Agree with the point of view of a film review, this is about the awakening of female consciousness.
The first half an hour was just foreshadowing, starting from Thelma kissing Anya, the film gradually accelerated and began to tell the whole theme.
The pranks of male classmates show men's playful attitude towards women's desires.
Male and female doctors represent society's attitude towards female consciousness awakening - feeling problematic, but also confused, not sure what that is.
Grandma is a representative of being torn apart by the male consciousness and her own female consciousness. Because under the background of social repression, her awakened female consciousness has brought tragedy to her life, so she turned to deny her own female consciousness and was torn apart.
The younger brother symbolizes the budding patriarchal thinking of women, and the mother cares more about the younger brother than Thelma, which is the legendary patriarchy. The little girl who has not been brainwashed by patriarchy is incomprehensible and angry about her instinct to be treated unequally.
The mother smashed the cup on purpose and looked at Thelma as if to say, "Your awakened consciousness has ruined our traditional and peaceful life." The mother is also seen everywhere in the film as an absolute obedience of male power, a symbol of disability. Not independent, the daughter finally gave her the ability to be independent, symbolizing the mother's female consciousness gradually awakened in the process of tug of war with each other, even though she was still afraid of temptation and walked cautiously.
Father is the true character of patriarchy, authoritative, correct, and strong. In the clip of bathing his daughter, it can be seen that his attitude towards women is that he regards them as his accessories, without personality and without privacy. For the parents, Thelma's awakening was really a disaster. They loved her, but refused to accept the real her. They had to suppress her nature and turn her into an "ordinary person" like them. If they failed , they would rather destroy her, because they feel that Thelma has also ruined their "beautiful life" and can't "save" Thelma, they can only choose to protect the life they are used to. But in the end, the daughter burned her father's values and spit out the crow that would appear every time she woke up, trying to stop her.
Anya is Thelma's awakened consciousness, and she can also be regarded as a real person.
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