I watched Natalie Portman's First Lady on Wednesday afternoon. It's a movie that is well worth watching in China.
Some people think that this drama is too Portman-based, which has dragged down the good book, but I think it is the opposite, it is her acting that supports this good book, but the editing of the first 40 minutes is too procrastinated and messy, some deliberately Doing the coupling of time nodes, so it can't be regarded as the best movie, but it is very rare compared to the same period. It's not pleasing to the audience who are used to blockbusters, after all, the couple next to them are snoring...
Celebrity biographies have always been difficult to perform. Another film that springs to mind is "The Queen". After many years of death, the coffin has been finalized, and her mother's family and the family with the surname still firmly control some speech and power in the United States. A woman who is at the center of power and is famous for her style needs the wisdom of the director, and the script is clever. The node must be pressed on the four days and nights from death to the end of the burial, and concentrated expression from the moment when this woman encountered the most subversive.
There are two levels of thinking here, one is about identity and the other is about power.
The first layer, is the status of a wife in modern society equivalent to a profession?
I really like a line in the film, when Portman used the threat to insist on walking the coffin, the secretary couldn't help asking what you thought you were doing, and she replied: I am doing my job.
I really want to applaud for this sentence. In my opinion, a wife is a kind of social identity, and identity and occupation are not very different in modern society. They both share responsibilities and obligations. Jacqueline or the director and screenwriter themselves subconsciously Or unconsciously identify with it.
From the past to the present, as a standard of identity as a wife, no matter how liberal and democratic, the public often regards her subconsciously as her husband's vassal and foil, as if all a woman's efforts are to be worthy of the person she is married to. Of course, in a relationship where women are strong and men are weak, upside-down evaluations abound. But what if we treat marriage as a profession? We will not judge the ability of a partner because of the strength of a boss. At most, we can say that the vision is not good, and marriage is a company operated by them.
True gender equality is not in how to be treated separately, elevated or degraded, but how the word itself is viewed. Can we deconstruct it and spread it as we do with other nouns. We often give too much pink imagination to this word, but gender itself is just an identity, or a profession that can change roles and partners at any time.
The second layer, what should I do in the state apparatus?
Even though the director seems to be doing his best to represent the heroine, the center of his story is not actually her. Jacqueline is just a reference to pierce the alternation of the White House and power, just like her role as the narrator in the film, and another important Clue She was in the White House and she made a documentary to reveal the White House veil to the world. Is she the one who revealed the secrets of the White House? more than. This is a woman's struggle, and it is her resistance and use of the so-called modern social system. When people are just screws and the operation of the state machine depends entirely on institutions and systems, they don't care that much about who you are.
So who do we live for? Squatting and occupying space, or savage growth
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