Idle stomach pain, decided to analyze the film with profound social significance, many times, most viewers watch the film will often ignore some of the details carefully designed by the screenwriter, the meaning of appreciation is to dig out them.
This is a movie, but the record is a real thing, watching this film, from beginning to end, my heart has been tugging, want to scold the mother, want to hit people, want to smash something.
Therefore, the appreciation of movie posts, are inevitably spoilers, so please watch the film first, and then read my post.
Today's Text:
Her name is "Wallis", an African Somali. Chinese impression of Somalia is of a war-torn, barren, ignorant, backward Muslim country whose people are themselves destined to be a mustard, not to mention that Wallis is still a girl, although, ironically, the name implies "Flower of the Desert."
At the beginning of the story, 9-year-old Wallis is barefoot, delivering sheep in the vast desert, she pulls the lamb out of the lamb's belly, only smiles and squints at the ewe's ass, and then holds the lamb and picks up the whip and leaves, from this detail is enough to see that life is insignificant in Africa. Whether it is a sheep or a person, the meaning of their existence is only reproduction.
The camera is far away, the bare mountain, full of stones, gravel, no trace of greenery, the living environment is visible, and on this point, the audience can still see that Wallis herds a flock of sheep, because, in addition to herding sheep, African children have almost no other survival skills.
Far away, came Wallis's two younger brothers, and her family had 12 children, yes, 12.
Wallis named her lamb "Fatima", the meaning of the daughter of Allah, remember that CCTV has a famous host's daughter called Fatoumai, also the meaning of the daughter of the Allah, I think everyone's wishes are beautiful, they all hope that the life they love will be protected by God, but there are hundreds of millions of daughters Allah, in addition to the ass he old man can not teach them any skills to survive, when there is no skill of the woman has to attach her life to the same without a skill, But when it comes to men who show their male authority by destroying women, their fate can be imagined.
Then, the camera takes a big step to London, where The grown-up Wallis escapes from a building, and she wanders aimlessly to the store, where Wallis meets the most important partner of her life, the white girl Marilyn, and Wallis follows Marilyn like a shadow, because she knows that although the girl looks simple and rough, she has a kind heart, and she knows that she will give herself a place to live, even if it is only one night.
Sure enough, Marilyn took in the homeless Wallis, and when the landlady agreed in Marilyn's soft and hard bubble that Wallis could stay and sleep for the night, Wallis excitedly took the landlady's hand and kissed it, shouting "Mom", and the landlady was stunned. In Wallis's world, only mothers will help themselves in times of difficulty.
In the morning, Marilyn, who woke up from her sleep, saw Wallis, who had cleaned up the house, so she wrote her an address, told her that there were many people there, and asked her to try it out and find a job.
It was a fast-food restaurant, where Wallace met the nobleman of her life, photographer Donald, who impressed him with her simple, dusty smile, and Donald gave her his business card and told her that he was looking for someone new.
At night, the homeless Wallis intercepts Marilyn on her way home, and Marilyn begs the landlord to add a bed to Wallace's room, and the landlord agrees.
Marilyn's dream is to become a ballet dancer, but she is repeatedly rejected, And Wales agrees to accompany marilyn to dance, and in the ballroom, she meets a man named Harid. For the first time, Wallis was noticed by a boy, holding the hand of the opposite sex for the first time, nervous and flustered, her movements stiff, her eyes like a frightened butterfly, unable to find a place to stay.
When Harid tried to pull Wallis into her arms, she escaped, escaped from the ballroom, and returned home, Whereis heard the moans of the intercourse next door, and her friend Marilyn brought a man back, Wallis said that a good woman should not do this, and told Marilyn that only a woman who had been cut was pure, because only in this way could she remain virgin, waiting for her husband to open on the wedding night.
Marilyn could not understand Wallis's words, and Wallis looked at Marilyn with a puzzled face and asked, "Haven't you cut it?" “
Marilyn wondered, "Wallis, what have you been cut off?" “
Wallis took off her skirt for Marilyn to see, and Marilyn's tears poured out at once.
Then, Marilyn let Gorgeous Silk look at her pussy, which is what life should look like, and at this time, Wallis knew that not all women in this world had to be cut off their clitoris and labia.
