The women's independence movement was like any revolution in history. And Tan Sitong has already proved with his courage and Kunlun that since ancient times revolutions have to be sacrificed with blood. Astrid's mother understood this, of course, but she loved herself so much, she loved her brilliant intelligence and beauty more than she loved the revolution, and even more than her daughter Love. So she wisely chose to "bleed other people's blood and sacrifice her own life". Perhaps this revolutionary method is very clever, but inevitably, it has the suspicion of opportunism. One-sided revolutions—such as ours for women’s independence—are always accompanied by compromise, as we see at the end of the story. The understanding of the mother and daughter in the film essentially reflects the compromise between independence and communication. Man is the product of society, and man is the sum of social relations. When Astrid raised the female independence movement to self-enclosure and defense of individuality, she went to a point of no return.
I have always felt that the correctness of the revolution must be consistent with the correctness of the motive and the correctness of the method. It seems to me that the motives of this revolution were right at the beginning and then descended into the fallacy of paranoia; the methods were always wrong, manifesting in the tyranny of the daughter.
Therefore, what the feminist movement needs is not only the consciousness of the individual, but also the deep liberation from the social level. This is also the biggest feeling this film gave me.
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