The movie depicts a wealth of female images. The three female protagonists are Rani, a widow in her thirties who bears huge debts for her son's marriage, Rajo, a wife who thought she was infertile and suffered from her husband's domestic violence, and a prostitute in a wandering dance troupe. Dancer's head card Billie. There are also many lively supporting roles, college students who were educated in backward villages but were humiliated, the heroine's fourteen-year-old daughter-in-law... It can be called a real female group portrait movie.
The most touching thing about this film is the mutual help and friendship between women at the bottom.
They are all uneducated and even brainwashed by patriarchal ideas. But the instinctive empathy among women is particularly moving.
Rani's daughter-in-law was fourteen or fifteen years old. When she was insulted and beaten by Rani's son, Rani also remembered his past. Traditional literary and artistic works often put mother-in-law and daughter-in-law on opposite sides. In fact, they should be the most similar people at different times. Rani finally gave up his jerk son, let go of his daughter-in-law, let her go to school, and regarded her as his own daughter.
Rajo has a lively personality, and every time she encounters domestic violence, she will go to the widow Rani's house for healing. But one time Rani was out, and Rani's teenage daughter-in-law carefully anointed Rajo. Amazing details. They are connected, not because of friendship, not because of any other reason, but because they are both women who have been hurt.
Billie, despite being a prostitute, has always acted as Rani and Rajo's enlightener. Tell them women want to dream, and tell Rajo that infertility might be her husband's problem. In such a backward place, women who are the first to let go of their sexual ethics and ignore sexual shaming are always the first to wake up. In the end, Billie helped Rajo find a random man and made Rajo pregnant. Derailed with an oppressed friend, breaking the shackles of marriage.
Although Billie and Rani are good friends, they are not small. It's the relationship between the prostitute and the customer's wife. It's so touching that they didn't enter the female competition, but licked each other's wounds as the wounded.
In the process of watching, I was afraid that Billie would be saved by love. But in the end, Billie suddenly realized that the man who claimed to love her also wanted to be her boss, making her a prostitute in another sense. She woke up quickly and let go immediately. In the end, Billie told Rajorani that many men had made promises to her, but no one had kept them. Only her friends gave her true freedom.
The true friendship of women.
Women's true freedom, only women can give.
There are also many details in the film, such as women who started trying to make money with handicrafts and bought the first TV in the village. For example, Rani Rajo can feel the vibration of the mobile phone when sitting on the mobile phone. Pretty cute.
The female expression in the entire film is very delicate, and the intuitive creator should be a woman. I checked and it turns out that she is a female director. She should be an Indian with a British and American background. The details of the Indian background and costumes in the entire film are very impressive, but the output point of view is advanced and free.
recommend!
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