The Breadwinner is set in Taliban Afghanistan, a time when women were not allowed to go out alone and had to cover themselves when they went out with men in their families. Women in the Islamic world are bound by rules and regulations, women in war, have no freedom and self-respect to speak of, they have become subordinates to men, and real life makes this group of women desperate. The animated film, from the perspective of four women, respectively unfolded the choices they made in the face of reality, there is recognition, there is unwillingness, there is resistance, there is hope, they all know the importance of family, a family will look forward, and go forward to see the dawn.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the choice of four Afghan women in the face of despair under the "Breadwinner" war, but it is real but contains bitterness</h1>
The breadwinner, as the name suggests, is the one who takes on the responsibility of the family. In Afghanistan, the breadwinner is generally the male of the family. But in this film, the only two men in Pavana's family, whose father broke his leg in the war and his brother in his infancy, are incredibly difficult for these two men who have almost no labor force. His father, Nurulla, was sent to prison for verbally confronting his former student Idris, who had joined the Taliban regime only for teaching his children to read. It is also because of the imprisonment of his father Nurula that the three female mothers of the family, Fatima, sister Suraya, and protagonist Pavana, are in despair, but in despair, the three women have made different choices, which is to deny that their fate is up to them.
Mother Fatima
Her mother, Fatima, was a writer before the war and had a wealth of knowledge. But because the Taliban regime controls their Afghanistan, not only can she not continue to write, but even going out has become a difficult task. When her husband Nurula was sent to prison, she tried to go out, but militants under the Taliban regime beat him half to death for disobeying orders and disobeying women's morals.
She once lost a son, and now she has lost her husband, and she wants to confess her life and die, but she can't give up seeing her three children. All she can do is contact distant relatives and use the marriage of her eldest daughter as a bargaining chip in exchange for the future of the family. Judging from the scene where her cousin robbed her son later, Fatima was actually extremely reluctant to do so, but she had no other choice. It is undeniable that the mother loves these three children, even if she is desperate for reality, he is still planning for the future of the three children. She thought that marrying her eldest daughter to her relatives was a more secure way, but she immediately chose to resist when she recognized the true face of her relatives. Of course, she felt the pain of dripping blood with the blade in her hand, but the pain of her skin was better than watching her own child being humiliated by others, and as a mother, she did not want any child to fall into the abyss of eternal doom.
Sister Suraya
Sister Suraya does not appear many times, because she has reached the age of marriage and cannot enter the turbulent external world at will. Home has become the only place where she can move, and now she is not even as useful as her sister Pavana, at least her sister can also fetch water for the family, and can disguise herself as a man to earn money to subsidize the family.
Of course, Suraya knew the dilemma of the family, and she was also the child who could best understand the mother's state of mind. In the absence of adult males in the family, the mother was beaten again. In the end, for the sake of the family, she chose to compromise, even if it was to marry a stranger, it did not matter, as long as this could keep her mother and siblings alive, she would not hesitate. She is not willing, but in this situation, protecting her family is her responsibility as a long-term successor, she cannot shirk, the reality is already a mess for them, she needs to make sacrifices for this family, only in this way can everyone continue to move forward and see the dawn of the future.
Good friend Shauchia
Shosia should be the first of the four women to want to escape from their hometown after seeing reality. She was more open-minded and did not cling to the oppression of the war against religious bondage. Shosia is more like an individual who lives for herself, and when she sees the pictures of the sea, she is determined to go one day, and this belief has become her only motivation to live. She didn't care about war, she didn't care about her family, and she didn't want to be bound by the external environment. She finally fled Afghanistan and traveled to India, chasing the sea she longed for.
Judging by Shosia's behavior, she has treated herself as a boy, chasing freedom that other women dare not think. Shausia is not as brave as a feminist to fight for more rights for afghan women, but she is able to allow herself to survive and find opportunities to escape in this environment that treats women as livestock, which is all she can do as a weak individual in a war-torn world. She is not great, but what she has done has inspired Pavana to get out of this earthly purgatory as soon as possible.
The protagonist, Pavana
As the breadwinner in the entire film, when her father is imprisoned, she becomes the only person in the family who can enter and exit through the dress of a woman and a man, and she replaces her father to take on the responsibility of the family. By the time she cut off her full hair, she was completely out of touch with her childhood. Pavana's approach is a bit like Mulan's enlistment in the army for her father, but there is a big difference between her and Mulan. Mulan replaced her father and took on the responsibility of her father's marching battle, while Pavana replaced her father and became the breadwinner of the family.
Behind Mulan's enlistment in the army is that she can't bear her father's death on the battlefield, but it is also her dissatisfaction with traditional customs and her desire for freedom; behind Pavana's family is her attachment to family affection, she is not willing to watch family members starve to death one by one, she also longs for freedom, and she is also dissatisfied with religious customs, but her personal feelings are still suppressed in front of family affection.
In addition, Mulan was already a beautiful woman when she joined the army, but Pavana was still an undeveloped child. "The Breadwinner" is actually revealing to the audience the reality of Afghanistan's society, people living in despair have learned to be strong early in order to survive, and even an insignificant individual can create a proud opportunity and hope. It is said that the children of the poor have long been in charge, and that is also because the more difficult life is, the more people grow, and the brighter their hearts are.
"The Breadwinner" describes a series of choices they make in a society where it is very difficult to survive through four women, and Fatima explains to everyone from the perspective of a parent that it is not easy to be a mother, she has no power and no power, and she can only fight with her life on the way to protect her children. Sister Suraya from the perspective of adult unmarried women to explain to everyone the misfortune of this type of women, under the dual pressure of religious bondage and war, the only way ahead for them is to get married, but they are also fighting for the future of a family for their lives.
Although Shawia and Pavana, who are similar in age, are free, But Shosia obviously lives more freely, she does not have family concerns like Pavana, but the brilliance of this film is precisely because Pavana misses her family, and what she does shows everyone how important family is in the tragic world, and family is the harbor of spiritual sustenance. At the end of the film, Pavana rescues her father Nurulla, and her mother Fatima also protects the safety of the two children, although the family has not yet been together, but there will be hope in life; her promise to meet Shawia on the beach after 20 years, she must also live to have a day to see each other.
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The film "The Breadwinner" expresses the real afghan life under the Taliban regime through animation, and the suffering of women's lives. But even after being ravaged by both religion and war, they still did not give up hope of life. Even though it is difficult to survive, they have sustenance for the family, and the family is the most precious wealth. Because of the family, Shosia and Pavana shouldered the responsibility of supporting the family early, and it was also because of the different family treatment that Shohia finally abandoned the family and chose freedom, and Pavana abandoned freedom and chose the family.
This film is actually calling on parents to pay attention to the inner world of their children, even if it is not easy to live, they cannot vent their dissatisfaction with reality or their own unwillingness to innocent children, otherwise the deep trauma of their children will also retaliate against themselves and this world one day in the future. In the face of the cruel reality, the more desperate you are, the more you must learn to look forward, only in this way can you see the dawn of the dawn.