There seems to be no other Chinese drama that can face the sexual assault of students by teachers so directly.
Another Taiwan drama on the opposite shore, taking the first step.
The recent Netflix production of "She and Her She" violently lifted this veil of sexual shame.
In the process of watching the play, the depressing situation when I once read "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" resurfaced.
It's hard not to think of Lin Yihan, who has been dead for five years.
I am also glad that there are always people who have not forgotten Lin Yihan.
If only she was still there, if only she could see it.
Lin Chenxi (played by Xu Weining), a female elite in the workplace, has excellent business ability, and Suri is accustomed to being alone.
She refuses to take the initiative to approach others, and she also resists the closeness of others.
Even in the face of Li Haoming (played by Li Chengbin), a gentle boyfriend who has been with him for many years, it is difficult to open up his long-term closed self and maintain a normal intimate relationship.
She seems to have broken off love, and her mother, who lives alone in the country, struggles to survive without caring about it.
Until a sudden car accident ruptured her memory.
It seems to travel through time and space, and it seems to be a parallel world.
She strangely found that her family was happy and her friendship was strong, and Li Haoming, who was supposed to be her boyfriend, became a strange policeman Xiao Liu.
Former senior sister Yan Shenghua (played by Jia Jingwen) turned out to be the main suspect in the murder of high school chemistry teacher Xie Zhizhong (played by Chen Yiwen).
And he was rebuked by the teacher and mother as a third party who seduced the teacher to destroy his marriage.
The sad memories of being violated and hurt in middle school will eventually come to mind.
"Teacher Xie has no children, so he treats you as his own daughter."
The seemingly gentle and obedient Teacher Xie imparts knowledge seductively, but in fact, a sanctimonious hypocrite uses knowledge as a weapon for hunting, waiting at any time to hunt and prey on the girl of the flower season who does not know the world, eroding her and devouring her.
A child who longs for the approval of her teachers and pursues academic progress does not realize that everything is her misunderstanding until the moment she is violated.
I think when I see the end of episode six, everyone in the audience has a similar sense of despair.
I really want to save her who is besieged on the screen, and countless women who have suffered the same accident and cried silently in the dark night off-screen.
And the story also tends to be clear here, all kinds of strange events derailed from reality turned out to be the "dissociated world" invented by Lin Chenxi after the car accident, trying to forget the painful past of his student days.
Dissociative disorder is a mental illness that is not well known to the public.
Patients who are extremely stressed or traumatized enter a self-conceived "world of dissociation."
Their perception of their time, place and identity is seriously inconsistent with reality, and they often feel that their current life is not real, creating some illusory plots.
Therefore, the narrative line of the first few episodes from Lin Chenxi's perspective seems slightly messy and disorderly.
We are confused and we can't tell what is true and what is false, and in fact, we don't need to distinguish between true and false.
The series uses "dissociative disorder" to connect a hypothetical homicide with a real sexual assault case.
It is rare that a drama uses suspense and thriller as a wedding dress for psychoanalysis, but the audience does not criticize it.
Logic is not important, her world has long been fragmented and disorganized.
Dissociation, while creating dramatic conflict to make all the plots plausible, also reveals deeper pathos.
In fact, the ill-intentioned snooping of the whole society after sexual assault is even more cruel.
The indifference of her family, the slander and abuse of her teacher, the leakage and betrayal of her friends, the silence and cowardice of her senior sister, the peace of the school authorities, and the beginning and end of her first love all made her indulge in a sad past.
No one is born willing to be a victim.
Any sexual violence is social and is not done by the perpetrator alone, but by the whole society to assist the perpetrator.
And public opinion that "victims are harmful" still ruthlessly inflicts heavy damage on victims, forcing them to torture themselves and self-loathing.
It is the prejudices of society as a whole that allow successful perpetrators to go unpunished, and the accomplices of hypocrisy who are also to blame.
The master mother is an accomplice of Wei Wei Nuo, and the wife of the perpetrator is unwilling to admit her mistake and apologize and hit the target.
Lin Chenxi's father is an accomplice of worldly stereotypes, and he asked his daughter over and over again:
"Are you lying? Aren't you resisting? Didn't you say you don't want it? Didn't you push him away? Is there something wrong with you? ”
It is always the perpetrator, not the victim, who is to blame.
Why not ask the perpetrator why he can't exercise restraint?
It is not the victim's fault that the victim cannot avoid the violation immediately.
The idea that bystanders who have not suffered others have to criticize Lin Chenxi for failing to successfully resist is itself a second crit to the victims.
When people are extremely afraid and shocked, they will naturally lose the instinct to resist, and only have the strength to be stunned.
Their bloody scars finally scabbed, but they were torn open again and again to watch.
Even family members whose blood is thicker than water always seem absent from sex education classes.
It is clear that they are absent from class, but they think that school has not yet started.
Therefore, the pictures of revenge that did not believe in his father and brother back then at all costs were just wishful thinking and beautiful fantasies in Lin Chenxi's "dissolution from the world".
