The film tells the story of Parwana, a girl who disguised herself as a man to work for the survival of her family during the Taliban period in Afghanistan.
At that time in Afghanistan, after the Afghan war launched by the Soviet Union, the warlords melee, a military organization Taliban organized by the students of the Islamic school in the Afghan refugee camp, grew rapidly and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, just when the people thought that the dawn of peaceful development was coming, The Taliban announced the unity of state and religion, and implemented Sharia throughout Afghanistan.
Determined to create the purest Islamic state in the world, the Taliban ban non-Islamic entertainment and enforce a harsh system of gender segregation in which women are denied their most basic human rights.
The Taliban's teaching law has four main aspects, prohibiting women from working outside the medical field; suspending formal female education; requiring women to wear burqas (hijabs and other clothing that cover their faces); prohibiting women from contacting the opposite sex, and going out must have male relatives escort.
In order to implement the policy, the Taliban have set up religious police on the streets. If anyone, especially women, violates the ban, they will be whipped or even more horrific.
In 1996, the Taliban issued a decree banning all women from work, and the United Nations estimates that about 150,000 women in Kabul are barred from work. The number of female beggars has increased substantially, and many families have been pushed to the brink of survival. In terms of medical treatment, the Taliban does not allow male doctors to diagnose and treat women, and women's medical problems have worsened. According to WHO statistics, the average life expectancy of Afghan women is only 44 years old.
In addition to the unjust social environment, the domestic life of Afghan women is often accompanied by violence. Amnesty International reports that 80% of marriages in Afghanistan are forced, women have no voice in marriage, and their marriages are often shrouded in violence. , madness and sadness.
Parwana in the movie is lucky, her father is a gentle and kind person, who not only loves her, but also teaches her to read and read, but Parwana's friend Shoshiya is not so lucky. In his words, we can see that Xiaoxia hates her father and desperately wants to escape from this place.
After her father was imprisoned, Parwana's family was only left with her mother, sister and younger brother. Her mother took Parwana out to find her father, but was beaten by the street police. In the panic, Parwana was lost. The only picture left of my father.
There is no man at home, and it will be difficult for them to even go out to fetch water. There is less and less food left at home. Parwana wants to go out to buy food, but no store is willing to buy it for her, because the law stipulates that it is not allowed to sell to women. .
Parwana met her childhood playmate Shoxia, and they decided to cut their hair, disguise themselves as men, and do hard and tiring work to support their families. They used their young and weak bodies to support the family's hope.
Despite this, they still yearn for a better life. Shoxia wants to save money to go to the beach, and Parwana wants to save money to rescue her father.
However, personal resistance is insignificant in the torrent of the times. It was not until 1998 that the world began to pay attention to the group of Afghan women in the media. However, even in the face of accusations and sanctions from the international community, the Taliban's attitude is still tough.
The Taliban's fanaticism about religion has affected society's attitudes towards women. Many people do not believe that the control of women is unreasonable or even necessary. They link the behavior of women's groups to the success of jihad and insist on Drive women home.
The ending of the movie, like reality, can't give us a hopeful ending, and the Afghan women under the control of the Taliban are still living miserable lives.
But silence does not mean that Afghan women have not awakened. They are well aware of their misery, but they are weak and unable to change the reality.
Strong policies, people's backward values, take women's experience as a matter of course, relying on internal strength, it is difficult for them to save themselves. Coupled with the Taliban preventing the penetration of Western culture, their voices are difficult to be heard by the outside world, and it is even more difficult to rescue them.
Peace at the expense of women's rights is not peace, and without women's liberation, there will be no real human liberation. Today, Afghan women are still shrouded in extremist religious law, and religious extremism is also raging in Afghanistan. When will peace and democracy be achieved in Afghanistan in the future, and when will women be liberated, it deserves the concern of every moviegoer.
"The Breadwinner" presents us with the living conditions of women in another world, shining with the light of feminism and anti-warism, in that almost twisted world, we know more that peace and stability, democracy and openness are not easy to come by. , the trend of development and progress is irreversible.
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