If you and your girlfriend wanted to have a free party on the weekend, what would you choose?
Shopping, shopping, afternoon tea, watching movies...
This is probably the best choice for most girls.
But today we are going to talk about this pair of ordinary American good sisters who can no longer be ordinary.
In their carefully planned weekend getaway, they have completed a series of amazing actions such as shooting and killing, derailing one-night stands, robbing supermarkets, blowing up fuel tankers, and attacking state troopers.
Embark on their breathtaking, thrilling fugitive journey.
The two challenged the patriarchal society that brought them a painful life and an obscure past with their courage and sincerity than Jin Jian, and wrote a free chapter for themselves——
Wild flowers at the end
Thelma & Louise
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Carly Kerry
Starring: Gina Davis / Susan Sarandon / Harvey Keitel
Release: 1991-05-24 (USA) / 1991-05-29 (France)
Runtime: 130 minutes
On an ordinary weekend, the two protagonists of the film -
Housewife living in dull and menial chores, Selma (Geena Davis)
A close friend of a maid in a café, Louise (Susan Sarandon)
Live as ordinary and peaceful as ever.
The duo, who have long been tired of ordinary life and work, decided to come to a party and travel together to relax.
Selma is very different from Louise, who has a big grin and is very bold.
Since getting married, Selma has been like a bird that has lost her freedom.
Her husband controls her very strictly, but she often stays up at night because of "work reasons".
Some Selma, who only promised, did not even dare to "ask for leave" directly from her husband, so she had to make dinner for her husband, leave a note, and then can't wait to start packing.
In the early afternoon, Louis drove to pick up Selma.
Fearing danger on the road, Selma also carried a revolver with him and gave it to Louis for safekeeping.
However, Chekhov said that if a gun appears in the story, it must be fired.
The moment the pistol was taken to the car by Selma, it may have laid the groundwork for their escape.
In the evening, the two came to a bar.
Selma may have been accustomed to the usual depressing life, and a gentleman with a personable and elegant manners came to talk, and soon gained Selma's trust, and the two talked happily.
Taking advantage of Louis's bathroom break, the man takes Selma to an unoccupied parking lot outside the bar and tries to rape Selma.
Selma struggled desperately, and Louis arrived in time to draw a gun to stop the man.
But men not only disagree, but also swear each other.
Angry, Louis pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the man fell in a pool of blood.
This shot suddenly broke the original perfect plan of the two.
The two could only panic and flee quickly.
Soon after the police arrived, the bar staff said that it was only a matter of time before the unspeakable, frivolous man was killed, and that the two girls did not look like murderers.
In the early hours of the morning, the two went to a roadside phone booth and tried to contact their husband and boyfriend.
Unfortunately, neither of them answered.
In desperation, the two could only continue to flee.
The two came to a hotel to take a break, and the two who had just settled down quarreled because of their impatience.
Selma cried bitterly, she was helpless in the face of the upcoming trial, she did not want to go to jail.
Seeing this, Louis quickly stepped forward to comfort.
Louis decided to flee to Mexico, but it would cost money along the way.
She called her boyfriend again, and this time it got through.
She asked her boyfriend to help remit her savings over the years, and he quickly asked why, and Louis could only pretend to be calm that his boyfriend would know soon.
She made an appointment with her boyfriend to send the money to a hotel in Ohio.
The funding problem was solved, and the two continued on their way.
On the way, Luis hopes that Selma can flee to Mexico with him, but Selma, who has always been unassertive, cannot decide.
She spoke to her husband again, but he on the other end of the line accused her of not returning home and ordered her to hurry home to do housework.
Selma, who had been suppressed for many years, finally broke out at this moment, and she angrily said to her husband:
"You're my husband, not my dad!"
After speaking, he hung up the phone and walked out of the phone booth angrily.
But unexpectedly, he bumped into a handsome guy squatting on the side of the road.
He was handsome, humorous, and polite, in stark contrast to the greedy, lazy, selfish husband on the phone just now.
He claimed to be a college student waiting on the side of the road to pick up his car, but never arrived, and asked if he could catch a ride.
The kind and simple Selma agreed, but the thoughtful Louis quickly refused.
The two looked at the map and found that as long as they crossed Texas, they could reach Mexico directly.
But Louis vehemently refused, as if Texas had its unbearable past, and she would rather die than go to Texas.
In desperation, Selma had to make a detour with Louis.
At the same time, Sheriff Hal also quickly found Selma's husband, who was surprised to hear the case.
As the two of them moved forward, they actually enjoyed the beautiful scenery that they had never stopped before, which also relieved the nervous duo for a moment.
Unexpectedly, the hitchhiker who had just walked halfway met them again.
This time Louis couldn't resist Selma, and finally let the guy get into the car.
