I think things are very simple, I think the first episode is about rape . Gender, fear, violence, and other themes, in the final analysis, this episode only talks about one thing, which is rape.
The plot is simple: because the heroine was raped by a gang, she lost her body and became a meat-eater, and she fought again and again in the Colosseum to "revenge."
The lens and design of the fighting scene are actually talking about rape.
Put a few pictures first:
From the angle of falling on the ground, to inserting a knife into the body in slow motion, to being pressed against the wall without the ability to resist, every detail of each action of both parties metaphors the process of rape.
Is this duel fair ?
Unfair .
From the game itself , the heroine was about to win, but the other party made a secret move and took out a knife. After the game, the teammates also complained that the opponent cheated.
From the overall story , the opponent's character will be fine when he is dead, and the heroine is a meat-eater, and when he is dead, he is really dead.
Is it fair? The game was unfair at the beginning.
We are still talking about rape.
In itself , was the raped because the victim was too weak? No, whoever has a weapon is awesome, what about cheating.
On the whole , the rapist brings absolute and irreversible damage to the raped, and the rapist himself will never realize it.
In the face of such an unfair situation and such an unfair society, the heroine made a desperate effort to resist and narrowly defeated the opponent.
Let's connect again to see the plot before and after.
In the beginning, someone paid for the heroine to lose deliberately, making this unfair game even more unfair.
After the game, the person who wanted the heroine to lose became so angry that they wanted to kill the heroine.
This matter has never been fair from beginning to end, and "everyone believes what they want to believe."
The hostess said, I won not because I hate , but because I am afraid .
How many people live in fear because they have not received the protection they deserve, fear of death, fear of being oppressed and mutilated, fear of being raped.
How many vulnerable groups protested and marched not out of hatred, but out of fear . In order to obtain the most basic rights, they had to resist, but they were never understood, stigmatized, and labeled as hate .
The heroine is not a little girl who wants revenge because of being raped, she is a warrior, she fights for fairness.
"I am fighting for my life. That is my edge. "
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