So Stage Beauty as a whole seems to be there for tragedy, and I just can't bear to see the ending. However, unexpectedly, the ending is actually the successful transformation of the male protagonist, and from then on, he lives happily with the female protagonist.
Men play the role of women, falling from heaven to hell in a single word from the king. And this king forbids men to play women again, not for noble reasons such as fighting for women's acting rights or rectifying the stage environment, but just because the mistresses and prostitutes who "love drama" want to come on stage. And her words made countless actors desperate from now on. Such a bitter beginning eventually gave birth to a happy result, no matter how gratifying it was, it was still a little awkward.
It's funny that a man who has been acting as a woman and a woman all his life, like Cheng Dieyi, was finally enlightened: I was originally a man, not a female Jiao'e, so I actually turned a woman into a man. The sexual orientation that has been changed since childhood has become normal, the power of women is great, and the king is simply a great psychiatrist who saves the protagonist from fire and water.
Perhaps, the film is to explain from another angle: anything, after passing through the veil of history, settles down and becomes art. Therefore, the final disappearance of castrat and male dan is a social necessity, and there is no need to miss it. Therefore, it can be proved in reverse that a person can gain a new life from this.
However, in my opinion, regardless of whether the disappearance is considerable or not, for those who have undertaken such changes in the last days, it can also be said that those who will eventually be eliminated from society will not have no positive changes, but very few. I just wanted to be a worker all my life, but I was suddenly laid off and needed to live in another way. No matter what the final result was, it couldn’t be a comedy, because the process of struggle and change was very painful.
Therefore, like "Beauty on the Stage", using a few strong people to whitewash the tragedy is still not convincing enough.
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