I have never paid attention to the French ideology or the social background of France. If this kind of film is placed in China, it should be easier to understand. If it is placed in an unknown France, I can only talk about my feelings, and all my feelings It's all based on a line from "Emily in Paris Season 1": In French, "vagina" is a masculine word. That is to say, the word "vagina" has been endowed with a concept of male attachment.
With this angle, there is a support point, let's look at this work again.
1. Totalitarianism and Resistance
There are three plots in the film that involve totalitarianism and resistance, one is the entrance ceremony for freshmen, the other is sister and parents, and the third is gay and heterosexual. The three plots are all shown through the heroine's perspective and inner world. It only takes a few days for totalitarianism, and the cost of resistance is endless. I don't know how the French totalitarian form is expressed, but for the word "totalitarian", the thousands of different forms it has evolved into are indeed all over the world. But there are additional references to the role of women in totalitarianism, and there are four places in the film: the doctor and the fat girl, diapers, exams, and yellow and blue.
2. Human struggle under totalitarianism
It's quite interesting to show this, mainly focusing on the contradictory sister. Obedience to the entrance ceremony gradually turned into integration and oppression of the latecomers (this is a very common psychological phenomenon, not to mention that my sister is powerless to resist, there are still many such situations around us); resistance to mothers evolved into opposition The hatred between the father and the younger sister, and at the same time the protection and care for the younger sister out of blood relationship. My sister is like Van Gogh under the sunflowers, her heart is full of infinite collisions between two extremes, she has no courage to die, just like she has no courage to fight against the wheelchair pushed by her mother, she can only go on like this, escape is what she can do. The best way that comes to mind.
3. Human desire and animal desire in human nature
The most eye-catching line in the film was said by my father: once it eats human blood, it will bite again.
Dogs are docile animals, sisters are docile, and female protagonists are docile, but when their animal desires are stimulated, they get out of hand. There is an essential difference between human nature and animal nature. Human nature is restricted by morality, while animal nature is restricted by slavery. When this restriction is broken, there is no difference between human nature and animal nature, just like in the film, the elder sister and the younger sister are respectively wrapped around their necks with ropes from behind, and the younger sister is teased by her hand on the ground, both like dogs. Especially the part where the heroine was teased by her sister, the heroine's eyes were full of animalism.
But you can't say that there is no animality in those masked seniors, and there is no animality in the mother.
4. Patriarchy and Feminism
When I mentioned this, I mainly thought of "Titanium" I watched last night. "Titanium" is full of concepts of male and female rights. This concept still exists in "Raw". I don't like these two words because I don't understand why it is necessary to draw an opposite between male and female. My sister's hairstyle, standing and peeing, gay characters, and the last line of my father, you can say the last line of my father, which makes the story complete and supports the points mentioned above. .
Perhaps, France has a society where men's rights and women's rights are very controversial, so the director will show this repeatedly. Personally don't like this as it only makes the controversy bigger.
Compared with the "Titanium" I watched last night, this "Raw" is at least less difficult to understand, but like I said at the beginning, I don't know France, so I can't deeply understand the meaning that the director wants to express.
When I watched this kind of film a few years ago, I was very fond of it, like "The Mermaid in the Sewer", like "The Confused Romance", and now I don't like such negative symbols more and more. When everything is figured out, it returns to the original, most primitive and fundamental things, which are still those simple things. I hope to see a simple work that still expresses deep humanity.
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