I'm actually particularly reluctant to call this a feminist or feminist movie, but unfortunately, it is.
As a woman, I have no sympathy for anything that strongly expresses feminism. Those emotional, self-willed, strong inferiority complexes and unconstructive expressions from the depths that are obscured by fragile self-esteem make me feel that they are misleading women and underestimating women's IQ. Women don't just signal that I'm weak, express my dissatisfaction with men, and express my anger at society's repression of women, no matter how cleverly they do it.
In my mind, this should be a story called fate driving me to the brink. This is the story of two ordinary people who committed a crime by the difference of a single thought, and went step by step to a helpless end in the neglect of fate.
Two ordinary women embark on a journey, one feels depressed about the complicated family and needs some fun, and the other can't wait for her boyfriend to settle down. This journey was originally just a way for two little women to relieve their boredom. Although at the end, Thelma says I think I'm enjoying myself and I'm happy, none of them actually want to put themselves in a dead end, even if the last mad act is just a natural move to the end. The fun after releasing the wild power has some hints of helplessness and doomsday, or the director's handling has some romantic meanings. This end of the road has nothing to do with being a woman or not. Although the moment Louise pulled the trigger was indeed radiated by the shadow of being hurt by men in the past, it is not uncommon for the past to find herself involuntarily and influence her current behavior. Whether it is a man or a woman, this kind of thing exists in life. It's just that some differences of thought dominate happiness, while others bury pain.
Imagine if the protagonist of the story is a man, two men committed a murder in a quarrel with others, then embarked on the road of escape, and were tricked by a beautiful woman into entanglement and then robbed a convenience store, so that the crime snowballed more and more. Bigger, last jump, how different is this story now? Except for feminism, the urgency of fate is no different from the pride of the poor.
So I always felt that the part where they burned the gas truck was superfluous. If the previous murder and robbery were all helpless, they could have chosen not to do that. Is this plot director arranged to reinforce feminist consciousness? Or do they think it's a natural reaction to the sheer euphoria they've gotten from the pounding of hormones, like gamblers with nowhere to go? No matter what kind of consideration, it weakened the thrust of fate and weakened the sympathy generated by the helplessness that I had been repressed in watching the movie.
Let's look at the characters themselves, do they really belong to the kind of system that is broken by men to resist men and take revenge on men? Thelma and her husband have been together since they were 14 years old. Even if they are angry buns, buns are not formed in a day. This oversimplified and formulaic treatment of the relationship between men and women established the legitimacy of her later strong awakening of feminism. basic, but not convincing men and women with real social experience. And Louise could have had a warm family. It was not men or society that drove them to the end, but themselves, and fate. Like dominoes, a small, even unintentional slip-up can ruin everything. Even if they have the lofty pride that does not lose to men, they are no match for the fate that turns the hand into the cloud and turns the hand into the rain.
I always think that it was the director's misunderstanding that made this pair of desperadoes with ancient Greek tragedies a stepping stone to the naive feminist consciousness.
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