Because what I want to tell you is a story about a woman. If you have enough patience to read it, you can at least prove that you are a wise and thoughtful woman.
This is also a film made for women. What distinguishes it from another "The Hours", which is known as the pinnacle of female films, is: 1. Putting aside the skin color, this is the most common group of people at the bottom of society. The path of self-reflection and self-struggle of the most ordinary woman. The first chapter is full of suffering, blood, oppression, and discrimination. Fortunately, the latter chapter is awakened, resists, fights, and then changes self, changes the system, man, life, environment, ending The over-perfectness continues the director’s respect for the original work himself, and also gives a certain progressive meaning to the times. It also satisfies the viewer’s habitual thinking of "bitterness first and sweetness" contemptuous self-comfort thought system, at least the sad and heavy tone is The advancement of the lens and the development of the story are peeling away little by little without leaving a trace. Compared with the persistence and sacrifice of women seeking spiritual liberation in "The Hours", this is a seemingly logical storyline. The former is a group of women who have a good material living environment and desire spiritual liberation, and the latter is a group of women who have been deprived of all rights since they were born. Even if survival is only a tool for women’s stories, these are two social classes with disparity in status, but at the same time point to the same topic, that is, feminism. It also reveals to a certain extent that the oppression of women in history is rich and poor. Irrespective. If you say that the former is nothing more than the disease-free groan of a group of wealthy ladies, then you don’t have to look down. Great women always guide human beings to ascend. I think even Virginia Woolf doesn’t have enough food and clothing. The life environment will still continue the story, because she is a woman with absolute thinking. It is enough that such a woman is born with extraordinary meaning, and is born to influence the world and others. A great woman like this may not be able to because she is rare. It arouses everyone's sympathy. Compared with the latter group of ordinary women, it reflects the right of life, and their attitude and philosophy can be more referenced by everyone.
The film is adapted from the novel "The Color Purple" by the black female writer Alice Walker, directed by Spielberg, and Alice Walker won the American Literature Award, the American Book Critics Association Award and the Pulitzer Prize for this novel. The first black female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize. Mentioning this female writer, I have to add a few words. Her fate was ill-fated. She was blinded by an accident since she was a child and had no money to treat her. She suffered several miscarriages and had serious Suicidal tendency grew up in quite loneliness. She is also one of Martin Luther King’s friends. Her legendary experience itself is a very profound textbook. "Purple Sister Flower" is to commemorate her grandmother in a certain sense, with a certain sense of autobiography. The prototype of the female number one in the film Xili is her grandmother, who was raped by her stepfather at the age of 11, gave birth to After taking her and his stepfather’s child, he was sold by the stepfather to a black man who didn’t even want to be named herself. From then on, he set foot on a more painful abyss. It is not so much a woman, it is more accurate to say that it is a tool, even the most basic All of his survival was nakedly exploited. He struggled to escape his destiny all his life but was unable to get rid of it, and eventually died miserably. However, the true story came to an abrupt end in the first half of the film. Out of deep sympathy for the miserable fate of his grandmother, the author deliberately added personal sentiment in the second half of the film, fictionalized the final result of the prototype, and then used the novel. And the film made my grandmother live a better life in the fictional world, and also made everyone know how to live better because of seeing the cold and ugly.
For the female No.1 Xili, this black woman who has been ugly since she was a child has a sister Nandy who is much more beautiful than her. Because of her ugliness, the two sisters have different fates. From this point of view, women’s Appearance is a barrier to protect oneself when necessary, no matter what age and class, at least no cruel man will be too cruel against beautiful women.
At the beginning of the film is a scene where two sisters play and play in a field of purple flowers. They are childish, and thus set the tone of the sisters’ affection. The purple sisters flower came from this, and the father who appeared on the scene interrupted the two roughly. The child’s game, the smile on Xili’s face was not interrupted by her father’s "Your smile is the ugliest in the world". At this moment, the status of the two sisters in the family is also clear. The 14-year-old Xili stands up. The untimely big belly was blamed by his father, but for the beautiful-looking Nandi, his father's eyes had a strange smile, regardless of whether there was a sharp knife in the smile.
