In any case of antagonism between men and women, or men's use of power to oppress women, there is a category of people who may receive more anger than the parties involved: women who know everything but silently or even condone . Just like the prince who helped Simon celebrate Pan Jinlian, Ma Su in the Li Xiaolu incident, and Meryl Streep.
Although Aunt May said "I don't know about Weinstein's sexual harassment" eight million times, she still can't escape the freedom of proof-you two have known each other for so long, who is it? After being silent at the beginning, he joined the protest, and the wall was sloppy. So hum and cut bah everywhere, from Twitter to street posters, all scolding Aunt Mei for being hypocritical.
However, one yard is one yard. Even if "She Knows", this movie starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, the movie "The Post" directed by Spielberg should never be missed. Anyway, I still shed tears after seeing the routine...It's really burning.
The background of the film is a real historical event: a reporter who is not afraid of death stole a bunch of classified documents from the Pentagon, showing that the US government knew that the Vietnam War could not be won eight hundred years ago. Kay (played by Aunt Mei), who took the "Washington Post" from his father and deceased husband, and Ben (played by Tom Hanks), the editor-in-chief who is devoted to journalism, obtained these documents. , So the classic question, to be or not to be, should I publish it?
However, compared to the plot on the surface, I was most impressed by a recurring scene: Kay surrounded by a group of men . Don't get me wrong, this is not "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". These men haunt Kay all day long, but they actually don't think she deserves to have everything in her hands.
Kay is her father's daughter, her husband's wife, and the owner of The Washington Post. But without the first two identities, she would not have the last identity. This is the same as seeing a girl who has a successful career on the Internet, either guessing that she has a good dad or she is married to a rich man (it is still polite to say that you marry, and you open your mouth and say who must be asleep).
This picture is repeated over and over again, and it is impossible to ignore it. The first time Kay went to Wall Street to have a meeting with investors. She was the only woman in the entire large conference room, and she couldn't even talk. The second time was discussing whether or not to publish confidential documents. Several people surrounded her. But I quarreled myself and didn't think she should get involved; the third time she went to the court, the clerks outside the door were all women, and the judges and staff who opened the door were all men. The last time she walked out of the courtroom, the men walked through the door to accept the media interview, but she walked through the side door, and she was greeted by young girls who were full of admiration and inspired by her.
Everyone can understand the difficulty of going to a new company to report on the first day of school, or living alone in a foreign country. But how many people can feel the embarrassment and difficulty of being the only woman present.
Even the well-known Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg has encountered such a situation: during a meeting, she found that she couldn't find a women's toilet. After asking, she knew that because there were too few women, there was only one left. She felt very uncomfortable on the way to the bathroom, because this is not just the status quo, but a kind of strangulation of future possibilities.
The struggle from scratch, although extremely difficult, is always inspiring. The biggest problem women face is that there are always people who think, " Don't you have everything, don't you want to do it? " This makes every attempt easy to be ignored.
Just like Kay doesn't speak, she was very confident and decent when she gave a party speech at home, nothing else, just practiced a lot. But for such a simple truth, those men just didn't understand and didn't plan to let her try.
Ben, the male character in the movie, is very small when he is with Kay, and often has a sense of superiority of "instructing the layman by the insider". Fortunately, Ben has a good wife, who wakes up the dreamer with a single word.
"She's so brave." This is the evaluation of Ben's wife knowing that they have decided to publish.
The aggressive Ben is not happy: "Am I not brave?" 』
" You can find the next one if you lose this job, but what about her?" People have been saying no, no, now that she has done this completely unprofitable thing, and she may lose a lot... I think she is very brave. 』
This good wife who has always appeared as a good wife and mother in the first half, does not disturb her husband's work, and has a few heads to make sandwiches for newspaper colleagues. After the guests left, she finally put down her identity as the hostess and opened the workbench. Make your own sculpture. Smart, considerate, and talented, if you are willing to take a closer look, each of the neglected female characters will shine.
My favorite setting is that Kay's entire behavioral trajectory and mental journey have no trace of gold fingers. Unlike many domestic film and television dramas, the heroine must have N men with Doraemon and Pan Lv Deng Xiaoxian by his side to help her get everything done.
This movie is not "Hidden Figures" (the story of three black women entering NASA), and Kay is not a fighter. But she has her own persistence, and she never compromises, it's already not easy. Not everyone has the ability to stand up and fight, but when something happens, don't be silent, just suffer from the boring loss secretly. From this perspective, Kay's character and Aunt Mei are really ironic in contrast...
What's more, sometimes it is difficult to stand up. Because some are daily trivial things, I prefer to drink beer than cocktails and wine, but every time there are men at the same table, the waiter will always give them the beer instead of me (Bud Light also used this theme before. Advertising); and when the company was gathering at the bar for dinner or afternoon tea, the male colleague drifted away silently as soon as it was over, and the female colleague consciously cleaned up things and wiped the table.
The trouble is here. If you want to go online for such a thing, people think you have something wrong. But the so-called don’t be evil, let it go every time, who knows where to go in the end? Yesterday, I saw Ali recruiting people in a group, and the last four characters "only recruit boys". Someone then asked, why only recruit boys?
The recruiter said, I don’t know.
So this thing ended like that. In reality, it seems that there are only two choices of making a big noise and nothing wrong. All the aggrieved medium events and the little things that are not quite right have no way to go, and in the end they can only stand in place.
(This article was first published on the subscription account Pinkgal, a third way of life between consumerism and struggle)
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