Tom and Isabel are the perfect incarnations of gender stereotypes. Tom’s rational temperance, Isabel’s sensual impulse, and even hysteria... In reality, men and women are actually a combination of two people, sometimes Tom, and sometimes Issa. Bell.
If you watched this movie a few years ago, you would definitely feel that Tom went against his heart and left orphans under his wife's plea, so he was helpless; he used a heroic self-sacrifice in exchange for the peace of his broken wife, so great!
But where was Isabel when he was in labor for the first time? In the second labor, he had no other substantive response except comfort. The wife’s childbirth is approaching and the island is uninhabited. The two should negotiate an emergency plan in advance just in case... Of course, miscarriage, fetal fetus, orphans and then lost, all these can be attributed to the helplessness and difficulty of life. Blame either party, but in the movie, it is very uncomfortable to divide people's complex emotions and ways of doing things with gender as the boundary, and then multiply it up...
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