female awakening

Zack 2022-03-25 09:01:19

The heroine in "The End of the World" is also an extremist. It can be seen from her eyes, attitude and tone that she hates and dislikes this society, but she is powerless. She resists superficial desires in the form of choosing independence and self-exile, and declares her own victory. . She doesn't work, she doesn't love, she doesn't make friends, she doesn't cooperate, she doesn't cry when she is raped (reminiscent of a girl Mochat), she doesn't speak when she is thrown from the car, everything is a silent struggle, and she is strong by herself The most powerless way to resist, death is her best result. Women's most egoistic desires were buried alive invisibly, and even the director did not give a solution. Agnès Varda's "The End of the World" is a moment of regret, stepping into the frozen abyss. The director can only sigh her fate and the rebellious energy in her thoughts, but she is unable to save or encourage her to walk out like this resolutely. Social "persecution". Death is the proof, but also the evidence of crime. There is no room for a person to live on the edge of society. On the way to find a reason to live, the heroine is killed by hunger and cold in the gully. This is an impossible decision. The director just exposes this marginalized existence, leaving the rest for others to think about.

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Extended Reading
  • Miller 2022-04-20 09:02:21

    Choose absolute and complete freedom, absolute and complete loneliness, and absolute and complete on the road. The documentary-like lens stares at Mona. Mona's walk connects the people in the town. When everyone faces the camera directly, they express their secular vision. This vision condenses the two ends of individuality and society. The form is too wonderful. The more thoroughly Mona resists human sociality, the more thoroughly it shows how thoroughly all human individuals are kidnapped by social rules. The entire species follows one value, you must work, you must be decent, and you must change bread, or you will be degraded and will eventually disappear. This one rule cannot allow anyone to exist in a different form, but all the rules within However, after despising and denying her, people couldn't help but envy the angel who decided to never belong to their race. Because the free soul is unforgettable.

  • Rowena 2022-04-21 09:03:10

    From short-lived bright to long-lasting gray, from fertile fields and seas to dark gullies, life is so vast and so sad. Varda said through the character's mouth: "If you choose freedom, you choose loneliness. If you don't stop, you will go to destruction." Atypical road films are actually wandering films. The tattered red boot lining on the heroine's feet is the last breath of life. I love Varda.

Vagabond quotes

  • la platonologne Mme Landier: Why did you drop out?

    Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi: Champagne on the road's better!

  • les Bergers: She blew in like the wind. No plans, no goals... No wishes, no wants... We suggested things to her. She didn't want to do a thing. Wandering? That's withering. By proving she's useless, she helps a system she rejects. It's not wandering, it's withering.