Saying this is a film from a female perspective does not mean that the protagonist of the film is a woman, but the way the story presents itself, such as the way it is told, the way it behaves, the way it thinks, and so on. Feminine features.
The scene shown at the beginning of the film has the commonality of millions of housewives (normal countries). There is a husband who has long lost the fire of love. He is busy with life and has no interest. Women can only endure this ordinary torture in silence, but the contradictions have not intensified to the point of being out of control. It is this state that is the most depressing, and this is the background of the heroine Thelma.
Usually, this type of woman also has one or two best friends. This kind of best friend is definitely not an ordinary person, but she will not step into the grave of marriage as early as she does. A married woman has to befriend a bunch of married women. It's enough to think about this kind of thing. An extraordinary film should not have another married woman. This girlfriend actually symbolizes the unyielding heart after marriage (it can be called an unyielding soul), because everyone has an inexplicable impulse, some people hide it, and some people haven't.
The heroine Louis is such a best friend. She is unmarried, independent, individual, and does not succumb to patriarchal authority. To decide her own destiny, this is why she escaped marriage to a foreign land.
With such a girlfriend, all stories should be prepared, and the whole story must be extraordinary and not out of the norm.
At the beginning of the film, Selma's husband reprimanded her, fully demonstrating the family's repression. If you can't speak and shout freely in your own home, where else can you be free? Against this backdrop, the heroines make an appointment to take a short trip.
All the foreshadowing is done, just waiting for the story to begin. Selma, who was just out of the cage, lingered in the small bar on the way. She had no life experience and got on the pirate ship again. She was almost raped by the gangster in the bar, but was rescued by her best friend Louis. Louis has always had a strong female psychology, and the director may have intentionally portrayed her as a character who opposes patriarchy. The hooligan's provocation directly caused Louis to break out, killing the enemy with one shot. The account of this hooligan, through the later dialogue between the police officer and the waitress, shows that he is a scum who takes pleasure in seducing housewives, and the waitress does not think that it is the heroines who do it. It also seems to reflect the female perspective. It is a victim of this patriarchal society, and either endures silently or resists to the end.
The heroines resisted to the end, but the final way out was to fall off a cliff. I believe the director did this on purpose. This chapter shows that rebelling against the secular is a dead end for most people, which is the tragedy of human beings.
In the plot setting, in addition to the inherent twists and turns. The director also interspersed with Louis's lover to propose marriage, and Selma encountering a liar who cheated money and sex. Through these two bridges, the director first showed the sad ordinary life of the two heroines, and the life of suppressing human nature is anyone's. can not stand it. At the same time, the addition of these two paragraphs also effectively promoted the development of the story, paving the way for the later police detectives.
After being cheated of money, Selma suddenly turned wild, because she felt the other side of ordinary life - freedom and happiness. The two women went farther and farther in their extraordinary life, and finally even robbed the police officer, robbed the gun, and punished the truck driver who disrespected women. In short, everything is reasonable and interlocking.
The final chase should show the protagonists' desire for freedom, and would rather die than accept imprisonment, and do not want to spend this "happiness" in prison. The whole film ended with the two speeding up and then taking off into the air, without even giving a shot of falling off the cliff, it was frozen. It leaves people with endless imagination and regrets.
Such a pair of murderers, sexy, beautiful and lovely, makes people hate them at all.
(After watching it many years ago, I will record it temporarily and rewrite it in the future)
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