Following the scene of Xili giving birth late at night, Nandi helped her sister deliver the baby, but her father was frosty at Xili’s pain. Just after Xili gave birth to the child, he was immersed in the joy of being a mother. He still has the future and takes a good look at the child, the child. She was rudely embraced by her father and sold it. With Xili’s monologue with God, the story reveals the truth. What’s more terrifying is that Xili always thought that her father was her biological father before she gave birth. , Her mother also died of depression after Xili gave birth to two children for her father, and Xili, who was still young, lost her fertility.
Then my father soon married a black girl who was about the same age as Xili. At his father’s wedding, his sister Nandy was spotted by the black widower Albert, who has three children, and asked her father to marry him. How could the father let this go? Siyu’s daughter coldly refused, but married Xili, who had had enough fun, to Albert. For such an ugly woman, Albert took a more cruel way than her father, Xili’s slave The role was just a baton-like transformation. The man pressing on her was only replaced by this man who didn’t even know his name and could only be called "Mr.". In Albert’s opinion, Xi Li did not deserve to know him. The name, the housework she couldn’t finish at her hand only went from this eaves to that eaves, and even became a game prop used by Albert’s son Hubble to tease and play, and was used by Hubble from the first day he entered the door. The stone began to hurt her head. The family began to beat Xili, scold and scold, and play tricks. How to survive has become a compulsory homework that Xili must do every day. This has been squeezed out by men. 'S woman only knows that she smiles stupidly while facing the beating, because this is the only way for her to survive.
Seeing this, if you express contempt for incest, you don’t have to look at it. In that era, this was a real event that happened to many black women. This was a profound imprint of that era and an irresistible collective in a patriarchal society. It is a phenomenon that women have been deprived of all their rights since birth. They are just tools, tools trampled and used by men at will. You may ask why Xili does not resist and why she always accepts it. Please don’t despise Xili here. Cowardice, this is an irresistible social phenomenon and system. For them, how to live until tomorrow is the only topic every day. Survival has become the whole theme of their lives. Under the humble surface in the narrow gap, there is nothing else. In other ways, their cards of life and death were held tightly in the hands of men. This is a very serious literary film. It is all-encompassing in terms of ethics, morality, social phenomena, and political sense, and smaller terms, family affection, love, and friendship. It is all-encompassing. The insinuation, refraction, and reflection are extremely profound. If you just want to see a tragedy, there are many directors’ films in mainland China that can make you cry enough, and you will fall down after crying. It’s undeniable. Every time I watch this movie, I will cry unknowingly. Whenever I feel upset. I will watch this movie when I am good. In a certain spiritual realm, this is a movie that has a deep influence on me. It is also the second movie that gave me the urge to write a film review. I have always been writing this film review. It's intermittent, and it can't be done in one go, because it's too deep, and it's so profound that any kind of writing is somewhat superficial. This is like the treasure of Alibaba. Every time, there will be a higher level of harvest. It’s like Pi never ends. At this point, I admire the author of the original work very much. What kind of mental journey will be experienced while completing this work. I will undoubtedly worship her for this, just like Nietzsche said" What can't kill you will make you stronger."
For Nandy, the first handsome black woman to appear in this film became her father’s next goal after her sister got married. However, compared to her sister, she had the opportunity to be educated because of her beauty and because of her beauty. Culture also has a sense of resistance. In a certain sense, knowledge has become a banner for women’s liberation and a watershed between the two sisters’ completely different destinies. In order to escape the sexual harassment of her father, she hid at her sister’s house and got her brother-in-law. She finally stayed at her sister's house after the approval under the lustful eyes. It was at this time that Xili's life became a little angry because of the arrival of her younger sister, and her unkindness towards Albert, the sober consciousness of the two sisters The separation will come sooner or later. Before Albert invaded Nandi, Nandi began to teach Xili, who was illiterate, to learn to read. It also laid the groundwork for one of the most important main lines in the film and planted Xili. Seed of hope, it didn’t take long. Albert, who had already peeked at Nandi’s beauty, couldn’t hold back after being a good, hypocritical man. On his way to school, he attempted to rape Nandi, and the violence was unsuccessful. Sister, drove Nandi out of the house. There is nowhere to go and homeless Nandi has no news. The two sisters agreed to write a letter before Xili and became the source of all hope in Xili's life, but this hope was also lost by Ya Bert was abruptly deprived of it. The only mailbox in the family became Xili’s untouchable minefield. The mailbox became an important prop throughout the film. Xili’s emotional sustenance was home to her sisters. The most explosive interpretation is found in this primitive mailbox.
