India is one of the countries in the world with a serious imbalance between men and women.
The 2019 Indian demographic data shows that the national average male-female ratio is 1000:927, the male-female ratio in the capital New Delhi is 1000:819, and the southern region of New Delhi, where celebrities and rich people gather, is the place with the largest gap between men and women in India, with a male-to-female sex ratio of 1000:762.
The reason for this is that India is a patriarchal country, and their unpeotable caste system has left the country with a serious imbalance in the proportion of men and women.
In addition, indian girls marrying women to pay a large dowry to the man. And in India, fetal sex checks are legally allowed, which leads to a high abortion rate in India. Many families do not want girls, most of the baby girls are strangled before they are born, and many are abandoned as soon as they are born, which leads to a serious imbalance between men and women in many places.
A 2003 film, "A Country Without Women," truly reflects the tragic fate of a girl in a small mountain village in India in the last century.
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Set in a remote village in India in the last century, the film opens with a newborn girl drowned. The idea of son preference is getting worse, the women in the village are becoming rarer and rarer, and the number of single sticks is also increasing.
There were no women in the village, and men could only gather in the house to watch "movies" with poor picture quality, and some people were excited to see them and cry. If you want to get up close and personal with women, you can only go to see the dance. The funny thing is that the dancer actually dressed up as a man who shaved her leg hair and stuffed two oranges.
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The landlord of the village, Mu Lang, has a wealthy family, he has a total of five sons, but he can't see a woman for hundreds of miles, and Mu Lang has no idea for the marriage of his sons.
Mu Lang entrusted the priest with help at a high price, but the pastor could not help, because the village could not see the teenage girls, not even the eighty-year-old woman. There was the first wedding in the village in 15 years, and the priest arrived to find that something was wrong, ripped off the bride's clothes, and found that the bride was a man.
One day, the priest accidentally discovers a beautiful girl in the jungle named Kalki, whose father is a pig slayer. After giving birth to a girl that year, he did not drown his daughter, but chose to raise her secretly.
The priest assured Calki's father that if she was willing to marry, she would not only give him money without a dowry, but also at a price that would be set at any price. Seeing the money-eyed father, for 100,000 rupees plus a cow, promised his daughter to Mu Lang's younger son.
However, according to the rules, Mu Lang's eldest son was not married, and the younger son could not marry. Mu Lang had a good idea in his mind. He took out 500,000 rupees and 5 cows and asked Carki to marry his 5 sons. When Carcky's father saw the money, he immediately agreed.
In a patriarchal society, women's dignity is completely obliterated and trampled upon, and they are forced to become tools for others to obtain money.
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From then on, Carlgie began her tragic life, doing housework and farming during the day and being humiliated at night. The five brothers each occupy the heroine one day a week, and the remaining two days are occupied by their father. And The first night of Carcky also belonged to his father.
Among these 6 men, Mulang's younger son respected Kalki the most, and Kalki also liked to be with him the most. As the relationship between the two became closer and closer, the other sons became jealous and directly threw their younger son into the water and drowned.
Horrified, Carcky wrote to his father for help, and his father was already interested, not only did not save her, but extorted 200,000 rupees from her father-in-law, took the money and drove away in a luxury car.
In the face of selfish desires, family affection becomes worthless. In his father's eyes, Carcky was just a tool and commodity for him to make money.
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Kalki, who lived an inhuman life, escaped under the leadership of a servant, but was chased by the Mulang family, who was killed by the servants and locked up in a cattle shed.
The servant's family came to Mulang to seek justice, and accidentally saw the dying Kalki and took turns to commit violence against her. Afterwards, the servant told the whole village that Kalki should be the man of the whole village, and the man of the whole village should share, so poor Kalki became the resource of the whole village.
A few months later, Carcky became pregnant, and who knew that the father of the child became the fuse, and there was a fight in the village, in which several sons died. Embarrassed and enraged, Mulang blamed All this on Kalki, and even tried to throw gasoline at her, but fortunately the new servant could not look at it and killed Mulang before saving Kalki.
However, the most dramatic part of the film is that Carcky ends up giving birth to a baby girl.
Is this new life the beginning of another tragedy? Or is it a symbol of the birth of a new hope?
<h1>05, the film brings us thinking</h1>
Although the social status of women in India has improved greatly, it has to be admitted that India is still one of the worst areas in the world for women in society.
Kalki is just a microcosm of India's low-class women, who, in the shadow of a patriarchal society, is merely a commodity, a nanny, a slave, an appendage to men.
Caste systems, patriarchy, domestic violence, reproductive machines... The film "The Country Without Women" boldly tore through the black veil, injecting strong light into the place of suffering of women, and portraying indian women who were oppressed and powerless to resist.
Although a woman, after all, did not escape the yellow curly green lamp of fate, she still chose to fight for freedom. Although she has only taken a small step, although her strength is weak, as long as she is willing to work hard to change her status quo, it is a big step for women.
"A Country Without Women" cannot break the sad reality of Indian women, but it tells us that changing ourselves is itself a struggle.
After all, any change is a cumulative effort.
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