weak, your name is woman

Rozella 2022-11-03 16:36:27

Probably because there are too many routines I have seen, and there is a lot less fun when watching movies. Guessing the ending within ten minutes of telling the story is far from something worth showing off. It does not mean that one is superior in intelligence or superior in insight. Instead, it forces out the darkness of the world's ingenuity and human nature. The wet side erodes itself.

In the first few minutes of this film, the temperament is very good, the strangeness and strangeness are well carved, and the exciting effect is strong. However, the rhythm is suddenly slowed down and there is a suffocating atmosphere that blows the face. It seems that a challenger jumped out at the martial arts conference. At first glance, his starting style was like a grandmaster, and he thought he was a peerless master. Who would have known that he would be thrown off the stage after two or three rounds, which was shocking.

It would be mean to say that, but the story itself is indeed a good one. Perhaps it is precisely because the original work is too dazzling and the degree of completion of the text is too high that it is difficult to grasp the visual presentation, so that the realization of the value of this film will only stop at the popular science of "agent-type Munchausen's syndrome", rather than powerless. Like the original book, it leads the audience to think deeply about life and human nature.

Just as the panorama of life revealed by Rodin's sculptures, Liz Yansen rejected the long-standing requirements of social group consciousness, turned his eyes from the triumphal arch of life to the gate of hell, and explored the hidden realm in the deep sea of ​​human nature and the unconventional or unconventional nature of human nature. Implicit driving mechanism. This mechanism, we will call it "pathological" for the time being, and should not carry any discrimination and exclusion.

The little boy Louis and the beautiful Natalie, in today's fashionable terms, are a mother and son who love and kill each other. The two completely opposite elements of deep love and cruel killing have formed a delicate balance in this mother and son. The mother uses various means to mutilate the child, but never wants him to die; the child understands the mother's behavioral motives and tries her best to cooperate with the mother in exercising her "disposal right" over herself. As a result, the child was forced to the abyss of death by the mother again and again, saved by the mother again and again when he was on the verge of death, and then pushed by the mother to the god of death again...

Evolutionary psychology has done a detailed discussion on the phenomenon of infanticide in humans. It is generally believed that infanticide is a behavior of kinship investment and genetic screening. It seems that it does not point out that infanticide is also a self-improvement strategy for women. In Euripides's writings, Medea kills her brother, kills her husband and kills her son, which is essentially a self-improvement, especially self-belief. The strategy Natalie develops in the face of the existential dilemma unique to a woman makes her addicted, creating a peculiarly glaring human tragedy between her and Louis.

Meanwhile, Natalie has discovered another, more efficient tactic: showing weakness. There is a line in "Hamlet": Weak, your name is a woman! Weak women are more likely to stimulate men's desire for protection. The weaker women are, the more they bring out the stalwart and strength of men. Therefore, women's weakness has changed from a congenital disadvantage to an acquired advantage in courtship competition, becoming the most important survival strategy for women. sharp weapon. For example, women are better at describing their own tragic experiences and are more likely to believe that she is the hurt and sympathetic partner in a failed relationship. Natalie took advantage of her loneliness and helplessness when her son was dying, and successfully won the sympathy of men for him and gained the sense of security necessary for survival. However, under the cruel premise, this unremarkable strategy is extremely despicable, resulting in a sense of absurdity and emptiness, which makes the deep tragedy of women's lives clear.

It is a pity that the portrayal of Natalie in this film is completely superficial, and it is difficult for people to examine her inner pain through her beautiful appearance, and the conclusions drawn can only be "the most poisonous woman's heart" and "green tea". bitch" or something.

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The 9th Life of Louis Drax quotes

  • Louis Drax: Pascal made the mistake that all men make. He thought that because Mommy is so beautiful, then she must be good.

  • Dr. Allan Pascal: Do you know what she's suffering from?

    Dr. Perez: Munchausen syndrome by proxy; The first time she probably hurt Louis by accident, what she felt from getting all that attention had an effect on her. After that she kept harming Louis to keep getting that feeling, over time Louis saw what she wanted and learned to go along with it!