Emma's doll house is one-to-one similar to the house they live in, a small house nested within a big house, a big womb contains a small womb, a metaphor of double pregnancy and womb.
Throughout, the film does not explain why Emma had to pull out all of Natalie's teeth. But Natalie is a wild child who is not very obedient, she bites Ashley's ear, her brother's elbow, wild untamed, she is the unlucky Camille, Camille keeps her teeth , the price paid is covered with cuts. Think about it, the other place where the tooth marks appeared was that Alan left on his fist to stop his shouting. He was imprisoned in this house (womb), a man who had been castrated and castrated long ago, that is, another woman. The result of the structural domestication of power for thousands of years has long been not as simple as the oppressors and the oppressed, but dense differentiation and backlash.
The frame of reference for the evil of women is not and cannot be men. In just the latitude of "motherhood", countless vines are spread out with their backs to men. Emma is a victim, a lover, and a perpetrator. Indeed, the men in this drama have been reduced to a complete background existence. Even the painful experience of "gang rape" is not a major physical and psychological trauma for the heroine. The slightly positive male characters are too sad. And Natalie's brother, who seems to be a girl and is suspected of being a murderer, is Camille's white-bearded boss far away in St. Louis. By the way, Camille's boss couple, one black and one white, are just external rationality and perfect compensation for their parents.
It's probably no accident that Camille became a writer. Before having sex with her in the motel, Kane took off her clothes and saw that she was covered in nicks. She said that the moment of U r reading me was moving because we clearly realized that the pain was not seen, probably because Something more painful than pain itself. A sin committed by a loving mother in secret, her daughter could only gag her mouth with her clothes and let out a heart-rending wailing, unable to do anything. It is not until the end of the story, when Camille's writings are read and heard, that the rationale of the world can return to its place.
Emma, on the contrary, the person she pleases is her mother, the person in charge in the small town. Although Wind Gap is sunny and green, everyone lives in luxury manor houses. But day after day, it was the grocery store, the barber shop, the bar, a few streets, those few people, the hot summer vacation, the men had two big sweat stains under their armpits, and the women were desperately pouring vodka down their throats, Everyone is drowning in the quagmire of tedious, maddening daily life, a suffocating matriarchal vibe, let me take care of you and poison you. Emma is nothing more than an aggravated version of Marian, a twisted power structure that inevitably leads to the externalization of the inner desire to kill.
However, the evil of Camille's mother is only the tip of the iceberg of women's structural pain and distortion in the long history. (Women were not only raped by being tied to a pillar, but also displayed in public time and time again.) The clawless and toothless woman slowly released the cruelty of her dark and hard core in the form of poisoning. Gao Xiaosong said that feminism is to follow the history of rewriting all the stories of male subjects with female subjects. If I want to say, he is too naive.
In addition, Varley's playlist is good, but as a director is really mediocre.
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