Recently I have been reviewing some movies that I need to watch for my graduation thesis. Of course, no matter how high or low the rating is, the quality is good or bad, I have watched all of them based on the principle of focusing only on the theme of the movie. In my long and boring movie list, there is such a drooling movie, because the theme has attracted my attention-"Copying Your Wife".
Joanna is a talented TV show producer, and she also acts as an out-and-out strong woman in her family. However, the accident caused by a show made her company choose to abandon her to calm the turmoil. Her husband, company executive Walter, resigned angrily in order to comfort Joanna's grievance due to unfair treatment. Joanna wants to leave here to start a new life and save her marriage and family. So Walter decided to move the family to the legendary happy town-Stepford.
The Wellingtons are the "core figures" of Stepford. This small town has a beautiful environment. Everyone lives in a unified American country villa with a smart home system. "There is no crime, no poverty, and no prostitutes." Men have their own group meeting place, and ladies also have their own meeting place. However, this small town reveals a little weirdness: all wives are wearing sweet dresses with blond curly hair, and their daily lives are shopping, cooking, dancing, and admiring their husbands. "All we have to do is let us They all look the best. We can't let our husbands see us wearing old and earthy clothes and not even applying makeup." Joanna is out of place here, but fortunately she met the writer Barbie and gay architect Roger with similar interests. However, more weird things happened one by one: a wife fell on the scene of the assembly, her whole body seemed to be mechanically malfunctioning; her husband Walter began to envy other people's lives, and even thought that Joanna should learn more. Others’ wives; they found a remote control with this wife’s name written in other’s houses; then, Roger and Barbie became "others’ wives" dressed appropriately, loved housework, and obeyed their husbands and children. Perfect housewife. It turns out that all housewives were once powerful women, even more powerful and powerful people than their husbands. They were implanted with chips by the Wellingtons at the request of their husbands and turned into robots that lost themselves. Joanna discovered the weird secret of this small town, she tried to escape, but her husband chose to turn her into the same pattern.
Of course, at the end of the story, Joanna did not become a perfect housewife. She and her husband chose to act in a scene to end the farce. The ending is surprising. Mr. Wellington, who is willing to take other men to enjoy the "husband supremacy", is not the master behind the scenes, and even he himself is just a highly intelligent robot. The real "murderer" behind the scenes is Willing. Mrs. Dun, a woman who thinks she is the only good person in the world, a lunatic who makes herself a "perfect husband" by her own standards and turns other women into "perfect wives". She attributed the misfortune of her previous marriage to the fact that her work caused her to ignore the family, and extremely believed that the way to make the world a better place was to transform the women in this world who did not concentrate on family.
This movie was released in 2004, and the score is not high. It is a family comedy under the guise of science and technology. Of course, what I want to discuss is not a topic of science fiction, but a problem directly revealed in this story: women themselves are the ones that persecute women's rights the most.
It has been 9102, and I personally thought it was an era of considerable freedom and equality. Women have the right and freedom to run their own businesses, choose their own family model, and choose how to live their lives-an educated woman with her own independent and complete three perspectives, the career she has worked hard to develop and The achievements it brings are worthy of everyone’s respect and appreciation.
However, looking back at the past 2018, there are still some things that make people feel very joking, and people question whether the Qing Dynasty really died. There are still teenage girls who are in the formation of the Three Views, who are taught by the "teachers" in the so-called "female Durban" that "a woman who is ignorant is a virtue", is obedient to her husband, and there is no so-called freedom and dignity as a wife; some As a "victim" girl, even when she has suffered a tragic fate, she still has to be "stigmatized" by Internet sprayers and blamed for groundless accusations that "the victim is not a good person."
And among these people, quite a few are even women.
I think of my favorite of the year "The Handmaid's Tale" in 2017. It is also the story of women being humiliated and oppressed. It seems that the men who have mastered the supreme power have changed the fate of the maids who originally had families and decent jobs, but those who were lucky enough to become noble ladies and maids. Women are also ruthless accomplices. Under the control of patriarchy, as well as the surveillance and brainwashing of the wives and mothers, the maidservants have lost their identities, their professions, and their dignity and value. They eliminate the infinite possibilities of women as individuals, turn women into men's appendages and manifest patriarchy, and insult women's dignity and personal ability. And under this extreme male strength and weak female, it is more of compromises, obedience, and reluctant arrangements to conform to fate.
In fact, the issue of women's rights has always existed in all ages and places. The behaviors of objectifying women, belittling women, and denying women as independent individuals to achieve rich life value have not disappeared in this era. Even sometimes, some women themselves have questions about women's rights. "Copying My Wife" chooses to use sci-fi comedy for black humor. "The Handmaid's Tale" presents an extreme female survival dilemma under the extreme apocalypse of the world. It is a kind of all contradictions and behaviors that are intensified to extremes. situation. But no matter what form it is, it is a kind of vigilance and a reminder of the desperate survival of women that may happen in the future. With this reminder, all we can do is to respect ourselves, cherish ourselves, and respect and cherish everyone like us.
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