This year's International Women's Day is commemorated with a film.
The movie has three heroines with different circumstances but similar living conditions. The main story is that the first heroine, Rani, bought a bride for her son. The story of friends Rajo and Bickley, who are also tortured, run towards a free life in a three-wheeled fire.
Rani is a 32-year-old widow. Her husband's biggest hobbies before the car accident were domestic violence and prostitution, so she never had a normal family life after giving birth to her son at the age of 15. In the face of tragic encounters, her mother-in-law will always only say "everything will be fine" after cursing her. However, everything never got better.
The second heroine, Rajo, has been looked down upon and beaten by her alcoholic husband because of her infertility, until one day she became pregnant by other means, and her husband aggravated the hand of domestic violence - it turned out that he always knew its own reasons. In the end, during the tear, the husband was scorched to death by fire.
The third heroine, Bicky Li, is a sought-after cabaret performer who has received many promises that have never been fulfilled in her life. Because of her rich experience, she guides the first two heroines like a spiritual leader. Only she knows that she is also being The one that guides.
There are, of course, stories of many other women interspersed, such as the bride who was raped in turn by all the other men in the family except her husband.
Sex, children, alcohol, and violence, the four most distinctive elements of life in poverty, have become the film's main means of expressing conflict. But are these the root causes of the miserable fate of women? Or, if you solve these problems, can you live happily?
No, not only did the film director think so, but so did I.
Deep in the quagmire and reincarnation in hell, there are more obvious, but more ashamed, reasons to speak out—men’s inferiority complex, the inferiority of men in the face of the fear that the rise of women may lead to a control crisis.
The ignorant and ignorant Indian Asan, all day long, he just wants to better satisfy his animal desires. They are afraid of educated girls, because these girls have ideas, understand the truth, and have the ability, and they are no longer controlled by the dregs culture that has been constructed for a long time, and no longer believe in the fallacy and heresy that they cannot survive without men.
But in fact, even uneducated Indian women are more able to survive independently than their helpless husbands: Rajo was hired as an excellent employee for weaving handicrafts, and was able to live every month. Get paid on time, and even bonuses. With such a stable source of income, Rajo improved her husband's life and wanted to share the joy with her husband. It should have been a warm and joyous event, but she was beaten more violently by her incompetent husband.
He was afraid.
Although he couldn't earn money or have children at the beginning, he could at least gain a little bit of humble male dignity by bullying his wife Rajo. But now, what about Rajo? Borrowing seeds to get pregnant and have a stable job. For a long time, the waste surface that he had buried deep in his heart was exposed to the sun naked.
It is not that women who have read and educated are not good wives, but that there is no way to live with men who have not read.
Perhaps the situation in India is more extreme, so it will always be paid special attention. In fact, in China, there is the same dilemma, even deeper and more harmful. For example, the stigmatization of the "women doctor" group, and this stigma even comes from the female group itself. The variety show "Why are you so good-looking?" was discussed a lot earlier. ", Wu Xin, who was not very educated, showed disdain and ridicule for the life concept of a German female doctor.
The female doctor did not know "BB cream" and was rated as "not female". I mean, do you know how to say "I love you, thank you" in German? Do you know what a "neurotransmitter" is? Or, do you know what "consumerism" is?
The predicament of women is not only the imprisonment of men, but also the imprisonment of self.
The first heroine, Rani, died a long time ago, and the third heroine, Bickley, never had a husband. If it was only because of the oppression and slavery of women by men in the family, they should have escaped long ago. Clutch, obtained happiness. But none of them, because the real demons come from culture, from self.
Rani cares about "what people will say?", and "people's eyes" has always been her criterion for judging things. The bride's hair is too short and will be laughed at by others; at the son's wedding scene, Bickley's visit will be treated differently; her hair is burnt, what will others say?
But there is no way to blame her for this, and there is no way to simply evaluate it as "mourning her misfortune and angering her indisputably". The clan cultural circle formed over the years, if there is not enough cultural imagination, if you do not understand the possibilities of the outside world through education, who has the courage to break free and completely resist?
Until the most desperate moment, no one will really die and live.
Rani, who lost her family property by her son, Rajo, who died of her husband, and Bikili, who recognized that she was always a prostitute in the eyes of others, when despaired to the point of lifelessness, she decided to give it a go and flee to a distant place.
Although I am not optimistic that there will be a good life waiting for them in the distance, because no matter how they escape, the cultural circle has not changed, but at least they have awakened.
So my favorite scene in the whole show isn't the freedom and brilliance at the end, but the scene where Rani lets her free the bride she spent a lot of money on.
The books she failed to read and the life she failed to live, she entrusted to this little girl.
This is the real force that can slowly change cultural oppression, so that more and more women will truly be free.
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