Pixar's animated feature Mind Riding a Donkey is a male-feminist film from a male perspective. Some men and women jump up and down when they hear about male power. They want to stand up and scold me. Don't worry, just as we mark feminist films as Just like a positive energy, patriarchal films themselves shouldn't be seen as negative, hehe.
A rough recap of the storyline:
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist, Joe, was interviewed for a stable job with five insurances and one housing fund. At this time, he received a call from a former student and told him that he would find another piano player after his jazz days. This is his dream career. , In the impromptu cooperation with the band, Joe's self-absorption of the piano convinced the queen and earned the opportunity to perform at night.
Walking out of the basement, Joe looked up at the sky as if responding to his father's spirit in the sky. He felt reborn, happily walking through the crowd and traffic, not hit by building materials, perfectly avoided by banana peels and nails, but the good luck ended here. , he fell into the sewer, and his soul went out of his body in an instant.
On Huangquan Road, there are countless souls queuing up to escape, Joe is one of them, he can't accept that he is dead (about to die), he runs wildly in the opposite direction, breaks free from the barrier and falls into the cracks of the universe (whatever you want). said)
In the middle of the crack, the misunderstood Joe became No. 22's mentor and persuaded No. 22 to return to Earth. When she appeared on the 22nd, she was the image of a willful, stubborn, and difficult little girl. She had no experience of life on earth. Basically, she seemed to know a lot, but in fact she didn't know anything. She had no goals, and was a numb and blind ghost.
Jung, Lincoln, Gandhi, and Copernicus all used to teach No. 22 how to be an earthling as mentors, but they all failed. You could say 22 is resting on her laurels, she is cowardly with all the knowledge but is afraid to try, but she enjoys the status quo.
Joe threw away the wrong brand name and told her that he was not a mentor. On the 22nd, he pressed Joe's hand on the high-tech, and the scene of Joe's life appeared in the distance. He was watching TV alone, and the band he once formed was brought by his father. He went to shows that made him fall in love with jazz. There is no mother in these life scenes, but the mother is alive, of course it doesn't matter to the movie, the mother is never important, just the background character.
In the exhibition of his life, there is only his experience of failing interviews again and again, which made him immediately and very urgently feel that he cannot die because of this failure. It is the only nostalgia in his life, but he is alive. Of course, this is not important to the film. .
After a lot of hard work, Joe finally returned to Earth, with 22. His body woke up from the hospital bed, but it was the soul of No. 22, while Joe's soul was in the body of the fat cat. On the surface, it is one person and one cat, but it is actually Joe and No. 22, so No. 22's journey to Earth begins.
22 escaped from the hospital with Joe's body and plunged into real human life. The tall buildings and the fast traffic made her scared and overwhelmed, but she could hold the cat in her hand, which was Joe. Joe turned into a cat to guide her, and now Joe became No. 22's true mentor.
On the 22nd, as Joe, she experienced life as a real person. She took a shower, put on a beautiful suit, took a taxi, ate pizza, and went to get a haircut. She saw a party of girlfriends on the street, and the leaves at her feet were covered. The breeze blew up, and she suddenly found that the joys and sorrows of being a person were so interesting. She seemed to have found the meaning of life, but Qiao said disapprovingly that it was just an ordinary life.
Joe said that the reason why you feel good about being a human being is that you are in Joe's body.
The final outcome is that Qiao persuaded No. 22 to reincarnate, and the Supervision Bureau finally invited this cancer away, and Qiao Ju Gongzhiwei got the chance to be reborn.
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Now suppose that Joe in this story is replaced by a man and number 22 is replaced by a woman, to recap:
The man who got a good job opportunity died because of an accident. The man and the woman met through the soul. The woman did not want to be reborn as a man, and felt that it was meaningless to be a man. When there was a chance to be a man again, the woman's soul was put into the man's body and led by the man. Feeling everything in the world and being taught to be a human again, women find out how beautiful it is to be a man. Then the woman didn't want to return the man's body, the victory that belonged to the man, the two had a dispute, the man gave the chance to the woman, the woman became a real person, and God also gave the man a second chance to be a man, and in the end everyone was happy.
Two-thirds of the film's time is spent expressing the above-mentioned plot, and roaring two wise sayings from the protagonist's mouth:
No. 1.22 felt a fresh life because it was in Joe's body.
2. And Joe said the music, the life, the career of his father he admired because his mother was paying the bills, which of course doesn't matter to the movie.
It's no big deal what mom does.
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Almost all the audience felt insensitive to such lines, ignored the dispute between Joe and 22 in the second half, and no one cared.
As a traditional animation company, Pixar has reached the pinnacle of stereotypes. I still remember the representative work of the Mind Force in previous years. If you want to show the protagonist's moody and uncertain characters, it must be a little girl. The classic toy line, not to mention, most people enjoy stereotypes, women are, and men even more so.
Just like this movie, all the male audiences substitute for the male protagonist, and when all the female audiences watch it, they immediately recognize that it is the real self, really?
Wake up, the screenwriter has told you, that's not your glory, you're just in a man's body.
Movie and reality, a fable that proves each other, wonderful.
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If at this point, you think that my reason for saying he is a patriarchal movie is still not enough, then let's have a sex twist.
The story tells that the heroine's soul flies into the sky and looks back on her life. She is not in love, she is not married, she only wants to develop her career, and her mind is full of her own music. God, if Wonder Woman is the standard of a feminist movie, this This kind of setting can basically be regarded as extreme feminism.
That's why I have to say that mind riding a donkey is a male film (masculinist film) There has always been only one gender, and that is female, male is not one gender, because male represents universality (paraphrasing) Only female is marked and limited , is planned, exists in the category of gender, simply saying that women are women and men are people. In order to be freed from the definition of man's formation and inclusion of woman, in addition to seeing the woman, he must also see the man, and the two must be carried out simultaneously. So when we label feminism, we have to label masculinity, even if it will be everywhere.
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Seeing this, you still think that I am too sensitive. This is just a coincidence, but I am not sensitive. You are still squinting.
Well, finally, I searched for movies with the label of feminism and patriarchy, and the result was that the label of feminism crushed patriarchy. What does this mean? It shows that the male power content in our society is very low! -. -
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