[Desert and Flower]
The beginning of the shot is a flower in the desert, bright yellow.
Delicate petals, dry and cracked soil, and the beauty of conflict under strong contrast.
It is a force that has grown possible in impossible circumstances.
The whole story seems to convey the possibility of the impossible.
In the desert of truth-seeking, a flower can bloom.
【Ignorance and Truth】
Truth has a unified height, above human beings.
When we are in a small corner where we are, we often don't see it.
But as we continue to walk, with our inner intuition, we will feel it.
Until, when we are about to approach the truth,
at that time, the truth of the entire human world will meet again somewhere.
Only then can we say that we are one step closer to the truth.
Hua Si's mother thought that circumcision was a means of pursuing happiness, and she pursued it
reluctantly. This pursuit did not even raise doubts.
We obeyed ignorance, and ignorance insulted us.
The truth may be a process of infinite approach, but there is no way to know it without questioning and resisting.
When Hua Si ran away in the middle of the night, when she was walking on the endless dry and cracked ground, she was actually in the process of getting closer to the truth, until she walked to the podium of the United Nations.
What is influenced by her story, it may be a re-examination of etiquette, it may be a rethinking of ignorance, it may be people's understanding of the world... Even if there is only a little, in any case, this road is beautiful.
In the process of moving from ignorance to truth, we feel the power. Obviously, if Hua Si is as ignorant and helpless as her mother, her ignorance will definitely imprison her in a small corner of thirst, and she will never know what talent she is. is truly equal freedom and respect. She must not be able to change anything, her life, the lives of thousands of circumcised women.
[Feelings and hatred]
The first sentence of Hua Si's speech at the United Nations was: I love my mother, I love my brothers and sisters, and I love my family. When she finished saying this, her eyes were already wet. Then she began to complain about circumcision.
I think this is the entanglement in the character's innermost heart, and it is also her deepest feeling.
Why did she lock herself in the room before speaking? Such a brave girl is not afraid of a speech conference all over the world at all. What she was struggling with was whether it was a betrayal of family sentiment when she opposed circumcision to the world? It takes courage to criticize a custom with complex and heavy feelings. After a brief hesitation, she stood up. But she is still full of affection for her family. Although her family persecuted her body with ignorance, it was the shamelessness of the system, and her family was also a victim. How much emotion, how much anger, Hua Si took all of it with her wounded body.
Does it also imply that feelings, culture, morality, hereditary... are all stumbling blocks on the way to our pursuit of truth? What really hurts us is our emotional torment.
【Chastity and Freedom】
The inability of castrated women to enjoy sex without pain in spirit and psychology actually means that it is difficult for them to pursue their own love and marriage. In the movie, Hua Si took off her bottoms with tears of humiliation to show her friends, and the moment when her friends also took off her bottoms, it was the face of "chastity" and freedom. Also a woman, her Caucasian best friend is able to enjoy her body and enjoy sex, while Luxuriously escapes from the hands of a male partner she has a crush on. The freedom and openness of Western culture has undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to Hua Si, her inherent concept collapsed instantly, she should be like that, not this. This scene is really distressing. If chastity can only be achieved by physical imprisonment, it is a complete blasphemy of chastity.
【Oppression and Resistance】
Hua Si smashed the head of the man who tried to rape him with the stone in his hand. The bravery and strength of a little girl is the resistance to reality. Although this plot is a little old-fashioned, it may be an allusion to allowing each of us to pick up the stone in our hands to defend ourselves. There is also a scene where the reporter interviewed Huai Si after she became famous. She used a circumcision story to resist the reporter's pre-arranged interview topic to please the public. In the camera, she was already as hard as a rock, and the female reporter beside her was already sobbing. Soft and hard, pressure and resistance are the tension of the story.
[Despair and Hope] Despair
again and again, working as a cleaner, sleeping on the street, and being imprisoned because of passport issues, despair always creeps into my heart, Huasi lives in desperation, and always uses her kindness and beauty Turn danger to safety. Make people believe again that goodness is one of the forces that saves people. No desperation should destroy the beauty in human nature.
[Dying and Rebirth]
Before dying is a series of sufferings, and before rebirth is countless moments of near-death.
Hunger, poverty, humiliation, no place to live, and nowhere else to live by can't let Huasi die. On the contrary, it made the flower bloom more vividly, attracting the attention of thousands of people. Hua Si decides to undergo surgery to improve her body, decides to take off her clothes for the photographer to take pictures, decides to go to her unknown runway... all of which belong to her rebirth. The rebirth of culture, the rebirth of the body, the rebirth of life...
It is not just a simple inspirational story, the plot is not ingenious, but the story itself has vitality. There is firmness in softness, tenderness in indifference, hope in crying, wisdom in ignorance, beauty in ugliness.
Beauty always arises in confrontation, and life advances in confrontation. This film tells us what struggle is.
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