Self Pity
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
"Self Pity"
I've never seen something wild
feel sad for oneself
A frozen bird falling from a branch
don't feel sorry for yourself
At the end of the film, the trainer gave O'Neill his cross in the Lawrence Poems. The poem "Self Pity" is drawn with a red line in the book. The English meaning of Self Pity is "self-compassion". As a woman, it is It's easy to feel self-pity about one's gender and social status, but this film tells us that self-pity is a self-compassion fantasy that a wild (free) creature doesn't feel, and a woman who wants to To break through the shackles of gender in civilized society, don't feel sad and sad for yourself, but constantly break through the cognition of yourself in the process of training, and do things that you have been instilled as "impossible", and this kind of self Cognition cannot rely on fantasies or other people's slogans, but must be practiced in person. Only in this way can you break the eyes of others. Only by not living in the eyes of others will you not feel sorry for yourself. Self-pity is not a "sense of superiority," but a compromise to the eyes of others.
The English word respect consists of the prefix re (repeatedly) and the root spect (to see), which means respect. The respect formed by re + spect → looking → watching → respect emphasizes a process, a process of finding one's own position in multi-angle and multi-directional thinking. This shows that respect - especially respect that means "spiritual identification" - is not an "innate" right similar to the right to life and property, but requires you to gradually change from representing others through thinking and effort (action). The re and spect of the eyes are pulled out, and it becomes the respect that you identify with yourself! And this "Devil Female Soldier" revolves around how "star female soldier" O'Neill understands women's respect in the midst of the crowd.
Director Ridley Scott's films often involve female themes. The female images in his films include female scientists, female robots, female detectives, female nobles, housewives, single women, mothers, wives, lovers, etc. The Devil's Female Soldier is mainly about the self-cognition road of "female stars".
1. O'Neill in the eyes of female politicians
At the beginning of the film, female politician Di Haiwen uses "feminism" as a political weapon to attack political enemies. She is a politician who performs to defend women's rights. At this time, she needs a female soldier who can show obvious female characteristics on the cover of "Newsweek". To finish her political show—to train with the Navy SEALs—to prove that women, too, have the ability to receive equal treatment with men. In private, a large number of female soldiers with excellent physical fitness are mocked by her as "big cows" who can't stand the gender test. It can be seen that she is not "feminist", but is judging women with the same eyes as men. . As a politician, she understands that she is old and senile, and only politicians who know how to turn gender disadvantages into advantages can be invincible in the forum only if gender is her biggest advantage. She chose a "feminist spokesperson" according to male aesthetics-beautiful O'Neill, O'Neill has a body as sexy as a meatball, a face as beautiful as a princess, better education and excellent writing. With a strong physique, it is perfect as a media promotion tool!
O'Neill is a naval intelligence officer. Although she has been striving for combat opportunities, she cannot realize her dream because of her female identity. Her strategic thinking ability is even higher than that of her male colleagues, but because she has no actual combat experience, she cannot opportunity for advancement. After learning that she was selected to participate in the training of the SEALs, she was very happy, because as long as she passed the training, she could go to the battlefield to practice, instead of relying on appearance like most beautiful officers who "have no choice". Advantages are promoted, and she hopes to prove her worth with strength rather than appearance. She doesn't care at all about the "great social experiment" and "change the policy that women soldiers can't participate in the war" that politicians say, she thinks it's just a campaign line used to deceive people, she doesn't think that political show can make a woman Her rights have been fundamentally improved, but the opportunity to participate in special forces training "exceptional" is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so she is very clear that her purpose is to use the springboard of grassroots training to gain personal promotion opportunities, not to strive for equality between men and women .
At the beginning of the film, the director made an agreement between a female politician who defends women's rights and O'Neill, who resented becoming a "feminist movement model", because they have a tacit relationship of mutual use. Not only because their respective "futures" are in each other's hands, but more importantly, female politicians believe that any normal beauty would not be willing to live a life of "squatting in the jungle with a bunch of stinky men to pee". Short-term grassroots training, returning to Washington as a civil servant and living a comfortable and comfortable life is what they really want; and the reason why O'Neill participated in this show is because she believes that she can be trained by the devil, except for herself Self-confidence in quality and ability is also because she subconsciously knows that her star temperament in appearance can save her from being forced to live under the naked oppression of men. Instead, it is the goal that men seek and care for. Think of yourself as safe and have the "right to choose" for granted. Of course it was just her hallucination.