The hitchhiker is funny and humorous, and some are very handsome, which makes the unhappy Selma a little moved.
When I came to the hotel agreed with my boyfriend, the money was not remitted.
It turned out that the boyfriend came in person to find out what happened to Louis.
The hitchhiker saw this and left, and Selma was a little reluctant.
In the evening, the crowd settled in. Louis transferred the money brought by her boyfriend to Selma for safekeeping.
The boyfriend seemed to feel that Louis's trip would never return, so he took out his ring and proposed to Louis.
However, it was too late for all this, and Louis was worried that his boyfriend would be involved, and he could not tell the truth of the matter after all, and the two had a long talk one night and told each other their hearts.
On the other side, however, there was a knock on Selma's door, and it turned out that the hitchhiker had nowhere to go and tried to spend another night.
The two talked happily, and the hitchhiker confessed that he was not a pure college student, but a thief on the run.
This made Selma very curious after hearing this, and the hitchhiker also showed his "housekeeping skills" to Selma.
The next day, a spring-scent-faced Selma told Louis about the good time she had had last night.
At this time, Lewis felt that something was wrong, and sure enough, when he returned to the house, the money they used to escape had been robbed by the hitchhiker.
Louis almost collapsed, but now Selma was no longer the six gods and masterless her, and she seemed to have made up her mind at this time.
They parked their car on the side of the road, and Selma used the robbery method taught to her by the hitchhiker and robbed a supermarket!
The two who got the money were even more unscrupulous and intensified.
If you're cornered, why not make a bold change?
Fugitives must look like fugitives!
What should I do if I meet a driver uncle who is unspeakable on the side of the road?
Then blow up his tanker!
What should I do if I encounter a single-handed, old and small state police inspector?
Grab his guns and destroy his radio!
Selma and Louis went further and further down the path of crime.
However, the police have also caught the hitchhiker, intercepted Selma's phone call with her husband, and found out the whereabouts of the two.
After a series of investigations by the police, he learned what happened to the two and the ugly face of Selma's superb husband, and Sheriff Al also understood the bitterness of the two in his heart.
He harshly rebuked the hitchhiker, and his behavior pushed the two to an even more desperate abyss.
But it was too late, and as Selma and Louis' criminal behavior deepened, their escape journey was clearly at an end.
On the way on, Selma asked Louis why he didn't want to set foot in Texas. Why do you overreact when you are raped? And did Louis also be raped?
Louis, furious, grabbed Selma by the collar, and warned her not to bring it up again.
Apparently this is a scar that Louis is unwilling to uncover.
The two continued to move forward, but not long after, police helicopters and a large number of police cars arrived.
Faced with the police chasing and blocking, Selma and Louis rushed to the edge of the canyon in a panic.
Sheriff Hal is still trying to redeem it, and he believes the two women who have gone astray still have a chance.
He struggled to argue with his superiors, but the police still gave Selma and Louis an ultimatum.
But this time they no longer give in, they look at each other firmly.
"Go ahead!"
This time it was said by Selma.
The two looked at each other and smiled, clasped their hands, and the car drove to the sky, free to the soul.
Since its release in 1991, "The Last Flowers" has been considered a feminist film masterpiece that protests against the patriarchal society.
"The Last Wild Flower", a simple four words that express the plot of the story and the design of the characters, precise and refined.
But there is only one more sense of tragic fatalism, are the two "crazy flowers" really heading for the "end"?
The English title of the film is not as romantic as Chinese translated title "The Last Wild Flower", it is simply Thelma & Louise, that is, the names of the two heroines.
They are not crazy beauties, nor are they fugitive criminals.
They are just Selma and Louis, two women with no symbols, not defined by anyone.
Selma and Louis are actually more like two sides of a woman who is entangled, struggling and uneasy in a patriarchal society.
Selma's body is trapped in the siege of a patriarchal family, only promises, dare not resist, and even with a little compromise and helplessness of being content with the destiny of heaven.
Louis uses a strong appearance to hide the fragile heart that has been hurt, unwilling to face the painful past, is avoidance, weakness, and fear.
Selma had just gotten into Louis's car when she took a cigarette in her mouth and said, "I'm Louis now!" ”
Since then, the road has become an adventure from "Selma" to "Louis".
Along the way, Selma experienced the pain that Louis may have experienced.
In the midst of suffering, I learned to refuse, I learned to protect myself, I learned to please myself, I learned how to escape from this patriarchal society, I learned how to find freedom.
And Louis is also slowly approaching "Selma", learning to regain feelings, learning to forgive the past, learning how to find his place in a patriarchal society, and learning how to run towards freedom.
What Selma and Louis eventually sailed to was never a dead end.
They calmly stepped on the gas pedal and greeted the poem of freedom and sincere friendship that broke through the siege.
*Text author: Asasa