The concept of feminism written in the front seems too big for me. There is really no systematic study. So I did not use feminism to criticize the delusion of this movie. It's just a superficial analysis of the film based on my own understanding, from the starting point of symbols and signs.
The symbolism in the film can be seen everywhere, and there are many symbolic things, and contrast the different situations of the three protagonists. And this contrast is very neat.
Water
with most movies, like water always be presented as a symbol of emotions. Water is a visual theme of the film, and its image recurs, giving people a hint. The film starts with the three protagonists washing their faces in the morning, and the image of water appears in contrast for the first time. Woolf in the film suffers from severe neurasthenia and other mental illnesses. She cannot control her emotions like the "sound" people around her, but is always in danger. It's like she lives in a small village on the outskirts of London-by the river. The river water means too much emotion that she can't grasp. So Woolf could only sink in the water in the end, the river flooded her, and her emotions flooded her. In Laura's story, the appearance of water is suitable for magical reality. When Laura was lying on the hotel bed, the depressed emotions burst out instantly, fierce like a torrent. But Lola didn't end there. It may be the child in her womb that saved her, or it may be the sentence in the book "Mrs. Dalloway": You can't find peace by escaping from life. Reason defeats emotion. At this moment, Laura had her own thoughts on the meaning of life. Compared with the previous two life-and-death emotional journeys, Clarissa, who lives in the contemporary era, is as easy as turning off a faucet to control emotions. In other words, although the problem of emotional out-of-control will suddenly appear inadvertently, it can no longer cause any threat.
child
The film compares the independent thought in the female mind to the new life in the female body. We know that Woolf’s unique female consciousness runs through her literary works. Her works such as "A Room of One's Own", "Three Guineas", and "Orlando" express her sharp penetrating views on the inequality of men and women in society at that time. The strong dissatisfaction with her status fully embodies Woolf's unique female consciousness and advanced feminist thought. Therefore, she was respected by later feminists as a pioneer of the feminist movement and became an important founder of modern western feminist literary criticism. . In the film, Woolf just found out that she was pregnant. Metaphoric feminism was just in its infancy. Laura is close to giving birth, which shows that feminism has reached maturity over the next thirty years. By 2001, Clarissa's daughter was close to adulthood, indicating that feminism has been fruitful. Women have also truly realized self-reliance and self-reliance.
In
this day's life of the three protagonists of men , there are men appearing. Woolf's man is more like her guardian and ruler than her husband. This is also the characteristic of that era. The difference between men and women is obvious, but it is not noticed. Her husband has always emphasized her condition and used it to suppress Woolf's emotions. Under her husband's custody, Woolf's personal freedom is incomplete. Even in Woolf's last words before dropping into the river, Woolf, a pioneer of feminism, unconsciously thinks that she is a burden; after she leaves, her husband's life will be better. Laura's situation has improved, but she is still not an independent woman. She has no career of her own, just a housewife. Apart from making a cake for her husband to express her love on her husband’s birthday, she can’t think of her own value. In front of her husband and children, she must not cry. She must be as positive as other "normal people", pretending to be satisfied with life, and at the same time hiding the negative side of her feelings. At the same time accept the fact that she is an accessory of her husband. This is why she tried to commit suicide and tried to leave. After she left, she did realize her life value. But this realization has paid a heavy price for abandoning the husband and the son. In Clarissa, we see the characteristics of women in the new era. The status of her and Woolf had completely changed. With her, men have become the objects of care and salvation. Woolf died for her man, and Clarissa's man died for her. And without a man, she can still live strong. To understand the meaning of life.
Companion and same-sex kiss
Some say it is a gay movie. The three protagonists in the film all show a tendency to love the same surname, and each has a scene of kissing with the same surname. But in my opinion, kissing with the same sex is a manifestation of female consciousness, that is, not taking male love as a source of self-worth. The female companions of the three protagonists appear as representatives of the normal female society, providing a foil to the three protagonists. Woolf's sister (Venice & S226; Bell (1879-1961), a British female writer, is the wife of the famous art theorist Clive & S226; Bell. They belong to the "Bloomsbury" art circle. ) Is described in the film as an ordinary intellectual woman of that era, taking children, walking with relatives, and accompany her husband to dinner. Woolf didn't want her to leave, she wanted to seek support from the same sex from her. But Woolf failed to realize this wish. Female consciousness is still an isolated phenomenon, and women cannot support each other. Woolf's kiss to her sister was also compulsive. The relationship between Laura and her female partner has improved. Her female neighbor is a typical image of a good family woman, living silently, accompanying her husband, and putting her husband's interests first. It is the greatest wish and task to give birth to a son for a husband, even if there is a danger of losing his life. Laura and her female companion support each other. Give spiritual comfort for a while. Clarissa’s female companion, as we know from the film, is Clarissa’s friend for many years, and now she has a gay relationship with her, and this relationship has been maintained for ten years. Clarissa herself accepts this kind of relationship happily. Without a man, she can live at ease. In other words, the process of women's independence is finally completed, although this completion must be achieved through this overly extreme homosexual approach.
Buy flowers
While walking up the stairs, Woolf said "I may have a first sentence." The first sentence is: Mrs. Dai Luowei said, "I want to buy flowers by myself." Go by yourself-independent behavior without interference from others . The original manifesto of the feminist movement. But in reality, Woolf has no such ability. She can only enjoy independence in her creation. The flowers in reality appeared peacefully at the same time as the death (of the bird). It implies that Woolf can only seek relief by death. Laura still failed to buy the flowers by herself. When she got up early in the morning, her husband had already bought the flowers. Her husband did everything for her. Living in such a life is boring, and fleeing is inevitable. It wasn't until Mrs. Dai Luowei in modern New York that the ideas in this story became reality.
From the British writer Woolf in the 1920s, experiencing the story of Laura, to Mrs. Dai Luowei in modern New York, the film describes a path of women's self-recognition. In a sense, these three women are self-exiles in the spiritual realm. They are free from the times and at the same time stubbornly resist reality in their own way. They cross-appear in "The Moments", like a reincarnation, a reunion in a special time and space, and their individual spiritual chants merged into a female chorus in this novel. At the same time, it reflects the spiritual characteristics of the entire 20th century in the West through the spiritual outlook of women in three different eras in the early, middle and late 20th century.
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