One day after that, Wallis suddenly suffered abdominal pain, Marilyn took her to the hospital, a male doctor asked Wallis to take off her clothes, legs to the treatment bed, the male doctor was shocked when examining Wallis's lower body, a look of pain told Wallis "I can't restore it without something, but I will try to alleviate your pain", Wallace closed her eyes, nervous only tears.
The doctor thought that Wallis could not understand her words, so he asked the nurse to find another nurse who spoke Somali, Fatoumai, but Fatoumai was not there, and the nurse found a male nurse who also spoke Somali, but the male nurse deliberately mistranslated the doctor's words:
Doctor: Her circumcision was too tight, too rough, and I wanted her to operate as soon as possible.
As a result, the goods were translated as: Are you not ashamed, for the white people to see the light
Doctor: It's right to tell her that she shouldn't have endured so long, and ask her not to worry, I'll cure her
As a result, the goods were translated as: You want to cure it, you have betrayed your parents, deviant, does your mother know? You do such a shameful thing.
From this point alone, we can see the influence of culture on a person. Although the man had come to London to learn modern medical techniques, he still had the primitive and ignorant idea of a Somali man in his mind, that a Somali woman should be circumcised, that even if he died, he should not strip the white man of his shame, and insisted that "our traditions are not about other people's business."
Garbage is his mother's garbage everywhere, and he will not introspect himself because he has received a modern education to examine the garbage culture he has received before.
Eventually, Wallis listened to the trash and did not operate on the white doctor's request.
Wallis left the hospital and walked into the Muslim community in London, where she saw a Muslim woman in a large black robe with only two eyes, and everything in front of her eyes evoked her memories:
Time back to Somalia a few years ago, young Wallis and several younger siblings lying on the ground sleeping, Wallis told her mother that her genitals were bleeding, her mother told her that it meant that she was already a woman, and then, Wallis's father married 12-year-old Wallis to a man who looked 60 years old, the man already had 3 wives, and Wallis would become his fourth wife
Wallis did not want to marry the old man, but her mother told her that it was her destiny, and Wallis thought of escaping, so she took advantage of the night to escape from the village and fled to the desert, running barefoot and frantically.
After running in the desert for days and nights, Wallis was lucky to encounter a card bound for the capital Mogadishu, the truck driver took her on the road, but in the middle of the road to rape her, terrified Wallis smashed the truck driver with a brick, fled to Mogadishu, found the mosque, and then found her grandmother's house through the mosque.
Grandma told Wallis that her mother had fled to the desert for her so-called love and married a shepherd who did not seem to her grandmother to have any success, that is, Wallis's father.
"Enduring so much pain is always for something worthwhile", these are grandma's words, although Grandma does not know that Wallis's mother ran into the desert for an invisible and untouchable love, and it is not worth it to live that inhuman life.
Next, the camera returns to London, where Wallis returns to the hospital from the Muslim community and resolutely undergoes surgery on her genitals, which is to say that the sutured vaginal opening is released for excretion.
After recovering from her illness, Wallis went to photographer Donald, who wanted to make money and that she wanted to make a good living for herself and her friends.
With Donald's help, Wallace went to a brokerage company as a model and was much appreciated, Wallace began to learn to catwalk, and Marilyn became her first teacher.
Just as Wallis was about to start her global catwalk tour, it was found that her passport had expired 6 years ago, and in a hurry, the hotel owner's wife made a fake passport for Wallace.
Wallis went to Paris with the modeling troupe and was intercepted at the airport, the problem was on her passport, because what was fake was fake, and she might be able to escape the police on the street, but she couldn't escape the airport security.
Lying in the dark cabin of the immigration office, Wallis recalls her old days, when she was asked to fend for herself after escaping to her grandmother's house, and she had no skills, nothing but strength. At this time, it happened that the Somali Embassy in the United Kingdom was recruiting servants, so Wallis, who looked quite well-behaved, was sent to The United Kingdom, working as a maid in the home of the Somali ambassador to the United Kingdom, working for 6 years, until the outbreak of the Somali Civil War, the ambassador wanted to take the whole family and Wallis back to the war-torn Somalia, Wallis refused to go back, so she secretly escaped from the embassy, fled to a shopping mall, and met Marilyn, which is the scene where Wallis met Marilyn in the mall at the beginning of the movie.
