Imagine if you wake up one day and find that the world is turned upside down, women are in charge of the house, and men do laundry, cook and take care of children, what the world will be like? As early as 2014, such a brain-opening comedy film "Jackie in the Daughter's Country" appeared in France. "Men Want to Love Oneself" also continued this setting. The powers exercised by men and women are completely reversed, and men have Follow women's orders. It's just that this idea is brought into play more vividly, and the brain hole is astounding.
Damian, the protagonist of the movie "Men Have to Love Oneself", is a playboy with a romantic temperament, who usually molests girls when he has something to do. In the love arena, he is a high-ranking old driver. When he and his friend Christopher were walking down the street whistling to a girl, they accidentally bumped into a pillar, and the whole world was turned upside down. In this world, women wear suits and shoes, walk in the workplace, and men wear "hot pants" (Damian wears sweatpants with the word HOT printed on the buttocks) and bring children.
Women run down the street bare-chested bare-chested, men wrapped in headscarves drink coffee cautiously. In order to please a woman, a man needs to wear panties that raise the balls, shave off all body hair, and keep fit. The TV shows the body of a man, the print advertisements on the street consume "male sex", the pole dancer in the bar is a man with long hair, and even in poker, Q (Queen) is better than K (King). ) big, men have to learn to act like a spoiled child to survive. Conversely, women can whistle at men on the street, criticize good-looking men, and cheat. Men are unwilling to vassalize women, and they are wearing fake chest props in groups, holding signs of "masculinity", and shouting to be independent.
Such a simple and rude inversion setting has to marvel at the director's brain. In fact, the director of the film, Eleonore Priya, put this idea into action as early as eight years ago, shooting a 10-minute short film. The same replacement, the same setting to reflect on women's daily life. The short film "The Vulnerable Majority" tells the story of a man named Peter experiencing a day as a "woman" and the huge difference after the roles of men and women were reversed. He was verbally humiliated by a homeless woman on the street, molested by several women, and reported to the crime. Later, the police perfunctory, but his wife blamed him for wearing too little, attracting bees and butterflies.
The short has 13 million views on YouTube, and as the director puts it: "The whole story is rooted in my experience as a woman living in France, where French men are worse than others, but the film's phenomenal success shows that, This is not just a French problem." [Men need self-love] The entire story structure is based on "The Weak Majority", which is expanded and refined on this basis, and the use of the principle of inversion makes the film full of irony everywhere. .
Both patriarchy and gender clichés are reversed in this film, and condemning gender inequality by turning the world upside down is a very novel idea. Such an upside-down setting explicitly condemns women's often secondary roles in our society, where even the most capable women can only serve as supporting roles for men, allowing us to intuitively see the gap between the two worlds. difference. But when Damian wakes up in the parallel world, we find that the story stays in the female-dominated world, the flat plot, the simple plot, and the displacement climax brought by the movie gradually disappears, and the only thing left is gender. Exaggerated comedy effect.
"Men Need Self-Love" wants to make men feel the daily life of women and the pain they suffer through the method of empathy. Unfortunately, making women look like men (dressing and behavior) seems to be useless, is it copying men? All kinds of behaviors can achieve the concept of equality between men and women. At the end of the film, the protagonist Damian did not receive a lesson in the feminist society at all, reflecting on himself, he was still a macho, and he was adapting and compromising in the upside-down world. If even the protagonist doesn't think about how this social status quo is caused, and only considers the impact of role reversal, so [Men Have to Love Oneself] will not have a bomb impact on society like its short film.
A good feminist film is not about women taking a dominant position over men. But no matter what status women are in, they should be respected. This is the awakening of real female consciousness. Feminism is a rather unique concept system, and the biggest difference between this concept system and all other concept systems is that this concept system is particularly concerned with the equality of "gender". More importantly, the gender of concern is not the biological meaning of sex, but the cultural meaning of gender.
The reason why "The Endless Flower" has been enduring has opened up a new direction for road movies - an extremely good film showing women's resistance to power. The reason why "Piano Lesson" can be a model for expressing feminist ideas is that it narrates women's love stories and the meaning of life from a woman's perspective. The protagonist Ada refuses to speak to keep her right to speak. Talk to a patriarchal society to assert your power. "Men Want Self-Love" only pushes the film to a climax from the gender inversion. Men and women are in a binary opposition. In a parallel world, women's social status is superior to men's. Men are the projection of women's desires, so rigid and abrupt. Expressing "feminism" does not really express the normal wishes of women.
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