for example, a baron who can wear a crow in his soul. However, the exposure of mutants in the nobles is not necessary, and they have countless ways to cover up and solve problems. Only the relatively vulnerable groups are exposed and treated as problems. And women, whether they are aristocrats or commoners, are all disadvantaged groups.
This has to mention the shelter system for mentally ill patients in Europe at that time. The crazy woman who was locked up in the west wing in Jane Eyre is a typical representative: mentally ill patients must be locked up in the institution (asylum) established by the government for centralized management, so there is a plot where the family will hide their relatives of the patient, so only There is the feat of leaping over the lunatic asylum. The inhumane treatment of patients in these insane asylums has accumulated over the centuries, and even today in some places chains and witchcraft are still used to treat mentally ill patients. Impressively, in Bali, where tourism is also particularly developed, Ubud Village, which is praised by the world for its simplicity and cleansing of the soul, treats mentally ill patients in contemporary times as a chain and torture. In Britain 200 years ago, mothers were able to burn their daughters to death because of "weirdness". The mentally ill are treated as a flood of beasts, despised and trampled on by everyone, and thrown into the garbage dump like garbage. They are locked with chains, drug pots, and electric shocks. They are afraid that the scandal of garbage will spread to the outside world, and they are afraid that the mental virus will spread to the community. . So a variety of rigorous pathological research, constantly using various methods to correct their deviant behavior.
Extremes meet, Foucault profoundly criticized the way society treats mentally ill people, but it is a manifestation of power relations. In modern times, the respect for life transcends everything, so a mighty deinstitutionalisation movement for nearly a century (1850-1950) has arisen in Western society. The liberal, democratic and civilized France is an infinite society that promotes "freedom" (although it is also criticized for its bureaucracy and inefficiency), and the spiritual services/welfare in France should be the worst. Of course, it is also the same. Compared with other European countries with better welfare. De-pathology and de-institutionalization can indeed take care of respect for an individual's dignified life; however, it requires more social resources and is relatively less cost-effective. On the other side of the world, mentally ill patients suffered inhuman treatment from their families (the community) because they did not have reasonable pathological treatment and public welfare care, which was different from the centralized management situation in Europe at that time. The problems of human society are always in the polarization between the individual and the collective, individuality and unity, freedom and autocracy, and cannot find a balanced state.
Even in the distant future, in the face of judgement day in human society, there is also a differentiation between insisting on beliefs and relying on alien civilizations. In the end, what wiped out the hope of mankind may be the final battle between the two human groups that have reached two extremes. I don't know how far that day is.
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