"Under the Peony" also bluntly raised this issue, including explaining that the girls became more concerned about their appearance after John's arrival, and Miss Martha discussed with everyone at dinner what the Colonel's arrival gave everyone, and actually came." There are other important things besides the class" answer. John originally only regarded this school as a place to recuperate, and just like the soldiers who visited the two nights later, regarded this place as a supply station. The latter part of the film shows the blind spot between the sexes. The soldier saw Miss Martha with a gun and ignored it. As a threat, he laughed and said that the most terrible thing in the world is "a woman with a gun and is frightened"; on the contrary, when the pistol fell into John's hand, the women looked very frightened, as if they suddenly forgot that John was just a cowardly deserter, and John also Thought he had the upper hand, how could he expect that he would die under the peony flowers.
After the same director, Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan Scott directed "Cracks" in 2009. It may be just a coincidence, but the author believes that the female director's role in depicting the theme of friendship and conflict between women is important. There are indeed traces of preference, such as Catherine Breillat's "Sister Erotica" (Fat Girl), Jane Campion's debut "Sweetie" (Sweetie) is also such a work.
As mentioned above, when there is a place where men join women's gatherings, their behavior will change; the outsider in "Crack" is Fiamma, a girl from the Spanish aristocracy, her appearance makes a woman who is like an isolated island. The school has undergone earth-shaking changes, and her every move is a potential thread that disintegrates the relationship between Miss G and the girls. Although Fiamma is not a male, because Miss G is gay, the female students in the film have lived in the female group for a long time, and their admiration or admiration for Miss G does not exclude the element of admiration except for her experience (especially another The heroine Di), so to this extent Fiamma's place in the film is comparable to that of Colonel John. In the end, Miss G's behavior of destroying each other when she fails to fall in love is the same as the killing of the male protagonist by the women in the film "Mo", but the starting points of the two are different. The murder in "Mo" is the consensus of everyone (except Edwina), and the victory of all the women, while Miss G is from the inner disintegration of the individual. Although it killed Fiamma, it was a lose-lose ending.
The double standard of girls' school culture
This is another argument made by Chizuru Ueno: "The girls' school culture has double standards of 'for men' and 'for women', but the world of men has a single value. Men who are touted by men will also Appreciated by women. The criteria for evaluating men are simply money and power. Under the double standards of girls' school culture, the "good woman" in the eyes of women is naturally different from the "good woman" in the eyes of men. Women cannot control what men give The value of women, so the "good women" in the eyes of those men become the object of resentment and jealousy of other women. On the other hand, the "good women" in the eyes of those women are unattractive and unpopular with men because of their qualities. Waiting for malicious comments, but instead, it has become the object of reassurance for other women.”
The principal who can best practice this double standard in the film is Miss Martha (the difference between the principals in the old version is more obvious), on the one hand, she urges the girls to cook and learn to sew, which makes them become The good women in their minds and what they asked them to do, after closing the door, was chatting with John while drinking and talking. And John only has appearance, and it has no value to attract the woman's heart. Compared with the old version, the "Mo" film has deleted Miss Martha's affair with her brother, and even the only clue to her love for John is gone. The rest It is only the desire for the opposite sex, and this desire is dispensable because it lacks emotion as a basis.
Alicia (Elle Fanning) also seduced John with a sense of joking. When the two had their first conversation, Alicia had not shy about pointing out that the other was a deserter who lacked courage. Falling in love with him like that - sure enough, people who misplace their feelings will become losers, and they almost eat poisonous mushrooms to death. Nonetheless, it is their luck that the women in "Mo" can live up to the double standard described above, even if Edwina makes a mistake, it is her autonomy. The 2002 film "Madeleine Fallen Girls", which was adapted from a true event, is about a nuns school in Ireland in the 1960s. The girls in the film were asked by the nuns to cleanse their "sins" with extremely harsh labor. The so-called sin is nothing more than being pregnant with a boyfriend's flesh and blood, dating young boys, etc., is enough to make them considered unclean; the nun as the headmaster is the power of the school, and when the parents send their daughters to the school, the father will take the daughter's Destiny is left to the nuns, and the status of nuns is higher than that of fathers. It can be seen that nuns are "good women" in the eyes of fathers. However, such a "good woman" with supervision and the only standard made tens of millions of people at that time. Girls are trapped in a school that is like a prison. In this regard, double standards may be a trait rather than a bad thing for girls' school culture.
2017-06-09
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