A dream of yellow sorghum is sad, but not sad.
A few years later, the white-haired father slumped and said in tears, "Fortunately, you still grew up, although you are lonely than others, and work harder than others", Lin Yihan must have also dreamed of it.
Lin Yihan said in an interview eight days before his suicide:
"The largest massacre in human history was not Auschwitz, but Fang Siqi-style rape."
Concentration camps can still be destroyed, but sexual violence will never stop, and its after-effects will be difficult to eradicate.
Why should the victim be ashamed for the rest of his or her life, while the abuser can continue to live with dignity?
The initiator was paralyzed by a stroke and could still look at the sea leisurely and elegantly, forget everything, and spend his old age in peace.
Only Lin Chenxi had been trapped on that underage rainstorm day.
Her life should have been beautiful.
But no matter how hard I try to move forward in the future, my thoughts will continue to rewind back to the ceiling of that room.
"I use willpower to get myself back on track every day, but my soul is falling apart all the time."
Therefore, Lin Chenxi, who was difficult to reconcile with herself, dissociated her soul into two hers.
A her, she who has to suck her wounds and struggle to be strong when she is not understood, is a seemingly complete her.
The other her, who was trapped in the room where she couldn't escape as a teenager staring desperately at the ceiling, was a broken her.
This is her and her her.
She is also lonely.
Shattered Complete—Song Nianyu ("She and Her She" theme song) Audio: 00:0004:06
She can only pick up the broken her, albeit broken, in the "dissociated world".
Thousands of her, thousands of Lin Chenxi, thousands of Fang Siqi, thousands of Lin Yihan.
Their wounded souls have invisible scars.
Lin Chenxi has the same sad experience as Fang Siqi.
Fortunately, she was not scheduled for Fang Siqi's ending.
Li Haoming's setting is probably the most likable male protagonist in the drama in recent years, almost like the gentle husband played by Kong Liu in "Kim Ji-young born in 82", he is a flawless and inseparable partner.
No matter how painful the other half is in pain, they will enlighten and accompany them meticulously.
Strong women like Lin Chenxi are still bullied in the workplace and falsely framed.
But the wound that cannot be healed by herself is still somewhat unscrutinized in the end to the redemption of her boyfriend who loves her deeply, and there is inevitably a suspicion of romanticizing suffering.
Perhaps, Xiao Liu, the lonely brave police officer in "Dissociating the World", is the image that Lin Chenxi hopes for his boyfriend to really present.
Hey, is it true that a woman's essential condition for getting out of her pain is that she needs a perfect boyfriend who infinitely tolerates her and takes care of her?
This is the beautiful vision of the creators, but the overly utopian ending does not really touch the independent consciousness of women's self-awakening.
The emotion of the moment is only immediate, not social.
Because the improvement of his personal situation does not come from his own independent struggle, this life that seems to return to a normal track is repaired and transferred by others in the end.
In the end, Lin Chenxi, who became cheerful, is probably Lin Yihan who no longer escapes reality in another world and no longer wrongs himself.
Yan Shenghua, who was also a victim at the time, swallowed his breath and thought that he would grow up well in the future, and also bravely divorced her husband who was domestic violence, and took the risk of collecting evidence of her husband's sexual harassment of Lin Chenxi in the workplace to sue him.
Their belated hug was full of warmth and emotion from girls help girls.
Lin Chenxi and Yan Shenghua went ashore, but in reality, there were still countless Fang Siqi trapped in the quagmire, but no one extended a helping hand to pull her.
Like Lin Yihan, he was forever frozen in the 26-year-old who should have infinite possibilities, and failed to get out of the nightmare of youth as he wished.
If every victim has a vulgar but happy ending, that's fine.
And Fang Siqi's tragedy has never stopped, and there will be tragedies in different corners at this second.
There are still countless Xie Zhizhong and countless Li Guohua in this world.
No one is qualified to forgive Fang Siqi.
"No matter who it is, there is no way to help me catch this."
After all, not everyone can easily reconcile with the past.
Clearing the clouds is really a long process, which infinitely wears down people's patience and resilience.
No matter what kind of trauma, anyone's comfort and dissuasion, even the company of the same boat will not make you feel relieved.
"Some fragments of my soul were left at the trauma site, I was stuck there, my life was stuck, and I couldn't go anywhere."
This feeling of being stuck may be hard to dissipate, but life always goes on.
The stuck life can also hear the sound of wind and rain and heartbeat.
Lin Chenxi, not only to be a brave child in "deconstructing the world".
Although carrying a heavy past, try to take a small step forward.
Everyone must take the initiative to save themselves from fire and water.
Lin Yihan also said:
"Patience is not a virtue, patience as a virtue, is the way this hypocritical world maintains its distorted order, and anger is a virtue."
She tried to tell all the girls who had also experienced the same misfortune:
Bravely exercise your legal right to be angry, do not embarrass yourself, and do not punish and torture yourself with the fault of others.