The days passed by. Albert’s son Hubble also grew into a big guy and brought back a fat woman named Sophia. This fat woman played by Oprah, a well-known American mouth, has a harmonious body. With the same inexhaustible strength, she has been fighting all her life. In order to avoid sexual assault, she fought with her father, brothers, uncles and uncles in the family. This is the first one who dares to fight against the patriarchal world in the film. The black woman of, opening up Oprah’s true history, this woman who was raped by her cousin at the age of 11 also interprets Sophia as a three-pointer because of her real experience. In the black world, she succeeded, she suppressed Her husband Hubble, Hubble was very loyal to her, but when facing the white world, such a powerful woman collapsed so suddenly, in a small town, Sophia waved to the white mayor in order to protect herself and her children. When I punched, I planted the seeds of true tragedy for myself. When I was attacked by a group of white people, I cried for the first time. The dignity of a mother was completely trampled. If the previous efforts were rewarded At this moment, because of racial discrimination and the irresistible system, Sophia appeared again in jail, with gray hair, one eye blind, one leg lame, sluggish eyesight, and slow movement. Sophia, who was dancing and dancing in front of the men, was very different. At that moment, I completely broke down and couldn't stop the tears. This was the second time I cried. I finally realized that in the face of the inability to change reality, I can only accept it, and Sophia can stand a man. But under the strong social system, she bought a large order for her straightforwardness and frankness. After all, she could not escape the fate of black women. She refused to be the nanny of the white mayor’s wife. In the end, she was released on bail by the white mayor’s wife under the banner of humanitarian care. She became the driver and nanny of the mayor’s wife. One Christmas after 8 years of separation, Sophia finally waited for a moment to get together with her children’s relatives. But even these few short minutes were destroyed by the mayor’s wife’s panic facing her black family. For this woman, I feel heavy every time I appear. If Xili’s appearance is just Representing the social phenomenon of inequality between men and women, the emergence of Sophia has risen to a political significance, that is, racial discrimination. No matter what kind of environment, women are the most direct victims. As the most vulnerable group of that era, these women’s The significance of appearance has also progressed step by step. Women in different slices also reveal the trend of social development at that time, and there is no doubt that there will be huge sacrifices.
For Xia Ge, the second beautiful-looking black woman appeared in the film. Compared with Xi Li and Sophia, she has truly her own love and freedom. What a luxury in that era, she It’s Hubble’s biological mother, Sophia’s mother-in-law, Xili’s husband’s lover, and the woman Albert really admired. This woman can slam Albert under her feet. She is the goddess in the eyes of black men. This one has sweetness. The woman with singing voice and sexy dancing is undoubtedly the most wonderful life on the surface, but she also caused the abandonment of her favorite father for her boldness. The father and daughter have been in a state of cold violence, except for the deep love of the sisters, this is in the film. In the second scene about family affection, for Xia Ge, it is easy to conquer men. She knows exactly what a barbarian man needs most, so when the brutal Albert finally shows gentleness when facing Xia Ge From this point of view, the most effective way to deal with a man is to make him fall in love with you. The saddest thing about Xili is to let the flow go and become a burial object under the system. Although Xia Ge escaped the man’s torture, To a certain extent, it is also a funerary under the social system. Because of the strict definition of women, her debauchery and freedom violated the social definition, so she encountered the shame of the family and the hatred and hindrance of Albert's father, which directly led to the early She and Albert had a miscarriage of love, so when the two women met, in the most fashionable words now, when the wife and the mistress met, Xia Ge became a very high-profile winner. Xili watched her husband The endless jokes in front of Xia Ge felt the pleasure of revenge for the first time, and she became a fan of Xia Ge. This woman named Xia Ge awakened Xili’s sense of resistance for the first time in a true sense, and also made Xili. For the first time to enjoy being valued and loved, it also made Xia Ge and Xi Li kiss scenes and subtle emotions similar to LES in the film. Strictly speaking, this is not a pure Les plot, but a microcosm of social tragedy. When faced with a difficult situation, women can only please each other through mutual compassion between the same sex. Suddenly it reminds me of the two beauties of Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua in "Lian Xiang Compan" by Li Yu, a famous opera artist in the Qing Dynasty. The story of planting the roots of love, because society cannot tolerate one husband together, shows the suppression and monopoly of the fate of women by the social system.