Only when O'Neill almost finished training, but was abandoned by Di Haiwen because of her political choice, did she realize that although she gave up her beauty and gained the affirmation of the soldiers through equal efforts, she could not change the female politicians. Views on women; only when she rebels against Di Haiwen and exposes the true face of the so-called "feminism" in the mouths of politicians, can she break through "gender" to gain her rights, because some politicians are using feminism to oppress women.
2. O'Neill in the eyes of the Salem officer
The Salem officer is a kind-hearted grandfather. In order to cooperate with this "great social experiment", he gave O'Neal many special conditions: no short haircut, private tents and toilets. For all this, O'Neill said frankly that she was not a feminist fighter who came to pursue "equality". Her purpose was just to prove her strength through this devil training. But O'Neill has lived in the halo of beauty since she was a child, and many preferential treatments are taken for granted to her so that she herself does not realize that female identity has actually caused a lot of hallucinations to herself, so she did not reject the Salem officer. The special conditions prescribed to her are a kind of biological "natural", because I was born a woman, of course I need special treatment, although she wears the same training clothes as other soldiers, but she did not cut her hair short, A ponytail is very beautiful, isn't it right for women to have long hair? This is not specialization, but a "gender adjustment" based on a woman's biological condition.
During the training, O'Neill's physical condition was really excellent, and he was very able to endure hardships. In the training that was perverted and violated the body's bottom line, some men began to withdraw automatically because they could not stand the pain in the training because they did not meet the standard. O'Neill's face was gradually scratched during training, and she became tired of the special treatment in training, because it was because of these preferential treatment that other male trainees felt "sexism", so they spoke badly to her and even deliberately trained. She finds that these "gender advantages" have become obstacles to her equal communication with others. Even if she does not use her privileges, she will be considered to be "going through the back door". Instead, these men feel that they are being treated unequally. This is not a "fair competition", and in this unfair evaluation standard, even if women surpass men, they cannot convince them. They always think that they have made women's physical functions inherently inferior because of humility. Species prevail. When she knew that every standard was lowered for her because of gender adjustment, which was equivalent to her having a "bonus policy", she realized that the struggle for equality based on the premise of women's priority was actually an illusion, because if women's Physical fitness is as suitable for combat as men, so why lower the standard? Lowering the standard is exactly the same as admitting that one is inferior to others, and striving for equality of results in the standard of inferiority is a kind of self-deception.
O'Neill, who found the problem, approached the Salem officer again and demanded that all his preferential treatment be removed. Only at this time did the Salem officer express his true opinion of her. He did not want his training ground to become a tool for political show, and the "equality" demanded by a woman was nothing more than "special treatment". They wanted men Politely asking men to bench them is called equality, lowering the standard is called equality, highlighting women's privilege is called equality, and a man cannot express his true opinion in front of a woman, a woman can accuse a cigar of being shaped like a phallus "male" rights", while men can't criticize women's perfumes for being too "feminist". After listening to this very patriarchal truth, O'Neill finally realized that if he did not have the same standards as men, he would not be able to prove himself in this test, because the test is only a test of physical fitness and endurance. Bars should not be lowered just because women are participating. To the sarcasm of the Salem officer, O'Neill smiled and replied: I just don't like the smell of cigars. It's not that he hates men, it's just that men and women measure things differently. Men think it's the shape of the cigar that offends women, but it may actually just be the taste. At this time, O'Neill, who heard the truth and accepted the truth from his heart, instead of blindly refusing to listen to any male point of view on the grounds of male power, also broke through the "male perspective" of the Salem officer.
3. O'Neill in the eyes of ordinary soldiers
O'Neill, who participated in the test as a "feminist movement model", did not cut her hair short at the beginning and retained her female characteristics, because she believed that women's treatment was called equality. This is a kind of awareness instilled in her by the media. Everyone She jokes about her gender because women's physical fitness is a disadvantage after all. With a new understanding of female identity and respect for women, O'Neill, who pursues the truth, voluntarily asked to remove all "care" and treat her as fair as an ordinary soldier. She shaved off her long hair and cut a bald head by herself. She slept in a smelly male collective tent and shared the toilet with men. At this time, the soldiers around her looked at her with admiration. For the first time, they saw a woman who really pursues equality. Instead of another female politician who is waiting for a promotion and is training at the grassroots level. On the contrary, O'Neill has only truly integrated into the collective of soldiers after he has removed all star treatment.