The world sucks, but there are still many good things.
"I am also loved, loved by the whole world, loved by the sun, loved by the waves that come in layers."
Your future will not be overshadowed by darkness, you are still worthy of love, and there are still people who love you.
Fang Siqi, when you stand up, countless Li Guohua will fall.
It is really not easy for a girl to grow up safe and healthy.
But even if she grows up safely and healthily, she will still encounter sexual harassment, gender discrimination, pornography or domestic violence in the long years to come.
"I hope you come to work as a married person. After all, a single and beautiful woman like you can easily get into some trouble in the company.
"Did you pass on our video to your friends, didn't you promise me that you wouldn't leak it?"
"You're about to give birth. Your department is so busy, it's really irresponsible for you to get pregnant suddenly. ”
"She and Her She" captures almost all the dilemmas that contemporary women encounter.
Enterprises without public morality use female employees to entertain customers to accompany alcohol to make money, even rich and famous women will be disseminated private videos, female bosses maliciously embarrass pregnant female employees...
Women who have been sexually abused also expose their scars and judge each other with chastity shame, and the more they look at it, the more they suffocate.
In fact, no one wants to compare whose scar is deeper, and there is no winner in the female competition.
The plight of women is indeed an issue that the whole society should pay attention to, and the idea of female trauma is very good.
However, this play lists many typical encounters, throwing into the injustice and pain of today's women being objectified, and the things they want to show are too dense, but they seem to be a bit deliberate and inadequate.
The other female issues mentioned in the side plot glimpse are obviously more detached from the main line.
The main creator was not in control, so he was finally forced to bring a bowl of happy chicken soup and write it off.
The female supporting actors serve the protagonist too purposefully, and the echo of the theme is not smooth enough, and the shooting is too thin.
Not all bloody chapters in a book are worth touching without brains, and it may be more objective to take them out.
After all, the plight of women can never be explained.
Many dramas are also creative, conceptual, and subject matter, but the execution effect is not silky enough.
We don't want mythical dramas, and we don't want to kill them.
Although words are cold media, the description of space and the expression of emotions are indeed more exciting than images.
This play has been promoting suspense in the early stage, and the result is only to forcibly create a suspense atmosphere, which is inevitably a bit of a mainstream genre and make a mystery.
Although it is nine episodes in length, it is not streamlined enough, the pace of the narrative is too slow, and the audience may not have the patience to see the ending.
There are also some details that are hard and regretful, such as the appearance of several unknown characters (such as Guo Xuefu's cameo blind man), the portrayal of a thin saint male protagonist, and too deliberate coincidental arrangements (Wu Kangren's workplace sexual harassment boss happens to be Yan Shenghua's husband of domestic violence, to some extent promote Lin Chenxi Yan Shenghua to meet the tool man who joins forces to fight against patriarchy), some blunt plot clips, and the survivor biased ending that lacks strength and is criticized for whitewashing Taiping.
However, the flaws are not hidden, and these shortcomings do not detract from the intention of the whole play and the thinking it triggers.
At least some people have the courage to speak about the subject and advocate for positive trauma.
It is also a drama without lineup fraud so far this year, and there is no discomfort in the appearance.
What can cause the majority of women to fear is that even if you have not been sexually assaulted, you still do not search for those moments that are close to danger in your memories, and think about the possibility of disaster.
Although it is like watching a propositional essay, we on the mainland do not even have such a thought-provoking topic.
Although the series can't pry the point, it is also much better than some women who secretly shift their focus to self-castration.
Trying to emulate the other side of the Korean filmmakers has at least done enough superficially, rather than resting on its laurels.
Sincerity is a strength.
Being able to make a valuable sound and be heard is something that is something to be encouraged.
They can do better, so will we be qualified to do better abroad?
In the future, Taiwan, which has won a hemp in terms of subject matter, will have more film and television works that expose the darkness of society and excavate complex human nature spring up like mushrooms, and ambitions to impact overseas markets.
No matter what the follow-up looks like, we still only have envy.
Will this loss of creative freedom, which can only envy the compatriots, last?
"What's wrong with having a baby? Shouldn't we be more considerate and tolerant of pregnant women? ”
What is wrong with filming sexual assault? Shouldn't we be more considerate and tolerant of works that open up the boundaries of film and television creation?
The film "Carnival", which directly focuses on the process before and after the assault of underage girls and is described in depth, should not be just a flash in the pan.
There are no high scores and low scores in this genre, as long as you shoot and do not consume any Fang Siqi is a masterpiece.
Lin Yihan, no one deserves happiness more than you.
If I could, I'd give you a hundred marshmallow hugs.
You've said you're a tainted willow juice and soup, a rose and lily crawling with eggs, a North Star that exists in a brightly lit city but no one sees or needs.
No, you are fresh willow juice and soup, roses and lilies that never fade, the brightest North Star in the night sky.
Hope you in the other world, everything is well.
May every girl be treated with tenderness.
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