If the breadwinner of a family is the father, but the father is missing. The mother is unwilling to face the cruel life and becomes dazed. The family is poor and poor, and there are twelve-year-old brother and six-year-old sister to take care of. I don't know if I can survive this winter, but I was told by the police who suddenly came to the door that my father had mortgaged the house and woodland as bail, but he ran away now. Court is due in a few days, and if the father does not show up, the only woodland and house the family depends on will be confiscated .
This is the situation faced by Ree, a seventeen-year-old girl.
The Ozarks region in the northwestern Missouri, USA, is a completely different world from the developed cities in the east and west. Poverty is the spokesperson here . Farming can only make them struggling to survive, so men will be invested in the production and sale of drugs. People here still gather together according to their families, sometimes helping each other, and sometimes betraying each other for profit. There is no such thing as blood is thicker than water.
Either homeless or finding his father and taking him to court, Ree chose the former.
This is a small place, and they are inextricably linked to each other, and it is not so difficult to inquire about a person. But Ree was repeatedly blocked, and everyone told her to let go and not go looking for it. Because a woman has no status here, let alone an underage girl, people are reluctant to tell her the truth, and coldly think that she should be resigned to fate.
Just like Ree's mother, because she couldn't accept her husband's disappearance, she simply refused to face it and threw this mess to Ree. Here, women are the second sex hiding behind men, they are weak or fierce, but the purpose is to support their men and obey.
Ree went to her friend's husband to borrow a car, but was rejected. The friend told her that it was different when she got married, and she had to listen to her husband. Ree didn't agree with this. She insisted on walking to several relatives' houses to inquire about news. Her father's only younger brother, an uncle nicknamed "Teardrop", grabbed her by the neck and told her to stop looking. Although my aunt sympathized with her experience, all she could do was quietly stuff her a pack of cigarettes and let her take it on the road to warm up.
She inquired about news all the way, and it was always women who opened the door. Men seemed to control everything, but they were all useless people hiding behind women to eat, drink, and enjoy themselves.
They thought they would give up if she couldn't find it, but they didn't. So she came up with another way to lie to her that the house was on fire when her father was making drugs, and he was burned to death inside. And she was forbidden to get out of the car to see it. She insisted on getting out of the car and walked into the burned house to find her father's body, but found that the weeds here had grown to her chin, and it was not a recent fire at all.
Relatives also told her they could adopt her brother if their house and woodland were confiscated. As for my sister, no one wants a girl.
Ree exposed the lie that her father was burned to death, and rejected the "kind-hearted" adoption. She will use her own strength to find her father and keep the only property in the family, so as to raise her younger brothers and sisters to grow up.
She doesn't need to tell anyone about her determination, she just needs to do it.
Freud's early theory was that girls envied boys for having organs they didn't have, so girls aspired to be boys. The Oedipus period only focuses on the boy's conflict of identity with his mother and father, while ignoring the girl's identity and conflict in the process of growing up . But girls, like boys, have their mothers as the first important object in their lives. Their binary relationship was established with the women, their mothers, and it was only after the entry of the father that they transitioned into a ternary relationship. This partial neglect was supplemented in Freud's later years, when he created the pre-Oedipus theory to compensate for the conflict and identity between mother and daughter, but never got rid of the main frame of girls' gender jealousy of boys.
But girls are born different from boys, their first important object is the same sex, so the first development is identification. Boys don't have this part of the trouble if their bond with their mother is too close to their gender identity. So they can naturally establish a good bond with their mother, and throughout their lives, they will value interpersonal connection rather than competition in social life.
This creates the illusion that it is very difficult for women to give up a relationship, even at the expense of themselves.
Women's love of relationships leads men to associate them with protection, independence, and conflict avoidance, while ignoring their own strength. Even women themselves think so.
So in the barren Ozarks region of northwest Missouri, men treat women in self-righteous ways and engage in illegal activities without considering the lives of their wives and children. Although women have a low status locally, it is they who are responsible for taking care of the entire family.
Ree's tenacity shows a kind of female strength. She begged someone to tell her father's whereabouts, but she wouldn't beg, and she wouldn't compromise. If you try to fool her, she will spit it away. After beating her up, she will still go to find out about her father's whereabouts. In this small place, she was a woman like no other, a legend.
It was the women who helped her in the end.
Neighborhood aunts help her raise horses and bring some venison to the children. The friend finally summoned the courage to take her husband's car keys and take the child with her to find her father. Even the group of women who beat her were shaken by her determination, and quietly took her to the lake where her father was killed to help her obtain evidence of her father's death.
Whether in the Victorian era in which Freud lived, or in the Ozarks of the United States in the 21st century, discrimination against women is ubiquitous. The canceled list of "Sisteria" was once invented only for women, and women with more emotions than men were considered to be less restrained and calm, and even considered pathological.
When Ree was looking for her father, the men used all kinds of tricks to get her to give up, but she ruthlessly saw through them. In order to protect her young siblings and ailing mothers, women like Ree will burst with great energy, and even the uncle "Teardrop" who stopped her in the first place is touched by her. In the end, she finally kept their home, and their only property.
Movies and literary works are not reality, but they are representations of reality. The story can be fictional, but what it evokes is the real emotion and resonance of the audience. The 17-year-old girl Ree's process of finding her father's whereabouts is a process in which women compete with the entire patriarchal society. Every woman may face such a situation, should they follow the labels that others have placed on you to meet "their" expectations, or rely on their own strength to gain more choices?
Ree, who walks alone on the cold and windy Ozarks, fought and won against the entire patriarchal society in which she lived.
This movie is almost a one-man show for the eldest cousin, which is why I like her. A good actor can star in commercial films as well as challenge small-production films. Usually the lion girl who loves to wrestle on the red carpet of Tailielie, there is no sense of disobedience when she plays the child of the poor family of Osack. I also love her face, not that kawaii or very princessy kind of face, but works perfectly for all kinds of characters.
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