Because of the appearance of Sophia and Xia Ge, Xi Li is the tragic and luckiest. If the first half hour of the film is full of tragic tone, if the story continues like this, Alice Walker will naturally not get popular For the Ritzer Prize, Spielberg was also not nominated for the 11 Oscars in 1986. The second half of the hour is the road to Xili's awakening of thoughts and resistance to success. There are internal and external factors, and three women with different destinies. At the same time, it pointed to the same topic, which is to liberate the self and change the male society in the true sense. With the help of Xia Ge, Xi Li finally found the letters of Nandy that had been kept private by Albert for many years. Looking at the letters from her sister for so many years, Xili learned that Nandy was adopted by a good-hearted black pastor and his wife after being driven out of the house by Albert and became their assistants. What's more, the two children of the pastor and his wife are Xili’s biological children. For Nandi’s destiny, this woman who has resisted since she was a child is undoubtedly the luckiest of the four women. She managed to escape the infringement of her father and brother-in-law but fell into the embrace of love. It is also her new understanding of love. Xili read about hope and strength in a letter from her sister. Her mind's awakening changed day by day, and finally she had the courage to kill this man for the first time in the face of another violence against Albert. Perceiving that Xia Ge had arrived in time, he cleverly stopped. From then on, Albert also began to fear this woman who was once oppressed by him, and his fate began to reverse.
As for Xia Ge, this slutty woman who has been wandering in everyone’s eyes eventually married a changed black man and became a resident singer in her son Hubble’s bar. Her passion and sexiness still stimulated the black male's cock. At the same time, it also melted the ice of black male society spiritually. If Xili changed men through murder, Xia Ge softened men through feminine charm. For the hotness in front of men, Xia Ge in front of her father is very tender. Yes, this woman who longed for the return of her father’s love repeatedly used her deeds to tell her father that she loved him. In the song "God Tells You", she was forgiven by her father. This scene of singing and dancing with a father and daughter embracing Called a classic, the phrase "Dad, sinners also have souls" makes family love the most sublimated.
There is no doubt that this is a great book, a great film, and a textbook that every woman should read. Compared to our predecessors, how happy we are, all the reason why you call it painful pain It is so small in front of the great epic, it seems that there is no small space to fit in. Compared with them, what else is worth our grief? What qualifications do we have to talk about grief?
Returning to the film again, Xili successfully left her husband, gained freedom, and gained wealth while gaining freedom. The death of her father left him a legacy, and her husband also awakened because of Xili’s departure and helped him silently. Next, Nandi, who was living overseas, took her sister’s two children back to her hometown after a long absence. The sisters reunited, mother and son recognized each other, and the ending was too perfect, which caused dissatisfaction with many film critics. Because the film was shot in 1985, that The racial discrimination in American society at that time was still very serious. People believed that the story could not be so perfect, and the living environment of black people should not be so good. The 11 Oscar-nominated films ended up being an unwonted award. Why? ? It is also because of the difference in skin color. The actors in this film are all performed by black actors. Even the staff during the shooting are almost all people of color. Although the shooting is natural, it is still blocked by the skin color and the theme. Is it just a pity to be on the highest podium in the film industry? At the peak of the development of historical civilization, can people truly achieve equality in a strict sense among people, between nations, or between nations?
Because of inequality, there is killing, harm, and destruction. . . . . . No matter in ancient times or in the present, this phenomenon will never be erased, as large as between countries and between men and women. What does it mean that more and more juniors appear, implying the return of a male society, the ancestors The painful price we have paid is still not worth the reincarnation one by one. Women are strong and weak in a certain sense. In order to continue to live, they will remove one by one obstacles. Please note that I am using life instead of survival. Women’s society is progressing in a meaningful way, so when you are faced with troubles and sorrows again, please think about the women in the movie. You have no sense of other than happiness. Don’t be obsessed with the troubles that come after yourself. In it, because you are happy to be born in this era.
At the end, I want to use a sentence from Su Shi to express my great respect for the four black women in the film, including the original author: ancient women are not only talents of the super world, they must also have perseverance!
You can't know the pines and cypresses if you are not cold; if things are not difficult, you can't know a woman. And this is exactly what I gave you! !
View more about The Color Purple reviews
