Feminism's staggering, the shackles of the times

Catharine 2022-03-27 09:01:13

The beginnings and turns of non-traditional narratives, the climax of non-conflict explosions, the director breaks the coherence of the narrative, and in the constant transition of narrative viewpoints, the film inserts black and white stop-motion photos and psychedelic long shots, depicting the representation of feminism and building an era. of prehistoric feeling. Accompanied by jazz and punk, we and the camera focus on the mental state of three generations of women.

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Middle-aged Dorothea, she was at the forefront of the times but was left behind. The first batch of independent women in the workplace who graduated from pilot school, she smoked avant-garde cigarettes and signed her son's absurd fake note. She is conscious of the concept of equality in the primary stage of feminism, lived out her attitude during the Great Depression in the United States, and was not afraid of gossip even if she was labeled gay. However, the accompaniment of jazz shows the limitations of the characters in the times. She is disgusted in the discussion on the first night of her period at the dinner table, and she is abrupt in the bar of punk music. Her life is strong and fragile, open and conservative. The status of the vagina and the penis are equal here. freedom of menstruation

A young Abby, with red hair, pursues art and freedom. She respects the soul of everything, takes pictures with her camera to piece herself together, talks about menstruation at the dinner table, and swings her body freely in punk music. She is more open to the expression of sex and love. She had sex with William, but the director didn't make the "camera"'s interaction with the model a role-playing process, just to find a reason to vent Abby's sexual needs. While males mate and have fun with females, they also need to understand that females have periods. orgasmic indulgence

Juvenile Julie, experiencing the pleasure brought by different penis, but never had an orgasm, she was addicted to the expression of the temperature of the man's flesh and the moan of the last blow, she completely controlled her body and gave out sex of unscrupulous. However, during the Vietnam War, indulging in punk rock and drug abuse, the confused generation enjoyed physical pleasures but sought spiritual comfort on the co-sleeping bed. She smoked as cool as a man, she respected her gender and made her voice as a woman. It is said that the first night does not matter about sluts, and it is a woman's right to enjoy orgasm.

The three women show different attitudes and dispositions towards the sexes under the characteristics of the times, shaping Jimmy who is about to become a man. From sliding in front to running side by side with mother on the road, from self-healing to dancing with mother, from brown hair to blonde, in fact, mother and son just returned to the origin of emotion. The lives of the five people continued, like every ordinary person in the era. It's just that sometimes you see Dorothea's plane through the morning light and hear the shackles of women cracking in the age.

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  • Jamie: I thought that was just the beginning of a new relationship with her, where she'd really tell me stuff. But maybe it was never really like that again. Maybe that was it.

    Dorothea: In March of 1999, I'll start to feel tired and confused. When I finally go to the doctor, he will say that the cancer in my lungs had already travelled to my breast and brain. I'll try to teach Jamie what to do with my stocks, but my instructions will be impossible to understand.

    Julie: Abbie will take me to Planned Parenthood. And I will go on the pill. I will go to NYU and lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, and I will stop talking to my mom, I will fall in love with Nicholas, we will move to Paris, and choose not to have children.

    Abbie: I will stay in Santa Barbara. In just two years, I'll marry Dave. A month after I get married Carlotta will die. A week later, Max will die too. I will work out of my garage and show in local galleries. Against my doctor's advice, I will get pregnant, and by the time I'm thirty I'll have two boys.

    William: I'll live with Dorothea for another year. Then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona Arizona. I will marry Laurie, a singer-songwriter. We'll get divorced in a year. Then I'll meet Sandy, we will marry, and I will continue to do my pottery.

    Jamie: My mom will meet Jim in 1983, they'll be a couple until she dies. On her birthday each year, he will buy her a trip on a biplane. Years after she's gone I'll finally get married and have a son. I'll try to explain to him what his grandmother was like - but it will be impossible.

  • Jamie: [to his mom] You know, when the firemen come... people don't usually invite them for dinner.