The agency paid a deposit for Wallace, who was released by the Immigration Department and given a 6-month stay, and in order to stay, Wallace married Neil, a plumber at the hotel, so that she could obtain legal status in the marriage situation.
In order to return the deposit advanced by the agency, Wallis accepted the job of taking nude photos, and photographer Donald flashed a trace of surprise and horror in his eyes when he saw Wallis's cut lower body, and then he maintained the demeanor of a professional photographer and quickly resumed his working state.
Under Donald's lens, Wallis poses in various poses, deeply touching the audience with her pure original beauty and smile that is not mixed with a trace of impurity.
The immigration bureau came late at night to check, Wallis and Neil had to pretend to be a loving couple, Neil took the opportunity to rub the oil, Wallis cried to find Marilyn, Marilyn told her that she had been married for less than a year and had to endure until a year later, when she was eligible for divorce and could stay.
In the days that followed, Wallis earned herself applause and money for her simplicity, primitive purity, and a legal identity, and she became famous and appeared on the cover of a fashion magazine, and Marilyn happily held the magazine and told the other party "This is my sister" when she saw someone.
The BBC was touched by Wallis's experience and made a documentary for her, and the reporter of the world's top best-selling magazine approached her to write a report for her called "The Day That Changed My Life", wallace told the other party that she did not want to repeat the story of the shepherd's transformation into a world supermodel, and that the day she wanted to change her life was not the day she met the famous photographer Donald, but the day she was circumcised.
Wallis told the reporter that when she was three years old that year, one night, she had more food, when she was young, she did not know why her mother wanted to give her more food, and the next day, her mother led her into the depths of the desert.
There, there was an elderly woman, and her mother had put her on a stone, and the elderly woman had lifted her skirt, and young Wallis, not knowing what was going to happen to her next, was so frightened that she was left to cry
The mother was obviously prepared, and she did not care about her daughter's cries, but only desperately opened her legs.
The old woman peeled off Wallis's labia, cut Off Wallis's clitoris with a blunt knife, and then removed the inside around the clitoris little by little, and finally cut off her labia, and linked the wounds together with the thorns of a common plant in the desert, without disinfection, let alone anesthesia, and all you saw was the old woman's blood-stained fingers.
After doing this, the old woman left, and the mother threw the crying Wallis in the desert, and then went straight home, because there was another child to take care of in the family, and the mother did not have time to listen to her crying here.
In the evening, the mother returned and carried Back home Wallis, who had lost her strength from crying and had a high fever.
Thankfully, Wallis survived, and the cut flesh of her body was eaten by the birds.
In later years, Wallis's lower body was left with only a hole the size of a matchhead for excretion.
Wallis's experience, known to the world through best-selling magazines, she was invited to speak at the United Nations Headquarters, on the highest podium in the world, Wallis told her own experience, she told the world that she was fortunate to survive, but her two sisters were not so lucky, one of them died of wound infection after circumcision, one died of childbirth.
Circumcision is an ancient, ignorant custom, prevalent in Africa and West Asia, local men think that the thing between the legs of girls is evil, only by cutting it, girls will have pure chastity and virtue, in the end, all this is not too much of a man's virgin complex, hoping that women's genitals are as small as possible, at the same time, cutting off women's sexual organs, women will not have sexual pleasure, thus reducing the risk of affair, satisfying men's ugly conquest, possession, selfishness, greedy sexual desire.
Although the film strives to intersperse warm friendship, the inspiration of the ugly duckling into a white swan, and the brilliance and bravado of life on the glittering catwalk, the unobstructed sunlight in the desert, the rough and hot sand, the cry of the child's heart and lungs and the blood of the old woman's hand still deeply stimulate the nerves of every audience, and the thorns used to suture the wounds seem to be stuck in the child's body, but in fact it is rooted in the heart of every audience.
Today, women living in modern society are frantically clamoring for feminism, but how many people would think that even under the intervention of the United Nations, in places where we can't see, more than 6,000 baby girls are experiencing the pain of primitive, ignorant circumcision every day, they have their clitoris and labia cut off without anesthesia and without any protective measures, and who will save them? Who's going to save these poor kids?!