The soldiers who took O'Neill as their own made her see a real male perspective. They whistled to the passing beautiful officers from a distance in the grass, and said, "Miss, if I go home with you, can I have sex with you?" Looking at their dusty backs, another soldier joked: "You're looking for the wrong person, they're not for you (the toad wants to eat swan meat)" From O'Neill's onlooker perspective, these star-like women who are specially cared for by men exist only as objects of a male sexual fantasy However, in these women’s hallucinations, being pampered equals being respected, and being asked to go to bed equals being attractive. And all of this can only be seen after breaking through his female (star) identity.
In the final test, training officer Urgel ripped apart O'Neill's star phantom in front of all the soldiers, intending to pretend rape to make her retreat. This disparity in strength makes O'Neill's female weakness. All in all. However, when O'Neill was beaten with blood and still went forward with her life, she aroused cheers from all the soldiers, she resisted the humiliation with the courage of the knight "choosing death", when she shouted Suck My When Dick, everyone respected her like a knight's glory. Any respect must be earned by yourself, not by being a woman or a star to make others give in. That kind of respect is a false illusion, not real, you can only face your own gender, and ordinary people. Use the same standard to ask yourself, and make a "person"'s pursuit of character true and not miserable, so that you can get real self-esteem in your heart. Self-esteem does not depend on the flattery of others, but the pursuit of truth.
After the test, everyone went to a bar to drink, and the soldiers toasted her like a warrior, while the women in the bar wore revealing clothes and got nothing but flattery. O'Neill with a shaved head looked at other women in the bathroom who were still jealous of her as a beauty and told her not to rob men. O'Neill could only return a helpless smile. Their confidence all came from men. Illusion, who is the "feminist fighter" fighting for?
4. O'Neill in the eyes of training officer Urgel
Training Officer Urgel is a stern and even inhuman person. He didn't like O'Neal at first, of course, because her standards were different from others. It was indeed unfair to other players. When he shaved his long hair and asked to be the same as other soldiers, he began to have a good impression of her, but as a veteran with actual combat experience, he privately talked to O'Neill, saying that he was worried that a woman would affect other men when she went to war. The soldier's judgment, because men have the nature to protect women, he has seen scenes of men nostalgic for women's corpses on the battlefield. O'Neill, who was in the shower, turned around naked, without any shyness that a woman should have, and asked him very frankly: "A man saves a man is friendship, and saving a woman is a soft heart?" Gail still had concerns about her female body, so she deliberately raped her in the final test, trying to make her retreat, but she responded to the instructor's doubts with her own actions, and Gail couldn't help asking. Self: "Maybe the problem is not the woman, but ourselves?" Because this woman really defended her honor with extraordinary courage, without any water.
In a real rescue operation, what Urgel feared happened, but instead, this time he was trapped in enemy fire by himself, and O'Neill, like Urgel, had obtained the Like the Cross, the 240-pound Urguer was rescued by heroically rushing into the ring of fire. Through this operation, it is fully proved that women are not necessarily protected objects in the battlefield, they can also protect men. Afterwards, all the team members who participated in the rescue operation were awarded the Medal of Honor by the government, but O'Neill did not receive the Cross of Knight's Honor for "dragging the 240-pound companion from the fire", perhaps as the female politicians did. Americans don't let their wives and daughters die on the battlefield, and politicians can't let women be heroes in the choice of life or death. And as the polling data shows, the public is psychologically unacceptable to women who are truly courageous. Even so, at the end of the film, Urgel still gave O'Neill his honorable cross in a book, just like the awards between ancient knights, this is a knight's respect and praise for another knight's courage , this kind of praise has nothing to do with gender, it is the glory that a person has earned for himself.
Classical romance novels often express lamentations about how bad their lives have been since ancient times, but in this day and age, we need to re-examine the categories of "good luck" and "bad luck" in classical novels. Although obedient children have the best life, those seemingly unlucky beauties may have just made wild things of their own choosing. They are free and happy, and never feel sorry for themselves.
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